8 Technology Investments to Help Small & Medium Sized Businesses Dominate the Recession

June 23, 2009
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When the economy takes a turn for the worse most business try and make swift budget cuts to give themselves a better financial runway. Usually these cuts impact Marketing and IT with great severity, when ideally these are the two areas you should be at the very least maintaining budgets. With that in mind over [...]

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Mac OS Tip: Change Screenshot Default File Format

June 10, 2009
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Most Mac OS users are familiar with the Screen Shot functionality and its many options and key combinations, all of which is dependent on how nimble your fingers are (see the table of key combinations for screen shots at the end of this post), but did you know that you could change the default file [...]

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Active Directory Tip: Access External Website With The Same Domain Name As Your Internal Domain

June 10, 2009
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It is often the case that companies use their external domain (i.e. enirtia.com) for their internal Active Directory domain, and this is completely fine, except when you want to access your website which is hosted on an external server. Active Directory automatically sets up an internal DNS server for use on your network, and assumes [...]

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Why Sun Should Have Followed Apple’s Path

March 18, 2009
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These days you don’t read or hear too much about companies deploying Sun Servers or workstations, you don’t read about the great advances in the Sparc Architecture, and you don’t read about how Solaris is powering the newest supercomputer. All of the things are what you would have routinely heard about ten years ago and [...]

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Your Big IT Vendor Does Not Understand Your Business

March 17, 2009
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Recently I have come to the conclusion that Big IT Services, Software, & hardware vendors do not understand small-medium sized companies. Most IT vendors seem to fall into one of two categories, the first is Big Enterprise Vendors that think you are or want you to be larger than you are, and fast. The second [...]

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Goodbye GrandCentral, Hello Google Voice!

March 12, 2009
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In a blog post late tonight on the official Google Blog is details of how Google is shaking off the dust that has settled on GrandCentral, the service they acquired way back in July 2007. GrandCentral provides users with voice features traditionally associated with business IP PBXs, such as a single virtual phone number that [...]

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Windows 7, Now With Less Internet Explorer

March 6, 2009
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On the MSDN Windows 7 Engineering blog, Jack Mayo – Program Manager for Windows Docs & Printing group – has an interesting post about how the forthcoming Windows 7 Public Release Candidate will feature an “On-Off” switch for many Microsoft applications that have traditionally been bundled with previous Windows releases. One of these applications is [...]

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Zimbra has 40 Million Paid Mailboxes

March 5, 2009
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Venture Beat is reporting that Yahoo’s Zimbra has 40 Million Paid Email boxes, which is gives it more paid mailboxes than Google’s Free Gmail and it’s paying Apps (Gmail) For Your Domain customers, and puts it close behind AOL and Microsoft’s Hotmail services. While Zimbra’s users are not the same type of users as Gmail, [...]

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Google Sync, Killing MS Exchange One Beta At a Time

February 9, 2009
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Today Google launched their new Google Sync Product that allows you to sync your Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts to your Windows Mobile and iPhone devices. To do this they have licensed Microsoft’s Activesync protocol, just as Apple did to allow the iPhone to sync to a Microsoft Exchange server. This is significant because it [...]

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UPDATE: Microsoft to Get Yahoo Afterall?

January 7, 2009

In an earlier post I talked about a new Yahoo/Microsoft/3rd party deal rumor. Well, it is looking like it may just be that, a rumor. According to Bloomberg, an unidentified Microsoft spokesperson is denying the rumor. We will have to wait to see if this is a real denial or a fake denial. Easy come, [...]

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