March 8, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckAmerican small businesses have tapped into that entrepreneur spirit during the downturn and are looking to new and creative ways to keep their bottom line from sinking too far, too fast. One popular tactic: social networking. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adoption, Robert H. Smith School of Business, small business, social networking, University of Maryland, Web sites
February 19, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckThere’s plenty of evidence that social networking is fast outpacing e-mail as the online communications tool of choice. Further evidence: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 2010, Facebook, Linkedin, Microsoft, Myspace, Outlook, social networking
February 15, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckSome recent Microsoft research pointed out an interesting trend: Small and mid-size businesses that see IT as a way to boost productivity make more money than those that don’t. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Microsoft, midsize business, research, small
February 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Businesses on the East Coast got a taste of what a small natural disaster can do to productivity and communication when back-to-back blizzards struck. The heroes of the week — besides road crews and power company employees? Companies with telecommuting programs. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: blizzard, calculator, program, remote, telecommuting, Telework Research Network, workers
February 15, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckGot a hacked copy of Windows 7? Don’t get too used to it. Microsoft’s about to issue a new update for Windows Activation Technologies that will detect more than 70 “activation exploits” — those crafty little hacks to Windows’ activation. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: activation, detect, hacks, Microsoft, update, Windows 7
February 12, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckWe’re not No. 1 anymore, at least where IT’s concerned, according to the annual Connectivity Scorecard, a global study of “useful connectivity” that measures infrastructure, complementary skills, software and informed usage of IT around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Connectivity Scorecard, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United States
February 9, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckFor everyone who’s gotten excited by the Microsoft upgrade that is Windows 7, beware. Not all appears well in Win 7 land. Read the rest of this entry »
February 9, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckA few weeks back, I suggested to a colleague that Twitter wasn’t the Internet phenomenon many folks think it is. Why? Because my kids could care less about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Pew Research Center, study, teenagers, Twitter, use
February 3, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckThe shoes are beginning to drop on that Apple iPad announcement last week, and while Amazon’s getting a pair of loafers dropped on its head, the folks in the publishing world seem to be practicing their end zone dance. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Amazon, Apple, iPad, Kindle Reader, Steve Jobs
January 26, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckThat much-touted marketing tool called “buzz” doesn’t seem to have helped cloud providers get businesses to adopt the technology as their storage solution. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adoption, cloud computing, Forrester Research, storage
