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
We’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.
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Tags: Connectivity Scorecard, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United States
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
A bill extending a $7 billion tax credit for research and development has passed the House of Representatives, but its future in the Senate is uncertain.
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Tags: congress, extension, research & development, tax credit
Government agencies and big companies are apparently taking flu pandemic warnings seriously enough to invest in planning for the problem.
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Tags: flu, Pandemic, planning, secure access, technologies, work at hom
Keeping servers from overheating means a lot to data center admins, but the folks at Google have some lessons in how cool they should be that may sound counter-intuitive to folks who manage server arrays.
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Tags: fail, Google, research, server, temperature
The old saying “Follow the money” has rarely been more important than it is in these days of government stimulus and bailouts.
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Tags: bailout, funds, government, online, projects, spending, stimulus, track
Well, it’s finally arrived. Delivery week for Windows 7, Microsoft’s new operating system, and crunch time for many IT pros contemplating an upgrade from their beloved XP version.
So will you switch or keep fighting the pressure?
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Tags: compatibility, Hardware, Microsoft, upgrade, Vista, Windows 7, XP
