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Submitted by Melanie Fricke on Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Managed IT services company expanding to 500 locations to fill giant void in small business IT solutions
Most small companies keep their IT functions in-house, but that soon may become a luxury that many cannot afford.
As the complexity of computer technology rapidly increases, more small...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Monday, November 21, 2011
Perhaps you’ve noticed the prices of hard disk drives (HDD) going through the roof in recent weeks. Flooding in Thailand has decimated the manufacturing facilities for Seagate and Western Digital, the two largest players in digital storage (they supply 80% of the SATA drives on the market)....
Submitted by Melanie Fricke on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Monarch School of New England, which serves children with special needs, had about 24 aging computers at its Rochester, N.H. campus, ranging from seven to 10 years old. Crashes were common, Internet service was spotty and software was years out of date. Worst of all, children with learning...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a video is worth 1000 pictures (or 1 million words, I guess). Video can be a great tool for increasing your business’s visibility, and unlike a TV commercial, it doesn’t have to cost much. YouTube accounts are available for free to anyone who wants to sign up...
Submitted by Melanie Fricke on Wednesday, November 09, 2011
CMIT Solutions franchise ownership helped a native daughter reconnect to her roots, find a new careerFor years, Cheryl Nelan’s hometown of Rochester, N.Y., was a tough place to find work. Like so many northern industrial cities, Rochester shed jobs as its manufacturing sector withered, exemplified...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Tuesday, November 08, 2011
With the majority of American homes having a broadband Internet connection (i.e., cable, DSL, or fiber optic), Web-based video has exploded. YouTube alone accounts for roughly 10% of all Internet traffic, and it’s not all just cute cat videos and annoying, nonsensical pop songs.Many...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Even if your spam filter does a great job of separating the wheat from the chaff, chances are the volume of legitimate emails you receive sometimes overwhelms your inbox. Fortunately, Outlook has a powerful “rules” filter to help keep your emails organized. Go to Tools --> Rules and Alerts to...
Submitted by Melanie Fricke on Thursday, November 03, 2011
Biannual conference shows top small business tech trends for 2012
Telepresence, cloud computing, managed print services.What do these emerging technologies have to do with small business? If you’re a small business owner, how will they create opportunities to work more efficiently in 2012?As we...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, November 02, 2011
We’ve received a good deal of positive feedback from our recent “Google Search Tricks” QuickTips, so we thought we’d share a few more. To view the previous tips, click here and here.
Get stock quotes – To view the most recent stock price for a company, simply enter “stocks:” followed by a...
Submitted by Tim Roper on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Kenyan telecom provider Safaricom has launched what it calls Africa's largest cloud service to help fuel the "Silicon Savannah's" IT boom.
Safaricom will provide cheap computing to individuals, entrepreneurs, and large companies alike, though Makori says small and medium-sized businesses, which...
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