Archive for February 14th, 2010
Internet Prompts Publishing Itch In Over-60s
Reuters reports that the Internet is helping older British readers rekindle a love of books and writing, and an overwhelming majority of senior citizens see the medium as a positive development, according to a survey. Some 31 percent of people over 60 are keen to go online to publish short stories and join book clubs, [...]
When Domain Name You Want Is Already Taken
Q: I want to use my company’s name, plus dot-com, for my Web site. But that name is already taken. It will expire later this year. Is it possible for me to reserve it so nobody else can get it or renew it? A: If you haven’t done so already, find the individual who currently [...]
Services To Help Us Stop Dawdling Online
Even after spending hours behind a computer screen, we’re often surprised by how little we get done during a workday, reports The Wall Street Journal. Indeed, frittering time away is epidemic in the office: A 2007 survey of 2,000 workers from Salary.com Inc., a Web site that provides compensation data, found that Americans waste about [...]
Online Cobblers Repair Footwear From Afar
Last year, women purchased 728.8 million pairs of shoes in the U.S., and men purchased 327.4 million pairs, according to market research company NPD Group. Even with all that footwear out there, shoe-repair shops are becoming increasingly rare. The Wall Street Journal reports that stepping up are a number of online cobblers, who accept and [...]
Patent Lawyers Give Your Big Idea An Edge
The Kansas City Star reports that there’s a patent behind millions of products — from fishing lures to life-saving medical devices to the icing on a cake. And behind many patented products (and services) is an attorney — preparing and filing applications, drafting legal documents to license the use of inventions, defending clients against charges [...]
Making Geekdom Cool And Profitable
Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, remembers the first time he saw the Internet – in a research laboratory at the University of Minnesota, circa 1990 – and likens the moment to the California Gold Rush, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. By 1994, the former computer-science student had dropped out, turned [...]
Broomfield High senior Kyle Myhra has big ideas. He demonstrated one of them last week, when he showed off his latest invention — the Spot Sucker. He poured some red wine on a section of cloth “50 percent cotton, 50 percent polyester,” he said as he placed a pad with cleaning solution underneath it, reports [...]
On a somewhat chilly Thursday evening, AOL Small Business reports that a group of young college students have driven 10 miles because of a tweet. Their destination: a bar in Costa Mesa. Or, to be more specific, a food truck parked outside a bar in Costa Mesa. Their goal: the nachos served by Taco Dawg, [...]
Google Launching Ultra-Fast Internet Service
Are you ready for Google to become your ISP asks WalletPop? If the new Google ultra high speed Internet connection trial goes well, you might be able to enjoy 1 GB per second Internet connections to your home and all at what they are calling competitive rates. To put the speed in perspective, 1 GB [...]
Bizs Using Shared Kitchens Need To Know Regs
Photo by airtechrefrigeration.com. WalletPop reports that operating a new catering company or food-related business is difficult to do from home, so the concept of shared kitchens is compelling. Rent space or buy a membership to a shared facility, and a budding chef gets access to commercial equipment in a sanitary space. In many locales, it’s [...]
Turn snowmageddon into a windfall by starting your own snow-shoveling business. With help from Mike Stevens, owner of the industry newsletter Snowplow News, and Kevin Arroyo, the owner of R and A Cleaning Services in Staten Island, N.Y., WalletPop offers the following advice to get digging: Money talks: Charge what the market will bear. “Be [...]
