On the International Mother Language Day, a day designated by UNESCO to celebrate the linguistic diversity of 6,000 languages spoken around the world, Microsoft announced support in several new languages for Windows 7 and Office 2010.
Microsoft champions the preservation of unique languages trough their Local Language Program and they are making their products available to even more users in their native languages. “There are roughly 6,000 languages spoken globally, and half of those are projected to be in danger of being lost forever over the next century,” explained Lauren Woodman, Microsoft General Manager, Partners in Learning.
Windows 7 and Office 2010 now have the support for Dari (Afghanistan), Mongolian (Cyrillic – Mongolia), Turkmen (Turkmenistan) and Valencian (Spain). In ad
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How Small Biz Can Think Big – An Interview with VerticalResponse CEO, Janine Popick 
Tell me about how VR was started? What were your biggest challenges?Janine: I started the company back in 2001 because I’m a glutton for punishment! At the time we were a bit early to market. Small businesses were using email marketing to send messages to their customers but most were using Outlook because there were only tools for the big companies. One of the biggest challenges was convincing small businesses they needed a tool like ours for deliverability and for reporting (the stuff you don’t get from Outlook).The other challenge we had was we didn’t raise a bunch of money to get customers, to hire people or to buy servers. We had to be careful about every dime we spent. I didn’t take a salary for years and only started to as the company was doing better. Luckily
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Mention the word “finances” and most adults will cringe; mention “finances” and “organize” in the same sentence and you might reduce a grown man to tears or start a grown woman hyperventilating. These two words are a potent combination of thought and action as they induce feelings of hopelessness and terror. However, it need not be so frightening if you use these 10 tips designed to help you keep your finances together neatly and easily.
Get With the Program
Undoubtedly, a few readers read that first paragraph and smugly tossed their heads, thinking “I’m not scared. I have this,” and patted their box of software (Quicken, Quick Books or others) used for keeping finances in order. Yes, but if you are like the 99.9999% of the people in the United States, you did not start out using such programs as soon as you turned 18 so fear, while a distant, dimly-remembered bitter tang at the back of the throat, was more than likely felt at some point where finances were concerned. Happily, you foun
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Governor Kitzhaber’s 2011-2013 budget includes job creation priorities that can help bring our state out of the recession. Included in these priorities is the extension and expansion of the Oregon Production Investment Fund (OPIF), a tax credit program which motivates investment in film and television projects in Oregon. Governor Kitzhaber said he will use “proven strategies” to improve Oregon’s struggling economy and the boost to OPIF is a strong step forward. The program stands out for its extensive tracking and reporting of jobs created, and for the its strong record of bringing money into the state.
Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain responded to the Governor’s announcement, saying “Oregon is still struggling: over 10% of our workers are out of a job. It’s clear that we need to bring more jobs to the state and extending the film and video tax credit will do exactly that.”
This credit not only brings jobs to Oregon but supports small businesses across sectors – in hotel and lodging, catering and transportation; it creates jobs for local actors, stagehands and crew; and it supports the many other businesses where visiting actors spend their money. It sets the stand Full Post…
Recently, changes were made which affect the amount that Americans contribute to programs through their paychecks as well as to some of the benefits that they receive. A majority of U.S. adults say they are familiar with the changes to extend unemployment benefits (69%), extend the Bush-era tax cuts (65%) and the recent changes to Social Security contributions (53%).
These are some of the findings of a new 24/7 Wall St./ Harris Poll survey of 2,364 U.S. adults surveyed online between January 27 and 31, 2011 by Harris Interactive.
Although a majority are familiar overall, older Americans are more likely to be familiar with these recent changes than those younger. Over four in five Americans aged 55 and older say they are familiar with the extension of the unemployment benefits (85%) compared to three in four of those 45-54 (76%), two thirds of those 35-44 (65%) and just half of those 18-34 (51%).
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