So you have a cell phone, a Palm Pilot, an automated officecomplete with teleconferencing, remote-access, Web site ande-mail addresses. So what? Just because you’re always availableto the media doesn’t mean the media has easy access to yourclients. What will your high-tech office be able to do when areporter wants a press kit at 7:00pm on a Friday afternoon?Nothing – except hastily...

Reuters – U.S. mortgage applications fell last week, reflecting a drop in demand for home refinancing loans as interest rates soared to their highest levels since June, data from an industry group showed on Wednesday.

The DNS is a distributed, hierarchical database where authorityflows from the top (or root) of the hierarchy downward.When thinking of the structure of the DNS, imagine an invertedtree. Each branch of the tree is within a zone of authority;however, multiple branches of the tree can be within a singlezone. The software (Bind being the most common) that stores domainname information is called a domain...

There are several ways to advertise and get the word out about your business online and the best of them include f-ree search engines, pay per click search engines, writing articles, utilizing press releases, doing joint ventures/ad co-ops, and posting to message boards and forums related to your target market. But one advertising method that’s neglected by most online marketers is off-line...

Do you feel the need for high speed Internet access and simply cant get it? Not every home has access to DSL or Cable broadband Internet access services. In fact over 30 million people still cant receive high speed Internet access. The costs of setting up DSL or cable access throughout the country, to each home, are in the billions of dollars. There are many promises that DSL or cable is coming,...

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AFP – German retail sales posted a surprise drop of 1.8 percent in June, but analysts disagreed on Monday over whether the provisional data was really bad news for Europe’s biggest economy.

With high-speed Internet access becoming available in more and more areas, perhaps it is now available in your neck of the woods. If it is, you might be wondering if it makes sense to upgrade from dialup. For most people, the answer is probably yes! Here are a few reasons why: - Cost – As it was for me, your most important consideration is most likely the extra expense required to move up to...

An entrepreneur of my acquaintance, in a rush to get his new company up and running, launched his new online publishing venture with a press release and great industry fanfare. Not three days later, he received the kind of letter business owners dread: a cease-and-desist request from the lawyer for a company that said the name of the new venture infringed on their trademark. Ouch!My colleague held...