NEC – PC Magazine
What if you need a projector for business presentations but would like to use it for watching sports and movies at home? The VT800 ($1,000 street) from NEC Display Solutions just might fill the bill. Not only does the VT800 deliver a high-quality, bright image for presentations, it also offers two relatively rare features for a business projector: fairly high-quality, high-volume audio and a Silicon Optix HQV (Hollywood Quality Video) chip for video processing. It accepts video signals at up to 1080p, and it's easily small and light enough to carry home from the office on weekends.
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GlobalSpec – Fast Forward Blog
Global Spec - puts parts specs online - charge firms to put their spec online, free for engineer users, have ads, and support forums to discuss the parts… These guys are smart. Anyone who wants to become the place for their niche should look at them.
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RedPrairie – TED Magazine
However, according to RedPrairie Corporation, Milwaukee, creating a green supply chain can be easier than you think. It certainly means a commitment to change, but that doesn’t mean the change needs to be painful or expensive.

“A green supply chain is simply one that is focused on the reduction of emissions and the sustainability of resources in an economically realistic manner from a business perspective,” explained James Hoefflin, executive vice president.
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Initiate Systems – DM News
Master Data Management (MDM) software or systems enable organizations to strategically leverage and share critical data assets. Deployed properly, MDM can provide organizations with complete, accurate and real-time views of data spread across multiple systems or databases, even outside the firewall. This allows businesses to unlock the value of their data assets for competitive advantages or operational improvements.
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MyFax – SmallBizResource Blog
By the by, MyFax's service seems pretty handy, not to mention an easy and green way to get rid of another piece of equipment in your (messy or clean) home office. For a monthly fee ranging from $10 to $40, depending on volume, MyFax transports your faxes to and from your personal email account. Alternatively, you can choose to send and pick up your faxes from MyFax's Web site. According to the company's FAQ, MyFax lets you send up to eight documents in one fax as attachments; it supports 178 different file formats, including PDF, Word and Excel.
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dbaDIRECT – ManagerCrossing
No greater evidence of this need to make a connection exists than the popularity of various “social networking” sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. In each case, individuals not only puts themselves out there for the world to see — an act of trust in and of itself — but they also trust that the people they know will lead them to others who can also be trusted, thus expanding their world beyond the geographic, socio-economic, and political boundaries that have traditionally defined our social circles. In fact, that is the purpose of such sites — to make connections that otherwise would not be possible.
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