PLUGGED IN : NEWS BYTES.TO WEB OR NOT TO WEB: It seems like every company is getting onto the Internet, from billion-dollar corporations to small, home-based start-ups. But the Web may not be the place for every company, says the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants With over 330,525 CPA members (in August 2006), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) is the largest professional organization of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) in the United States of America. . The AICPA AICPA See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). suggests would-be Web site entrepreneurs ask themselves several big questions before heading for the Internet, and possibly wasting time and money: Is your business local in nature, and does it depend on face-to-face contact with customers? Or could you benefit from a national or global reach? Do you have an unusual product that's difficult for customers to find, and that you can ship by mail? Would your customers want to use the Internet to get greater services from you? WEB LINKS MINE FOR CYBER-GOLD: Creative Labs, the world's leading provider of multimedia products for PCs, has started a gold rush in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. with ``The Great 65 Gold Giveaway.'' It's an Internet sweepstakes where winners get their share of 64 pounds of gold. To enter, go to http://gold.soundblaster.com. VIRTUAL GREEN THUMBS Green Thumbs is an episode of the animated TV series Beavis and Butt-Head. Characters: Beavis | Butt-head | Mr. Anderson | David Van Driessen | Coach Buzzcut | Principal McVicker | Daria | Todd | Stewart | Cornholio | : If your flowers are taking forever to come out, there's always the Web. Garden Design magazine notes that there are Web sites for flowers such as roses www.ars.org and day lilies day lily: see lily. www.a1.com/daylily/place.html and also flowering bulbs. The sites have information for gardeners, but those of us with purple thumbs can visit and admire the virtual blossoms. If vegetables are more your style, there's Keith's Tomato Page www4.ncsu.edu/eos/users/k/kdmuelle/public/hp.html, constructed by a North Carolina State University History
RANDOM ACCESS YOU CAN TAKE IT WITH YOU: Jay Sato, vice president of Sony's personal video division, demonstrates the new Digital Mavica, the world's first digital still image camera that can store images on a standard 3.5-inch floppy disk floppy disk or diskette Magnetic storage medium used with computers. Floppy disks are made of flexible plastic coated with a magnetic material, and are enclosed in a hard plastic case. They are typically 3.5 in. (9 cm) in diameter. . The disk can be removed from the camera and inserted into a PC or Macintosh for simple one-step transfer of images without any cables, interfaces or drivers. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) No caption (Jay Sato) (2) No caption (The Great 65 Gold Giveaway) |
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