Whether you are running a small business out of your home or have a shop of your own, one of the keys to success is figuring out how to manage your finances. When John Garrett of Boise, Idaho, bought Triad Distributing Northwest Inc. in the summer of 2001, he had a lot of work to do. “The people I bought the business from had a totally manual system. They had order and sales information hand-written ... [full story]

New platform allows developers to build embedded applications for smaller devices using .NET and Microsoft Visual Studio tools. Today at Embedded World 2007, Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of the software development kit (SDK) for the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework. With its ability to work seamlessly with Visual Studio, the .NET Micro Framework extends the power of Microsoft's embedded offerings into the realm of smaller, less expensive and more resource-constrained devices. "The .NET Micro Framework ... [full story]

The Consumer Electronics Association - the main trade group for gadget makers - recently put out an extensive report looking at the power used by home electronics. Perhaps the most interesting piece of the 147-page document is the section that was left out: digital TV. The association tells us how much power the average home answering machine uses, along with DVD players and cordless phones. But it won't say how much juice digital TVs suck ... [full story]

Initiative aims to encourage innovative game development by sharing advertising profits from MSN Games' Casual Game titles Microsoft Casual Games today unveiled plans to share a percentage of in-game advertising revenue from MSN Games with its casual game developers. Starting today, developers of Web-based titles hosted on MSN Games, one of the world's largest online casual games portals, are eligible to take advantage of the new Ad-Share Program. Designed to help foster increased innovation in ... [full story]

BMW is one of many vehicles profiled in the Scarborough Research/Radio Advertising Bureau automotive study Scarborough Research, the leading local market research firm for identifying the shopping, media and lifestyle patterns of adults in the United States, finds that BMW owners* are among America's earliest adopters of new technology and media. This is one of many findings in the Scarborough Research/RAB Automotive Study, a report profiling the top-selling domestic and foreign vehicles. According to Scarborough, ... [full story]

With use of Web sites and other digital media continuing to rise, it's not surprising that U.S. Internet advertising revenues grew more than 30 percent last year, topping $16 billion according to eMarketer estimates. Yet, many corporate advertisers and advertising agencies are concerned that their online ad impressions may not be properly counted. In a recent survey sponsored by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), less than half of ad-agency respondents and only one-third of ... [full story]

Industry Leaders and Educators for Third Year in a Row Gather at Secure Software Forum Launch Event at RSA Conference to Discuss Directive for Software Security Dynamics, Inc. yesterday announced this week results from the Secure Software Forum (SSF) 2006 educational initiatives and revealed details of the Secure Software Forum 2007 program. The SSF was first launched in February 2005 as an educational initiative to provide leading executives spanning all disciplines within the application lifecycle ... [full story]

Branded desktop application extends podcast and IRC features to the desktop. Webmaster Radio has partnered with OTOlabs, a One to One Interactive company, to bring the Webmaster Radio Podcast Communicator to the webmaster and Internet business community. This innovative Branded Desktop Application (BDA) has opened new doors of communication for WebmasterRadio.FM extending its website's features directly to the desktop for continuous streaming audio and user interaction through an IRC chat channel. Developed and managed using ... [full story]

Now citizens can contact police and submit complaints and police reports online and from mobile devices, saving time, money, and manpower; while at the same time ensuring a quicker, more accurate police response. If you’ve ever had to call the police for something minor, then you know the drill: A citizen calls the police with a relatively minor complaint (barking dog, prank phone calls, minor vandalism, etc), and the police send someone out within a ... [full story]

More than half a million businesses close down each year -- and Microsoft Office Live wants to help change this. A free Web seminar series sponsored by Microsoft Office Live helps small businesses discover how they can succeed in a highly competitive marketplace. The free series gives entrepreneurs access to today's most dynamic business leaders. During these interactive presentations, speakers will address issues and concerns that small businesses face and provide valuable insight and strategic ... [full story]

Vgo Software Corp continues to improve its leading Evo product, a next-generation, automated Oracle Forms to Java-J2EE database application conversion solution with the addition of object re-use and consolidation capabilities. Older client-server applications often repeat the same logic, or function, multiple times within their source code. Often this code is repeated many times in different programs throughout the application. Making a change to that function is time-consuming since it needs to be changed in each ... [full story]

Service-Oriented Architecture Enables Access to Intelligence Data and Services Lockheed Martin announced Thursday that Air Force commanders at different locations now have immediate access to each other's intelligence imagery and services, attributable to the early fielding of the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integration Backbone (DIB). Lockheed Martin integrated the DIB into three previously "stove-piped" autonomous intelligence databases at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, Beale Air Force Base in California, and a forward location ... [full story]

Premier event for open source, community and business draws leaders from Covalent, db4objects, EnterpriseDB, Funambol, Groundwork Open Source, HelmiTech, Intalio, JasperSoft, KnowledgeTree, Laszlo, Mulesource, MySQL, Ohloh, OpenLogic, rSmart, and SugarCRM Organizers of Open Source Think Tank 2007: The Future of Commercial Open Source, today announced that more than 20 CEOs of software companies from around the world were participating in the March 8 - 10 event in the California wine country at the Silverado Country ... [full story]