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I’m in the process of transitioning all of my business and personal contacts over to Google Voice. Even my mother calls my Google Voice number now, so you know I’m serious. Here’s why: Google Voice transcribes your voice mail messages into email messages so you can read your emails. This saves time if you receive […]

I have not used an iPad or seen one close up, but I can tell you what its good for: sitting on the sofa and looking at, and making minor edits to, content that is stored on the internet (in the cloud), just like Steve Jobs did during his demo of the iPad. Apple knows […]

In “The Facebook Era,” the author talks about social capital, and how social networking using tools like Facebook create social capital. The book defines social capital as the collective value of all social networks and the inclinations that arise from these network to do things for each other. She goes on to say that social […]

More mobile applications – the iPhone started a revolution which is just getting going even though it has already changed the world. And finally it looks like other companies may have figured out how to build a smart phone people actually like to use.

I was watching a video from Salesforce.com the other day and their Senior VP of Service Cloud, Alex Dayon, made a very simple but important point about why businesses need to move to cloud-based services.

Just as the internet changed the world, cloud computing will too. Cloud computing is a paradigm shift for the way Information Technology is delivered to businesses that allows businesses to decrease their IT costs while they improve productivity and efficiency.

Breaking cloud computing into categories makes it easier to understand how you can use it in your business and less confusing.

If you’re maintaining an on-site backup system you can reduce your costs and increase the security of your data by moving to an internet-based backup service. Here’s how:

These are cloud computing providers who we use, recommend, and/or just find interesting. 3tera – Infrastructure in the Cloud Amazon EC2 – Computing in the Cloud

Software As A Service (SaaS) – This type of cloud computing delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side, with just one app to maintain, costs are low compared to […]

1) Cloud computing is on-demand access to virtualized IT resources that are housed outside of your own data center, shared by others, simple to use, paid for via subscription and accessed over the Web. 2) Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service […]

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Basecamp is web-based project management tool that makes project management easy and almost fun. It doesn’t do gant charts or other features required for large projects but for most people it does enough and its easy to use. And because its web based, you can access it from anywhere and work on a project with […]

Introduction Small businesses owners and executives now have the opportunity to utilize cloud-based Information Technology services for almost all of their technology needs. By cloud-based I mean that you  access the service over the internet and rent access to it. This offers many advantages over deploying computer servers in your offices. Among the advantages are: