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Archive for May, 2010

Quicken Online is finally free

27 May 2010

See also: Quicken Beam: Your finances made cute.

High customer support costs and an angry customer base (check out the user review scores for Quicken and Money) make standalone financial apps like Quicken and Microsoft Money questionable product lines for their makers, and when the online services take hold I will expect their demise. Devoted [...]

Yahoo, Google under pressure to make next move

24 May 2010

Hammering out a resolution both parties could accept has lead to brief delays in implementing the deal, which one source noted is common in negotiations. The companies waived their prior October 8, and then October 22, deadlines by which the DOJ had to weigh in with its final decision on whether it would block the [...]

Verizon awarded ‘largest-ever’ cybersquatting judg

20 May 2010

Verizon, which announced the judgment Wednesday, had filed the case against OnlineNIC, a San Francisco-based Internet domain registration company. Verizon had claimed that OnlineNIC used Internet names–663 to be exact–that were chosen to be easily confused with legitimate Verizon names, according to Verizon.
We weren’t able to get through to OnlineNIC by phone (the [...]

After a layoff, a family learns to cope

18 May 2010

“People are trying to avoid (cutting) things that are core to their business and that might directly affect customers or sales,” he said. “They’re also trying not to touch security. Other than that, it’s fair game.”

The Erickson family

(Credit:
Jim Martin)

“It’s not very stimulating work, but money is money when times are tough,” he says. “What [...]

Intel cancels Taiwan forum due to economy

16 May 2010

The Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan typically takes place in October, while China IDF is in April. The IDF in the United States in September will not be affected, Intel said Monday. The Beijing IDF will be shortened to a one-day event. It is typically two days.
Intel uses the IDF to launch many of [...]

Speaker-placement tips for audiophiles

16 May 2010

This CD can help tweak the sound of your speakers.
Perhaps his most important bit of advice comes early on: “Entire books have been written about the relationship between loudspeakers and room acoustics, but the starting point for any successful setup is to position the two speakers and your listening chair as the pieces of an [...]

New laws track child predators online

04 May 2010

The president on Monday also signed the Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act, which requires a sex offender to provide the National Sex Offender Registry with all of his Internet identifiers, such as e-mail addresses.

While the KIDS Act does not permit sex offenders’ Internet identifiers to be made public, it does require the attorney general to share the information with social-networking Web sites, so the sites can compare the identifying information with that of

Tibesti launches reviews site with questionable re

03 May 2010

If you review a product on Tibesti that hasn’t been covered before, and someone then buys it by following a link on the site, you get half the commission that Tibisti earns. For this, Tibesti is channeling data from affiliate aggregators Commission Junction and Linkshare. These operations cover retailers like BestBuy and NewEgg, but not, unfortunately, Amazon (Amazon affiliate fees will be pooled and split, somehow, with contributors). Commissions on products range from 1 percent to 15