Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
When people see or hear the word "Security" these days most immediately bring to mind some of the international issues involving terrorism or something like the need to keep an anti virus program and Firewall utility on your home computer or using encryption to keep your email private. However, ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Over the years Toyota has become a pretty big player in the automotive world. However there is now solid evidence that they have finally grown so much that they're just too big for their britches.
Desktop Nexus, a popular desktop wallpaper site, has been hit by Toyota's willingness to abuse ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Most people don't really give a lot of thought to their home's decor. In many cases people have the feeling that there isn't much they can to improve the look and feel of their home because they have the idea that this means an overall redesign that might even ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
You could subtitle this: If Matt Cutts is going to attend, would you even bother making las vegas hotel reservations to attend PubCon?
[insert classic Bronx raspberry here]
My answer: Absolutely not!
To me that's kind of a "Duh Moment". Matt Cutts may be a decent enough guy (I honestly don't ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
The state of Washington is doing something that I think is long overdue. They're going after an SEO outfit for bogus business practices. The state's Attorney General says:
these entities have ripped off their mostly mom-and-pop clientele through a pattern of unfulfilled performance promises and financial shenanigans.
By the way, ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
How often do you get emails from classmates.com saying that x number of people (former classmates to be specific) have been trying to get in touch with you and that all you need to do in order to find out who they are is pay for a membership at classmates.com ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
In a way it's interesting to note that while a lot of people have made a lot of noise about government and corporate datamining operations, it doesn't seem like very many people have given a whole lot of thought to how much data Google (and other search engines) has access ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
It's a long established fact that, in spite of whatever "fitness revolution" is going on, most people simply don't like to exercise. Why? Partly because it involves a lot of physical effort that few of us are really all that interested in and partly because, to be blunt, ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
EA’s CEO John Riccitiello spoke recently at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference and claimed that 99.8% of gamers don't care about DRM. Judging from the growing dissatisfaction with any form of DRM on the part of a heck of a lot of people of the the last ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
You may recall the story of the city of Monticello, Minnesota being sued by the Bridgewater Telephone Company because the city had the outlook to see that they needed a fiber optics network and since the boys in the telco's offices didn't seem to think the city needed it, they ...
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