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• 20 Questions With An Expert on Grassroots PR (November 01, 2002)

  Andrew Zangrilli of FindLaw

  Marc Hausman is the founder of Strategic Communications Group. He has become one of the most-frequently consulted authorities on communications programs that support corporate growth.

• Technology Portfolio: Analyzing Your Firm's Needs (June 01, 2002)

  Wesley Perkins of Great Barrier Reef, Inc.

  Investing in legal-sector Information Technology is a major decision for most firms. Using the Technology Portfolio approach, key decision-makers can assess the probable impact of IT investments on a firm's overall IT infrastructure.

• Easter Egg Hunt (January 01, 2096)

  Marie D'Amico of Macworld

  It began with Atari video games in the early '80s. An Easter egg is a hidden sound or picture placed in code by a programmer with a wacky sense of humor on too much Jolt.

• Financial Advisor (October 01, 2095)

  Marie D'Amico of HomePC

  As the owner of a technology marketing and consulting firm in Palo Alto, California, 32-year-old Michael Tchao retains an attorney to review all his important business arrangements. But when he needed a formal residential lease agreement last year for his new roommate-tenant to sign, he sought assistance from legal software instead.

• Do You Know Where You're Going? (April 01, 2095)

  Marie D'Amico of Digital Media

  It¿s a mundane but universal truth. We've all got somewhere to go. Developing products which address everyday needs, such as travel, may not have the panache of creating titles for the Spielberg-Katzenberg-Geffen DreamWorks Corporation but, as Intuit discovered, it has the prospect of earning $1.1 billion from the Microsoft Corporation . If you¿re debating where to place your programming prowess, ponder all those unreadable, unfoldable maps in everyone¿s cars and think, there must be a digitally better way.

• What's Selling and What's Not (January 01, 2095)

  Marie D'Amico of FindLaw

  If you're a developer and you want to know which software titles are selling, and which are not selling, you can search the World Wide Web and find best-selling lists galore. Or, you can troll your local computer store and peruse top 10 lists for every different imaginable category of software titles. The more fundamental question is why do some titles sell like gangbusters and others languish on the shelves?

• Finder Redux (January 03, 2094)

  Marie D'Amico of MacWEEK

  You're trapped in a room with someone. Both of you must write the filing system for your company's new computer. It will revolutionize computing and spawn more cheap imitations than Rolex. You have six months to finish and <50K of memory. Drugs are not an option. This was the daunting task that faced Steve Capps and Bruce Horn, original authors of Finder 1.0, in the fall of 1983. Incredibly, they are still friends.

• Doing Windows the Right Way (November 10, 2093)

  Marie D'Amico of MacWEEK

  Dear Microsoft : I know you're working on Windows 4.0 and, since it's been three years since the last Windows upgrade, it's about time. Being a Macophile, I hesitate to give you helpful tips. And, with all those employees and money, you surely cannot need me for that. Then, I look at Windows 1.0 and I think you might. So, here's a free list.

• Justice was blind in Microsoft-Apple lawsuit (May 01, 2093)

  Marie D'Amico of MacWEEK

  A hearing is set for later this month on the piddling elements left in the Apple - Microsoft lawsuit. That's it, the end. No more heart-stopping shifts as the Judge vacillates all over the legal spectrum. No more lavish analysis on exactly what the lawyers were smoking when they filed this disaster. Apple has lost.

• FAQ about Business Structures (January 01, 2093)

  Marie D'Amico of InterActivity

  "Before you start selling your title, referring to yourself as ""The Prez,"" or even conjuring cool t-shirts, you need a form of business structure."