| Mac 'on fire' as Apple reports huge growth
Apple reported $170m in revenue from its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard update, released in October. CFO Peter Oppenheimer described that figure as a "significant increase" from the $100m in sales OS X 10.4 saw during the first quarter of its release. The company estimates that 19 percent of its installed base is already using the 10.5 update. Apple also sold 22,121,000 iPods during the quarter, also a record. Those iPod sales represented the first full quarter of sales since Apple overhauled its iPod line in September, introducing a video-capable iPod nano, the high-capacity iPod classic, and the brand-new iPod touch. Apple says the iPod's market share remained consistent from a year ago. Quarterly iPhone sales were 2,315,000 units. Steve Jobs said during last week's Macworld Expo keynote that the company has sold 4 million iPhones since the device launched on June 29.
NFL Weekly Predictions: Week 16
It's takes anger, and a certain amount of manhood, to turn over a table on Jim Rome after being called by the name of a women's tennis player. So this week, I'm challenging Marc Navritilova to come through with his best game of the year." Sorry, Coach. Navritilova is more of a man than Bulger, with one heck of a slice serve to the ad court, to boot. It hasn't been a banner year for the Rams, and it continues. A legion of Terrible Towel wavers make the trip; Rams fans counter with Kleenex. Steelers win, 34-20. Dallas @ Carolina (-10½) With new flame Jessica Simpson in attendance, wearing a pink No. 9 jersey, Tony Romo fired mostly blanks, limp-arming his way to a 13-of-36, 214-yard, 3-INT day as the visiting Eagles stunned the Cowboys, 10-6. The loss dropped Dallas to 12-2, and raised the possibility that the Cowboys may not have homefield advantage throughout the playoffs.
How to save your computer from attacks
Most people do use surge protectors, but what many dont realize is that surge protection wears off over time. For the best protection make sure that the surge protectors for all your computer equipment are replaced every 2 to 3 years.
3-Illegal Software. Many businesses dont realize that they dont own software; just the licenses to use it on a specific number of PCs. Manyt software programs automatically report their usage via the internet, and breach-of-license letters and audits from software manufacturers to businesses are on the rise.
4-Training. Having to spend money training your staff might sound like a waste, but most employees understand less than 20% of the software packages they use. The gain in productivity far outweighs the training costs.
5-Firewall and Security.
Stressed-out teens get lessons in relaxing
As Andre Zayas lay on the hard gym floor, the 14-year-old from Dorchester struggled to clear his mind of his myriad burdens. He ached for a friend who was recently shot to death. He worried about finding a job to help his single mother pay the household bills. And in just a few hours, his project on the 1930s was due in humanities class, and he had not finished. Next to him, Chanel Peguero closed her eyes and imagined graduating from high school in four years with a scholarship, the only way she would be able to afford college. The honor roll student cannot wait to escape her home in a South End housing development where her sleep is punctured by sirens, gunshots, and arguing adults. The teenagers, among two dozen Fenway High School freshmen arrayed in a semicircle beneath a basketball hoop, breathed deeply as a stress-reduction trainer instructed them on how to relax.
Testing home school students has merit
Home-schooling has never been about making sure those kids get a better education, its about keeping them from being exposed to ideas that might conflict with thier parents' narrow world-view. Without some kind of educational guidelines, I wonder how any reputable college or university would even consider accepting a home-schooled student. " .
The Real Reformer
We started during the Clinton administration to transition the VA system to a paperless system. . . . The VA is leading the way in reducing medical errors, improving patient safety, and delivering high quality care; now this is a lesson about what can be done when we have a plan. A plan that is evidence-based, a plan that uses what we know works, and a system that we can actually get to respond to that evidence-based planning. In fact, as a government audit discovered, the VA's paperless system has created a huge bottleneck, losing track of 53,000 veterans. Last year, Obama introduced legislation requiring the VA to treat each returning vet in 30 days. Yet, the VA already had such a requirement, and, according to internal VA audits, 25 percent of all vets wait more than 30 days for their first exam.
2 men nabbed in slashings, beatings
Two men were arrested late Saturday after a street fight outside the White Eagle Social Club in Bridgeport that left numerous people beaten and slashed. Jesse Rivera, 37, of New Street, Shelton, is charged with first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault and single counts of third-degree assault and breach of the peace. Officers seized a folding knife from Rivera, police said. A 17-year-old resident of Park Street, Bridgeport, allegedly punched Rivera as officers were trying to arrest him. Rivera had cut him, the teen later told officers, and he had cuts on his arm and face, police said. The teen is charged with third-degree assault, second-degree breach of peace and interfering with police. Police responded to an 11:15 p.m. street fight outside the rental club, at 595 East Washington Ave., and found numerous people with broken noses and bruises and cuts.
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