Posts categorized under ‘Business’

A few days ago I had mentioned that a client of mine has been considering a rather large career change and had asked me for some advice.  I was ill-equipped to act as his career counselor, so opted to ask
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Since before the release of Asus’ first EeePC, people have complained about the speed, or lack thereof, experienced on the netbook form factor. Issues such as boot time, lag between clicks, slow application load times, and limited screen resolutions have
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I just came across this deal on the Dell website. They’re offering a basic netbook for 100円 as a package deal with EMobile. Considering how I’ve been chomping at the bit to get my hands on both a netbook and
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This past weekend has seen a lot of money change hands, and a lot of people lose their jobs. According to every report that’s coming out of CNN and the Wall Street Journal, this isn’t over, either. Despite the fact
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The “Do No Evil” company, Google, is working with some organizations to bring high speed internet access to the three billion humans that live in Africa. The project will cost billions of dollars and they hope that it will be
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The use of foreign workers in any nation is often a touchy subject, eliciting a population’s fear of losing jobs to people who will often work for much less money than a regular citizen. However, using foreign workers to the
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Over the last several months I’ve been noticing a growing trend where people are not receiving my emails in a timely fashion, if at all, when the destination is a Hotmail, GMail or Yahoo mail account. At first I had
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Ever since the Human Genome Project mapped their first human genome, people have wondered what they could find out about their own genetic history.  Unfortunately, it’s been rather expensive, and most of us really don’t worry enough about inherited conditions
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By now, everyone will have heard about Google’s plans to lay a nice fat multi-terabit optical cable across the Pacific Ocean.  Personally, I think this is great for both Google and their target market:  us.  But rather than discuss Google’s
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For the last few years, credit has been pretty cheap.  Most people can get that home improvement loan for well under ten percent, or the half-million dollar mortgage for a few points above prime.  However, for those that are looking
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Following the lead of countries like Australia, Canada may consider ditching our lowest denomination coin; the penny. MP Pat Martin is drafting a private member’s bill to kill this seemingly useless coin, and it seems to have a large number
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How often has this happened to us?  After landing at an airport, we make our way to the carousel to wait for our luggage, only to find that after an hour’s wait, we’re the last ones at the claim and
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Is it just me, or is sun-block cream really big business?  Until five years ago, SPF 15 was recommended if a person was going to spend more than half an hour in direct sunlight.  For a while it was 30
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