Weekly Newsletter

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  • Tip of the Week: Finding document templates
  • Headwhack of the Week: Hard to find 800 numbers
  • Geek Speak of the Week: Facebook Fired
  • Security: New scam adds live chat to phishing attack
  • News: Facebook break leads to burglary suspect
  • News: SongBeat 360 Charges for Search, Not Music 
  • Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Pros & cons of the cloud
  • Opinion: Music execs cyring about royalties again
  • Weekly Advice Column: Are social lending sites legit?
  • This Week's Show: The Vernacular of the Digital Generation

 

         Poll of the Week: Are you concerned that your cell phone is giving you a big brain (tumor)?

          Another report is circulating on cell phone radiation; are you concerned?

        

 

Tip of the Week: Finding document templates

The next time you need a template for a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), a Consignment Agreement, Letter of Intent (LOI) or just about any kind of legal or business document you won't have to create it from scratch, thanks to the document sharing website .docstoc.

You can search over 5 million public documents or if you fancy yourself a creative writer upload your documents so others can use it as a template or research resource!

Headwhack of the Week: Hard to find 800 #s

Remember the good ole days when the 800 # for any reasonable company was prominently posted on websites, on business cards, in brochures and in owner's manuals?

Well, one of the many cost saving measure taken by many companies was to limit the exposure to their toll free number to reduce the cost of those calls.  "Visit our website at:..." has become the cost controlling call to action for most organizations, but what do you do when you really need to speak with someone on the phone?

The next time you need to track down those hard to find phone numbers, give HardToFind800Numbers.com a try!

 

Geek Speak of the Week: Facebook Fired

To be terminated because of a posting to a social network such as Facebook (alternatively, to be fired via post to such a network -- worse than the email pink slip, to be sure).

Security: New scam adds live chat to phishing attack

Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a U.S.-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team said on Wednesday.

 

News: Facebook break leads to burglary suspect

Facebook may have 300 million members, but a news story this week makes one particular member stand out from the crowd...

News: SongBeat 360 Charges for Search, Not Music

Most paid music services charge you for downloading or streaming songs. Not SongBeat 360. Instead, the recently relaunched service charges a 1.5-cent credit each time you search for music, allowing you to play or download up to 50 of the songs returned by your search without paying again.

Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Pros & cons of the cloud  

In case you didn't get the advice column or the radio show on cloud computing, here is our weekly CNN.com video segment LIVE from our Boston store on computing in the cloud!

Watch the video and help our rankings on CNN.com!  You can watch us live AT OUR NEW TIME every Wednesday afternoon at 2:30PM Pacific, 5:30PM Eastern or watch the archived versions of our segments whenever you want at  CNN.com/video.

Opinion:   Jobs Reappears and Apple Almost Delivers  

The uproar about royalty fees in the music industry and how the songwriters, composers and music publishers aren't getting their fair share from iTunes, based on today's royalty rules is back. It's gotten so extreme that those folks even want a cut of the free 30-second samples of songs that are played on iTunes

Weekly Advice Column: Are social lending sites legit?  

The micro-lending trend used to businesses in third world countries has led to an interesting evolution known as 'peer to peer' lending.  There are people on the Internet looking for small loans for education, home improvement, debt consolidation and there are a lot's of small investors that are being brought together via these very interesting web sites... learn all about it here!

This Week's Show: The Vernacular of the Digital Generation

The impact of the Internet and technology on our language is apparent to even the most technically challenged of us, IMHO (whatz up w/dat?)

If you're getting lost when someone tells you to STW or that they were AFK, then you aren't alone.

If your interactions with others online are not causing you to LOL, then perhaps a little edutainment is in order!

Listen in as the Data Doctors and our very knowledgeable listeners chime in to explain to the uninitiated how to decode today's online communication protocols!

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