Number of Americans Online Grows

Total U.S. adults with access to the Internet has swelled to 77 percent, or 172 million people, as of April 2006.At home 70 percent of adults have online access, an increase over the 66 percent in 2005.
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Portable Apps on a Thumb Drive

Want to use a USB thumb drive to take all your applications as well as your settings wherever you go? Check out the
Portable Apps Suite. They have many optional apps, but the standard package includes:
Portable Firefox (web browser), Portable Thunderbird (email client), Portable OpenOffice.org (office suite), Portable AbiWord (word processor), Portable NVU (web editor), Portable […]

Google leads market, introduces Video Ads

Google continues to be the 800 lb Gorilla in the paid search world:
Google’s share of the U.S. Web search market continues to edge beyond Yahoo and Microsoft, according to the latest monthly numbers released by analysis firm ComScore Networks.
The search giant’s market share among home, work and university Internet users climbed from 42.7 percent to […]

Gartner sees declining need for tech skills

Is IT on the decline?

The need for employees with specific IT skills will decline 10% per year as companies move to commodity and virtualized systems, according to Gartner Inc.

What this doesn’t address is that while specific skills may be less in demand, the demand for people who understand business as well as they do technology […]