JMH Techtronics

We were looking for a relatively inexpensive option to access data at home from our combined work office and decided to do a bit of browsing around the online stores to see just what would work for us recently. We didn’t really want to pay a monthly fee of any sort like the remote office […]

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I was reading an article on CNET earlier about all the crazy new merge names they were coming up with to describe the landscape of the battle for Yahoo!, and the Lord of the Web and it gave me a headache. So I popped a couple of pills and decided that I like my name […]

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Do you even have Firefox 3 yet? I…well…checks version…2.0.something. Nope. Beta is available in that link.
So…we are already talking about Firefox 4. It won’t even be released this year, but why not get some early scoop on it? In an interview with Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla, Rafe Needleman discusses some of […]

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Rumors going around lately, again, like they always are when it comes to Digg, saying that they are looking to get paid by someone like Microsoft or Google. Supposedly they came uout and denied the bidding war and will not be “selling out” to corporate overlords.
Arrington said Google, Microsoft, and two media companies may […]

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There is really no way I can pretend that I wouldn’t rather see Microsoft running the world than Google, but hey, let’s get some search engine competition going on here regardless. Google is eating webmasters alive with their demands lately because their algorithm is easy to manipulate.
So…I’m sure you have heard that Microsoft has […]

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Photographs have been time stamped for ages, but now they can be stamped with the exact location in the world where they were taken? Interesting concept. Stephen Shankland, at CNET wrote an article about it today which I found pretty interesting because I had not yet heard of this technology. Apparently it is being called […]

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CNET News.com’s Erica Ogg reports on what happens when 100 volunteers with GPS phones start driving up and down a 10-mile stretch of freeway.
The report is done by video so you’ll have to run over there and check it out. Sound is a bit poor so a captioning option would be useful. The premise of […]

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The wealthiest man in the world doesn’t seem to talk out a whole lot, but when he does people tend to give him his space in the papers. Probably hoping they can get free gold watches just for talking to him.
Gates spoke at the World Economic Forum (video) on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland calling for […]

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Despite strong concerns about Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, European Commission regulators are likely to approve the deal. The Mighty Google is taking over the world and it doesn’t matter what sort environmental site assessment you perform because they own you.
According to TopTechNews, a more direct indication is the fact that the EC has thus far […]

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Back when I opened my office up for my financial advisory practice with my partner one of our biggest problems was our phone system. The problem was that we really didn’t have a huge need for a dramatic system, but we did need a professional one that would work well for our needs. We couldn’t […]

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