Even as Apple's iPad will likely energize electronic reading, the new device is undermining a painstakingly constructed effort by the publishing industry to make it possible to move e-books between different electronic readers.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the company's much-anticipated iPad tablet computer Wednesday, calling it a new third category of mobile device that is neither smart phone nor laptop, but something in between.
Truckers, bus drivers and other commercial drivers are prohibited from texting while behind the wheel under a new federal rule announced Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Ray LaHood.
Wii owners who have a broadband connection and a Netflix subscription that costs at least $9 a month will be able to watch Netflix movies and TV programs with no extra charge.
Working Point announced a new feature enabling their customers to create company profiles. This feature is an addition to their accounting, inventory, contact features, which offers one built in location for managing your small business.
Over the past few years I've seen various demonstrations of ones entire computer running over the Internet. This is not just using a hosted application, but this is where your entire desktop - "My computer", your files, applications - everything are accessed over the Internet on a service provider's computer.
Many of us (those older than 35?) grew up using Microsoft Excel to manage and track all sorts of data. Excel is very simple to use, you just type and press enter and it automatically keeps everything in order. However, a true database, is really what you should use to enable customer lists, inventory, employee records and all sorts of other data to be easily stored and mined for information.
If you are safely locked in an office with no meetings and really don't have a packed schedule as part of a normal day, and still able to have a thriving business, you're fortunate.
