How to start a business ?

Business Opportunity involves the sale or lease of any product, service, equipment, etc. that will enable the purchaser-licensee to begin a business. The licensor or seller of a business opportunity usually declares that it will secure or assist the buyer in finding a suitable location or provide the product to the purchaser-licensee. This is different from the sale of an independent business, in which there is no continued relationship required by the seller.

Examples of biz-opps classified ads are:

• $3500 Weekly! Work From Home!
• Real Results Now! $360k 1st Year! No Gimmicks!
• $$ Make $1000+ per week... EVERY WEEK! $$
• Hottest Opportunity Ever (Numbers don't lie)!!
• Get 96 sites for $7,795. Then Retire! Call 1-800-XXX-XXXX.
• Many People Earn $36,000/year in Income, But . . . Very Few Earn $30,000/year working only five-six hours per week.

Courtesy:
http://www.entrepreneur.com/business-opportunities/index.html?cam=msnbc&cid=LeftNav&size=Oppfinder#msnbc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_opportunity

Starbucks coffee @ $1.00 only !

Yes, you heard it right !

Starbucks has tested with $1.00 coffee in its home town Seattle. In order to face the stiff competition the company has decided to change its business model and serve the customers at its best.

Courtesy: Starbucks
Coffee Company is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world.

SBUX (STARBUCKS CORPORATION)
20.45 +0.36 (1.79%) Jan 24 4:00pm ET
Open: 20.09 High: 20.48 Low: 19.92		Volume: 20,851,560 Avg Vol: 17,397,000 Mkt Cap: 14.88B

Best Stocks for 2008 !!!

We'll say this for the U.S. economy: It can take a punch.

Annaly Capital Management
Berkshire Hathaway
Dick's Sporting Goods
Electronic Arts
Genentech
General Electric
Jacobs Engineering
Merrill Lynch
Petrobras
St. Joe

Lets cross our fingers and see what happens in another 345 days...

Excellent Planning comes with GPS Photos

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture with geotagging can add a few hundred more.

Now, naturalists can map their bird sightings or chart out seal populations. Archaeologists can mark where they unearth artifacts. Travelers can wow family and friends and bring life to slideshows.

"When you add a map to a presentation, you've added another dimension, especially if you say, ‘I took this great trip to China, and it was 5,000 miles over the course of a month’ and they see a route," said Andy Williams, general manager with the photo-sharing site SmugMug Inc.

Higham has used geotagging to help friends and family track his yearlong journey around the world and a rafting trip later down the Colorado River.

Courtesy: msnbc

Finally Super Bowl !!!

High Alert Action Packed between NY Giants & NE Patriots

Now comes Mission Impossible: beating the undefeated New England Patriots in two weeks in a Super Bowl match up hardly anyone saw coming.

“We haven’t been given a shot, but we’re here and I think we’re deserving of it,” Manning said.

“We’ll try to elevate our game for one last performance,” said Brady

Writer feels, "Go Pats ".

Apple vs Sony ' World's thinnnest laptop

Sony VAIO X505 Extreme in 2003

Product summary

The good: Beautiful design; extremely portable; above-average performance; solid software bundle.

The bad: Very expensive; terrible speakers; no built-in optical drive or modem; skimpy battery life.

The bottom line: Sony's elegant VAIO X505 is an eminently portable laptop with just enough features and performance, but like a fine work of art, it's too expensive for most people.

Specs: Processor: Intel Pentium M (1.1 GHz); RAM installed: 512 MB; Weight: 1.85 lbs

Apple Air








Tech Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed

• 800MHz frontside bus
• 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM onboard

Storage

• 80GB 4200-rpm Parallel ATA hard disk drive²
• Optional 64GB solid-state drive²
• Optional external USB MacBook Air SuperDrive

Electrical and operating requirements

• Line voltage: 100V to 240V AC
• Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz
• Operating temperature: 50° to 95°F (10° to 35°C)
• Storage temperature: -13° to 113°F (-24° to 45°C)
• Relative humidity: 0% to 90% noncondensing
• Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet
• Maximum storage altitude: 15,000 feet
• Maximum shipping altitude: 35,000 feet

Integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery

45W MagSafe power adapter with cable management system

MagSafe power adapter port

Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking (based on IEEE 802.11n draft specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible

Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)

Coutesy: CNET, APPLE.COM

India’s Tata Motor to launch $2,500 car

May be this one : "People's Car

the ’People’s Car’, it will determine Tata’s place in the global automotive arena, where the battle is increasingly being fought in emerging economies such as India, China and Russia.

“Small cars have always been popular in India, even when oil prices were low,” said Ashvin Chotai, Asian auto analyst based in London, who will be at Thursday’s unveiling in New Delhi.

Copyright 2008 Reuters.

$3 quadrillion Plaintiff ??

Hurricane Katrina's victims have put a price tag on their suffering and it is staggering — including one plaintiff seeking the unlikely sum of $3 quadrillion.

The total number — $3,014,170,389,176,410 — is the dollar figure so far sought from some 489,000 claims filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls following the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane.

"It's important to the person who filed it, so we're taking every single claim seriously," Corps spokeswoman Amanda Jones said.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed

Extra 14 years

To get an extra 14 years of life,

Don't smoke,
Eat lots of fruits and vegetables,
Exercise regularly and
Drink alcohol in moderation.

Surveyed by: Kay-Tee Khaw of the University of Cambridge

Courtesy: Yahoo Inc.,

Is GOLD reachable?

Shares of gold producers jumped Tuesday along with those of other precious metals' producers as the price of gold hit an all-time high.

The precious metal reaches a record high of $879.40 an ounce, lifting shares of gold producers.