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Anyone can tell you what happened last year. Lots of folks can tell you what they think will happen in the coming year. But right here on this post that you are reading is the only place where you can read next year's year in review. Here’s what you’ll be... Read More
And the winners are……. First, I’d like to say thank you for all the entries. It was a difficult decision. The 5th through 7th entries were all within .65 points of 4th place. The top eight competitors received a total of 1,849 votes. Christopher Michael Lane – Weighted Score: 8.15 Grand Prize:... Read More
The Eight Finalists for the The 4 Prizes below are: Name Votes % William Nicholas Harmon 714 39% Geoffrey Wang 317 17% Christopher DeVore 290 16% Christopher Michael Lane 271 15% Rasan Murtza 134 7% Julie Caroline Mullins 96 5% Theresa Thomas 18 1% Samuel Aparicio 3 0% Melanie Spring Harris 2 0% Manpreet Singh 2 0% Dan Berger 1 0% Calicoe Star Richir 1 0% Michael G. Whitfield 0 0% Gurdial Saini 0 0% Total 1849 Grand Prize: Samsung Series 900x-3B – Approximate Retail Value (ARV) ,475 Known as the Word's Thinnest Laptop techradar.com Review First Prize: Dell XPS 13... Read More
Vote for the best young entrepreneur contestant. Contestants were asked to create a 2 minute or less video that answers: What kind of entrepreneur are you? What is your big entrepreneurial idea? How can the right PC and cutting edge technology be a catalyst for turning your dream into a reality? Why are YOU the... Read More
Calling all entrepreneurs who would you love to win significant technology that would help advance your enterprise to becoming the next great startup! Driven Forward and Microsoft have partnered to find the next great American entrepreneur. There will be 4 prizes awarded with a combined retail value in excess of ,000. The... Read More
by Jay Paulus 0 As seen on Windwos Team Blog Small businesses, and the entrepreneurs who start them, have been said to be the back bone of the United States and a key driver of our economic growth. Some people may think that small businesses are the low man on the totem pole,... Read More
If you’ve ever seen the movies Cool Hand Luke or One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest then you can relate to how I feel sometimes when I step into the crap-spewing-fan, cheered-on quietly by the silent masses, content to keep their heads down in their foxholes while this dope sticks... Read More
There are several Regional Organizations that are Technology Advocacy groups. There’s the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Tech Council of Maryland, there’s Startup DC, Startup VA, Startup MD. You’ve got DC Tech Meetup, DC Lean Startup, Founder Institute, The Middle Atlantic Venture Association The University of Maryland Dingman Center, Mindshare,... Read More
Is Microsoft Innovative? Not as much as they once were. Is Yahoo innovative? How about RIM, or HP. These companies are decades away from their last innovation and all but Microsoft are a few last gasps away from the once innovative corpse of Kodak.What is it about innovative companies that... Read More
Here’s a infographic courtesy of Microsoft regarding people’s summer travel technology plans.Legal Notice: I am a Windows Champions blogger and I received loan of a laptop and may receive other awards from Microsoft to post my opinions about Microsoft products. At times Microsoft supplies prizes for use in contests like... Read More
How would you like to win the fabulous (did he just say fabulous?) Microsoft & HP bundle with a Manufactured Suggest Retail Price of over ,000? The details:Giveaway Items HP Folio 13 – loaded with Windows 7 Professional LifeChat LX-4000 for Business LifeCam StudioHP Folio 13Incredibly thin. Super light. With zero sacrifice on... Read More
Twas a big week for the corporate walking dead of tech. Two of Tech's notable Zombie companies made major announcements. Yahoo This morning Yahoo’s new CEO announced he’s reducing staff. According to Reuters: Yahoo Inc will lay off 2,000 people, or 14 percent of its workforce, in its deepest round of job cuts... Read More
I started using an Android Phone in 2008. Now 3 Phone’s later, I’m tired of the instability and horrible battery life of my Motorola Droid X2. Fortunately as a Windows Champions blogger, I get free stuff from Microsoft booty. About 3 months ago, I received a new Verizon HTC Trophy Windows... Read More
Just a list of things I've been thinking about for a while and couldn’t find a relevant post in which to insert them. To that end I’ve collected them for a regularly scheduled steam blowing rant. By way of explanation a Buy means I’m a strong believer. A... Read More
It's a Friday in February in Maryland which means it's High School Hockey Night. The Conference leading and defending state champion Churchill Bulldogs are playing the #2 Whitman Vikings. The two teams played 4 weeks earlier in a hotly contested, down-to-the-wire, game that ended with a late tie breaking goal... Read More
Sign up your startup for the Startup America Toolkit. Get great free and radically discounted products and services from companies including, American Express, Vistage, Intuit, Dell, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft. Link here to register. Rank+ -StateStartupsPopulationPer 100K of PopPopulation Rank1CALIFORNIA55437,253,9561.4912NEW YORK32619,465,1971.6733FLORIDA29219,057,5421.5344TEXAS25425,674,6810.9925VIRGINIA1988,096,6042.45126+1ILLINOIS18112,869,2571.4157-1COLORADO1805,116,7693.52228MASSACHUSETTS1786,587,5362.70149CONNECTICUT1193,580,7093.323010MARYLAND1015,828,2891.731911GEORGIA999,815,2101.01912PENNSYLVANIA9212,742,8860.72613DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA92617,99614.895114NORTH CAROLINA869,656,4010.891015WASHINGTON826,830,0381.201316MICHIGAN819,876,1870.82817NEW... Read More
When Yahoo was Yahoo and Google was a dream, Google proposed that Yahoo use their clearly superior search engine. Yahoo turned them down and showed Larry Page and Sergey Brin the path to riches. You see Yahoo wasn’t interested in a better search. Clicking through pages to find what users... Read More
You know I’m writing this on a cool product. It’s a free download. Runs on my PC and allows me to easily write blogs while on or off-line. It’s compatible with Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and Sharepoint and is so easy to use even a grumpy old caveman can master it... Read More
During my years as a turn-around guy, I’ve boarded many a unseaworthy, leaky vessel. This has afforded me the opportunity to be responsible for more sunken ships than the entire WWII German u-boat fleet. You see sometimes the boat comes about when you push the tiller and other times it... Read More
There are so many reasons why America needs to break the shackles of big oil interests and move to renewable green energy. It isn’t just about saving the environment, and it’s not about wordsmithing and morphing global warming to the more energy company-friendly term climate change. It’s about retooling an... Read More
Winners: Prize A: @pfrederickjr, Prize B: @Tech_hedDetails: Will get details to winners soon for shipping prices.So here's the deal. My first Microsoft Windows Champion sponsored contest. 2 lucky tweeters will win one of the 2 products below by tweeting: @glehel wants U 2 win prizes. RT this & follow #win7tech from 3 –... Read More
Product Key A - HP Pavilion dv7 - OS Windows 7 B - Motorola Droid - OS Android 2 C- Motorola Xoom - OS Android D - Sony Viao J - OS Windows 7I'm grumpy old guy, a curmudgeon and yet I'm also a tech guy. While I'm imbued with the heart of an innovator, said heart has been... Read More
