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Windows XP – End of Life – What You Should Know

The official “end of life” for Windows XP, when Microsoft will cease to offer support for Windows XP will be April 8, 2014. Although you can still use your Windows XP, Microsoft wants its users to move from the 12 year old operating system to a more current alternative (Windows 7 is preferred for non-touch […]

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The Future for Blackberry is Keyboard-less.

Are you still clinging to your Blackberry mobile device?  Are you expecting that they will make a miraculous comeback? It used to be that Blackberry offered some very compelling reasons to use their technology: An actual keyboard that makes it easy to type out messages. Instantaneous email (could almost use email as a text/chat service) […]

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How You Can Avoid Paying for Microsoft’s Problems

Windows is losing market share – Microsoft needs to start looking at ways to reorganize and reposition itself after being faced with the realization that their existing vision “Windows on Every Device” is no longer viable. Microsoft chooses Server and Services as their future – The mid to large business market serviced by Microsoft’s enterprise […]

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What should be the technology focus for small business over the next three years?

This question came up on one of my linkedin groups as a poll, but I thought it would make a better topic of discussion. The most impactful thing that small companies should focus on is on becoming more nimble with their technology. Small businesses are in unique place in that they have limited access to […]

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Virtualization

Virtualization allows you to use one piece of hardware to run multiple virtual servers. You can basically disect your server hardware (CPU, Memory, Disk Space) into mutiple independant units. In this diagram you can see that the web/database server for the SugarCRM application (Guest A) shares the same hardware (Host) as the Microsoft Exchange Server […]

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Open Source

Open Source is a methodology and concept used by organizations and software companies to produce a specific software technology. In an Open Source model, a company or organization publishes a programing code base to a community of programmers so that they can contribute to the core programming, correct bugs, and enhance the technology’s offerings. This […]

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Is your corporate email on Yahoo?

If Alaska’s government business is being transacted using a Yahoo account, you can bet that you and your employees are doing the same thing. Today we learned that Governor Palin, for reasons that still mystify us all (it took some restraint not to take a political stab), was using a Yahoo account to communicate with […]

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