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How Do You Manage Your Household Finances? Quicken, Simplifi, Money In Excel, And More
How do you manage your household finances? Until a few years ago, there's a good chance you used Quicken, the venerable Windows and Mac finance program. Quicken was released in 1983 for MS-DOS and Apple II, at the birth of personal computing. It started to stagnate a...
STATES BAIL OUT ON MODULAR WINDOWS DEMO
The states in the Microsoft trial screwed up in a big way yesterday. The lawyers blew it, and the states may have blown a hole in their case. The states have been insisting that...
ROBERT HEINLEIN AND THE RECORDING INDUSTRY
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years , the...
BACKUP SOFTWARE
Stomp Software is a new name to me. They've partnered with Veritas (well-known at the enterprise level) to produce BackupMyPC, the latest iteration of Veritas Backup Exec. It's...
HIGH-TECH HOAX
I love stories about gullible people duped by magic tricks. It makes me feel proud to be a skeptic. A Florida newspaper is running a series about Madison Priest, a good ol' boy...
MICROSOFT AND MONEY
Microsoft acknowledges what analysts have also been pointing out - that its growth will start to slow over the next few years. But Microsoft's cash on hand is starting to raise...
THE DEATH OF INTERNET RADIO
The death of Internet radio is three weeks away. No fooling. The recording industry collaborated with the media conglomerates that own virtually all conventional radio stations...
THE AOL-TIME WARNER BLACK HOLE
Last week, AOL Time Warner announced that it was writing off $54 billion of its net worth as being completely unsaleable and without any value whatsoever. This embarrassing loss...
HOW ORACLE SCREWED CALIFORNIA
It's either sad or amusing to read how Oracle suckered the state of California into buying millions of dollars of software and licenses that the state didn't need, covering more...
PRIVACY: BANKS vs. MICROSOFT & AOL
A recent study discovered that almost half of you would trust banks to handle online wallets, but most people would not trust Microsoft or AOL to hold the same financial...
CITIZENS FOR A MURDER-FREE AMERICA
Any Philip Dick fans out there? Take a look at Precrime, the web headquarters of Citizens for a Murder-Free America. Precrime proposes using a revolutionary new technology called...
KLEZ VIRUS
There's yet another e-mail virus running around loose, the "Klez" worm. It's finding a lot of unprotected systems, and causing the usual problems. Here's an article about the...
WEB SITE HIJACKING
If you own a domain name, make sure its registration doesn't expire accidentally! The number of domain names being allowed to expire--intentionally or accidentally--is at an...
SEGWAY
I feel like I missed something obvious. Maybe you already knew this. Remember the Segway scooter created by Dean Kamen and announced in December? Battery-powered, using computers...
DATAPLAY – THE NEXT BIG THING (not)
Miniature CDs will hit the market this summer, presumably with a heavy advertising blitz. The "Dataplay" discs look like CDs that are one inch across and come in a small plastic...
PRIVACY INVASIONS AND THE PATRIOT ACT
According to this story, the Patriot Act (passed last October) has produced results that might take you by surprise. The Patriot Act gave law enforcement officials expanded...