So ipad will change the pc industry? Yea…

It’s fraking Friday and to celebrate Gartner analysts are predicting Apple’s iPad is going to change everything you know about the PC market. Everything. Betanews readers, will you let such prognostications go unanswered?”Apple’s iPad is just one of many new devices coming to market that will change the entire PC ecosystem and overlap it with the mobile phone industry,” Ranjit Atwal, Principal Gartner analyst, said in a statement.

“This will create significantly more opportunities for PC vendors as well as significantly more threats. ” Threats to whom or to what? The traditional PC.”Apple will begin taking orders for iPad on March 12, the company announced today.

Buyers can pick up their purchases on April 3 at a local Apple Store as alternative option to shipping.

I’m already on record giving “12 reasons why I won’t buy an iPad. ” I haven’t found a reason yet.

Have you? Gartner predicted that PC shipments would rise 19.7 percent in 2010 to 366.1 million units from 305.8 million units in 2009.

Worldwide PC spending is expected to rise 12.2 percent year over year to $245 billion. The big growth will be in mobile PCs, which accounted for 55 percent of PC shipments last year. Gartner predicts 70 percent by 2012.

“The PC industry will be overwhelmingly driven by mobile PCs, thanks to strong home growth in both emerging and mature markets,” George Shiffler, Gartner research director, said in a statement.”We expect mobile PCs to drive 90 percent of PC growth over the next three years.

I'd like to find some free or cheap software (<$30) that can help me track my sales tax spending. I'd like to use the output from the program for my income tax sales tax deduction. I live in a state with no income tax so I get to use the sales tax deduction. I could use a spreadsheet but I'd like something a little slicker and easier than that. I'm looking for a web application or Mac software. Thanks! I can easily exceed the standard deduction with my normal spending.
by MoB @ April 15, 2008 2:34 am
I live in a state without state income tax and unless you make rather large purchases, such as cars, boats, major improvemets to your home, then it automatically calculates your sales tax allowance based on your income. I've had to figure it out one year with a client who insisted that I add up every single receipt and there was like a $10 difference and it cost him $50 to add up the receipts. So unless you make major purchases in addition to regular sales tax, it's not worth your time. Otherwise, keep track of it on Excel.
I sell electrical supplies to contractors and also safety and construction supplies to cities and towns. I write notes all over everything! Is there a free or inexpensive, simple software to database and track your customers, when you call them, what was said, etc? I know that there is because i used it for another job years ago but i can't remember what it was called.
by DotCom @ January 27, 2009 4:26 am
Hello Tyler..., One method for note taking and date & Time tracking is to simply use Notepad, wait before you think this is crazy, read on... Open Notepad. On the first line type the following: .LOG then press Enter Save this file as My Daily Log Every time you open this file, a new date & time stamp will be placed on the next available line. Here you type your notes, comments, etc, beneath that date & time, then close it and be sure to save it. As you mentioned: " I write notes all over everything" It would be simpler to open the notepad file each time an event occurs, and the file will remain in tact, aside from loosing valuable paper work. In addition to this, depending on your Microsoft Office skills, you can create simple database structure with MS Word, for mail merging purposes. MS Excel for financial tracking, & Mail merging MS Access, for a Relational DataBase to take care of all your need. Hope this helps dotcom

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