Month: March 2011

Office alternatives offer better performance, no-cost Open Source license

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Tired of paying exorbitant licensing fees every time you install or upgrade bloated, unstable software? Here are a couple of Office alternatives that won’t cost you a dime. The best known of these is OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org (OOo) began as StarOffice, developed by Star Division and acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. The OpenOffice.org suite is …

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Words of Wisdom from Tim Connor

Finding yourself overwhelmed by the constant demands the latest technology and gadgets bring into your life? Find your self spending more and more time on the phone, handling emails and doing business when you should be spending more time with your family? Cell phones, smart phones an other tech gadgets are wonderful tools for doing …

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Made in America: Small Businesses Buck the Offshoring Trend | Magazine

In early 2010, somewhere high above the northern hemisphere, Mark Krywko decided he’d had enough. The CEO of Sleek Audio, a purveyor of high-end earphones, Krywko was flying home to Florida after yet another frustrating visit to Dongguan, China, where a contract factory assembled the majority of his company’s products. He and his son, Jason, …

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‘Digital Inspections’ at U.S. Border Raise Constitutional Questions – NYTimes.com

Digital inspections raise constitutional questions about how robust the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee “against unreasonable searches and seizures” should be on the border, especially in a time of terrorism. A total of 6,671 travelers, 2,995 of them American citizens, had electronic gear searched from Oct. 1, 2008, through June 2, 2010, just a tiny percentage of …

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Motorola’s Atrix Is a Phone and a Laptop – NYTimes.com

If there has been a muted response to what is arguably the most powerful mobile phone currently made – the Atrix – it may be due to its parentage. The phone comes from Motorola. Hand it to Motorola. The Atrix is impressive. Motorola’s Atrix Is a Phone and a Laptop – NYTimes.com.