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 most [...]

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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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Microsoft Discontinues Accounting Software

PC World – Microsoft is spiking its Office Accounting software family and will stop distributing the products as of Nov. 16, according to a posting on the company’s Web site.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091030/tc_pcworld/microsoftdiscontinuesaccountingsoftware
Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Blackberry.

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Survey: Arizona, California companies likely to switch to Windows by 2011

Windows 7 may give a boost to the lagging personal computer industry as 86 percent of companies from mid-sized to Fortune 500 plan to switch to the new operating system in the next 18 months.
http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_phoenix/~3/IW00HsQOq_A/daily82.html
Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Blackberry.

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Google Wave: Schools and Businesses to Get an Early Look

This past Sunday, my firm threw the switch to go live on Google Apps Premier for all enterprise email, instant messaging and other technology needs.  We have been a user and big fan of Lotus Notes for more than a decade.  We made the conversion for many reasons, some of which I will explore in [...]

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KIPLINGER – Good-bye, Laptop. Hello, Smart Phone.

Soon, your mobile wireless device will be able to do everything your laptop can do — maybe more.  http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/smart_phones_as_laptops_090805.html  
Posted by J. Michael Stolp from my Blackberry.

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Team Apart Makes the Virtual Meeting Social

Interesting article.  Potentially a very nice tool.
There is a lot of software out there for conducting virtual conferences and performing demos: GoToMeeting, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, WebEx, and AdobeAcrobat Connect immediately come to mind. Most of these programs though require software to be installed and are meant for conference meetings rather than team collaboration. They’re [...]

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Is IT working for you?

To me IT (Information Technology) is the most valuable enabler besides people. My dependency on IT is forever expanding as pressure to perform mounts.

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Forbes – How To Value Your Networks

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Last week Bill Gates told a business forum in New Delhi why he quit Facebook: He was overwhelmed by the number of friend requests coming his way.
That’s a perfect example of the economics behind ICANN Chief Executive Rod Beckstrom’s model for how to value a network. In a keynote speech Friday at Defcon, [...]

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Forbes – Twenty-One Top Twitter Tips

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You’ve heard about Twitter–that curious, strangely addictive social-networking technology that facilitates torrents of truncated messages among millions of users. You might even know your hashtags from your re-tweets. But how can you make money with it?
Forbes canvassed scads of businesses and pricey social-networking gurus looking for honest answers. Admittedly, we were skeptical. After [...]

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