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To continue our series of blog posts on upgrading your business to Windows 7 we’ll now try to answer the question: Is my business ready? Upgrading to a new operating system is a serious undertaking. There are several issues to consider upfront including your hardware, the applications that you use to run your business, timing, and cost.

In an order to address some of the questions many business owners are asking about upgrading to Windows 7, we’re going to have a series of blog posts outlining the business reasons for upgrading, some issues to consider before upgrading, and when the right time to upgrade is.
To start off the series I’d like to [...]

A little longer post this week as I was asked about this product again this weekend.
The tool that I use to save time that I get asked about the most by small business execs/owners is my CardScan business card scanner. Anybody who networks a lot can instantly see the value of a product that will [...]

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As the remaining hours of 2009 tick away you may be wondering what’s on tap in the IT world for 2010. Here are a few items that could change the way your organization uses IT over the next 12 months.

In order to not leave our non-Outlook readers out of the improved email fun, our tip to save 15 minutes this week is Gist. Gist is another email and social media integration tool that works with webmail providers as well as Outlook. Check it out here: http://gist.com.

This is the first volume of a weekly blog post that will outline a software tool, a technique, or a tip designed to save business owners or busy professionals 15 minutes a week. We are in no way compensated by the creators of any software we recommend. Each post will take about 15 seconds to [...]

An exciting event is coming up on October 22nd 2009. After years of fighting with Windows Vista, Windows users will finally have a chance to upgrade to the newest operating system from Microsoft–Windows 7. Microsoft’s release of Windows 7 will end five years of frustration and bring to the Windows computer a polished operating system [...]

Like apple, mouse and blackberry, the word ‘cloud’ will soon have a whole new meaning in the IT industry and broad implications for small businesses like yours. Cloud computing is simply a clever name for an idea that has existed in the computing industry for years– basically the idea that most data isn’t processed on your local computer, [...]