One of my clients told me the best way to reach him is via Microsoft Messenger. Not phone. Not email. Messenger. And that’s fine with me. When you balance creative work with the need to answer people’s questions, IM is the best way I’ve found to field
Read more →When you move to a new home, you need to tell people your new address. It’s a headache, but it can’t be avoided. The same doesn’t have to be true for email addresses, though.
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine Looking to expand your practice’s potential market? Consider adding a virtual office to your physical one.
Read more →Early adoption gives Canadian businesses competitive edge Note: I wanted to profile slate computers in general, but the only one with any public profile to speak of at the time of publication was Apple’s iPad. Parag Katrodia has been selling appliances for more than two years at
Read more →ROBOTICIST, CPU ARCHITECT AND INVENTIVE JOHN BORDYNUIK IS SECURING NIAGARA’S MANUFACTURING FUTURE Originally published in Business Niagara Magazine In his Portage Road warehouse, John Bordynuik leads me past a shelf holding his remote control submarine towards skids piled with 30,000 pounds of computer backup tapes shipped here
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly When Auckland, New Zealand judge David Harvey handed down his judgement for Department of Internal Affairs v. TV Works Ltd, he probably knew he’d ruffle feathers. One set of charges involved TV Works carrying advertising for Pokerstars.net, a “free” gaming website that
Read more →Ever get spam email selling name-brand software at discount prices? You might get offers for products from Microsoft, Adobe and other major publishers at half the ordinary price, or better. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it is, for several reasons. First, here’s what you’re likely
Read more →originally published in Lawyers Weekly You use it just about every day, and you suspect you’ll upgrade to the latest version sooner or later. Whether you do so sooner hinges on whether the changes and new features in Microsoft Office 2010 will make a difference in your
Read more →You should be. Here are 12 smart security tips for your smartphone. More than 106,000 mobile phones went missing in 2009, according to the FBI’s National Crime Information Centre. Question: where’s your BlackBerry? If you found it quickly, good for you. If not, you’re probably starting to
Read more →Back in 2006, I interviewed a fellow who used a big widescreen TV as his computer monitor. How big? Picture a typical executive’s desk, then imagine not being able to see the executive unless you stood at the side of the desk. I remember thinking “Wow! Cool!”
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