Deloitte: Smartphone web usage accelerates

More shoppers use smartphones to study, find, buy Sharon Bloom regularly receives text-messaged photos of clothes and products her daughters want her to look for while she’s shopping. When she sees an item she likes, she pulls out her Internet-enabled LG Dare phone and sends her two girls pictures. Her phone has helped her find [...]

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Adobe’s Acrobat.com reorganizes, gets mobile app

The company improves its Acrobat service with a new organizer and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go. http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10396931-248.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Blackberry.

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Six Apart releases tiny blog tool, TypePad Micro

Blog platform company Six Apart is adding a free, miniaturized blogging service to its paid blog hosting service TypePad. The new TypePad Micro service is essentially a simplified template, called Chroma, for unpaid users on the TypePad service. It will likely be compared with Posterous and Tumblr. The Chroma template is flexible and attractive, and [...]

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What book has helped you most in your career and why?

Share your answer to this question by commenting on this blog post, on our LinkedIn group or Facebook page for a chance to win one of two $25 Amazon gift cards.  Deadline is Dec. 31. If you like reading, please consider joining the ASCPA’s new book club.  The first book is “Never Eat Alone and Other [...]

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Mike Daggett elected Vice Chair of NASBA

ASCPA life member, Mike Daggett, has been elected Vice Chair of NASBA, the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. NASBA’s mission is to enhance the effectiveness of state boards of accountancy. Sam Fogleman, ASCPA member and president of the Arizona State Board of Accountancy, provided a thoughtful welcome at the NASBA annual meeting. More [...]

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Motorola Droid Smartphone Review

I’ve been using the Motorola Droid for the past week on the road as my Internet/phone device, picking one up the day after the device first went on sale by Verizon.  The Droid is the first handset to be sold using the Android 2.0 software, and I’m comparing the device to my iPod Touch (essentially [...]

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Tax Law Change Means Cash for Companies

It’s Christmas in November for money losing businesses, which will see cash in their stockings, thanks to a new law OK’d by Congress. http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/tax-law-change-means-cash-for-cos.html Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Blackberry.

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Pew Center says Arizona is in ‘peril’

The Pew Center on the States puts Arizona and eight other states hard hit by the recession on its list called “Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril.” http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_phoenix/~3/W_3Kxsm0XnU/daily42.html Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Blackberry.

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Phoenix economic poll shows some optimism for 2010

Phoenix-area business owners and executives have their fingers crossed that 2010 will be better than 2009, but are concerned about the laggard housing and job markets. http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_phoenix/~3/mwZ-aE5VFmU/daily45.html Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Blackberry.

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What to know about property assessments

What to know about property assessments. http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/1262588 Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Blackberry.

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