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When I was an assistant, one of the tasks I hated the most was doing my boss’ expense reports. I didn’t hate them because of my crappy math skills — Excel handled the numbers for me — I hated them because I always had to figure out where the hell my boss’ receipts had come from. Sure, if he had a ...

Stephanie Kahn wanted to bask in her engagement for a few hours before diving into the task of calling aunts, uncles and good friends with the big news. And even before she could call them, she had a surprise party to attend, one that her fiance had set up for their parents and her "closest group of girlfriends." That party was ...

When Marty Kotis looked at his company's monthly wireless bill, he found a stunning charge - for 2,500 text messages on a single staffer's phone. There was more: Another staffer had 800, and a third, 700. But Kotis, who owns a real estate development firm in Greensboro, N.C., didn't reprimand his employees, although many of the messages were personal. Instead, he ...

In response to widespread internet backlash, Dell has revised "Della," its website marketing netbooks to women, purging it of references to calorie counting and shopping.

A revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites will be launched officially today amid heated talk that it could challenge the might of Google. WolframAlpha, named after Stephen Wolfram, the British-born computer scientist and inventor behind the project, takes a query and uses computational power to crunch through huge databases. The service can compute the distance ...

Sprint and Samsung teamed up Thursday to announce the eco-friendly Samsung Reclaim cellphone. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse says the green phone isn’t just environmentally responsible -- it’s good business. Coming August 16, the $50 phone (after rebates and with a two year Sprint contract), is made from 80% recyclable materials. And $2 out of the proceeds from purchased phones will be ...

'New algorithm can help Google answer complex staffing questions and identify employees most likely to quit.' - Google is the cream of the internet search and advertising crop and got to its top spot on the backs of a large group of dedicated and talented employees. Some of the very same employees that helped Google get where it is today are ...

Save both money and the environment when you buy one of these eco-friendly business PCs from Lenovo and HP. The role of business PCs has changed significantly in the past 20 years. What used to be slow-performing and bulky in design, business PCs come equipped with fast processors, lots of hard drive space, and are compact in size. Major manufacturers have ...

"The Beatles: Rock Band" has produced more buzz than any video game since the last "Grand Theft Auto." When Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr took the stage at Microsoft's Xbox press conference at E3 this summer, they were greeted with a standing ovation. Gamers, then, already know and love the Fab Four, so the idea that "The Beatles: Rock Band" (MTV ...

Throughout the recession, Apple (AAPL) watchers have wondered whether the consumer electronics giant would release cheaper products to appeal to today's thrifty consumers. With sales of many products from other companies in the doldrums, the conventional wisdom goes, Apple could walk off with huge slices of market share for everything from Macs to iPods to iPhones if it would just lower ...

Years ago I had utopian dreams of working wherever I wanted. I longed to turn my Palm organizer into a word processor that would fit in my pocket, and ultimately I succeeded—sort of. I was able to install a word processing program and attach a fold-up keyboard, though there was no wireless link. Now that PDAs have morphed into smartphones, I ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The dreaded Conficker computer worm is stirring. Security experts say the worm's authors appear to be trying to build a big moneymaker, but not a cyber weapon of mass destruction as many people feared. As many as 12 million computers have been infected by Conficker. Security firm Trend Micro says some of the machines have been updated ...

We count on our mobile phones to stay connected with friends and family. But their cost in both time and money can be high. So, try these secrets to save a lot of both. h4. *Send texts via e-mail* Does your phone not support multimedia messaging? Or are you nearing your monthly text-messaging limit? Then send your photo or text message ...

Being able to focus at work is tough in any organization, but Microsoft's (MSFT) flat and freewheeling culture can make the problem especially acute. The sprawling company has so many intertwined product groups that keeping up with all the developments around campus can become a job in itself. "At Microsoft, e-mails fly around, and you get hooked into so many meetings ...

Is Google evil? In 2001, just a few years after Sergey Brin and Larry Page formed Google out of a garage, company brass adopted the phrase "Don't Be Evil" as a corporate motto and philosophy. And why not? Their search product revolutionized the Internet and their ad platform broke up the agency stranglehold to help empower the little guy. Things got ...

SEATTLE — Microsoft said Thursday that prices for the Windows 7 computer operating system are largely in line with those for Vista, and that people who buy PCs before the new system goes on sale in October will get free upgrades. To drum up demand among people who aren't in the market for a new PC, Microsoft also said it is ...

I was introduced to Google when I went back to work as an assistant in a law firm in Ottawa. I had taken time off to raise my daughter and when I came back computer technology had gone from DOS to Windows and the Internet was becoming very popular. I shied away from it however. I was happy just to know ...

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Love playing Mafia Wars or Farmville on Facebook? Think again. Turns out many of them are run by companies who are just out to scam you. Read the article and protect yourself!