So Ziff Davis Media, one of the leading integrated technology media companies in the country, just announced that PCMag, its flagship brand, will go all-digital. The final print version will be the January 2009 issue. For the past seven years, PCMag has leveraged its long-standing position with technology readers and advertisers to build one ...

So Bill Gates is preparing to retire as CEO of Microsoft. Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded Microsoft on April 4, 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to make and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, an early computer that was sold to hobbyists. Gates dropped out of Harvard University in his third year to focus on ...

Back in 2005, my husband had a desktop PC custom designed by a store called Microcenter here in Chicago.   Since then, we’ve been using this machine for nearly all of our home computing needs.  For me, this adds up to a lot.  Like most people, I spend hours shopping online, scheduling engagements, corresponding on social ...

Since everyone’s been bemoaning the sorry state of the economy lately, I thought Lifehack’s recent post on how to “back-up” your life was particularly insightful.  Author AJ West says that you should never assume that what you plan today will work for you tomorrow.  Some of her suggestions include:   Back-up your career. Layoffs ...

Just when you thought the fad of forwarding silly or inappropriate joke e-mails to colleagues had run its course, along comes YouTube.   Now don’t get me wrong:  I think YouTube is the greatest entertainment invention since Nintendo.  My favorite YouTube video is the Montgomery Flea Market commercial, which I must have watched 100 ...

According to a new national survey by Harris Interactive for The Marlin Company, 10% of U.S employees say their company has used e-mail to fire or lay off employees.  And 17% indicated their boss used e-mails to avoid other difficult face-to-face conversations.   “E-mail has become the new shield of today’s business. Companies hide ...

Thanks to Steven Rothberg at CollegeRecruiter.com for sharing news of the innovative, first-ever Deloitte & Touche Film Festival. The festival invited employees in the accounting and consulting firm’s US operations to make short videos that answered the question ''What's your Deloitte?''. Teams comprised of one to seven people submitted films ...