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Steve Jobs Spaceship Office Complex Construction Delayed

  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 [...]

Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft You Must Be Kidding

  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 [...]

Facts On The 3.8% Health Tax

                  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 [...]

The Nigerian Letter or “419″ Scam

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 [...]

Popular Web Sites Shut Down Today in Protest

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 [...]

Buy Made In America – Buying Five Percent More Creates 220,000 Jobs

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 [...]

Business Owners, How Do You Get Out of That Vicious Cycle?

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 [...]

Swiss Bank UBS AG Pays $90.8 Million Settlement for Fraudulant Conduct

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 [...]

A Website is No Longer a Luxury, Its a Necessity

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 [...]

Your Business in This Economy, Will it Take a Dive, Survive, or Thrive?

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 [...]