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    How to tell if your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off

    Posted April 1, 2013 - 12:50 pm

    Expion wins our test of eight enterprise-grade social media monitoring tools
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    Do social media ads really work? We put them to the test!

    Posted March 15, 2013 - 9:50 am

    We placed ads on AdWords, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and StumbleUpon. Which service provided the best ROI? The results will surprise you.
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    BlackBerry Z10 review: RIM tries to get back in the game with this sleek and fast smartphone

    Posted February 2, 2013 - 8:03 am

    Touch-screen smartphone retains most of the strengths that made the platform a corporate favorite while making a player for consumers as well.
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    App spotlight: Insightly for iOS makes CRM mobile

    Posted January 5, 2013 - 8:13 am

    You might have the best sales, marketing, and support teams on the planet, but without a solid customer relationship management (CRM) system, your business isn't going to get very far.
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    Studiometry 10.0 grows as your business does

    Posted January 2, 2013 - 12:08 pm

    Studiometry 10 is a business management application aimed at small businesses and designed to help track and manage projects, create quotes and invoices, and make sure you're getting paid on time.
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    Iomega StorCenter px2-300d NAS: A pretty performer

    Posted December 11, 2012 - 2:54 pm

    The Iomega px2-300d is a two-bay NAS box that delivers very good performance, excellent backup and surveillance features, and a helpful LCD that reports on the unit's status (IP address, current time, storage remaining, and so on). Its EMC LifeLine operating system is also one of the more feature-rich ones in the industry. But you should buy this box bare—Iomega populates it with enterprise-class hard drives that jack up the price.
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    Best products of 2012: Business and productivity

    Posted December 5, 2012 - 9:33 pm

    We select the year's best products for getting work and business done.
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    The 100 best products of 2012

    Posted November 27, 2012 - 5:00 pm

    The top tech products of 2012, in categories ranging from PCs to productivity software.
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    Pick a pico projector: we review four of the best and brightest models

    Posted November 10, 2012 - 8:45 am

    Pico projectors—the tiniest of handheld projectors—continue to benefit from advances in miniaturization and power management. Although most pico projectors are still a tad too bulky for comfortable pocket portability, none of models in this round will weigh down a briefcase or purse by more than a pound; some weigh less than half that. Each one can throw a bright image on a wall or screen in an average-size room, even in the presence of lots of ambient light.
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    Top tools for BYOD management

    Posted November 5, 2012 - 11:07 am

    When we tested mobile device management (MDM) last year, the products were largely focused on asset management - provisioning, protecting and containing mobile devices.
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    Review: 6 Business dashboards that help CIOs manage employees, Web services

    Posted October 31, 2012 - 3:08 pm

    These six dashboards help IT executives make key decisions by putting data from a variety of enterprise applications and services at a CIO's fingertips so he or she can better manage employees, website activity, development projects and more.
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    Two new Asus laptops offer an Ubuntu Linux option

    Posted October 16, 2012 - 8:33 pm

    As the arrival of Windows 8 draws ever nearer, it's not surprising to see the debut of a flurry of devices featuring the new OS.
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    Bitrix24: A serious intranet that even you can afford

    Posted October 7, 2012 - 6:08 pm

    Have you been putting off setting up an Intranet site because you can't afford the guy who could set it up and manage it for you? Here's an option that you might want to consider.
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    How to replace missing Start button in Windows 8

    Posted October 5, 2012 - 2:43 pm

    A Start menu substitute can greatly reduce the shock of using Windows 8. Here are three alternatives that produce a reasonable experience.
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    Mac buyers' guide: What you need to know before heading to the Apple Store

    Posted September 11, 2012 - 4:00 pm

    You've finally decided to purchase a new Mac -- whether it's your first, a replacement, or for school -- you'll need to consider a lot of things. Do you buy a notebook, emphasizing portability; or get an iMac, focusing on power in your home? Or maybe – with an all-day battery in concert with instant-on reliability - all you need is an iPad? If you're not sure what to get, here's what you need to keep in mind before heading to the Apple store.
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    Behind the wheel with Cadillac's high-tech CUE

    Posted August 24, 2012 - 3:40 pm

    Get behind the wheel of any new car and you'll quickly grasp the importance that electronics and gadgetry play in the auto industry these days. Companies are starting to put just as much effort into the entertainment system as the mechanics and that means some pretty high-tech rides like the Cadillac XTS.
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    Office 2013: Everything IT needs to know

    Posted August 20, 2012 - 10:28 pm

    With Office 2013, Microsoft sets the bar high. The reworked suite of applications runs on a range of devices, including new Windows tablets; it has a new look, which is fast and fluid, yet has familiar commands; it responds to touch and stylus, as well as keyboard and mouse; and everything's cloud-connected.
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    Dymo LabelManager 500TS: a touchscreen labeler for business

    Posted July 21, 2012 - 12:03 am

    If you create only the occasional label for files or objects, you can probably get by with one of the many sub-$100 label printers on the market. But if your business-labeling needs are more complex--for instance, you require support for bar codes or for multiple users who use different types of labels--the Dymo LabelManager 500TS could justify its admittedly high price ($200 on Dymo's site as of July 19, 2012, though you can find it for significantly less at some online retailers).
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    Personal Capital web-based financial management tool

    Posted July 20, 2012 - 8:54 pm

    Over the last several years I’ve had the opportunity to look at a multitude of personal financial applications, all of which offer useful collections of tools for managing your money matters. Of all these apps, none comes close to offering the breadth of features and capabilities of the free, web-based Personal Capital.
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    Free media player VLC 2.0.2 plays almost any video file

    Posted July 13, 2012 - 4:44 pm

    If you don't have VLC, aka the VideoLAN Player, installed on your system, the chances are you don't watch a whole lot of video. VLC has millions of users and supports virtually every type of video found on the Web, as well as audio. It's also mature, stable, cross-platform, and provides a lot of features not found in Windows Media Player or the Quicktime player.
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    Centipede: origins for iPhone and iPad

    Posted July 12, 2012 - 12:09 pm

    All those years of playing Centipede in the video arcades of my youth, and I never knew that I was helping garden gnomes do battle against an onslaught of bugs. But that’s the backstory introduced in Centipede: Origins, a re-imagining of the Atari arcade classic for the iOS era.
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    Sciral Consistency keeps you on top of tasks without bossing you around

    Posted July 12, 2012 - 11:57 am

    Repeating an action every day is a common way to forge it into a lasting habit. This approach works for some habits, such as a simple exercise routine (say, the Fitness Ladder described in The Hacker's Diet). But other actions can't be repeated daily, and don't need to be as rigid: For example, you can't water your houseplants every day, and nothing bad would happen if you watered them in slightly irregular intervals as long as you didn't forget to do it for two weeks straight. That's when habit-forming gets tricky, and where the $10 utility Sciral Consistency shines with an interface like no other.
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    10 e-commerce platforms make selling simpler

    Posted July 3, 2012 - 10:37 am

    We take a hands-on look at 10 e-commerce tools that can help businesses large and small sell products and/or services online. Insider (registration required)
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    Gunnar glasses: help for eyes chained to a monitor

    Posted June 30, 2012 - 7:45 am

    If you spend eight or more hours each day staring at a bright computer monitor in a windowless cube lit by fluorescent tubes, eventually your eyes will beg for mercy. Mine did, so I tried a pair of Gunnar glasses, billed as "technology eyewear."
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    Basecamp vs. Zoho Projects vs. AceProject

    Posted June 19, 2012 - 8:00 am

    Three cloud-based tools provide solid project management and collaboration features
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