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IRS drops work cellphone personal usage tax; Calls it obsolete

IRS drops work cellphone personal usage tax; Calls it obsoleteWow, that's scary.This can only mean they're working on something new to suck even more money out of us.Fire your headline writerAsking congress to repeal a law is not "dropping a tax."Then again, after reading the article, maybe the problem is...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Internal Revenue Service, personal usage tax, usage tax, cell phone, tax

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

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What should open source do in a car?

Engine Management...The owners should be able to tweak the engine management settings.There is no reason I should be forced to stick with the 'safe' mode settings from the factory. Other Ford enthusiasts could tweak their cars and post their engine profiles online and people could adjust their cars engine...

Tags: car, Ford Motor Co., open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?

Parents with Save / Train, that's what they are there for.for many parents today, this is new to them since the older you get, the less change you want to see. At a younger age, you're more inclined to adapt. Another thing is, more parents are getting home...

Tags: Save/Train, social media, Horror

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model

RE: Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood Just shows you who the government actually works for.So what's new? [NT].broken systemWe have a broken judicial system that repeatedly favors the rich and the powerful at the expense of the citizens.Judge acknowledges system is brokenNo mavericks in the court,....

Tags: Strategy, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, business model, agreement, MPAA, DVD

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Search, Palm Inc., Text Messaging, Corporate Communications, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Branding, Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-18

IRS asks to drop work cellphone personal usage tax; Calls it obsolete

The IRS asked Congress to repeal a 20-year-old law designed to tax personal use on an employer provided cellphone as a fringe benefit. For the IRS, the move is an about face. Earlier this month, the IRS aimed to make it easier to comply with the work...

Tags: Cell Phone, Internal Revenue Service, Shulman, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Cellular Phones, Financial Planning, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-17

IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phone

IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phoneIRSMore money to spread around.. GREAT WORK IRS..Another fine example of no new taxes for people under $250,000. YEA, what I thought and can you say " I TOLD YOU SO"..You asked for it you got it...In the UKHMRC do consider a work provided...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Tax Code, tax, Internal Revenue Service, phone, mobile phone, mobile

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

IRS eyes taxing your work mobile phone

Is that work issued BlackBerry really a taxable "fringe benefit?" The IRS seems to think so and is looking for ways to improve compliance of a tax that has been on the books for two decades. Get ready for a potential bookkeeping nightmare. The...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Internal Revenue Service, Journal, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Cellular Phones, Financial Planning, Finance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?

Outsourcing in this recession: will it increase?Given that the bleeding of local jobs has helped lead TO this recession,and if people are sincere about ending this recession, then we need to look at the larger scheme and not diddle around with huff'n'puff pieces like this. I mean, doing...

Tags: Free trade, Taxes, Personal finance, recession, Obama, regulation, tax, outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-04-26

Intel's roadmap comes into focus: Can rivals respond?

Intel's roadmap comes into focus: Can rivals respond?Yes! Use tax dollars to slow them down with litigation!Clearly, the creative and now well known way to compete with Intel is to slow them down. The tick tock treadmill combine with their process technology might is arguably insurmountable going toe to toe...

Tags: Government, Taxes, Free trade, Litigation, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Should more doctors go to jail?

Should more doctors go to jail?It's really sad when famous people die NTNTActually...More attention should be given to the Pharmacuitical companies wasting billions and billions of our money on TV commercials instead of using the money to educate and present the drugs to doctors for consideration, and further research.I don't...

Tags: prescription

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

Adobe's Acrobat.com could be an Office killer; Will interface matter?

Adobe's Acrobat.com could be an Office killer; Will interface matter?Good Luck to AdobeI can't see switching to this from another office suite, if you can even call this an "office suite". It takes enough time and effort to learn and keep up with what you have. There really...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Buzzword, Office-killer, Adobe Systems Inc., Acrobat.com

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ringbig brother is watching usIf a governor was watched for suspicious terrorist activities just imagine those with weird names and no fame being checked every day, or worse, detained at undisclosed facilities.The REALLY interesting IT angle on thisI found...

Tags: Strategy, prostitution, hooker, Eliot Spitzer, information system

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

U2 manager takes Internet providers to task

U2 manager takes Internet providers to taskLike blaming the government because ...This is as bombastic and idiotic as any other idea that would the government because stolen cars are moved on public highways!Hey, he is right.Nothing else worth saying, unless your a pirate that is. They will whine endlessly..."Their...

Tags: Piracy, Internet, music industry, music

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Microsoft's $235 million PIL is not so bitter

Microsoft's $235 million PIL is not so bitterMicrosoft is a for profit entity...whose only agenda is to maximize the value of its stock.Philanthropy with any expected return is not philanthropy.Summing upMicrosoft's "charitable" contributions are the same sorts of things that other companies add to their marketing budget: promoting their products...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Free trade, Microsoft Corp., PIL, not-so

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Storing sun and wind power

Storing sun and wind powerRe: HistoryI'm against opening up the reserves in Alaska and the Gulf. What's great about petroleum reserves is that they never go away until we use them. Do you honestly believe we'll see an end to petroleum consumption in the next 100 years? We're going to...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, MegaWatt, HIGH PRICE, energy generation, wind power, energy storage

Discussion threads 2007-12-05

1:1 computing a necessity?

1:1 computing a necessity?How did we ever learn anything without personal computers?It would be nice if I had my own chemistry/physics lab at home with all the chemicals and spectrum analyzers and I wouldn't have to go to the school lab to do my chemistry/physics lab work. It would...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, computer, keyboard, computing, composition, English Class

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?

On antitrust, is Google the next Microsoft?Google is a long ways away from having a monopoly. Should we protect MS andYahoo???Abuse of monopoly power is illegalnot monopoly itself. Microsoft and their insecurities, not just in their second rate software. Maybe, just maybe Google can win on merit instead of cheating?Paraphrasing...

Tags: Corporate law, SECURITY, antitrust, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-23

Pre-order Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on Amazon.com

Pre-order Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on Amazon.comDon't forget educational discountsIf you have a family member in qualified schools then the price drops nicely. I paid $150 for the family pack, making a full version not an upgrade costing $30 for each of the 5 Macs in the family...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, PC, integration, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

Build the biggest bang per dollar PCs: June 2007 Edition

It's Father's day coming up and what better way to put a smile on Dad's face than a new computer.  The timing couldn't be better with the arrival of the newest 3-Series motherboards from Intel and the somewhat new 690G AMD motherboards which I reviewed yesterday so it's time to build a new PC...

Tags: Vista, Storage, Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD

Blog posts 2007-06-13