Small businesses are spending about $95 a month on broadband Internet services with large businesses spending upward of $600 a month, according to a survey by the Federal Communications Commission. And cost remains a concern for businesses when considering whether to upgrade Internet services. Cost is a barrier to upgrading for 50 percent of businesses [...]

Raise your hand if you’re chained to your e-mail? Yep, that’s what we thought. So it makes a little tough to conceive of what will most likely be massive changes to the way we do e-mail in the coming years. Yet, that’s the predictions. First, Facebook announced its plans for a new messaging system designed [...]

Your IT staff and network administrators need to be ambidextrous. You might think that’s a strange way to frame the issue of Internet Protocol addressing, but the truth of the matter is your staff must learn a new addressing scheme while maintaining the old one. And they are going to have to do it soon. [...]

Aside from having a much smaller purse, what are the benefits of tying your smartphone to your wallet? This seems to be one of the latest phone frenzies – paying with a swipe of your phone at the coffee shop, doing your banking while sitting in traffic or sharing your credit/debit card purchases with the [...]

Who in your office is both loved and cursed – possibly all in the same day? The “computer guy.” We love it when he saves an important file, recovers a damaged hard drive or brings our e-mail Inbox back from some high-tech black hole. We get mad when that same beloved computer guy can’t get [...]