If you don't mind breaking the rules, you can use your iPhone 3G as a wireless broadband modem for your notebook. Lifehacker explains how: It starts by "jailbreaking" your phone, meaning hacking it a bit so it can run software from sources other than the App Store. This is a...
If your budget won't accommodate a pricey business projector but you need one for the occasional presentation, here's a solution: Rent a projector from Projector123. The service offers 2000- and 3000-lumen models (the latter suitable for ultra-bright environments, like rooms with lots of ambient light) for periods...
Current traffic flow maps can tell you how backed up traffic is on your usual route home. What they can't tell you though, is whether it makes sense to take the side roads back from the office or if those are even more jammed. Last week, though, Microsoft Live unveiled...
These five products have one thing in common: Each started out as an idea hatched by a mid-level employee — and ended up changing a company or revolutionizing an industry. Post-it Notes Intrapreneurs: Spencer Silver and Art Fry...
Commodities prices have so far responded pretty much as expected to the USDA's Prospective Plantings report, issued March 31. Corn prices are up, soybeans are way down. That's potentially bad news for meat processors such as Tyson Foods and companies such as Archer Daniels Midland that make...
According to University of Utah researchers, using a larger monitor could save you 2.5 hours per day. Specifically, test subjects completed everyday tasks like editing documents and massaging spreadsheets 52% faster when using a 24-inch monitor than they did with an 18-incher. Of course,...
Can your IT department order productivity and have it arrive a week later in a box? A study by the University of Utah, commissioned by display maker NEC, says yes. Upping your team's task productivity by as much as 52 percent, they say, is as easy as investing in larger...
Great webinar today featuring Ibrey Woodall of TEKgroup International and Keith Jenkins of the Washington Post on the subject of online media relations. I hope you had a chance to join us. One of the takeaways for me as moderator was the need to really focus on...
Nowadays one of the most important things to have in order to function well in society is to have a good credit standing. By availing of a free credit report, you can monitor a vital aspect of your finances and get a good idea of how you look to financial...
This paper explains tips for a better credit rating & managing your credit file: register on the electoral roll; close unused credit accounts; get a quote not an application; don't miss any payments; check your credit report? Sign up to monitor your report; get your partner to check their report;...
Out of the box, the iPhone can't double as a wireless modem for your notebook. (Heck, even my $99 Palm Centro can do that!) Would you even want it to, though, given its reliance on AT&T's pokey EDGE network? Well, when there's no Wi-Fi hotspot to be found, pokey Internet...
Remember the CradlePoint CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router, which leverages your broadband USB modem to create a go-anywhere Wi-Fi hotspot? The WAAV AirBox CM3 does more or less the same thing, except that it packs its own 3G modem. In other words, it's a hotspot-in-a-box -- or, if you prefer, an...
Right now I'm totally digging the Sierra Wireless U595 USB modem, which plugs into my notebook to provide high-speed Internet access just about anywhere. The only thing that would make it better is if I could share the wireless love with my co-workers. CradlePoint's CTR-350 Cellular Travel Router makes it...
The Utilization Review Coordinator job summary: To monitor adherence to the hospital's utilization review plan to ensure the effective and efficient use of hospital services. To monitor the appropriateness of hospital admissions and extended hospitals stays. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.
Download this Sterling Commerce case study to learn how ViewSonic, a leading provider of LCD and plasma display solutions, addressed its need for a flexible, multi-enterprise, service-oriented architecture to help: Streamline operating practices Enable transactions with new business partners Improve delivery capabilities
How's your energy bill? How's the weather? For managers concerned about energy conservation, for environmental or economic reasons, Wired offers a solution this week -- the ambient orb. Originally used to keep track of the markets, the glowing orb pulses a calm blue if...
Circuit City reported a steep first-quarter loss and expects more sales volatility in the coming months. The retailer reported declining sales in TVs, DVD players, camcorders, and other key items. Although sales of flat-panel, plasma, and LCD TVs were strong, high gas prices combined with the housing slump...
Samsung Electronics today unveiled a new flash memory production line at its Texas plant and revealed plans to invest another $3.5 billion in flash memory chip production there. The announcement marks the first time the leading memory chip-maker has released details on production capacities. Analysts say Samsung's...
At Apple's World Wide Developers Conference yesterday, chief executive Steve Jobs unveiled a near-final version of the Leopard OS X operating system and announced a new version of its Safari Web browser that will run on Windows. The move reignites the Windows-Mac browser wars of the 1990s, and...
You may have heard that Dell plans to stop selling LCD TV's. (Industry blogs went nuts yesterday when Taiwan's Economic Daily newspaper reported that Dell would discontinue its line of LCD TV's.) In light of the massive restructuring at the company, the claim sounds like it may have some reasonable...
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