| Another life lost on local roads
A MOTORCYCLIST died after a collision involving a car outside Solihull College on Wednesday evening - the fourth death on borough roads in two weeks. Ambulance crews battled to save the unnamed 21-year-old, from Kings Heath, as he was taken from Blossomfield Road to Heartlands Hospital where he later died. The incident happened just after 8pm when his Kawasaki motorbike collided with a Nissan Sunny. The passenger on the motorbike, a 19-year-old Birmingham woman, suffered multiple minor injuries. The driver of the car, a 32-year-old Warwickshire woman, sustained minor facial injuries. An ambulance service spokesman said: "Sadly, despite the efforts of ambulance and hospital staff, it was not possible to save him and he was confirmed dead shortly after arrival." .
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Getting Started With Telepresence
When it comes to telepresence, forking over the cold hard cash for such a sizable purchase is the least of an enterprise’s concerns. With its high technical demands and sophisticated network requirements, it’s crucial that users properly deploy and maintain their telepresence systems. It’s a task, however, that’s easier said than done given telepresence’s web of room systems, collaboration tools, software and business-to-business connectivity issues. Just the physical installation of a telepresence solution calls for ceiling height assessments and acoustic adjustments, and the entire deployment process can take anywhere from a few weeks to several months to complete. Standalone vs. Hosted Nor are any two system deployment processes the same.
Companies Tolerate Ads to Get Free Software
Businesses are warming to the proposition that they should take a dose of advertising with their software to cut costs. Consumers have been doing it for years: using free online software services like Yahoo Inc.'s email site or MapQuest Inc.'s maps, and, in exchange, putting up with the ads that run alongside. Conventional wisdom had it that corporate users weren't willing to see ads in their online software. But "free" is beginning to prove a powerful draw for some technology managers who have decided to run business tasks like word-processing and network management on free Web-based services that come with ... .
Education Expenses
A taxpayer under age 59½ can avoid the 10% penalty on IRA distributions used to pay higher education expenses for his or herself, a spouse or a dependent. However, the payout from a traditional IRA and any earnings that come out of a Roth IRA before age 59½ are taxable. Job-related education. The cost of education that maintains or improves skills you use on the job -- or that is required to maintain your job -- is deductible if you itemize. It's a miscellaneous expense, which means you get a tax benefit only if all your miscellaneous deductions exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income. Education that qualifies you for a new trade or business, such as law school, is not eligible for this break. Lifetime Learning credit. This credit picks up where the HOPE credit ends.
Punching the Clock with GNU/Linux
A small business in Charlotte, North Carolina is contemplating a move from Windows to GNU/Linux. The business is in excellent position to take advantage of the opportunity. They have only a handful of computers. Their only data consists of forms in Microsoft Word format. Their Windows-based accounting software is barely used. The money they save over the long haul, in licensing fees, malware defense, and unplanned downtime, will more than make up for the costs of a migration. There is only one hitch. They need to make sure their timeclock can plug into the manager's computer - the same one that let's her create documents and connect to ADP's hosted payroll application service. Although ADP's local technical services partner has explained that they do not support GNU/Linux, and it does not appear that the SaveTime 2000 series timeclock from Control Module, Inc.will work with GNU/Linux systems, there are a couple of options.
Lime's Gorton Trades Fast, Seeks Car-Free Utopia (Update1)
March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Step off the elevator into Lime Group's offices atop an 11-story brick building in New York's Chinatown into a crowd of more than 60 stone Buddhas and Asian lions, all handpicked by the company's founder, Mark Gorton. To the right, down a staircase, is a metal door that leads to Lime Brokerage LLC, which Gorton says trades stocks faster than any other company on Wall Street -- as many as 6,000 orders a second. At the end of a long hall is LimeWire LLC, maker of the world's most-popular Internet file-sharing software, with 50 million monthly users. The U.S. recording industry says the product is designed for infringing music copyrights -- an accusation Gorton denies -- and is suing for damages of at least $450 million. Gorton himself sits at a corner desk with a group of math geeks writing algorithms for Tower Research Capital LLC, Lime Group's in-house quantitative hedge fund, a firm with $117 million in assets.
Why Free Software isn't Public Domain
Raconteur GuyFawkes starts out discussing DRM and control of written works, and suggests that the very idea of such is bogus. But rather than arriving at Richard Stallman's idea to turn copyright on its head and require that software be kept free, GuyFawkes suggests that there would be more and bigger cooperation around Linux if Linux went public-domain. Technocrat publisher Bruce Perens asks: if that's so, wouldn't it have happened already, and tries to answer his own question.First, GuyFawkes: DRM = Digital Rights Management.
GPL = General Public Licence There is a whole bunch of other stuff too, DMCA and such like, but they are all, or are all about, various forms of licensing, so what is licensing? If I go to Ford and buy a car, I do not buy a licence to operate the car while Ford retain ownership, I own the car.
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