I am a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. My program – Project Management – will complete in Spring, 2015. Over several years of classes, I’ve had wonderful opportunities to interact with people from all over the world. Our program has students from distant locations including South Korea, Afghanistan, the Virgin Islands, and…
Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, the world’s largest eBook distributor, recently presented Smashwords annual survey on eBook sales at the RT Booklovers convention in New Orleans. In this third annual survey, Coker presented valuable information about eBook trends and sales. The data included: over $25 million in customer purchases aggregated across Smashwords retailers including Apple…
You read the title correctly: 55 Business Ideas for under $5000 start up cost. This article, posted on Entrepreneur.com details ideas from bicycle repair to accounting and music instruction. None are especially original, but this list is a good place to start. You may have experience or education in a particular field and want to…
A business idea – an eBook with downloadable images. Other than blogging, I like to take photographs and write everything under the sun. I got this business idea – create a book of images on Amazon with links to my pictures on flickr.com and let people download the images for personal use?! I’d take off…
The United States and United Kingdom governments warned users not to use the Internet Explorer browser – any version – until Microsoft corrects a security flaw. According to the online magazine, theregister.com. “Microsoft has warned of a new security flaw in all versions of its Internet Explorer web browser for Windows PCs. Vulnerability CVE-2014-1776,…
My last post was about malware issues. Continuing on the security theme, this information is courtesy of Fred, a senior project manager friend of mine. He found an article on create strong passwords in IEEE magazine. IEEE is a non-profit professional association dedicated to the advancement of technology. Best-practice security and privacy recommendations from the…
Another significant identity-stealing Malware infection is hitting servers and computers, affecting both Windows and Apple iOS operating systems.. The “Heatbleed (Heartbeat)” infection is a nasty bug, enough for software security vendors to raise their threat level. Symantec released a write-up on the latest variant earlier last week and calls it a serious threat. Ensure your…
Effective April 8, 2014, Microsoft terminated support for Windows XP. This is a concern – according to a recent Spiceworks survey, up to 75% of respondents indicate that at least one computer on their home or business network is running a version of Windows XP. This has the potential for serious ramifications. Support end means…
Do you want to make a lot of money with a business? If you are like most people, the answer is a resounding YES! Many get-rich quick plans that say you can earn thousands per week by doing very little. There are also some very successful entrepreneurs: Andrew Carnegie (steel), Henry Ford (cars), Ray Kroc…
Bloggers constantly look for images that are free to add to a post. WordPress has a novel idea: add an image to a blog with WP Inject, a plugin available to WordPress.org users. WP Inject is a new free plugin that makes it easy to use CC-licensed images in your WordPress content with just a…