No one wants to spend money on new technology unless they really have to. Unfortunately, for many of us, we buy technology when what we have is no longer working.
If your office is a mass of confusion, with various users editing various documents and not realizing that there are changes made to the documents they have worked on, then you're probably experiencing a lot of wasted time and frayed nerves.
I host my email with Intermedia and am quite pleased with their customer service (rock solid) and service overall. They are a bit pricey, I think, but maybe you really "get what you pay for" in this case.
Open source, as you might remember, is software - available free for use and modification. Open source includes operating systems such as Linux, or CRM programs such as SugarCRM.
There are many companies, such as Avidian, makers of CRM tool Prophet, who sell software that add-on to Microsoft Outlook, making it more powerful than it already is.
Over the last few days I've been trying to help someone decide the best printer for their home office. Their current NEC printer worked just fine with Windows XP, but when they upgraded to Vista, the drivers no longer worked. Isn't hind sight always perfect?
Initial results from a new online survey designed to measure IT effectiveness at small businesses shows almost one in four respondents score a “D” or “F” grade.
Microsoft's Bing is nice. It's better than it's predecessor. However, Google is still the leader and search engine of choice for just about everyone. It's fast, extensive and clean (the interface).