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Personal Finance: Manage Your Money Better Online

Let's be honest. Most of us could do a better job handling our money. When times are good, we probably spend too much. When times are bad, too many of us stick our heads in the sand. Both, of course, are bad ideas. The Web has a wealth, indeed ...

From BILL SNYDER, NetworkWorld,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  AARP

Holiday Travel: Online Tools to Make it Cheaper and Easier

After a brief, but happy, period when airfares were down and the dollar was up, we're back in the travel doldrums. Airlines are cutting flights and packing planes ever tighter, the dollar buys less and less in Europe and bargains on everything ...

From BILL SNYDER, NetworkWorld,  16 Nov 2009

Drowning in Passwords: Tips to Stay Safe and Sane

CIO - Who the heck am I? Am I shopper-Bill, flyer-Bill, reader-Bill, buyer-Bill, potrero-Bill, or this that and the other Bill on the 30 or more sites that comprise my online life? And which of my many passwords do I need right now? If you spend much ...

From BILL SNYDER, ComputerWorld,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Forrester Research, Inc.

Watch out, developers: Here come the lawyers

As we all know, open source software may or may not be free -- and free software may or may not be open source. What defines open source isn't the price or lack of a price, but the freedom of the community to modify it under the terms of the ...

From BILL SNYDER, LXer,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Buick

The fight over open source 'leeches'

InfoWorld - "Leeches" -- that's how Dave Rosenberg, co-founder and former CEO of MuleSource, and now part of the founding team of RiverMuse, refers to companies that use open source technology but don't give back to the open source community. Companies ...

From BILL SNYDER, ComputerWorld,  1 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Southwest Airlines,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Amazon.com,  Bank of America

The Professor May Leave Arsenal?

Arsene Wenger may be going to Real Madrid?   Some people think so. There has been much of talk of "The Professor" being wooed by Real Madrid, but this is little more than political posturing by Florentino Perez (the likely new president of Real Madrid). ...

From BILL SNYDER, Bleacher Report,  24 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Arsenal Football Club,  Real Madrid,  A.C. Milan,  Robinho (footballer)

The good news about open source, Cobol, and mobile jobs

Journalists are often the bearers of bad news; it simply comes with the territory. And with the economy in the tank, there's no shortage of ugly stories to cover. So I'm always pleased when there's a legitimate bit of good news to write about. And ...

From BILL SNYDER, LXer,  27 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Drupal,  Carnegie Mellon University,  Gartner, Inc.

Open source web looks to snare Microsoft

Hey Star Trek fans, do you remember the Tholian web? It was sort of an outer space spider web that ensnared the starship Enterprise and threatened to end that five-year mission. I bring that up because two announcements this week -- one by Google, a ...

From BILL SNYDER, LXer,  12 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.

Vietnam's market economy leaves the poor behind

Twenty years later, Doan Vinh left his wife and three children to join the National Liberation Front in the mountains near Da Nang to fight Americans. He too fought for a decade. Both still live in what was once South Vietnam - Doan in Da Nang, Xuan ...

From BILL SNYDER, San Francisco Chronicle,  7 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Ho Chi Minh,  World Bank,  Central Intelligence Agency,  Daewoo

The open source jobs boom

Written by consultant and author Bernard Golden in conjunction with O'Reilly Media, the 50-page report attempts to document the spread of open source in the enterprise. Although the study did not quantify the actual percentage of open source products ...

From BILL SNYDER, LXer,  25 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Oracle,  Drupal

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