As a New Yorker, I don’t own a car, and I really hate driving.

So I challenged myself to avoid the driver’s seat as much as possible during a recent West Coast trip, something made practical with all the online transit planners that have cropped up in recent years.

In the old days, I’d have to tra…

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Two words apply well for the year just ended: Whoa, Nelly! With the financial markets in chaos, the jobs landscape littered with layoffs, and the most audacious outpouring of federal funds since the Great Depression, most of us are ready to look forward to cheerier times in 2009.

Here at BusinessWe…

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The Consumer Electronics Show starts Wednesday in Las Vegas under the dark cloud of a recession and a sharp downturn in consumer spending.

Nearly 2 million square feet of convention hall will be stocked with the latest mobile phones, portable music players, digital cameras and expensive flat-screen…

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My video will resume after that ad, in 26 seconds. The video is really a movie — or at least it was a movie. I don’t know what to signal it while I’m watching it on my computer screen, with my browser set to Hulu.com, a streaming-video site.

Let’s signal it “Wimbledon.” Released in 2004, it’s a ro…

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Nearly two years since retaking the helm of his company, Michael Dell has just taken his toughest steps yet aimed at righting the ship. On Dec. 31, Dell said it dismissed two top lieutenants and reorganized the struggling company’s commercial sales division. As 2009 gets under way, investors will be…

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Twitter, the popular microblogging site, has become the latest target of phishers. The company is warning its members to be careful of messages that redirect them to spoofed Twitter sites in an attempt to steal their user names and passwords.

“This specific scam sent out e-mails resembling those yo…

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As Macworld gets under way, FileMaker has announced a new version of its database software: FileMaker Pro 10. The new product line additionally includes FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced, FileMaker Server 10, and FileMaker Server 10 Advanced.

The company says the new interface “delivers the most dramatic d…

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