Archive for January, 2008

I was watching the news tonight and CBS noted that the price of staples at the grocery store had risen 16% in the last year (or perhaps shorter, I don’t recall) has been a whopping 16%.
Now when the government comes out with their “Consumer Price Index” they’ll mix in the decreasing costs of buggy whips, [...]

In a related article to the one about $100 Laptops,  Microsoft is feeling the heat of technological change too.
The Asus EEPC  is one of the new breed of stripped down laptops that are flash based using the same type of memory as, say, a digital Mp3 recorder.
There’s just one problem, Microsoft has been building Windows [...]

Intel sabotaged the $100 Laptop Project claims the project’s founder.
The “One Laptop Per Child” uses a rival chip inside.
Intel denies the charges.
This project is important to entrepreneurs world wide because if the laptop proves usable for education, the cost of starting up businesses that can use the computer world wide will drop as [...]

A College Age Entrepreneur, Stefan Doyno, registered the trademark “Change Rocks” for his jewelry business. He began his business when he was 18 and one of his first steps was to register the trademark that the Obama campaign has been using illegally.
The Obama Campaign has been notified of their illegal use of the term but, [...]

As mortgage foreclosures sweep the nation, real estate speculators are going to start crawling out of the woodwork looking to buy homes for “pennies on the dollar”.
It will convince many who’ve never done real estate to buy a course and enter the market for themselves.
But there are problems.
Not all foreclosures are the same.
Here’s the case [...]

LiveOps is on a roll and picking up more “blue chip” clients they say. In other words, they’re getting more “mainstream” companies and, I suppose, not just being considered a call center to handle “infomercial” traffic.
That’s good for people who want to work from home, but note the statistics… 3500 people are applying weekly. They [...]

Energy Savings are coming to a computer near you.
This will translate into a cost savings for home and small businesses.
The rising price of oil and interest in solar power may spark the investment needed to find or popularize at least real breakthroughs that make solar energy more “friendly” for businesses and consumers.

When I was at a seminar recently the speakers were given a cool recorder to hang around their neck to digitally record the messages.
This is something similar except it’s an xTag microphone that transmits to your PC or Apple computer:
Superb audio performance with wireless convenience brought to the individual workspace.  Connecting to a Windows® or [...]

I always like Jon Leger’s material… it’s a fresh voice and a contrarian one usually. He offers some unique services and good information.
Here’s his latest report premiering on January 9th called Search Engine Myths Exposed.
It’s free and here’s what it will cover. A sample chapter is available for download now.
Here’s what Jon says his report [...]

Here’s how to put your Gmail account on Steroids
You’ll find ideas here for how to
* How to turn Gmail into a massive personal database (Gmail + the Google Toolbar)
* How to get real-time news updates in Gmail (Gmail+ Google Talk + Twitter)
* How to automatically store your bookmarks in Gmail (Gmail + del.icio.us + Yahoo [...]