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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
03 May 2010
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