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When reading our blogger Don Tennant's post about how he’s, shall we say, displeased with a lot of what he is hearing about Apple’s corporate culture, I was reminded of the reaction of a dear frien... More >
A quick hallway discussion yesterday with our Ann All and Ainsley Jones led me to confirm my initial suspicion about the iPad – it’s a big iPod Touch. This conclusion was further confirmed thi... More >
I’ve been collecting anecdotes from a variety of sources on big failures in IT they have been involved in or witnessed. Not everyday, e-mail went down for 30 minutes failures – the big stuff. ... More >
Tape Fallacies Exposed — The Future of Tape Is Still BrightTape isn't going away anytime soon. This Mesabi Group white paper sheds light on the most common misperceptions about tape-based storage.
How Midsize Businesses Are Using ERP to Gain Competitive Advantage in a Tough EconomyRead this case study to learn how Gavina Coffee defied the current challenging economic conditions by leveraging an ERP solution to improve company efficiencies, reduce costs and improve competitiveness.
I’ve never managed a developer or development team directly, but for years now I’ve been a primary “non-tech” stakeholder for the sites that I’ve helped launch and operate. So, I know enough to poke ... More >
I have to confess to being originally irritated by our transition here at the home office over to an IP-based telephony system -- primarily, I suppose, because I tend to be irritated by most all ch... More >
Net neutrality is a hot-button issue with folks who like to talk about such topics, particularly since the Obama FCC has announced it is taking up the cause. The thing about net neutrality is... More >
I am like most business users, I imagine, in that I can no longer personally get all that excited about the launch of any new technology, unless that technology promises to make my life somehow easie... More >
I always end up trading barbs with our Ann All whenever she blogs about “millennials,” the young, tech-savvy generation that is, in many ways, driving old farts like me to distraction. Ann, wh... More >
An interesting discussion over at Harvard Business Review has consultant Susan Cramm asking readers why so many tech executives tend to discard "best practices" and set themselves up for seemingly ... More >
I don't use Gmail for business, which is a good thing today, given that I have been on the losing end of the intermittent outages that are plaguing Google's free e-mail service . However, I do use m... More >
The main thing to keep in mind as you read otherwise alarming headlines about a Texas court's ruling that Microsoft must stop selling Word, at least in its current form, is this: It's silly and wil... More >
Like everybody else who gets paid based on the performance of a Web site, I spent about an hour today running some test searches on the sandbox of Google's new Caffeine , which Matt Cutts says is p... More >
I have trouble keeping track of how Google plans to change my life this month, but clearly this Google Chrome OS news is big, like Google Wave big from a few weeks back. OK, enough sarcasm. ... More >
It's funny, the way your memory associates things. As I was reading Loraine Lawson's post from last week about the wisdom of going after "low-hanging fruit," I could not stop thinking about ... More >
I am preparing for a business trip next week. I feel oddly guilty about it, since we opine on a weekly basis that technology is making physical locality a minor detail in getting work done. ... More >
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