Northern New York's Premier Business Monthly
Established long before indoor plumbing and even the home telephone, the Dugas Studio, my family’s business, was founded in 1892 by my great-grandfather and operated quite differently than most family businesses today.
With Internet access continually expanding, handwritten appointment books and accounting ledgers have given way to technology that enables flexibility and sharpens the competitive edge for family businesses. [Read more...]
Worldwide, information technology spending this year is expected to total $247 billion with 69 percent of that earmarked for server management and administration. Microsoft has ensured an even larger portion of this by increasing the purchase price on some of its most popular and widely deployed server software. [Read more...]
Information technology spending is expected to rise as 2013 begins. While more businesses employ new technologies to stay competitive, a promise for a great year for business technology is sure to follow. No matter what business you are in, the more you know about what the future will hold for technology the better off your business will be.
Professionally or personally, the question is increasingly becoming: Laptop or tablet? It has only been a few years and the tablet has quickly become no longer a luxury, but a light mobile device with a longer battery life than most laptops. Not so quickly though, tablet use in the business environment is still mostly user driven and still proving to not be able to satisfy the whole realm of tasks and applications with which most employees are familiar.
Apple or Android, our annual gift guide features a few must-haves
With the 2012 holiday season in full swing, unique gifts for your hard-to-buy for on this year’s list abound. Our annual tech gift guide has a great selection of high-tech gadgets that can be that perfect gift for the technically savvy or the technical novice, Android or Apple fan.
With Halloween a recent memory, have you positioned your business to deliver the best possible customer experience for the 2012 holiday buying season? Your customer’s experience, all year long — and especially during the busy holiday buying season — is impacted more than ever by mobile computing and social media.
It all began at the 2012 San Diego Sustainable Brands Conference early in June. TABS, Toshiba Corp.’s managed print and professional branch, announced its latest marketing campaign, declaring Oct. 23 “National No-Print Day.”
With back-to-school behind us, so goes the third quarter of 2012. That means budget 2013 is fast around the corner. Have you taken stock and identified the number Windows XP machines you still have deployed? Windows XP loses its security patch support on April 8, 2014, just one budget year and a couple of months away.
With the dog days of summer upon us, are you one of the 52 percent of people that will work while on vacation?
Reports are beginning to circulate again around Microsoft’s development of an Office app for the iPad. This is long overdue since Microsoft has really missed the boat when it comes to the mobile technology revolution that is happening all around us. The smartphone era has been a good five years in the making and Microsoft is barely competing with its Windows Phone platform. Lagging way behind iOS and Android with only 2.2 percent of the global smartphone market share for the first quarter of 2012, it has been reflected on Microsoft’s bottom line.