Archive for the ‘Business Tips’ Category

North Carolina has picked a fight with the largest Internet retailer, Amazon, over tax records.  You don’t live in North Carolina so why should you care? Read the rest of this entry »

Last week Microsoft once again made news for a security issue.  While you may  have grown used to seeing announcements on the latest patch to fix the latest security hole on Microsoft’s products like Internet Explorer, this one was a bit different.  Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on an experiment to use the iPad by Paul Colligan as his only computer.  Well that experiment began on the 3rd of April and  so far Paul likes it for traveling.  He reports that it is small enough to use on the fold down tray with someone sitting next to you and that the battery life was more than ample for a ride from LAX to PDX.  The battery life of the iPad is certainly getting high marks from various reviewers.

This still leaves a lot of unanswered questions about traveling with an iPad.  What was it like to watch a movie on?  Want to work on a spreadsheet for the meeting you have an hour after get off the plane, we don’t yet know how it was for that.

Today is Paul’s first day working from his home office on his iPad and what we know so far is that it is a great alarm clock as it woke him up at 4:30.  Unfortunately, that wasn’t the hour he wanted to get up, but due to WiFi and the fact that iPad is set for push email that was what time the email notifier started making enough noise to get him out of bed.  Hopefully things will improve for him on this first full work day of the experiment.

When I saw that Google’s former chief information officer Douglas Merill was coming out with a book on getting organized, I pre-ordered a copy.   My life, probably like yours,  gets busier and busier all the time.  I already know technology has a tremendous amount to offer us in terms of organizing our days and weeks and I use quite a bit of that technology.  I’ve barely cracked the book, but I am already impressed by a couple of things. Read the rest of this entry »

That’s the question Paul Colligan will answer for small business owners over 30 days in his iPad experiment. Of course there’s a big difference between “can” and “should.” Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft is notorious, for among other things, its missteps with its browser Internet Explorer.  “Upgrades” they make to it end up causing headaches for Web developers whose websites don’t show in the new browser the way they did in the old.  This has always felt like Microsoft telling the World Wide Web that they better just get in line.  Now things are starting to change.  Many developers have told their clients that new sites may not work in older versions of IE.  And now comes an announcement from Google that they will not longer be supporting IE 6.0 Read the rest of this entry »