May 5, 2011 | business, mail, Microsoft, Office, Outlook, SBS, web_services
Microsoft is sending out email notices to subscribers about changes ahead for Microsoft Online Services, the service providing hosted Exchange mailboxes for many of my clients. Let me give you some background to understand those notices. Later this year Microsoft...
Apr 27, 2011 | Apple, business, computers, Dell, laptops, shopping
The Samsung Series 9 combines elegant design, advanced engineering, and uncompromising peformance in a stylish ultralight, ultraslim premium laptop. It stands alone at the top of the Windows laptop market. Samsung might not be the first name you think of in notebook...
Apr 25, 2011 | business, computers, hardware, laptops
Fountain pens overcame early technical limitations and began to be mass-produced in the 1870s. During the next few decades there was a steady stream of improvements, technical innovations and new materials that caused them to become commonplace items in offices....
Apr 4, 2011 | business, software, web_services
How are we supposed to use our computers without screaming? I installed an update for Quickbooks 2010 in March. Perfectly typical for Quickbooks – when I clicked on the icon to start the program, a window appeared asking permission to install something, with...
Mar 16, 2011 | Apple, business, computers
It’s obvious by now that nothing pursued by Apple should be underestimated. Apple has had its share of unsuccessful projects over the years that languished or died, but it has all the momentum in 2011 to move things forward simply by focusing on them. Small businesses...
Mar 14, 2011 | Amazon, Apple, business, Google, iPad, mobile, netbooks, tablet, web_services
When I’m lonely and bored, I like to go back and read my old articles and marvel at how well I’ve been leading you through the fast-changing world of technology. It was just a year ago that I wrote these incisive comments about what to expect from Apple’s original...