Archive for the ‘Lists’ Category

Five reasons to ditch your cable box or satellite

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Why spend $50 to $100 a month for video entertainment when there's so much good, free stuff on the Web? Good-bye, couch potato, and hello, mouse potato. (This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.) Dan Tynan Lost lost me a long time ago. I'm sick to death of ...

25 Ways to Tick Off a Tech Journalist

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

by Dan Tynan Sure, we make jokes about PR people as we eat their cheese cubes and drink their Yuenglings, but we couldn't do our jobs without them. I certainly couldn't. My working life is generally made much easier thanks to the hard work of the kind folks who ...

Top five myths about Steve Jobs

Monday, June 9th, 2008

(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) In case you've been living in a cave, today marks the first day of the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference and Steve Jobs' keynote, which Apple watchers have declared will be the venue where Jobs unveils iPhone 2.0 -- ...

Five Ways to Make Your Office Virtual

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Running a virtual business is easier (and cheaper) than ever, if you have the right tools (An edited version of this story originally appeared on PCworld.com.) by Dan Tynan When it comes to running a business, our feet are firmly on the ground but our data and software are increasingly in the cloud. ...

Six Technologies That Will Change Your Life

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

In the next decade, we might not whiz around in jet cars or own personal robot servants, but we will whiz around in 3D virtual worlds and have access to the Internet from everywhere. (A version of this story appeared in the March/April issue of Consumer Digest magazine, which has no ...

25 Ways to Reward Employees (Without Spending a Dime)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

(This one ran a while back on HRworld.com, but what the heck -- it's all still good.) By Dan Tynan Your firm's employees work hard (well, most of them). And in a world where corporations like to boast about running "lean and mean," it may seem nearly impossible to compensate employees for ...