Planning for Disaster: Keep your business up and running by taking a few small steps to insure downtime will be kept to a minimum.

Thirty years ago computers were a novelty. Computers existed for specific business applications and only the most elite of companies ran on mainframes. In those days systems were designed around…

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Technology Influences Products: Cell phones; we all have them and how they’re making clothes with pockets to hold them.

Tech Pockets, what will they think of next? This week I bought some new short pants from my favorite department store and discovered they have little pockets to put a…

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Updating Old Computers: Don’t simply compare your old computer specs to the new or you’ll be very disappointed.

Years ago, before the advent of gigahertz processors, I used to draw a timeline for customers upgrading their computers. I caught myself doing the same thing last week for a…

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Selling Technology: Make sure you don’t purchase the wrong device or something that’s incompatible with the rest of your gear.

Manipulation comes in many forms; some we can live with and other forms are intolerable. I guess being influenced by salespeople is something we've come to tolerate. Let's face it,…

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