by Nick DeGraff on December 15, 2009
As fast as Technology seems to change and advance, year by year that pace quickens even more. Just consider that in the last 10 years, ‘new’ technologies like e-mail and instant messenger have become old hat and now social and business networking sites such as twitter, facebook, and LinkedIn are the ‘new’ technologies.
Technology has now become the major agent of change in the business world, surplanting marketing, research and development, and even profit. Social networking has become a standard marketing tool. Communications and computing hardware have become mobile Blackberries and wireless/cellular technology is eroding the function of the desktop pc. Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing have even changed the way technology products are delivered.
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by Nick DeGraff on December 1, 2009
by Laurent Dhollande on October 1, 2009
“Make your Front Porch your Front Office”: That is one catchy slogan used by Clarkson University to promote the “Forever Wired” initiative, aimed at bringing broadband to the Adirondack Region in upstate New York. Not just to promote broadband, but also to develop outreach educational programs on the use of technology, to encourage telecommuting, to incubate local entrepreneurs, and in the end to ambitiously develop an environmentally sensitive region in an eco-friendly manner.
The Adirondack Park is known for its beautiful lakes, mountains, and quality of life. But so is Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, and Aspen. The broadband deployment project and the business incubation programs are interesting, but what’s the fuss? After all, we are talking about a very sparsely populated area, with only 120,000 permanent residents over 6 million acres. Why should we care?
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by Mark Assaf on August 21, 2009
Does your virtual office get bogged down in e-mail? Are you tired of juggling six different email accounts, three different email websites, and two different email clients on your two computers? And what about your iPhone? Don’t have a corporate IT department providing and supporting an Exchange account? Is there a free virtual solution?
Using a no-cost service such as Google Mail, you can tie all these accounts into one virtual account, and then access that one account through any of your computers or mobile devices and have them all synced up!
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