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The Case For IT Leasing To lease or not to lease? That's the question facing many IT executives today as they grapple with justifying the expense of technology investments. All indications are that corporate capital commitments are on the upswing, especially in the area of IT purchases. With interest rates rivaling those of the 1960s, there's a strong temptation to buy n ... read more>>   Selling Leasing On The Net Analysts predict the Web will capture 10 percent of the overall market for commercial equipment leasing in the next few years. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates business equipment leasing is a $233 billion business. Yet the leasing process has often been time-consuming and cumbersome. There are at least 2,000 separate leasing entities in th ... read more>> When You Run A Web Search, The Whole World Pays HOW much does a web search cost? You don't pay up front, but there are costs nevertheless, and they are not just measured in dollars. The term search "engine" is apt. Searches are powered by millions of computers packed into warehouses, all wired together to function as a single system. Like any system, it obeys the laws of thermodynamics, and the ... read more>>   FCC Auction Opens Door to Open Access With a burst of bids, the FCC's latest wireless auction will be its most profitable ever -- and a mobile network open to any device or service is a virtual certainty A sudden spurt of bidding has turned what was shaping up as a bust into the most robust auction of wireless spectrum the federal government has ever conducted, salvaging hopes for a ... read more>>

Equipment Leasing Articles this edition... Finding The Perfect Fit to Rise to a Steep Challenge A Multidrive sprayer plus Chafer 32m spray pack are helping a Yorkshire grower to make the best use of fields that slope as sharply as 1 in 3. Jon Day, farm manager at Drewton Manor Farms, South Cave, grows 450ha (1100 acres) of wheat, barley and oilseed rape on land that rises from 75m (250ft) to more than 290m (950ft) above sea level. Steep grad ... read more>> CA School Boasts First Gen7 Installation IN OUR APRIL ISSUE, T.H.E. Journal introduced American Modular Systems' newly unveiled Gen7 prefab green classrooms ("Mod Genius," thejournal.com/Articles/2010/ 04/01/Mod-Genius.aspx). At the time the article ran, the classrooms were so new that they were not yet in use on any school campuses, but that recently changed when Bolsa Knolls Middle Scho ... read more>> Burnetts Behind New System To Blunt Counterfeiting In China When Jim Leu orders a Johnny Walker Black, he makes sure to shake the bottle. If a bunch of air bubbles form, he doesn't drink it, suspicious it's the fake product that sickened him so badly at a Chinese karaoke bar that he had a lingering headache for days. Counterfeiting is a global menace-it accounted for $610 billion in global losses in 2006-b ... read more>> Boby Snatcher, Lifesaver A robosub helps rescue drowning victims in minutes Things get very bad, very quickly, for people in cold water. Just minutes after total submersion, heart and brain activity stop. But the cold also protects. If rescuers can reach a drowning victim in less than 90 minutes, it's possible to resuscitate, often with no long-term ill effects. Inspired ... read more>> A Touch of Frost For Computer Lovers What is ubiquitous computing? World's first ice touchscreen virtually burns beneath user's fingers Ubiquitous computing has moved into the freezing streets of Tampere, Finland, with the world's first ice touchscreen - which has been used to display virtual flames. Fire on an icy surface A touchscreen made of ice shows anything can be interactiv ... read more>> Become A Data Network FIRST we sent data through wires, then the air, now the human body is becoming a communications conduit. Researchers in South Korea have transmitted data at a rate of 10 megabits per second through a person's arm, between two electrodes placed on their skin 30 centimetres apart (Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, DOI: 10.1088/0960-131 ... read more>>