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- 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
- Apple TV: Games and apps would be a tough way to gain traction
- Like most 11-year-olds, my son loves playing video games on the Wii, the PlayStation and, yes, even on his iPod Touch. With that said, I don't know if he'd find anything appealing about playing the games he's downloaded from Apple's App Store on the living room big screen TV -...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple TV, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Nexsan: Turn on the "green" feature in our MAID product and save some green
- For those of you who love a deal, any deal, storage vendor Nexsan is running a promotion for customers that test out its AutoMAID feature for at least 30 days. AutoMAID stands for Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks. The technology will place disk drives into them most energy-efficient state...
- Tags: Promotion, Storage, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration
- Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of CollaborationThe Real challenge is not in technology ...Ms. Warrior's predictions will almost likely come true. However, while technology can give us capabilities, human beings decide whether or not to actually use technology -- and history is littered with instances of great...
- Tags: Groupware, Collaboration Technology, collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., network
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Are netbooks really junky?
- Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, stirred up a little firestorm in the PC industry by calling netbooks---essentially the only growth area---"junky" and pointing out a bevy of flaws with them as constructed. Cook's comments, which came following Apple's stellar second quarter financial results Techmeme, are notable for...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?
- IBM outlined a vision---and of course a new services unit to go with it---that takes a little time to grok. Big Blue talked about the "information journey," fact-based enterprises and nudging out gut calls in everyday management for decisions based on hard, cold facts. But when you boil it all...
- Tags: Algorithm, Fact, Vision, Risk Management, IBM Corp., William Pulleyblank, Game Plan, Engineering, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Apple is recession proof
- Apple is recession proofBig mistake:Stock market performance is not an indicator of anything but investor sentiment. Apple's bottom line is better now with the stock at 120 than it was when the stock was at 200.I doubt that Apple, or any technology company, will get through this recession unscathed.Unemployment...
- Tags: Investment, Apple Inc., recession, stock, recession proof
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer
- Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayerYou're missing the pointWe should not permit single point of failure networks to be built. Besides, there's over 80 million miles of fiber in the U.S. alone, and it simply is not possible to monitor all that cable, or...
- Tags: Network technology, WikiAnswers, cable, prayer, Internet-infrastructure
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- AT&T offers $100K reward in fiber optic vandalism; notes second incident
- updated below: No matter all of the advancements in wireless and mobile technology, at the end of the day, we're all still connected to a big wire somewhere. Early this morning, we discovered that one of those big wires is located under a busy Silicon Valley roadway....
- Tags: AT&T Corp., Fiber-optics, Fiber Optics, Optical Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- New microchip uses 30 times less power
- Scientists at Rice University have created a microchip that uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's best technology. The U.S.-Singapore team developing the technology, named PCMOS, revealed results at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference ISSCC, the world's premier forum for engineers working...
- Tags: Rice University, Phone, Microchip, CMOS, Cell Phone, Logic, PCMOS, ASICs, Semiconductors, Memory, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Video conferencing coming to iPhone?
- Video conferencing coming to iPhone?Apple patenting video conferencing!!Is there no end to the innovation coming from this company!?!? Good thing for the world that Apple was the first to think about transmitting live video and audio from one device to another."would video-conferencing entice you to buy an iPhone?"No...not even close....
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, phone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
- iPhone firmware 2.2.1 released, unlockers beware (updated 3x)
- iPhone firmware 2.2.1 released, unlockers beware (updated 3x)Every Update breaks unlocking...Duh! That's why they do updates!It hasn't even been 24 hours. They will have a patch within the week.Losing customersApple is loved. The cellular system is not owned by Apple. We the people around the world love Iphone,...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., firmware
- Discussion threads 2009-01-28
- iPhone firmware 2.2.1 released, unlockers beware (updated 3x)
- Apple released firmware v.2.2.1 (build 5H11a) for the iPhone and iPod touch at 11:00 am today, which provides "improved general stability of Safari" and fixes an issue where images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll, according to the release notes. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Firmware, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Searches for gadgets in France in October 2008
- Product Base Period Average (Sept 29 - Nov 2) Week Ending Nov 30 % Change Nintendo Wii 705,037 1,412,570 100% iPhone 673,606 701,604 4% iPod 453,569 685,016 51% Xbox 360 367,861 405,919 10% Sony PlayStation 3 75,638 99,354 31% ...
- Tags: Game Players, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, NB
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- The Satyam saga worsens â€" terribly so
- The Enron of India (Probably!) The news today re: Satyam is really bad. It makes the events of last month pale in comparison. To begin, you should read Satyam Chairman Raju’s letter of resignation where he accounts for the accounting sleight of hand he says that...
- Tags: Satyam, Andersen, Asset Management, Balance Sheets, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Google testing Timeline view in main results
- Google testing Timeline view in main resultsWhy?I'm not sure why I would use this feature over the Google Insights for Search which has significantly more capabilities and data.http://www.google.com/insights/search/Re visit?Hi I thought I saw something like this before. Great idea for tracking H5N1 bird flu over time to see how...
- Tags: Google Inc., Great Idea
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- FriendFinder isn't likely to find any pals on Wall Street; Needs IPO to pay debt
- FriendFinder Networks, the company formerly known as Penthouse Media Group, is filing to go public to pay off almost a half a billion in debt in an equity market that stinks. Simply put, FriendFinder is launching an IPO Hail Mary to stay alive. At least FriendFinder's initial public offering filing...
- Tags: Social Networking, Revenue, VAT, European Union, FriendFinder Networks, Various, IPO, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- DC Num2Text 2.0 (Windows)
- Num2Text is a COM based component that convert numerical values into words in 4 languages. For example, the numerical value 7431285.46 would be translated into the text. In English will be: Seven millions, four hundreds and thirty one thousands, two hundreds and eighty five dollars and forty six cents. In...
- Tags: Euro, EgyFirst Software, Num2Text, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-12-11
- Online retail visits in November 2008
- Base Period Index (Sept 1 - Nov 2) UK France Germany Week 1 (Nov 3 - Nov 9) 13% 8% 10% Week 2 (Nov 10 - Nov 16) 13% 5% 10% Week 3 (Nov 17 - Nov 23) 10% 6% 15% Week...
- Tags: Online Retail, ComScore Networks Inc., NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Top UK Web sites in September 2008
- Sept-08 Rank Aug-08 Rank Property Audience, 000 N/A N/A Total Audience 35,980 1 1 Google Sites 31,769 2 2 Microsoft Sites 28,828 3 3 Yahoo! Sites 21,015 4 4 eBay 19,769 5 6 FACEBOOK.COM 18,410 6...
- Tags: Site, Networking, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
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