SAAS is software as a service

I remember hearing a couple years ago that Bill Gates was saying the software industry is moving away from boxed sets in stores to the software as a service, SAAS, concept, that is, software provided online and even customized online in near real-time. The business customer rents the server and the software, rather than buying them outright. This rental agreement saves business money, as they do not have to buy annual software and server upgrades or hire extra technical personnel, since all that upgrading is covered in the rental agreement.

And now the software as a service concept is here in all its glory, and one company successfully deploying this concept for its customers is www.phase2int.com. Their customers get fast setup of software on servers they can access from anywhere in the world. For example, take a look at www.phase2int.com’s hosted team foundation server and their cheap web conferencing. I’m sure you will find their offers competitive.

All Inclusive Autumn Vacations in the Sun

In Canada, where the public works way too hard (I have heard South Africans say that they are going back to Africa because the Canadians are too busy working, and I have known South Africans who have left Canada because they felt that the Canadians spend too much time working), the autumn months are usually rainy and cold and depressing (and the winter sports have not begun). Canadians usually work until Spring Break, and then they fly south to sleep, eat and drink. But I’ll tell you, a better idea might be to fly down to the all inclusive resorts during September, October and November, while the rates are low and the weather up north is less than anybody might want. Yes, it is obvious that Canadians want a attractively priced all inclusive adult vacations. They want relaxation in the sun, a place to forget about the computer, a spot for those “be happy” times — the Island life.

Superclubs has all of that at its all inclusive Negril, Jamaica vacation spot: deluxe accommodations, all meals & snacks (get that — AND snacks), unlimited premium beverages, loads of land & water sports, and lots more.

Time to plan your home

Look on the bright side: Housing starts are way down; builders and construction workers are looking for gainful employment (they have debt to pay, too); real estate and labor are getting cheaper by the day; house and land prices are at or near a low. That’s right, home builders are competing for work and land speculators and banks are selling lots and properties cheap. So why not start planning now. In fact why no get your own Contemporary house plans right now. Then find that reasonable land. Find that reasonable price and then put your French Country House Plans to good use!

Yes, the housing and mortgage industries are in trouble. Some say the economy is heading for recession. We know that consumers are spending less are taking fewer vacations. The cost of living is on the rise. Foreclosures are up. Loan defaults are up. Unemployment is up. The housing and vacation industries are feeling the crunch. So make your Home Plans now, before housing, land, and labor prices start rising again.

Rollforming in Toronto

I know the Toronto area quite well (I live just a few miles away and drive in, and I often fly out of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport), so I know that when Samco Machinery says that Samco it is up to almost any roll forming
job and is strategically located near the Toronto International Airport, in Canada, that they are telling the truth. Toronto is Canada’s leading business and manufacturing center and is located just a relatively short distance by road from Buffalo, New York, and Detroit, Michigan.

Rollformers take coiled steel (or other metals) and bend it into a specific size and shape, that is, rollforming is metal forming. Rollformers make garage doors, metal boats and shelving, among many other products.

Samco Machinery, www.samco-machinery.com, is a company with 35 years of experience designing and building roll forming equipment and tooling.

Crating Services in Portland, Oregon

I know just how much shipping occurs in the Northwest, since I lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, for ten years. When I say shipping, I mean both overland and by sea. For example, industries in Portland, Oregon, ship north to Canada and south to California and Mexico, and they send cargo by ship to the Orient and beyond. Many (if not all) of these industries use Portland onsite crating services.

Oregon businesses know how important it is to be able to readily order custom shipping crates Portland. Custom crates are the best way to protect idiosyncratic and changeable merchandise through time and over distance. And from what I now know about the Portland area, many companies rely on Industrial Craters & Packers, www.indcrt.com, for all their crating Portlandneeds. They are the leader when it comes to custom crating and business moves.

Crating Services in Portland, Oregon

I know just how much shipping occurs in the Northwest, since I lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, for ten years. When I say shipping, I mean both overland and by sea. For example, industries in Portland, Oregon, ship north to Canada and south to California and Mexico, and they send cargo by ship to the Orient and beyond. Many (if not all) of these industries use Portland onsite crating services.

Oregon businesses know how important it is to be able to readily order custom shipping crates Portland. Custom crates are the best way to protect idiosyncratic and changeable merchandise through time and over distance. And from what I now know about the Portland area, many companies rely on Industrial Craters & Packers, www.indcrt.com, for all their crating Portland needs. They are the leader when it comes to custom crating and business moves.

Deals on Unlocked Cell Phones

Mobile phones, mobile-phone accessories, personal digital assistants, miniaturized computers, and wireless gadgets are all the rage in this day in age. Everyone wants to stay connected all the time so that they can contact friends, make reservations, and obtain travel and shopping information at any moment. And with our recent economic troubles, shoppers are on the lookout for deals, especially Internet deals (so they can save on gas).

As an online electronics and gadget retailer, Tiga Dua Cellular advertises that it has the cheapest electronics on the Internet, including brand new unlocked mobile phones. Tiga Dua Cellular stocks products from Apple, Nokia, BlackBerry, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Palm, Eten, Vertu, and more, on an easily navigable, clean website.

Of course Tiga Dua Cellular stocks the cheaper models, but if you are looking for a high-end unlocked mobile phone, you will want to look at their Vertu Constellation mobile phone offering starting at $3551.00. So be sure to stop by the website for all your low-cost and high-end electronics needs and wishes.

You are safe making money with “nofollow” links

We all know (or you should know), that Google and the other search engines do not object fo “nofollow” links, because “nofollow” links do not pass on pagerank. So if you are looking for a safe way to make money on your blog, then take a look at the European advertising and marketing service Bloggerwave, a service that stays within the search engines’ policies — it gives bloggers nofollow links for their posts. Google and all the rest are happy.

You can have up to 5 blogs in your account, and you are paid $10 or more for every “nofollow” 50-word post. The posts will contain “nofollow” links.

Get the Right Employee

Employer’s Reference Source Northwest is an online Employers Reference Source that uses private investigators and insured staff to run employment background checks for employers and prospective employers. www.ersnw.com assigns individual investigators to work with employers. Employer’s Reference Source Northwest started up in 1992 and its investigators have many decades of experience conducting investigations and background checks. Their services include taking in-depth looks at potential employees’ County Criminal Histories, Federal Criminal Histories, Employment Histories, Driving Histories, and Credit Histories.

In this shrinking world, this modern age of world markets and world trade, employee screening has become increasingly important (even though some think tanks are predicting a shortage of workers as the Boomer generation retires). For example, in Canada their have been published reports of international corporate spying aimed at high tech companies. So you can imagine that these multi-billion-dollar cutting-edge software and hardware companies are relying on employment background check methods.

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Metal Rollforming and Bending

Samco Machinery makes sure that its rollforming experts and engineers take sufficient time to discover and elaborate their customers’ needs and requirements and experience levels. In fact, the Samco website, www.samco-machinery.com, is educational in nature and aims to help prospective customers learn about rollformer suppliers. (By the way, if you do not know anything about it, rollforming is a method that processes coiled steel (or other metals); the steel is bent into a specific size and shape. Rollforming is metal forming.) Samco encourages customers to tour its rollform equipment manufacturing facility.

With 35 years of experience designing and building rollforming equipment and tooling, and 30 dedicated engineers on staff, plus all kinds of manufacturing experts, Samco is up to almost any rollforming job and is strategically located near the Toronto International Airport, in the province of Ontario, Canada. Toronto is Canada’s foremost business and manufacturing center and is located just a short ride from Buffalo, New York, and Detroit, Michigan.

Equipment Leasing and Start-up Costs

Buying equipment constitutes one of the big start-up costs for most new businesses, especially when the business owner has recently completed a dental or medical degree and still has student loans to pay back. And one solution when funds are short is to find a good equipment leasing plan. www.firstcitycapital.com (First City Capital) provides equipment finance and leasing solutions for small and medium-sized businesses throughout America. Their fast, friendly services include capital leases, seasonal payments, operating leases, and equipment refinancing for IT/Computer Equipment, Office Equipment, Industrial Equipment, Dental Equipment, Construction Equipment, Medical Equipment, Transportation Equipment, Heavy Equipment, and other machinery and supplies.

Prospective customers can contact www.firstcitycapital.com via the toll-free number prominently displayed on the site, and they can apply online (the contact form does not require tax identification numbers, and the applicant is not immediately obligated in any sense of the word.)

First City Capital takes pride in offering personalized and efficient, cost-effective service.

Online MBA Program

The Regis University College for Professional Studies (CPS) offers Online Degree, including a prestigious
Online MBA.

Back in the 1970s and 1980s MBAs (Masters Degrees of Business Administration)were the rage, especially among returning students and students who failed to get into medical school. Now with global trade growing in leaps and bounds and with China and India opening their doors to foreign business and capital, students are again flocking to business schools.

The Regis University College for Professional Studies offers adult students classroom-based and online degree programs: Bachelor’s Degrees, Master’s Degrees, Bachelor’s Certificates, and Master;s Certificates. The CPS has an enrollment of more than 13,000 adult students, both online and at their campuses in Colorado and Nevada.

Call their toll free 1-800 number now or start a live chat with them or order their free brochure. They will even pay for your test books for your first class.

The 2K Sports Hit-N-Run Tour Giveaway on Facebook

The 2K Sports Hit-N-Run Tour, a music and sports video gaming tour of American college campuses during March 1 - April 5, 2008, is looking for students at nine colleges to promote the tour on Facebook. Promoters will earn free video games. To find out how to join as a promoter surf on over to the 2K Sports Hit-N-Run Tour page on Facebook, where you will also have the chance to win a 2K Sports MLB 2K8 video game when you become a fan of the page. You may enter the contest daily. But first you must either sign in as a member of Facebook or sign up to become a member of Facebook. Then you can list yourself as a fan.

The Facebook page also gives you $5 dollar off Major League Baseball 2K8 at Best Buy and features baseball videos and photo albums and links to a Major League Baseball 2K8 discussion board. And of course, you can look at the profiles of the page’s fans (68 in total on March 15) and perhaps contact them if they are students at your school.

All Inclusive Get Aways

Here in Canada, people work all winter and then when Spring Break rolls around they fly away to all inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, where they busy themselves with food, booze and sleep (while the kids swim in the pool, when they are old enough). I have known South Africans who have left Canada because they felt that the Canadians spend too much time working. So it seems obvious to me that the Canadian worker deserves a reasonably priced all inclusive jamaica get away, a time for relaxation in the sun, a place to forget about the laptop, a spot for food and “be happy” feelings — a taste of the Island life.

Superclubs gives them all inclusive jamaica vacations that really do include deluxe accommodations, all meals & snacks (get that — AND snacks), unlimited premium beverages, loads of land & water sports, and a whole lot more. Search the www.superclubs.com web site right now!

The Very Best Watches Cost Serious Money

I do not own patek phillipe watches, but I do enjoy fine watches and have an Omega from the 1970s that is apparently still worth a few hundred dollars (in fact it sould cost me about $150 just to get it fixed). And I recently bought two inlaid Zuni Indian watch tips — sterling silver inlaid with onyx, coral, turquoise, and mother of pearl. But if you are in the market for patek philippe or you want to buy buy breitling watches, then surf on over to the Feel Good Watches web site, www.feelgoodwatches.com, where you can pay from $5000 to $100,000 for a watch made for the stars. For example, the Breitling Limited Edition Bentley Continental GT Chronograph, in Yellow Gold, costs $17,500.00.

A Patek Philippe 3940 with Perpetual Calendar, in Rose Gold, costs $53,500.00.

Scrubs for Home and Work

Browse on over to the peaches scrubs and especially the new Katherine Heigl collection at www.scrubsandbeyond.com, a site that sells a huge number of Tops, Jackets, Pants, Lab Coats, Shoes, Clogs, Scopes, and Accessories, plus quite a few online-only deals and good buys. For example, the Katherine Heigl scrubs sell for $13.99 to $31.99, and the web site features a sales outlet.

The health care industry is one of the largest employers in North America, and the pharmaceutical industry offers some of the steadiest jobs (and investments) anywhere. So you can imagine that millions of people are looking for reasonable Medical Scrubs, even moms and dads and college students. Because not only are nursing uniforms often required in various work places, they double as cleaning outfits and lab coats.

www.scrubsandbeyond.com sells Women’s Scrubs, Men’s Scrubs, College Scrubs, and accessories.

Goji Berry Produce

The Himalayan Goji Berry is well know for its health benefits and has one of the highest ORAC scores of any food. ORAC is a measure of the antioxidant capacity or utility of food stuffs and is used by both manufacturers and customers for comparative purposes, and some scientists and health professionals theorize that antioxidants help prevent aging and age-related diseases.

Longevity and relative immunity from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and many other diseases are attributed to Goji Berries (and Goji Juice) by the people who eat them. Goji Berries grow in the Tibetan and Mongolian Himalayas and are available online from www.gojiberries.us, which states, “We are your best source for authentic Himalayan Goji Berries because we directly import from the region the authentic Lycium Eleagnus Barbarum, the original and best strain, are grown.”

UK and US Poker Rooms

Most people know by now that the U.S. basically outlawed online gambling due to the fact that 1) people were too easily enticed into risking their money and 2) minors were accessing the gambling sites with their parents’ credit cards. That is what the news says, anyway, the news from the States. Obviously Canada and Europe do not have the same concerns, the same worries, the same ways of infringing upon personal freedoms — online gambling is still perfectly legal there: legal and lucrative and winning a large following. Plus there are a few US Poker Sites — sites like Bodog Poker, SportsBook Poker, Poker.com, Full Tilt Poker, and Poker Stars. In fact, these sites utilize a variety of deposit methods: Credit Cards, Instant Check / echeck Wire Transfer, Western Union, Click2pay, eWalletXpress, Nucharge, and others.

If you want to find out more about the various online poker rooms, you can read Internet Poker Reviews, reviews of sites like Titan Poker, Red Kings, BetFair, and VCPoker, and many more UK Online Poker Sites. For example, although U.S. players are not accepted, Titan Poker is the top Internet poker room, due to its multifaceted features ans 40,000 plus players. Titan Poker is part of the iPoker Network.


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