Google Apps Trump IBM / Lotus iNotes Lame Offering
Did you notice Google Apps has a new competitor? Didn't think so. You'd think IBM and Lotus could come up with 1) a better product to compete on Google's turf and 2) figure out a way to make a bigger splash. All we have here are lame offerings created by idiot vice presidents and marketed by other idiot vice presidents.
Three Ways to Improve Focus and Work Smarter
They tell us to “work smarter, not harder” but working harder is, oddly, easier than working smarter. Why? Because no one gives full attention to anything anymore. My slogan is “always connected, always distracted.”
5 Reasons To Use SharePoint Instead Of Emailing Excel Files
SharePoint acts as a basic replacement for shared folders on file servers.
Lisa, TechnoPhobe, Loves New Netbook
When hardcore technophobes start to tell me about their new computer, I usually hear complaints. Last weekend, my friend Lisa told me she was happy with a computer for the first time in her life. Her new system? A netbook, which fulfilled her goals of portability and providing just what she needed finally made her happy about computers.
Link QuickBooks Contacts to VerticalResponse E-Mail Marketing
One of the chores people hate most when using computers? Reentering information from one system into another system. After all, you're typing on the same computer, right? And data should be shared right? So why have to virtually schlep things like contact information from one system to another to another to another to get your work done? This week, at least two companies upgraded virtual schlepping to automated contact sharing.
Lisa, TechnoPhobe, Loves New Netbook
What the Dallas ITEC Crowd Wanted to Know
Technology Planning For Small Business Growth
E-mail Archiving Stupidity
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
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Five important Windows 7 mobility features
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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E-mail Archiving Stupidity
Technology Planning For Small Business Growth
The White House Goes Web
Lisa, TechnoPhobe, Loves New Netbook
5 Reasons To Use SharePoint Instead Of Emailing Excel Files
Three Ways to Improve Focus and Work Smarter
Google Apps Trump IBM / Lotus iNotes Lame Offering
Over 50% of companies fire workers for e-mail, 'Net abuse
My E-mail Story and the New York Times
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