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Find the Real Tools and Reduce Your High Tech Costs
Find the Real Tools and Reduce Your High Tech Costs - Like most business owners, you're probably overwhelmed by marketing messages telling you to buy the latest business device or cutting edge electronic toy, perhaps because it is supposed to be invaluable to your business. In this article, you'll read about three types of technology that you'll encounter and you'll discover some questions to ask yourself to determine whether you really need it or not.

Accounting Software- A Business Model
Business owners can have much better control of their accounting and operating software if they own the source code. Software developers can provide the control by offering the source code that includes the general accounting and the clients' unique application.

When to Develop Custom Software or Websites: Hire's Innovation test
How do you decide when to develop a custom software and when to buy software? Like everything else in business, it's all about being unique... One question and a bit of thinking time is all you need...

Facebook and iTunes Applications – How You Can Use Them to Grow Your Business
The following tips will show you how to use Facebook and iTunes applications to promote and grow your business.

Software developers can start earning from Palm Pre apps in September
This week, Palm announced the latest phase of its strategy to take on Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s Blackberry by offering a range of innovative applications for users to purchase for the Palm Pre. According to the company, software developers will be able to begin charging customers for downloading their applications from an ecommerce beta program in September. The move follows last month’s release of the Mojo Software Development Kit, which was viewed as a step forward in Palm’s efforts to strengthen relationships with developers.

Let's Make Software Patents "Defensive Only"
In my quest to abolish software patents, I've been pondering "short term approaches" since I doubt the Supreme Court is going to wave a magic wand and make my fantasies come true anytime soon.

Maximize Your Benefit of Your Software Demo
Visual software demo has been considered a highly effective way to deliver software information clearly and concisely. Create an effective software demo to maximize your benefit.

New Approach Takes the Drudgery, Mystery Out of Content, Data Backup, Protection
Step-by-step guide to protecting your organizations data.

Why is my Website's page title important?
When it comes to improving your Website's page ranking many miss one of the most valuable real estate areas for spiders that crawl your site.

Software Patents: Time for a Change
I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. I don’t have much conviction that it really does stop competitors, but I do know the rule of thumb that every patent will add $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). Yet the software patent process is a mess. I say this with conviction even after I survived the process, and have a software patent pending.

Is There Life Beyond Windows? Pros, Cons and Costs of the Major Operating Systems
This article looks at the pros, cons and costs of Windows, Mac OS, UNIX and Linux. It's a topic that generates a great deal of emotion, but there's no sense getting hung up on defending a favorite operating system. In the cold light of day, these are the bottom-line issues: Is a given OS the most productive solution for your business? Does it do everything you need it to do? Is it the most cost-effective option? And does it make sense to use more than one operating system on the network? This topic is the fourth in our 2009 white paper series: "Making every IT dollar count!" The full white papers are available on our website.

Fax Software
Fax software is a fantastic advertising/marketing strategy to grow your business. When done right it can save you both time and money. Read on to find out how to use send faxes successfully.

Technology and the Small Business
The technology available to the small business owner is comparable to that available to large corporations. This is a remarkable fact, one that will allow small business owners to create and build sophisticated operations. To explore this further I knew I would have to have a conversation with Leslie Babel, President of DigitalFire Inc, an IT Support and Technology company. Leslie’s passion is technology and how he can apply it to make small businesses more effective, more competitive and more fun!

With Technology Everything Has Become Possible
The technology available to the small business owner is comparable to that available to large corporations. This is a remarkable fact, one that will allow small business owners to create and build sophisticated operations. To explore this further I knew I would have to have a conversation with Leslie Babel, President of DigitalFire Inc, an IT Support and Technology company. Leslie’s passion is technology and how he can apply it to make small businesses more effective, more competitive and more fun!

The Importance Of Software OWNERSHIP
When discussing free vs. proprietary software or open vs. closed source there is a third option that is often not mentioned but which may be the only way ahead for our business in the long term. Instead of depending on a community of open source developers or proprietary software companies to provide our mission-critical information systems we may have to develop and maintain our own software if our business is to have the information system it really needs.

The Marketing MYTH Of Modularity
The division of business software into separate "modules" is an arbitrary concept designed to create a false impression. It allows software suppliers to charge us different fees based on the features we want even though all the features are normally present and just the ones we haven't paid for are disabled. It also leads us to the mistaken belief that software is more robust and flexible when it's developed in a "modular" fashion.

To Vista or Not To Vista......
The new Windows Vista operating system(OS) has some nice features. But before you upgrade your system to it, you should check for some possible “hidden” costs. Some tips on things to check before you upgrade.

How to Choose the Right Online Quiz Software
Online quiz software comes in many varieties and flavors, making it difficult to compare applications. The proper online quiz software will help you improve efficiency. This article will give you some simple guidance to choose the right online quiz software.

Palm releases kit to software developers
After a long wait and much anticipation, software developers can finally gain widespread access to the Palm Mojo Software Development Kit to create apps for the Palm Pre. On Thursday, the Mojo SDK was made available on the company’s webOS developer page, which also offers guidelines, a forum for developers and other documentation intended to assist in the process. But will the release of the kit help alleviate the lack of applications available on the company’s new smartphone, a factor viewed by some as a potential roadblock to its success?

Lesson #1: Stick To Your Vision
When Bill Gates was asked by Fortune to explain the astounding success of his brainchild, Microsoft, his immediate response was, “Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.”