IF YOU COULD roll out of bed, commute just 40 feet, work in your robe and fuzzy slippers, and save thousands of dollars on travel expenses, would you do it? And, as a business owner or manager, would you offer the same benefit to your employees?.
Implementing a secure and comprehensive telecommuting plan at your business [...]

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MOST WEB-SAVVY TRAVELERS know how to find cheap airfares, hotel rooms, and rental cars on comparison sites such as Kayak.com and Farecast.com, or on the big booking sites (Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, and the like). But last year, dozens of Web 2.0 travel sites jumped in to fill newly emerging niches in travel planning. Here’s a [...]

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FOR HARD-CORE GAMERS, the Wii leaves a bit to be desired. Previous-generation graphics, few games for adults, a weak online community, and a lack of DVD-movie playback are just a few of the Wii drawbacks that have led me to favor another console. Now, however, for anyone who has wished that the Wii could play [...]

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DO YOU KNOW where your friends are? If not, Google can help you find them. Google Latitude lets smart phone and laptop users share their location. Cough not pinpoint accurate, Latitude can display your general location based on information from GPS satellites and cell towers.
Once you and your friends have opted in to Latitude, your [...]

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VARIOUS DESIGN changes make the Amazon Kindle 2 more appealing than the original model—but while Amazon has succeeded in enhancing its e-book reader, it has done little to advance the device to the next stage.
The $359 Kindle 2 is slimmer (0.36 inch thick), and at just 10.2 ounces, the new device weighs virtually the same [...]

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Similar to Windows Vista, Microsoft’s upcoming operating system will be available in several editions, each with a different feature set.
IF YOU THOUGHT that Microsoft had learned all its lessons with Windows Vista, you’ll soon be disappointed. Although the Windows 7 beta, which was released to the public in mid-January, is receiving mostly positive reviews, revelations [...]

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2008 WAS the year of Facebook, Hulu, and Twitter. For a while I was wondering what Web sites, come next year, we’ll agree had the most impact in 2009, but then I decided to make a few educated predictions. And I chose them from among the sea of new or up-and-coming sites you may not [...]

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The Palm Pre is expected to be a game changer, or a least a solid challenger to the iPhone, in the mobile space. Of course, with such a formidable opponent already on the market, Palm’s got an uphill battle when it comes to convincing the masses that their phone is hotter than the rest. But, [...]

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Tesla is as known for what he couldn’t manage to accomplish as for what he did, and his admirers are doing their best to save the site of his ballsiest, most outlandish failure.
After his work on alternating current made him a rich, famous, and respected electrical inventor, Tesla had no trouble securing funds (about $3 [...]

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In an email sent to users today and in today’s blog post, SocialToo CEO Jesse Stay announced that users would no longer be receiving nightly Twitter autofollow and unfollow stat emails on the company dime. Email from SocialToo now costs $20.
This comes in the wake of a “no guarantees” policy toward accuracy or speed for [...]

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