Computer networks are often just automatically set up without much thought: if it’s a business, it’s set up as a domain, if it’s home, it’s not.

Wow. This is big news. Nearly half of CEOs (47%) surveyed by PR Week and Burson Marsteller rate blogs high as external audience communication tools.

Some of you may have made use of Dean Jones’ CleanCode Email. It’s a nicely done mail sender – it’s not an SMTP server, it just sends mail, but lets you specify the gateway or smart host to use, which makes it wonderful for systems that don’t need to receive mail.

In a sales interaction with a prospective client, I offered several solutions to his particular situation. I had asked him several questions, and upon determining his needs, presented a variety of different answers.

The engines, namely Google, are striking back at sploggers and their malevolent creations, the splogs.

Find out if discount merchant account services are available for your company by browsing Websites of potential lenders. By checking application guidelines, you will soon see whether you quality, and if so, how to apply and enhance your chances of being approved for this account. Getting a merchant account makes you eligible to accept credit card payments.

With easy access to Broadband and DSL the number of people using the Internet has skyrocketed in recent years.

Pages on the Yahoo Japan web site will display wanted posters for five suspects sought by Japan’s National Police Agency.

By the way, remember last week when I said Microsoft doesn’t care about influentials because we don’t support Firefox and didn’t get it working in Live.com …

The extension of Google Local and its maps to wireless phones will include satellite imagery just as it is available from a computer. A free download for Java-enabled phones lets users take Google Local for mobile along for a trip.

When you’re getting started on your CCNA studies, learning the different router modes is key to passing your Intro and ICND exams.

Why do people buy your product? If you stack up enough benefits to outweigh the costs of purchasing it, do you automatically close the deal? It doesn’t always happen, does it? Consumers are not calculating machines. They are soft, warm, breathing humans with emotions that assign meaning and personal significance to your products.

Working with client PR firms to optimize press releases often generates some interesting discussion and education about writing style and keyword usage.

Fans of the digital video recording service can now use Yahoo to remotely program their TiVo from a newly opened portal on Yahoo’s web site.

The portal company plans to buy out Softbank’s stakes in Yahoo Korea and in several European Yahoo sites.

Internet file sharing entity Grokster appears to have downloaded a dirge, as the company’s no longer offers software that allows people to swap files, in some cases copyrighted files, at no charge.

Search results on Topix now include blog results, and the site said blog posts should show up in the index and on the site within 3 minutes of being crawled.

Linux “symlinks” is a handy utility for managing symbolic links. It can clean up the sort of problems that come from carelesness when creating symbolic links.

Since the battle for email users could mean an arm and a leg in revenue for the major online portals, Yahoo has been trying to get ahead of Gmail, or we should say, trying not to fall behind.

Bird’s eye view: you have a block device, for example /dev/nda. It acts like any other black device, which means that you can create a file system on it, make it part of a mirror or RAID 5 array and so on.

When the Internet burst upon the scene in the early 1990′s, the concept of software as a service (SAAS) seemed an idea whose time had come.

Back in October, IBM announced the launch of Aperi open source storage software in conjunction with eight other companies. Some discussion from IBM suggests one major reason for Aperi’s creation was to speed up adoption of the SMI-S storage software standard.