What are trolls? Why do they flame? These are important questions. We’ve discussed the pros and cons of a comments section and now, as promised, we will explore the research…
CIO Perspective: Enterprise User Experience
If we step back and look at the past 5 years, we see that the consumer experience has been dramatically and structurally changed: touch screen interfaces, over-the-air (OTA) application installations…
Why the Obamacare Website Failed in So Many Ways
This is not a political article. It merely examines one of the biggest internet blunders in… well, at least a couple of days… maybe hours. Anyway, the first day the…
Leaving IT for the End Business?
If you are working in an enterprise IT department (like me), you are working in a support department. I don’t see anything wrong here; at least I personally did this….
Marketing WOW! Do.com Has the BEST Commercials… and App!
There have long been office sharing apps, usually tying user’s calendars together, or allowing editing of documents by multiple users from remote locations, but there’s something new that really creates…
Comments Section: Land of Constructive Public Discourse Or Playground of Trolls?
Whether creating a website or starting a blog, one of the important decisions to make is whether or not to include a comments section. The Internet, that glorious land of…
CIO Perspective: Things to Consider Before Co-locating Your Data Center
Co-locating your data center is essentially moving some of your data center to an outside company. An example of that can be giving your Microsoft Exchange infrastructure to a host,…
Google Vs. Death: Has Google Finally Met Its Match?
Google announced its plans to vanquish death and, oddly enough, not too many people were surprised. The company who has mastered the search algorithm, addressed Internet security and tackled world-wide connectivity…
The Internet of Things: 5 Reasons It Matters
Hold up–what is the Internet of Things (IoT)? Let’s break it down, for those slightly less tech-savvy: “it’s socialization of everything, from simple everyday devices to industrial devices,” explains Internet…
CIO Perspective: Assess Your E-mail System
E-mail is the established business communication system and it is here to stay for a long time to come. Although almost all businesses of all sizes depend on e-mail communications,…
Social Media: Professionals Only, Please!
Social media is still a greatly misunderstood part of business, as hard as that is to believe. It’s hard to believe that as little as two years ago, companies were…
Let’s admit it. We all commit stupid sins and hope that nobody catches them. We do it in our own computers, sometime in our friends’ computers (and spend hours trying…