If you're thinking about upgrading that computer or looking for new technology to help your business, Small Business Computing just announced its 2008 Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology awards. Here's a quick summary, but see the article for the full story:
BEST HARDWARE
Desktop PC
Dell Optiplex 755
Runner-up: HP
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Is this where we’re heading? A colleague of mine showed this video to me at work today, thought it was quite funny, however, makes you ponder on the reality of things.
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Here's the paradox: software developers make generally trustworthy products, but very few of our customers trust the promises we make. IT consultant Clarke Ching discusses 10 great insights on how you can earn your customers' trust no matter what business you're in.
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As we know Open Social is Google’s platform for a universal API suitable for all existing social networks.
The article is quite useful because it gathers up a total of 13 Open Social videos and video tutorials that feature all the way from Google’s very own OpenSocial Workshop, to the step by step of how to integrate Flixster into MySpace.
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Has technology made us better communicators? What if they merely changed our expectations of output volume, but the quality remained the same.
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The $33 million venture capital was up and running early this week, hence it is still in its launching process and receiving its first search requests. Just to give you some background information, the search engine was designed by Anna Patterson and a couple other engineers, all ex-Googlers...
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Initially, pre-during-post iPhone’s 3G launch, we were being constantly bombarded with publicity which went off on how great the revamped version was and how wonderful its functions were; which resulted in massive, massive demand for the cool apparatus. Now, much trouble has arisen due to sporadic application removals from the AppleStore.
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A new search tool to be launched by Google, Google Suggest, will be revealed throughout the course of the week. Such feature will offer real-time keyword suggestions every time you execute a search query, however, it is still under Google Labs for the final tweaking here and there.
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What is wrong with Microsoft that they received such scorn from the internet community when they announced a bid for Yahoo. Yahoo walked away from the opportunity to make whole their shareholders instead they were indigniant - why?
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Driving While Texting (DWT) is an issue being taken up with some state legislatures after enough car accidents have occurred because of the distraction. We already know that distractions from eating, putting on makeup, changing CDs, and cell phone usage are potentially dangerous for us and those around us. DWT may be the extreme version of our mul
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Few people equate time management skills with computer maintenance. After all, backing up is one more chore on the daily list of things you struggle to get done. It is easy to overlook this and focus on the crisis of the day.
However consider some of the statistics assembled by Computer Moms(www.computermoms.com):
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Why can't three full-length Hollywood productions best a 10-minute cartoon made in 1942?
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Web2wave ( www.web2wave.com) is a Web site where you can create your account , organise your environment with thematic tabs, create browser windows ("Surflets") for each of your favorite web sites.
The concept is somewhat similar to "Personalized Web Pages" (Netvibes, Protopage...) but displaying web sites rather than RSS feed.
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If you’re keen to taking random strolls down some unknown street, perhaps some new ‘pedestrian friendly’ town you happen to be visiting for the weekend, or want to enjoy the beautifully HOT weather that has come to us this year, or basically move within a radius of not more than 10km, Google walking directions is your thing.
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You see it everywhere, that constant checking of email. In the office, email is often allowed to intrude at any time throughout the day and is given priority over the current task. Outside the office space, those PDAs, like the Blackberty and Treo, pop up at meetings, lunches, soccer games, and even the dinner table. The purported reason is to sta
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