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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Maintaining Office Computer Systems: Spending money on computers hardly seems like a good decision until your business is interrupted by a failed computer.

I'm always amazed how much I spend on technology to keep my business going. It seems like I'm constantly replacing components or making upgrades to each of my business' computers.…

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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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Limiting Technology: Rather than adding features the new Google Chromebook Pixel and Apple MacBook are stripping features which were once considered standard.

Over the past several weeks I've been keeping an eye open for a laptop to replace a customer's broken Mac. In my travels I came across the perfect little laptop…

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Microsoft vs. Google: Microsoft’s business model has to change if they want to compete against Google Chrome. There’s a new sheriff in town!

Last week I felt behind the times. I'm the guy who's supposed to be up on all the latest and greatest and as I was being asked a very simple…

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