Category Archives: Technology

Spring Cleaning: Scanning Books

  Space on my bookshelf is limited to books of importance to me, books that I reference often, and a few special books like first editions.  Still, I have boxes and boxes of books that could be more useful if they were on my PC or tablet.  While I would be happy to subscribe to [...]

Only 47% adoption?

With hundreds of thousands of mobile apps only compelling 47% of North American cell phone users to use them, are we missing something so obvious?  I wonder what it will it take to get 100%.   More

define:cloud

Intel has announced their AppUp Hybrid Cloud for Small Business program.  When I read the headline, I thought “ok, Intel is making a cloud storage gateway for small business.”  Then I read the press release, and the product has little to do with cloud computing.  It is an on premise, remotely-managed leased hardware and software [...]

Board of Directors Portals

One of the projects I’m working on at my job is implementing an electronic document and collaboration solution for my company’s Board of Directors.  It has been a neat journey into a niche market, and little has been written about the technology from an IT perspective. If your company is considering an implementation of a [...]

IT in the Marketing Organization

Forrester analyst Nigel Fenwick asks, “When Did Marketing Become A Dirty Word?” “…today’s marketers focus on creating an effective process to identify changing customer needs and deliver customer value (in most cases at a profit). That’s something CIOs have been trying to do since the first data processing groups were established in the 70’s. “ I [...]

Our Phones: The New Point of Sale?

A recent crop of offerings from Square and Google for retail payments has caught my attention.

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