Nov 20, 2010 | Amazon, business, shopping, web_services
Just in time for the holidays, Amazon has made it easy to give a Kindle book as a gift. You can purchase a Kindle book and have it delivered to the email address associated with the recipient’s Kindle account. Mostly that will be Kindle owners, but not exclusively....
Nov 18, 2010 | backup, business, computers, hardware, Home_Server, Microsoft, network, SBS, software, Vista, Windows7, WinXP
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server Some of Microsoft’s best technology has been overlooked for three years, hobbled by a poorly chosen name and a market that wasn’t ready for it. Microsoft is about to take...
Nov 15, 2010 | business, domains, Home_Server, Microsoft, Office, SBS
Over the past few weeks, Microsoft has laid out the technology that will power small offices for the foreseeable future. When these are on the market (likely within the next 3-6 months), the landscape for small businesses will be completely different than anything you...
Oct 24, 2010 | business, software, Windows7
Here’s an unexpected surprise for small law offices running Timeslips. Sage Software has learned the revenue-generating lesson taught by Intuit (Quickbooks), Lexis/Nexis (Time Matters), and many others: there’s money to be made in forcing people to buy upgrades,...
Oct 21, 2010 | broadband, business, hardware, Internet, network
Previously: First Rumbling Of The Coming IPv6 Transition In the early 90s, a bunch of smart people in a position of authority got together and put together a replacement for IPv4 named IPv6, after many committee meetings and a few false starts. Since the immediate...
Oct 11, 2010 | business, hardware, HP, printers, software, spam
Previously: Annoying Checkboxes (Microsoft Office) Ban The Check (Java, iTunes) This week’s installment of Annoying Checkboxes comes to us courtesy of HP, always a reliable source of installation routines that take too long and bloat your system with too much crud....