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If you go shopping online for Windows 7, you'll find OEM System Builder copies at significant discounts from full retail prices. Microsoft's own web sites and support forums give conflicting, confusing, often inaccurate information about these products. What's an honest consumer supposed to do? by Ed Bott
Cisco will raise its bid for video conferencing company Tandberg to $3.4 billion, up from $3 billion. The higher offer arrived after Tandberg shareholders balked at the first bid. by Larry Dignan
It sounds like Google will be releasing an early version of their Chrome OS sometime this week -- that leads us to a question of whether anybody will use the new operating system, and if they do, will they like it? by Garett Rogers
Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder picked up my latest post on the lack of measurable results for IT, and posits as to where the greatest IT project risk may be found: by Joe McKendrick
For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars.
SmartPlanet: In our struggling to apply sustainability strategy to things of industry ? electricity in particular ? we forget about protecting the simpler, more basic stuff, like water.
If Twitter had been around during the London bombings in July 2005, how would the average user contribute towards a calmer, more organised chaos? by Zack Whittaker
It seems to be no secret that Dell is slowly taking on Apple. First we saw the Adamo XPS, Dell's take on the MacBook Air, and now we see a Mac mini clone - The Inspiron Zino HD.
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines describes how the company’s new passenger service system will work in the future. He says it will be easier for customers to handle reservations, ticketing, and flight information through their mobile devices.
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines describes how the company is embracing Twitter and Facebook, and how these social networking tools are benefiting interactions with customers.
Monte Ford, CIO of American Airlines talks to ZDNet’s Sumi Das about developing a new passenger service system that will allow customers to connect more easily to the airline through their web site and other mobile devices. Ford also discusses how his IT organization faced the challenges of...
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Added Comment: Blastgroups provides lots of freebies. However it has a confusing interface. I have been doing computers since the 70's and it IS confusing to me. However if you can wade through, you will get LOTS of great stuff for your group. - Computer Doc
Blastgroups
Claims that it is FREE and you can ...
Create a free website for your:
Sports Team–Club–Family–Friends
Church–Work–School–Organization
What can you add to a BlastGroup?
Calendars – Photo Albums – Forums – Blogs
Email Lists – Videos – Audio – Links – Files
I just discovered this site and have NOT tried them. If you try them and have some comments, they are certainly VERY WELCOME! I am signing up today so that I can see how it works and report back to you.
The other one I am familiar with like this is Airset.com. I loved airset until I realized that geeks like me would have no problem with it BUT perhaps the average computer user may.
-Charles
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