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I've spent the last couple hours tinkering with the Windows 7 beta, which is running in a dual-boot configuration on a fairly low-powered Acer Aspire notebook. The verdict? So far, so good. I haven't done any performance testing yet, but I have discovered some things about Windows 7 that shou...
Rumor has it that we're in the middle of a financial apocalypse. I wouldn't know a lot about that, but the guy who carts off my leftover caviar every Thursday mentioned something in passing. If I am right, then we all need as much financial advice as we can get our caviar-stained fingers on. So ho...
RIM's first touchscreen BlackBerry certainly has faced a Storm of criticism, hasn't it? One complaint is with the touchscreen, which remains active during a call (unlike the iPhone's, which goes dark when held against your head). Fortunately, there's TalkLock, a free utility that locks the Storm'...
Welcome to Guy Vs. Guy! In this new feature, Rick and Dave square off on the business and technology issues of the day. First up: Web apps. Wave of the future, or certain disaster for unwitting enterprises? Rick: This argument is over before it even begins. We're using a Web app (Google Docs) rig...
If you're like everyone else I know, you're either in a grunge band or you're building a Web site that relies on UGC (user generated content). Maybe both. If so, you probably need a way to let your visitors upload and play back video right on your Web site. Before you break the piggy bank on a dedi...
Every once in a while I'll run across something so simple yet powerful that I wonder how I ever managed to get along without it. Case in point: Cloudlet is Firefox plug-in that adds a tag cloud to Google and Yahoo searches. Using Cloudlet, you can refine your search by clicking in the tag cloud. ...
By now you've probably heard the news: Palm has finally taken the wraps off its new smartphone, the Pre. Gotta say, I'd pretty much written Palm off (and this from a guy who wrote numerous books about the company's devices), but the Pre looks mighty impressive. Except for the name, that is. Serio...
I'm a longtime fan of Slacker, a Web-based radio service that creates custom stations based on your favorite artists. Until now, your only option for listening to Slacker on the go was Slacker's own portable player. But now BlackBerry users can get in on the music-streaming action: Slacker Radio is ...
Brian Ring is the program director of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards for Greater Los Angeles, a prestigious program that honors the men and women who excel at growing and sustaining market-leading businesses. Brian gives us some insight into what it takes to be one of the best...
For years, I've been a sucker for the Discover Card, even though my experiences with the card often mimic this Futurama scene between Fry and a store clerk in the year 3000: Fry: "Do you take Visa?" Clerk: "Visa hasn't existed for five hundred years." Fry: "American Express?" Clerk: "Six hundr...
Just announced at CES, the PogoPlug is a little gizmo that connects any USB hard drive to any network router, effectively giving you network-attached storage (a.k.a. NAS) on the cheap(er). Traditional NAS systems can cost hundreds of dollars. The PogoPlug sells for $79 (as part of a "preorder spe...
Here's a surprising bit of news from Microsoft head-honcho Steve Ballmer: Starting tomorrow (Friday, Jan. 9), you can download the Windows 7 public beta free of charge. An excerpt of the report from Wired: Unveiled by an intense Ballmer during his keynote address on the eve of CES 2009, Windows 7 w...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports supposedly help companies track their environmental and social impact. The reports prove to customers and other regulators that industries are taking the lead when it comes to tackling social issues. CSR advocates even argue that this approach helps the ...
It's easy to snicker at the dimwits in the office that have to send a message twice because they forgot to include the promised attachment the first time... right until the moment you're the dimwit in question. Wouldn't it be great if your mail client would warn you before you made a fool of yoursel...
I've long been a fan of Google Maps for Mobile, but always wished it could give me directions to a local business if I entered just the business name as the destination. Well, my prayers have been answered: Google Maps for Mobile now supports business names when looking up directions. For example...
