The Importance of Data Backups by Keith Erwood
All computers and their components are subject to failure. In fact sooner or later every business will be confronted with some type of computer failure. The largest threat to businesses during a failure will be some type of data loss or data corruption. ... It is recommended that you sit down with your systems administrator to create a backup plan for your business immediately if you have not done so already. ... It will also cost the business a valuable amount of man hours in recreating the data as well.

Common Problems Why Hard Disks Crash by Pinky Mcbanon
There are so many reasons why your hard disk may crashed: (1) It may be caused by mechanical or physical problem such as the spindle motor system failure. This failure is usually caused by over-heating. The activity light flashing that you see on your CPU (central processing unit) indicates... The last but not the list – take “backing-up” your hard drive on a removable disk or tape as a serious task for you to do at least everyday or once a week especially if you are using it for business purposes!

Information/Human Age: Bringing Family and Friends Closer Together by Jesse S. Somer
Have you ever felt like the distances from your loved ones and cherished connections are just too big? You then stop communicating as much, and soon your relationships are no longer what they used to be. In this day and age it needn’t turn out this way. ... This means Gramps can watch the children grow week by week and have visual confirmation of all the main events in their lives. ... They don’t create this technology for superior, genius, elite humans, (Do they even exist?) but rather for the average person.

Climb to the Vista. Is Windows Vista for You? by Stuart Crawford
Is Windows Vista for your company? Many small businesses will be asking their IT people this question over the next few days, weeks, and months to find out if Vista is the best fit for their business. Most IT consultants will be advising their client base to wait for Service Pack 1 which seems... Windows Vista Business Edition is geared toward the small business and is the first version of Windows ever designed with the needs of small business in mind. ... Windows Vista Business Edition provides mechanisms to protect the small business’ IT investments.

Keeping Up With Technical Change by Bruce Taylor
For you engineers out there - I can tell you your worst nightmare: you go to bed one night as a competent secure in your technical competence, and you wake up the next morning as a technological dinosaur. All your strong technologies are now quaint footnotes in the history books and you're... Well, don't feel too bad, the technology changes so quickly that you're running the Red Queen's race: you have to run as hard as you can to stay in the same place, and to make any progress you have to run twice as fast.

How To Develop Software For Your Business by David Berube
Software development is a risky business. Many software developers are barely skilled at their trade, much less at business. They can't understand how your business operates - and their code isn't unreliable. It crashes constantly. It isn't professional. ... First, you need to make sure that you find a professional who understands business - your business. ... Business is constantly changing, and your software has to evolve with your business. ... You know your business best, and your developer should respect that.

Information Overload - Stop the Barrage by Joshua Feinberg
Information overload is a serious problem in computer consulting. As a computer consultant you likely have information about new technology coming at you from all directions. This barrage of information overload is enough to render you unable to figure out what is important and what is not. ... To stay on top of what’s important to small business consulting in the small, midsize and large markets, subscribe to CRN and VAR Business. ... If you skim these two publications and limit yourself to no more than a half an hour per week, you'll eliminate much of your information overload.

Computer Skills: Which Ones Your Staff Needs by Joshua Feinberg
Don't worry too much if you lack advanced technical computer skills. A lot of that can be remedied by just putting in a little bit of time each week in doing some self-study. In this article, you'll learn which computer skills are necessary to serve your sweet spot small business clients. ... Installations Are Easier Now Years ago, it was much more difficult to install the Novell small business suite or IBM equivalent, or the original 1997 Microsoft Small Business Server. ... But all of these companies, especially Microsoft, put a lot of money into making it easier for people who don't...

What's Next?: Using Real Estate Technology To Answer The Million Dollar Question by Jason Leister
In the July 5 issue of Realty Times, columnist Bob Hunt points out that in California, new real estate agents are popping up at the rate of 6.5 per hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In fact, if you put all of the agents together, their number would make them the 5th largest city in California. ... That's the nature of the business, but that still leaves a lot of real estate professionals out there going after your prospects, your clients and your business. ... By using real estate technology to automate your business systems, you can help create the time you need to figure out an answer...

When To Buy A Color Laser Printer Instead Of An Ink-Jet Printer by Mark Vander Ploeg
Computer and technology products continue to improve, and color printers are no different. If you liked the printer your friend bought last week, just wait. You'll be able to get one better and cheaper next week. So, if you're in the market for a new home or small office printer what should you... The reason most ink-jet printers are so inexpensive today is that printer manufactures use the same business model as cell phone companies, that is, give away the phone (printer) and make the profit by regularly selling minutes (cartridges).