However, if you’re planning to dual boot Windows 7 on your Win XP/Vista machine, want to run it on a Mac, or on a netbook, Gizmodo has come out with a step-by-step guide on how to accomplish this with Windows 7. Just remember, the minimum system requirements include a 1GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor, 1GB [...]
Date : January 26th, 2009 | Category :
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Car-driving Canadians continued to receive a welcome reprieve from lower gasoline prices in December. But for those that like to eat, which is likely most, food prices have persistently escalated and are predicted to remain costlier in the coming months.
“Inflation is at a two-year low but that’s not the way it feels for those of [...]
Date : January 25th, 2009 | Category :
Business,
News,
Politics
Japanese commercial real estate transactions were down sharply in 2008, marking the end of six consecutive years of gains, according to a Japanese media report Monday. The value of real estate transactions totaled about 2.8 trillion yen ($30.8 billion) in 2008, down from the 5.6 trillion yen in 2007, the Nikkei newspaper reported, citing data [...]
Date : January 19th, 2009 | Category :
Business
Asos Plc, the U.K.’s second-largest online clothing retailer, said sales more than doubled in the last two months as shoppers sought discounts online, and said growth in full-year profit will meet analysts’ estimates.
Revenue rose 118 percent in the nine weeks ended Jan. 16, the London-based retailer said today. Growth accelerated from the 107 percent pace [...]
Date : January 19th, 2009 | Category :
Business
In addition to Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku. It also said it’s discontinuing the ability to upload videos to [...]
Date : January 15th, 2009 | Category :
Business,
Internet
Burger King has pulled its Whopper Sacrifice campaign from Facebook after the social network blocked a feature of its application on the site notifying members when they had been “sacrified” for a Whopper. The popular promotion launched last week allowed people to delete 10 friends on Facebook in exchange for a coupon for a free [...]
Date : January 15th, 2009 | Category :
Business
We live in a great big world that is driven by a lot of business in it, and there are a lot of ways that enable the integration of technology into the operational asset of a company so that work can be done more efficiently. Farhan Masood is the CEO of a company called Solo [...]
Date : January 15th, 2009 | Category :
Business,
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