Archive for December, 2007

A Taiwanese firm is unveiling a $299 Laptop!
It uses flash memory instead of a resident hard drive and operates only open source software to keep the price down.
I told you before about the $100 laptop project for school children and predicted we’d see one on the shelves of Wal Mart too. The way things [...]

I, and many other folks love Kiva.org as a way to help people through microlending. Nevertheless not all that passes for microlending is an influence for good.
Basically big banks in the Third World are getting into microlending as the Banana Republic’s alternative to the “Pay Day Loan”. Because it’s popular, they can act like they’re [...]

The mass of outsourcing was triggered by cost inequalities between domestic producers and overseas producers. The study referred to in this article suggests those advantages are diminishing.
It doesn’t mean any jobs will be coming back here. It means now that businesses will look for other countries to house their operations and India and China will [...]

Richmond.com - Local work-at-home mom Tracy Ebert will join thousands Feb. 12 in international observance of Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day.
Terry Ebert is a home based “virtual travel agent” and has been doing it for quite some time.
Click through to read her story.
Image courtesy Richmond.com

Because Congress and the White House haven’t managed to do anything about illegal aliens, the states are looking for ways to do something.
Businesses are scared because who knows what a business will have to do to prove that they didn’t intentionally hire an illegal alien.
Basically multi-million dollar operations can be threatened by $15 per hour [...]

by Melissa Brewer
If you’ve been looking for a virtual secretary job or online data entry job, and haven’t had any luck, you may have considered starting your own virtual assistant business. A virtual assistant works for themselves – and creates their own client base. If you want to work from home and have more control [...]

Don’t get your hopes up as I did when I saw the headline. You’ll only run your home office on this if you’re adept at reading by light from your wrist watch at night.
This discovery however means that the company may be on the brink of creating a long life battery - I’d say [...]

This blog post has a terrible title. I read it and thought… “I already don’t hate sugar!”
But that’s not what it means of course.
It’s really about how to cut down on sugar and not go crazy doing it. It’s important for everybody, but can especially be an issue if you work at home and reach [...]

By: Melissa Brewer
Imagine a commute that is just down the hallway, a few minutes from your favorite gourmet coffeepot and the Monday
morning news. You plug in your headset to the phone, boot your computer, and begin taking calls for your client. After
30 minutes of call time, you move on to a scheduled break to tend [...]

Many people work at home because of a desire to be with their children or family members more.
Here’s how that’s shaping up trend wise - family friendly cities are growing as people “vote with their feet”.
That means the cities and regions that attract families will grow while as will their economies while the urban centers [...]