Monthly Archives: April 2006
Intel’s market share of computer processor’s has dipped below 80% writes a recent CNN Fortune report. The report reads It might seem obvious for a company to acknowledge such things, but along with Intel’s longtime status as one of the tech industry’s two central monopoly-owners came a certain arrogance and complacency. For many years the... Read More
Aetna announced Aetna has notified approximately 38,000 members that an Aetna employee’s laptop computer containing certain personal member information was stolen from an employee’s personal car in a public parking lot. This should serve as a reminder to ALL of us that if you have data especially on mobile devices and the data is important... Read More
Cnet/NY Times writes about a network storage device that stores 1,000 gigabytes. It’s $999 and lets you access your data from any computer on your network. Anthology Solutions, makers of the Yellow Machine, writes about their device – The Yellow Machine FailSafe network storage appliance provides your small business or digital home with a full... Read More
Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows Vista, will be out in January of next year. I’ve written about it a bit before, and from time to time will point you to sources of information on it. You need to now consider if Windows Vista is for you and if it will add any additional efficiency or... Read More
PC World wrote a review of ThinkFree’s newest hosted suite of software (spreadsheet, wordprocessor, etc) and writes However, even with a few beta bumps, the service is impressive. The large amount of storage and the easy sharing and collaboration make it ideal for workgroups. In fact, the company recently released a server edition, and it... Read More
I thought my 70GB hard drive was REALLY BIG (on my Gateway notebook computer) but when I read that Seagate has a new hard disk that is 750GB I realized that I really had nothing. Having a large hard disk on your computer gives you the flexibility to store video and pictures on your hard... Read More
User conferences are opportunities for users, vendors and partners to get together and blend their needs. Users get up close to vendors to ask questions and get “face time”. Vendors get to talk with their customers – up close and personal. 3rd party vendor partners have access to customers whose products they are making extended... Read More
Those of you who have 25, 50 or so computers including several staff on the road MUST keep an inventory of your hardware and software. Not knowing what computers you have and don’t have and what software you have or don’t have means that you’ll spend more money than you have to on IT and... Read More
Cabinet NG announced CNG-BATCH, the latest software enhancement to its CNG-SAFE document management solution. CNG-BATCH enables users of CNG-SAFE to perform one-step automated bulk scanning of documents when scanning documents individually is impractical, or a high-end third party solution is uneconomical. Cabinet NG’s press release reads – CNG-BATCH enables users to scan several documents at... Read More
