Apple’s ambitious new second campus, which looks like a spaceship design straight out of Hollywood, is being delayed according to new info from Bloomberg . The huge circular new headquarters won’t be fully operational until 2016, according to revised plans filed with the city of Cupertino on November 14.. Some minor revisions to the [...]
I made the mistake of downloading the trial version of Windows 8 thinking it was an upgrade to Windows 7. No, it’s tablet software and downloading it on a PC is, like Microsoft are you kidding? Why don’t you tell people its tablet software and not suitable for PC’s? The first thing that comes [...]
A 3.8 percent levy on certain investment income was included in healthcare legislation two years ago, and now misinformation about the tax’s application to home sales is being passed along over the Internet and e-mail, throwing some prospective home sellers into a panic. In actuality, very [...]
I wrote a blog about the Nigerian scam sometime ago. I’m repeating this warning from the FBI since I know someone who fell for this scheme. The person would not tell me how much he lost, and he was somewhat sheepish about it. So anyhow, here goes, hopefully it will prevent someone from going off [...]
WordPress.org, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Moveon.org, Reddit, and Firefox browser creator Mozilla are among more than a dozen Web sites that are going dark on Wednesday for a 24-hour period to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), which critics say threaten free speech on the Internet. The antipiracy legislation [...]
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player This is a great video, it has a thirty second commercial at the start, but it is really worth watching. In Bozeman, Mont., Anders Lewendal is hard at work building a home he hopes will be a blueprint for creating jobs in America. Lewendal, an economist turned builder, is [...]
by Lisa J. Lehr Business owners can easily get stuck in a vicious cycle: Business isn’t so good. They can’t afford to outsource their marketing. They do it themselves, results remain poor, and business remains not-so-good. How do business owners get out of this vicious cycle? It’s not easy, but it’s simple: they make a [...]
The banks keep on trying to get our money one way or another. It’s great when the government goes after these guys. After all, don’t forget that the mess we are in with our economy is due strictly to our illustrious banks and Wall Street. A press release from the California Attorney General’s Office announced [...]
Picture from Design Reviver, The Best and Worse Web Design by Lisa J. Lehr In an earlier post, I talked about the importance of auto responders: those little automated messages that your website visitors get when they opt in to (i.e., put their name and e-mail address in the boxes) your website. In doing some [...]
Picture Courtesy of Black Enterprise by Lisa J. Lehr Yes, we know. The economy is bad. Recovery may be on the horizon, but no one really knows how close. Or if we can “hold out” till it happens. Yet we can each take some actions to position ourselves in the best possible way to survive [...]
