Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Microsoft has a marketing nightmare on their hands. Like other near monopolies, they don’t seem to care. They figure “You’ll just have to learn to like it.” That’s a great opportunity for someone else – anyone else! Please! From Breitbart Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June [...]

I found this quote from eMarketer interesting because these facts lead them to conclude we are reaching “broadband saturation”: eMarketer estimates that by 2012 there will be over 533 million broadband households worldwide, of which 94.3 million will be in the United States. A good percentage of these broadband subscribers will also be subscribing to [...]

Web Worker Daily had an article on the expected proliferation of microprojectors.  Here’s what they had to say basically: The basic idea is that advances in lasers and LEDs are making it possible to build into a small device – say, the size of a large cell phone – something that can project a picture [...]

The cell phone lets you do business anywhere. But studies like these may give you pause. I would think a blue tooth would emanate less power… but still I’d only “wear it” while talking. Or use the speaker phone option. Study: Cell Phones Could Be More Hazardous Than Cigarettes

Looking for a great Web Cam? I never really thought I’d be interested in having one… but then again I never thought I’d play around with mp3 editing either. So now I’m in the market for a Web Cam. Here’s the buzz I’ve been getting about a GREAT web cam… It’s the Logitech QuickCam Pro [...]

This is a sponsored post. Well, I think the day has finally dawned – GPS Tracking finally seems to be simple enough and compact enough even for someone like me to start using it. I’m talking about the GPS Tracking Key. It’s a small, pocket sized device that receives signals from the twenty-four Department of [...]

Not everyone can afford Photoshop. But most of us would like to work with images and make our online marketing look better. The free tool to do that is GIMP. You can download the GIMP windows version here. But most importantly, here’s a really cool blog called Gimp University to help you learn how to [...]

“Funny” ever since installing VISTA on one computer, my Firefox freezes and crashes all the time. It COULDN’T be anything malicious in VISTA that keeps the competition from working COULD IT? Have any of my readers had this problem? Is there a patch — or should I just break down and get a MAC?

Liveops.com  continues to grow. Their expectation is that most companies won’t want to have their own “in house” call center operations. That distracts from their core business. They’re hoping most companies will prefer to outsource that work to them. From DestinationCRM.com The age of companies housing their contact center operations all under one roof is [...]

I constantly hear about rural areas and home based rural workers for whom having affordable, non-satellite broadband would make earning a living much more likely and reliable. Certainly it would bring needed streams of income into these rural places and make each area less vulnerable to local income swings and local business downturns. But in [...]