Archive for the 'Technology' Category

The “Cloud” offers us many more work at home or “work where you want” opportunities. Find a hot spot and plug in to “the cloud”. One entrepreneur has tried to extend the concept of cloud computing to create a “real estate cloud” based around prime real estate centers so that small business people can meet [...]

Toshiba has launched a new dual screen laptop that looks really hot for home office or “third place” work away from the house use. It runs Windows. One screen is designed for surfing the web, the other for content creation. One version will even have a 3G connection. My immediate question is… what will become [...]

Starbucks Announces Free WiFi… I guess people are going to places with cheaper coffee or at least free wifi to work. To catch up, Starbucks is now going to provide free wifi… smart move I think. It will keep Starbucks as a prime “third place” or “work place” for mobile entrepreneurs. And it allows them [...]

Want to maximize the value of your iphone for working at home? Here’s a list of the Top 10 Apps for Work at Home Moms ( WAHMs ) You can see the 10 for yourself but the ones that made me pick up my iphone to check their availability are *Documents to Go Office Suite [...]

Usually something on Mashable has credibility with me…so their headline Google to Integrate Google Voice with Gmail [RUMOR] got me interested. I enjoy both services… so it might be interesting to see them added into a single service. Why the rumor? Google is testing a new feature in Gmail, in which a phone icon opens [...]

So what’s Gobar Gas? It’s otherwise known as “biogas”. In places without instant electricity as close as your nearest wall plug, it’s a way to transform naturally occurring waste into clean energy that can cook food, heat homes, or generate electricity for cell phones and other small devices that make business easier. Here’s the “recipe”: [...]

I just got the email today from Skype… you – and I – can now use Skype to call out over the 3G network of AT&T. The service is free till the end of the year. Then a “small monthly charge” applies… how small or large I haven’t heard. Just as that announcement came, AT&T [...]

Crave an iPad but can’t handle the price? You’ll like this headline: Rival tablets ready to bite into iPad lead “With pricing at around $100 and wireless broadband rolled out in both advanced and emerging economies to enable an “apps” infrastructure, this will definitely increase the size of the market,” says Richard Brown, head of [...]

What’s your first take on the iPad? Expensive toy? Bunch of baloney? Another form of Apple self indulgence? Or business tool? I don’t have one… I’ll wait till the new versions come out. I do have an iPhone though and use it constantly for business and professional purposes as well as personally. So I’m not [...]

I still routinely hear from people who want to work at home but who pay astronomic prices for high speed internet in order to do that. Why? The monopolies don’t want to serve you. They’re too busy raking in the money from their primary service area. Maybe your community needs to “Break the Broadband Monopoly” [...]