Interop 2010 - Las Vegas Edition April 25-29
The “IT industry’s leading event” is once again kicking off its four-stop yearly world tour in Las Vegas. It all happens next week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center beginning Sunday, April 25th and running through Thursday.
More than 10,000 IT industry professionals are expected to attend - including [...]
Move Software Painlessly into the Cloud
New startup CloudSwitch promises to make moving software in and out of cloud environments as easy as dragging and dropping a file from one folder to another.
Cloud computing is huge - we all know that. What’s driving IT personnel crazy is the act of trying to move their organization’s [...]
Stop Disk Fragmentation Before it Happens
For large IT systems, disk fragmentation is a constant problem whose impact scales from systems to networks across the enterprise. When fragmentation occurs, the system wastes I/O resources by writing fragmented files to cluttered spaces on the disk. You can defragment, but it’s a better strategy to prevent the [...]
Free Faxing for Your Business
In a continued effort to replace some everyday business tasks with something you can now do for free, I’d like to take a look at faxing.
If you’re a small business and you are already setup and completely functional with a fax machine and a separate line, then this is probably not [...]
ASUS to Launch Two iPad Competitors
So the iPad is out and touting 300,000 units in sales on the first day - including pre-sales. We’ve seen glowing reports, we’ve seen skeptical reviews, and we’ve seen problems - specifically with WiFi connectability - come to light from early adopters.
Now, we’re seeing competition. PC, notebook, and netbook manufacturer [...]
Have Netbooks Jumped the Shark?
Borrowing the term that originated from the “Happy Days” episode where Fonzie jumped a shark on water skis while wearing - you guessed it - his leather jacket, I’m wondering if netbooks haven’t gone the way of “Happy Days” in that infamous episode and also jumped the shark.
The term refers to [...]
The Commodore is Back
Remember the Commodore 64? You knew about it, a friend had one, or maybe you were one of the 17 million owners of the Commodore 64 yourself.
One of the most popular computers of all time, the Commodore 64 was sold by Commodore International from 1982 to 1994. It boasted an 8-bit processor [...]
New Blue Label Line of Laptops Exclusive to Best Buy
Toshiba, Sony, and Dell listened to what Best Buy consumers were asking for in a new line of laptops and worked with Best Buy to make those requests a reality in a new line of laptops available only at Best Buy.
Originally announced at the Consumer Electronics [...]
Look Like a Big Player with Free Conference Calling
Even though your bottom line might not be what it was a few years ago, that doesn’t mean you have to forego all of those things that made your small business look big. Yes, cutting back is a way of life these days in this unpredictable economy [...]
Google to Get Even Bigger with Broadband Offering
Thought you already couldn’t get enough of Google. It’s everywhere. Gmail, YouTube, the best search engine ever. I’ve read that Google’s home page gets 1.5 billion visits per day. Incredible. So Google is everywhere …. all at once. And it’s already providing much of what you use on [...]