In a recent column on SearchCIO.com, contributor and CIO Niel Nickolaisen pondered whether IT chargebacks are worth the trouble. His conclusion:
Tags: chargebacks, CIO, Headwaters Inc., IT, Niel Nickolaisen
Don’t think you’re paying nearly enough to enjoy the glorious pleasures of airline travel these days? Well, many U.S. airlines are offering you the opportunity to pay even more — if you want to connect to the web in-flight.
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Tags: airline, airplane, GoGo, inflight, Row 44, service, Wi-Fi, WiFi
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
With the dog days of summer upon us, it could be tough to remember that patch of extraordinary snow and ice that enveloped much of the country — including Washington, DC – last winter.
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Tags: inspector general, National Labor Relations Board, survey, telework
IT’s beginning to spend money again, and one place it’s going is server virtualization. In fact, it’s one of the first projects many business IT teams are tackling — probably because the savings involved are almost immediate.
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Tags: projects, servers, spending, virtualization
Every business these days is inundated with tech “solutions” that will boost their operations, marketing and customer relations. But strip away all the hype, and what do businesses really want? The answer is simple:
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Tags: CompTIA, mid-size business, priorities, research, small
Paypal may have started as a way for amateur merchants to accept credit card payments for online auction items, but these days it’s not uncommon to find businesses that use the service to get paid by customers or clients. What are the up and down sides to the practice?
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Tags: business, online, payments, PayPal, professional services
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
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.
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Tags: blizzard, calculator, program, remote, telecommuting, Telework Research Network, workers
Anybody working on electronic healthcare records paraphernalia can get set for a flood of federal stimulus dollars to wash over them.
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Tags: electronic records, federal government, grants, health care, spending
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