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Eleven ways Google can help your business

Google offers a lot of great services. There's a very good chance that you use at least one of them. However, many of the small business owners I speak to don't leverage Google's great tools in the best way they might. They buy Microsoft Office, when Google Docs would save them a bundle. They buy Google Adwords but don't use Analytics to properly assess how they're ads are performing.
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A Turning Point for Touch Screens, Says the NYT

The New York Times has a story up on the suddenly brisk market for touch screens and the devices which can make use of them, which it says "has grown quietly for years, both in commercial applications and in consumer devices." Besides the obvious (the iPhone, and Apple's use of multi-touch generally), the article also mentions the recent inclusion of Israeli company N-Trig's version of
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Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First Weekend

CUPERTINO, California—July 14, 2008—Apple® today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone™ 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries— Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the
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.org owners facing 10% hike in registration fees this fall.

From Ars Technica : Organizations that own .org domains may soon find themselves paying a bit more to renew, transfer, and register new domains. The company that operates the .org domain, Public Interest Registry (PIR), has decided to raise wholesale rates from $6.15 to $6.75 per domain this year—a 10 percent fee increase, following last year's 2.5 percent increase. Of course, smaller registrars
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