If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone ask – What type of computer should I buy — I would be very wealthy, or at least able to buy a tank of gas. The truth of the matter is whether you are looking to purchase a computer for your personal home or business environment; there are some simple guidelines and questions to ask yourself before making a decision.

Step 1 — Decide on a workstation or Laptop

Deciding on a desktop or laptop may be difficult because each offers their own set of benefits and drawbacks.  Here …

Barnes & Noble has declared war on Amazon with its Nook Tablet. Amazon responded by shipping the Kindle Fire ahead of schedule, and B&N has retaliated in kind as the Nook Tablet is already appearing in B&N stores.

Early shipments are very rare in the consumer electronic space, as it is more common to see delays in getting products into consumer’s hands. It seems the cheap tablet war has left the podium and is now in the trenches, with Kindle Fires and Nook Tablets shipping ahead of schedule.

The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet are similar in form and …

You may have seen the commercials for Magic Jack! At 19.95 for phone service per year is worth investigating.  Today we’ll take a look at Magic Jack and who might be able to use it, maybe even you!  I know home bundling your services is all the rage these days, but how much is the phone line costing you?  Cutting the phone line out of your monthly bill could prove to save you a lot of money.  We took a look at Magic Jack and how it played out in two separate cases.

Potential Magic Jack Client A, We’ll …

With the Windows 7 Operating System installed on many of your new PC purchases, here is some information for those computer savvy people that you may find helpful.

And for your late night junkie, I will keep it in the theme similar to David Letterman’s top ten items. So here we go.

Here are the top 10 things to know about Windows 7.

1. Application Compatibility

Because Windows Vista OS introduced architectural changes down to the kernel level that made the OS more secure than its predecessor Windows XP, many applications needed modifications to operate properly in a Windows Vista …

B2B purchasers are using smartphones in growing numbers as part of their buying process. According to a recent study conducted by TriComB2B and the University of Dayton School of Business Administration and shared by eMarketer, 59% of B2B purchase decision makers have used their smartphone to research products and services when they are considering purchases. This makes it critical for businesses to publish information in a mobile-friendly format, whether that is a on a mobile-optimized website or in a dedicated mobile application.

There is a huge missed opportunity by sellers in not addressing this form of information gathering. According …

So I went on vacation to my place north of the dells for a week.  It is a log cabin located on a golf course near Castle Rock Lake in Arkdale, WI. I do not have a phone lan line or TV or Internet Services there. I do have  a cell phone that gets sporadic coverage in that area. That is the way I like it when I am away. I want to be unconnected as much as possible to the outside world.  However, when something cool in technology comes along that can fit a specific purpose, you start loving …

In my first semester of graduate school, I came across a rather unsettling statistic : less than half of all IT projects reported are considered “successful”. Billions of dollars are being poured every year into CRM, ERP, BI, upgrades, migrations, deployments, refreshes, business engineering, and more, only to have a less than 50% chance of coming out the way you expect.

My professor cited examples such as Hershey’s ERP migration resulting in late delivery of halloween candy (and a loss of $100m in sales and a 9% drop in stock).

In more recent news, respected ERP vendor recent Standish Group …

For those of you who use Joomla you may know that updating the system can be very beneficial in terms of new features, security updates, etc. But you probably also know how much of a hassle it can be if and when things go wrong.

Though many of you are probably still using Joomla version 1.5, the latest version of Joomla is 1.7, updated recently from 1.6. There have been several updates since 1.5 all the way up to Joomla 1.5.23 which is the latest update to the 1.5 architecture, but the move from 1.5 to 1.6 is NOT business …

One of the best parts of my job is the fact that Christmas comes more than once a year. Every time a cool new piece of hardware comes in all the techs get up from their desks to check out the latest and greatest toy that has come through the door. This month many of us were more excited than usual as the latest and greatest of the Android tablets shipped on the 23rd, and I received the first one a few days later.

The tablet market is one of the hotest segments and growing trends in IT. The advent …

“We Can’t Afford this Equipment!”

Many companies are faced with annual IT equipment costs. Sometimes it is just replacing a computer that died or it could be replacing their whole network server and infrastructure equipment. The latter usually has a larger cost involved and sometimes the sticker shock can be overwhelming. Lenovo Financial Services now offers leasing as an option. They will take the cost of the equipment and even the labor involved to install and configure and create a lease payment over 3 years. How can this benefit my company? Here are just a few reasons why Leasing is …