With wireless devices telecommuters cut the cord
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- With wireless devices telecommuters cut the cord
- For Business wners iPhone Apps Abound
- Sprint’s customer losses continue
- Portland home price decline sets record again
With wireless devices telecommuters cut the cord
Los Angeles Times
They work — clad in shorts T-shirts and sandals — wherever they find a wireless Web connection to reach their colleagues via instant messaging Twitter Facebook or e-mail and occasionally by voice on their iPhones or Skype. As digital nomads experts say they represent a natural evolution in telecommuting. The Internet lets millions of people work from home; now with widespread WiFi many have cut the wires and left home (or the dreary office) to work where they please — especially around other people even total strangers. For nomads the benefits are both primitive and practical. Primitive: Tom Folkes an artificial-intelligence programmer worked last week at the Java Shack in Arlington County Va. because he’s “an extrovert working on introvert tasks. If I’m working at home by myself I am really hating life.
For Business wners iPhone Apps Abound
Wall Street Journal
account runs credit-card transactions emails receipts and generates reports. 99 tracks work shifts billable hours and time spent with clients while DayTracker $1. 99 and TraveLog Mileage Tracker $2. 99 let you track billable vehicle mileage for business and tax purposes. And there are a growing array of industry-specific apps including Bid Estimates $4. 99 for contractors; House Hunter $1.
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Sprint’s customer losses continue
CNET News
I liked the convenience of my T-Mobile auto hopping onto Rodgers and range (international) but the phone itself seemed pretty cheesy. Same with my first AT&T. Now I’m using my personal phone for both home and business since I showed my boss that my Palm Pre and everything plan means no more overages of any kind whatsoever. (don’t worry I had my IT & HR departments sign a form acknowledging the phone number belongs to me – plus I have them reimburse me directly not the carrier). Anyway just a few random thoughts.
Portland home price decline sets record again
regonLive.com
open(urlwinnameoptions) newwin. The Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Index showed that single-family home sale prices in the Portland-region fell 16. 3 percent in May compared to the same month a year earlier. That’s Portland’s biggest decline in the index’s 22-year history. While Portland’s decline continues to grow the pace of the decline did slow in May.
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