August 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Expect more Gmail users to start shedding their land lines soon as “Google Voice” starts to spread among users of the popular e-mail service. Google recently announced the debut of Google Voice, which turns Gmail into a phone.
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Tags: gmail, Google, Google Voice, phone calls
August 23, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Wondering which Cloud service provider to consider for a move to the emerging technology? It depends on whether you want public or private Cloud computing.
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Tags: cloud computing, Evans Data, leader, study
August 4, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
As the economic recovery sputters along, IT budgets remain tight and more small and mid-size businesses have looked to the cloud as a cost-cutting tool.
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Tags: cloud computing, growth, ICD, IDC, International Data Corporation, report
June 30, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
The “Cloud” has started to look a lot more inviting in recent months, but before signing up to use one of these services, there are some key pieces of information you’ll want to gather.
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Tags: cloud computing, gather, information, questions, selection, vendors
March 22, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Now that the Obama administration’s checked healthcare off its “To Do” list, one of the next issues likely to be on the agenda will be the FCC Broadband Plan, a comprehensive overhaul and expansion of broadband service across the country. How much will it cost?
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Tags: broadband plan, FCC, fee, tax
February 15, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Some 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.
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Tags: Microsoft, midsize business, research, small
January 26, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
That much-touted marketing tool called “buzz” doesn’t seem to have helped cloud providers get businesses to adopt the technology as their storage solution.
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Tags: adoption, cloud computing, Forrester Research, storage
December 15, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
In a previous post, we wrote about the privacy expectations that aren’t exactly being met by social networking sites like Facebook. Now, there’s speculation that social networking sites may be providing info on users to their financial institutions.
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Tags: bank, blog, credit card, Facebook, information, Roger Thompson, security researcher
December 11, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Okay, so Facebook’s got new privacy features that actually makes your profile info less private than it was in the past. And Rupert Murdoch’s whining that free content on the Internet’s gonna slurp up his billions made selling faux news on TV. Does anybody get what they want online anymore?
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Tags: controls, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook, information, privacy, Rupert Murdoch
December 7, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Everybody’s talking about the Cloud, wishing they could be in the Cloud, but scared to venture to the Cloud. Except Apple, which appears to have moved to the computing stratosphere in a big way.
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Tags: acuqisition, Apple, cloud computing, Lala, music, streaming
