Budgeting and cost control gets easier with client-centric practice management systems. In-house counsel have struggled for years to assert more control over their dealings with — and the billing practices of — outside law firms. Law firms, long accustomed to managing their relationships with clients, have had
Read more →originally published on cbc.ca/money/smallbusiness Business has always relied on collaboration. That fact drives the growth of online collaboration tools, but it’s an area where businesses need to tread warily.
Read more →originally published on cbc.ca/money/smallbusiness Andrew Jones had a simple goal: Develop an online tool to help his wife, Nicole Garton-Jones, run her Vancouver-based firm, Heritage Law. But his efforts catapulted him into the booming software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and spawned a business in its own right.
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 →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
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