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From TechWeb News: Almost half of senior corporate executives believe their companies are spending too little on IT this year, a survey released Monday showed. Interviews with 230 U.S. executives showed that 46 percent believed their companies weren’t spending enough on IT, compared to 10 percent who said too much was being spent and 44 …
From USA Today: Stand-up comic Dane Cook’s frenetic energy and observational style has helped him build a solid fan base over 15 years of touring the club and college circuit. But Cook credits mainstream success, which includes two best-selling CDs, a guest-host gig on Saturday Night Live, a multi-project deal with HBO, sellout live arena …
From TechRepublic: Dell has agreed to purchase gaming PC maker Alienware, in a rare acquisition designed to improve Alienware’s supply chain and boost Dell’s standing among PC enthusiasts. advertisement Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alienware will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the world’s largest PC maker, said Nelson Gonzalez, chief …
The latest issue of Michael Robertson’s Michael’s Minute announces the release of a new web-based word processor called ajaxWrite: ajaxWrite is a powerful word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word formatted documents. Anytime you need a word processor, need to open a .doc file or edit a .doc file, simply point your Firefox …
Last week I discussed some memory card maintenance to be sure your camera can record the photos that you shoot. This week I will discuss the merits of photography critiques and offer some websites where you can go to get them. Over the past few years, photography sites that allow people to submit photos for …
Quite a while ago I posted about Box.net Virtual Storage. I still haven’t tried the service, as I don’t really have a need for it, but it’s interesting. One of the guys who is at Box.net has been in contact with me regarding a test that they were running (I didn’t end up participating). He …
Irving (of Irving’s Info Page) sent me these links: These three links may be of interest…..for U and family and/or your readers: www.citytowninfo.com www.city-data.com www.zillow.com Here’s a bit about each one… CityTownInfo.com CityTownInfo.com is the easy way to find info on thousands of US cities and towns. Want to know the population of a town? …
From Mercury News: Google has mysteriously downgraded the search ranking of a Web site geared to help parents care for young children, causing a “cataclysmic fall”in advertising revenue and the number of monthly page views, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Friday. The civil suit by KinderStart.com of Norwalk seeks financial damages and more information …
From TechRepublic: Doctors pronounced Ethan Myers brain dead after a car accident dealt the 9-year-old a severe brain injury in 2002. After he miraculously awoke from a nearly month-long coma, doctors declared he would never again eat on his own, walk or talk. Yet, thanks partly to a video game system, Myers has caught up …
From InternetNews.com: Google is free to cache whatever material it wants unless content owners specifically forbid the search site from copying and archiving online content, a federal judge ruled last Friday. The judge dismissed a lawsuit claiming Google had violated an author’s copyright by archiving his Usenet posts and providing excerpts from his Web site …