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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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FCC releases broadband agenda

FCC still not looking out for citizens enoughThe FCC still seems to cater to comm companies FAR more than protecting the interests of customers. The fact that they allow cell carriers to charge thousands of dollars per megabyte for text message data rates is one indication. The fact that they...

Tags: Federal government, Rural America, FCC, broadband agenda, broadband

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers

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.: Larry Dignan: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

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

Will a flu pandemic really bring down the Internet?

Is the last bulleted list a joke??That last bulleted list is a joke. It worships a model, and is not the best tool for the job.Keep in mind through all this:-The problem is going to be network congestion. Therefore steps should be taken to [b]REDUCE[/b] network usage."Monitor your VPNs. Make...

Tags: NETWORKING, H1N1 flu, network, marketing, network congestion, flu, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Are today's new iMacs and Minis game-changers?

It's been a logn time since Apple was ...... competitive at these retail price points but that day may finally have come! Good for Apple and good for the rest of us. Still, EdTech has always enjoyed extremely aggressive enterprise-level discounts from the top tier of PC vendors...

Tags: Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, Apple Inc., keyboard, mouse, Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards

No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...

Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

California screenin': Majority of residents oppose big-screen TV ban

Regulate power, not sizeThey should be regulating the power consumption of TVs, not necessarily their size. Force the companies to make big screen TVs less power hungry and more efficient. Not flat out ban them.TVs should strive to be Energy Star compliant because I'm sure many of them...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, big-screen TV

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

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

Bill Gates - the science guy

Bill Gates - the science guyMust be nice, spending other people's money.And feeling "good" because of it.Well Gates, in the grander scheme of things, you're a thief. And giving away what you took from others is not going to change that.Funny how all this philanthropy... comes with strings attached to...

Tags: Corporate communications, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., science guy

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Free is not a business model

Free is not a business modelPutting mium in free-miumHi Phil,Excellent post. I share your shock about people's mis-characterization of the importance of "free," particularly in SaaS business models.One minor comment on freemium models. As I talk to "Web 3.0" as you call it entrepreneurs, I realize that the...

Tags: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, business model, advertisement, social networking

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

Modern threats to American liberty

Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, government, socialist society, tax

Discussion threads 2009-07-04

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

Green storage has limited ROI, but supports overall efficiency

I care deeply about the environment, certainly more than I care personally about money, so it pains me to say that in most cases, making storage decisions based on power expenditure alone is not rational behavior. The world is driven by economics, and the stark reality is that the cost...

Tags: ROI, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Reichman

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Email of the day: How should I respond?

Email of the day: How should I respond?A brief response..."Before issuing an apoplogy, perhaps you could provide a better solution for keeping YouTube viable while it is loosing 150+ million dollars a year."Simply put, unless the author of the letter is a billionare willing to fund free YouTube usage him/herself,...

Tags: Corporate communications, YouTube Inc., video, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

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