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Hot IT Topics for 2008
October 09, 2007, 8:00 AM
2008 budgeting is either in full-swing at many IT shops, or very soon to begin. What are some of the hot topics buzzing around these budget meetings, and what are other IT shops planning for the coming year? Among the topics that I have heard more than once are virtualization, unification, de-duplication, and encryption.

Tech Security Breaches Are Worsening, Industry Group Survey Says
September 18, 2007, 8:10 AM
The Computing Technology Industry Association claims the severity level of information security breaches experienced by organizations has show a marked increase over the past year ...

USB Flash Drives Seen As Causing Havoc for IT
September 18, 2007, 1:00 AM
USB Flash Drives are the consumer technology that causes the most havoc for IT departments.

HP's New Print Strategy Offers New Devices, Procedures, Features
August 29, 2007, 10:40 PM
The first HP device to leverage this new technology will be the HP Scitex XL2200 Industrial Wide-Format Printer.

HP's new Print 2.0 Strategy Includes Several Innovative Devices, Technologies
August 29, 2007, 10:15 PM
The first HP device to leverage this new technology will be the HP Scitex XL2200 Industrial Wide-Format Printer ...

Readers, Send Me Your "Using iPhone In Business" Stories
July 30, 2007, 3:00 PM
We saw, and are seeing, some discussion of iPhone as an enterprise-friendly device ...

Web-based Forms Creation Tool FormSpring Gets Significant Upgrade
July 30, 2007, 2:45 PM
I've just discovered FormSpring, an online Web application that allows small businesses to create, manage, and host online forms without having to know HTML or other code.

New Adobe Reader Offers "Send To FedEx Kinko's" Option
June 06, 2007, 5:00 PM
Starting today, the free Adobe Reader 8.1 (available for immediate download) features a "Send to FedEx Kinko's" option ...

New Hard Drive Sector Standard Will Improve Performance
May 12, 2007, 7:45 PM
LBD will replace the 30 year-old standard of 512 bytes per hard drive sector with one that allows 4,096 bytes per sector on hard drive surfaces.

Monitoring Software: Six Beyond Big Brother Uses
May 12, 2007, 7:25 PM
Not only privacy advocates, but plenty of IT admins view enterprise-based monitoring software's chief role as checking to see if employees are spending company time looking at Web sites ...



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By: Alice Pierce on Two New Products Enforce Digital Rights Management on Intranets
Video Rental Software for Adult Rental Business. Adult Video DVD, CD and Books Rental Business Management Software. This video rental software can be used to create an online rental business for adult video DVDs, CDs and books. It can also be customized to add the shopping cart module which can also provide your users an option to buy the video DVDs, CDs or books in addition to renting them. CommodityRentals.com now also offers full customization services for the Adult Industry video rental system and we can practically make your business storefront look and function the way you want. One of the examples would be to add an independent storefront to sell additional items other than the video DVDs, CDs or Books. This storefront can work independently but still be connected to your main database and can work through a single user login. Adult video rental software CommodityRentals.com provides a full fledge solution for all your Adult video rental and sales needs. We provide full support in terms of enhancing the product you buy from us and also additional services like data research and gathering and data entry services.
By: harris moore on Tech Security Breaches Are Worsening, Industry Group Survey Says
I work in ecommerce, and many merchants fail to see the urgency of this situation. The credit card companies have standards for how data is to be stored on servers, which are the PCI Standards (see http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org for more info). If a merchant is hosting with a company that is not PCI Certified, they risk fines and a possible ban from credit card transactions if that data is breached. Most merchants are not certified. Here's a link with more info and the list of PCI certified companies: http://volusion.com/tour/page-10.asp If merchants take PCI standards seriously, all online merchants benefit from the higher level of security online. Regards, Michelle Greer http://www.volusion.com ...
By: Michelle Greer on Tech Security Breaches Are Worsening, Industry Group Survey Says
We're making an business expense tracking app just for the iphone. http://www.LessAccounting.com ...
By: allan branch on Readers, Send Me Your "Using iPhone In Business" Stories
Since the iPhone and At&T plan are locked together, here is a story you might want to include: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/31/att_iphone_intl_roam.html ...
By: Erin on Readers, Send Me Your "Using iPhone In Business" Stories
In areas of weak signal, a cell phone repeater can help. For traveling sales personal in-car repeaters can boost signal, reduce dropped calls and extend batter life. In areas of completely no signal, chances are a cell repeater won't help, in which case it is good for businesses to be aware of the problem. Sam www.repeaterstore.com ...
By: Sam on Know About Poor Cell Reception Areas Before You Head There By: Mila on Six mobile device security vulnerabilities you should address- NOW!
To whom it may concern, I called your reception desk phone # today - 775-332-8800 between the hours of 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Both the receptionist and the person I was forwarded to in the new accounts department were very very rude to me. I was hung up on maybe three or four times and noone would ever give a first name. If you could, please listen to the recordings between these times. My name is Jeremy and all I wanted to do is set up the Enhanced Payroll.. Thanks for your time and I would appreciate it if you could look into this for me. This type of rude behavior will make someone not want to call the quickbooks phonelines anymore. Thanks, Jeremy Colley ...
By: Jeremy Colley on Know About Poor Cell Reception Areas Before You Head There
To whom it may concern, I called your reception desk phone # today - 775-332-8800 between the hours of 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Both the receptionist and the person I was forwarded to in the new accounts department were very very rude to me. I was hung up on maybe three or four times and noone would ever give a first name. If you could, please listen to the recordings between these times. My name is Jeremy and all I wanted to do is set up the Enhanced Payroll.. Thanks for your time and I would appreciate it if you could look into this for me. This type of rude behavior will make someone not want to call the quickbooks phonelines anymore. Thanks, Jeremy Colley ...
By: Jeremy Colley on Know About Poor Cell Reception Areas Before You Head There
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I'm trying to get all these crazy business ideas out of my head (my firends family and co-workers are sick of hearing them) and tell stories at the same time. I don't have the expertise for most of these, but maybe others do. Sometimes humourous, sometimes serious, definitely out of the box: http://businessideahaystack.blogspot.com/ ...
By: ideas man on Can your system handle Windows Vista? Find out here
Wireless carriers are also watching the customer complaints on this web site. Plans are in the works for carriers to comment on each of the 18,000 locations in the Dead Cell Zones database. Cingular has taken the leadership in this area. Do a search for Cingular in Kansas City and St. Louis.
By: Deadcellzones.com on Know About Poor Cell Reception Areas Before You Head There
Russell, In addition to my laptop, I carry my video iPod and add numerous podcasts on topics I enjoy. I can watch video or listen to music or podcasts. Makes the time fly by (pun intended). My headphones enable me to supress noise and listen. Next, I carry a flash drive. Great for transferring presentations and files from my computer to a co-workers w/o having to e-mail them. Next 2 books, one business related for the outbound flight, one trashy novel for the trip home. My cell phone with an ac adapter. Regards, Glenn ...
By: Glenn on Which "Traveler's Toolkit" Items Do You Really Need?
Not on my Mac, apparently. Maybe you could let them know there is an OS X community out here too.
By: Oregon Jim on Here's how I thermo-nuked my spyware: and you can, too
Not on my Mac, apparently. Maybe you could let them know there is an OS X community out here too.
By: Oregon Jim on Here's how I thermo-nuked my spyware: and you can, too
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Excellent idea. My wife's Thinkpad 600 is slower than Xmas, and the free spyware isn't working. As cheap as I am, I'll try this. Regards, Glenn ...
By: Glenn on Here's how I thermo-nuked my spyware: and you can, too
Thanks Russell! I always wondered about AdAware. I'd heard it was so great but things just kept coming back. I guess you get what you pay for and I will glady pay $30 for something that actually works.
By: Frank Ross on Here's how I thermo-nuked my spyware: and you can, too
Anyone that says "VoIP is not about cost reduction" is lying. VoIP has only started to really take off because of Vonage in the consumer/retail space and Skype in the student/kiddie space. Both of these services are about free or cheap. In the business space, early adopters are primarily reaping the rewards of cheaper phone service. The reason big, old companies like Avaya (it's really still Lucent/Bell and not a nimble company) say it's not about cheap is because they are still charging enterprise/rip-off prices for their gear and need to fool people into buying their overpriced stuff. Look around and the truth is that 99% of VoIP implementations are "plain vanilla". There is no magic next generation features. Just plain ole telephone calls and voicemail. If they want us to start thinking there is newtech here that adds more value than just lower cost, they gotta stop the vaporware and start really providing something new besides just another way to make a phone call.
By: Robert E Spivack on VoIP should be more about cost reduction than ROI
Anyone that says "VoIP is not about cost reduction" is lying. VoIP has only started to really take off because of Vonage in the consumer/retail space and Skype in the student/kiddie space. Both of these services are about free or cheap. In the business space, early adopters are primarily reaping the rewards of cheaper phone service. The reason big, old companies like Avaya (it's really still Lucent/Bell and not a nimble company) say it's not about cheap is because they are still charging enterprise/rip-off prices for their gear and need to fool people into buying their overpriced stuff. Look around and the truth is that 99% of VoIP implementations are "plain vanilla". There is no magic next generation features. Just plain ole telephone calls and voicemail. If they want us to start thinking there is newtech here that adds more value than just lower cost, they gotta stop the vaporware and start really providing something new besides just another way to make a phone call.
By: Robert E Spivack on VoIP should be more about cost reduction than ROI

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