December 2009

Number of electronic books available for Amazon's Kindle ...
 ... 390,000
Kindle's sales ranking on Amazon.com...
 ... #1
Date when Amazon ebooks for Kindle outsold traditional paper books...
 ... 12/25/2009

I'd like to point out a wonderful Excel 2007 enhancement called Tables.  The secret to their power is that they automatically create dynamic named ranges. If that doesn't mean a lot to you, please take a moment and check out the full article for the details.

This month Google announced a new search tool: real-time search.  Google's real-time search component is different than its traditional search tool.  While its traditional search tool crawls websites periodically and stores them in its index, Google's real-time search tool incorporates website posts in real-time, as they are posted. 

Does your company collect personal information about your customers or clients?  Information like names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, income or credit history, and so on?  If so, does your company comply with the FTC Safeguard Standards?