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.
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Tags: blizzard, calculator, program, remote, telecommuting, Telework Research Network, workers
November 16, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Okay, that recent story here on FinanceTechNews about how there’s no such thing as free WiFi was kind of a lie. There really was some free WiFi out there, but it doesn’t exist anymore.
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Tags: access, connection, Coshocton, free, Motion Picture Association of America, municipal, Ohio, OneCommunity, Sony Pictures, WiFi
November 13, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
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
November 11, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
If you’ve got users who are non-exempt employees, warn their managers to be careful about when and how often they contact those workers via company-issued mobiles.
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Tags: cell phones, cellphones, non-exempt employees, pay, work-related, workers
November 2, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
First the General Accountability Office sounded the alarm about a flu pandemic and its potential to cripple the Internet, and now one of the IT industry’s preeminent analyst groups is adding its voice to the alarm.
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Tags: flu, Gartner, General Accountability Office, Pandemic, swine flu, telecommuting, work at home
October 30, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Just in case you plan on moving anytime soon, there’s a new “test” you’ll want to perform before you make your decision:
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Tags: agreements, carriers, cell phone, contract, dead zones
October 29, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Seems like the flu isn’t just likely to take down a big chunk of the nation’s workers. The feds are warning that it could soon impact the Web as well.
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Tags: flu, GAO, General Accountability Office, Internet, Pandemic, report
October 19, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The “alert” industry is in high gear these days and most of us are getting them pretty much 24/7 via our cell phones, laptops, netbooks or other electronics.
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Tags: alert, customized, e-mail, Mailtones
October 7, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The big two cellphone carriers — Verizon and AT&T — appear to be polishing their image in anticipation of imminent decisions by the feds on net neutrality that are sure to have a huge impact on the industry.
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Tags: AT&T, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, net neutrality, Verizon Wireless
October 6, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The smartphone market is the tech hotbed of activity these days, but no new entry into the market’s made anything close to the iPhone’s impact over the past couple of years. In fact, the folks over at eWeek are warning IT pros to prepare for the unit’s ultimate domination.
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Tags: applications, carrier, eWeek, iphone, security, smartphone
