Archive for the 'Technology' Category

I’ve blogged about cheap laptops before and suggested they would soon make their way to Wal Mart though initially designed for poor school children.
Here’s how that is progressing in the technology world to a Wal Mart near you… In this case, it’s a PC that uses the owner’s TV set as the monitor to cut [...]

Small Businesses are using Google Earth as a tool to save time and money and get new business.
From the Wall Street Journal and The Entrepreneurial Mind

Roofers aren’t the only ones taking advantage of aerial mapping — landscapers, pool maintenance people, real-estate agents and insurance companies are also using such services. In some cases, they’re checking [...]

According to the L.A. Times Laser Printers can be as hazardous to your health as smoking cigarettes due to the particles they give off.
The finding came accidentally… they’d originally planned to test air quality in a building next to a “dusty road” assuming the dust on the road was the problem.
It’s an interesting story about [...]

Sunrocket VOIP was sold through a number of home business channels. They’ve gone out of business leaving their customers high and dry and disconnecting their service.
If you or your customers is in this situation, you may want to consider Packet8
If you have customers abandoned by Sunrocket, check this out and get them some help!
Here’s what PC [...]

Chuck’s Note: You can read all our LiveOps related posts here. You can check here if you’re coming to this page because of an outage at the LiveOps site.

As I’ve said previously, a friend of mine went to work for LiveOps.com and he’s very happy with the company.
Here’s how LiveOps.com selects the Best [...]

The winner this year could teach American’s a thing or two about rural internet. What started as an accomodation to let the boss work from home after a disabling event turned into a new way to do rural broadband.
From Computerworld NZ
New Zealand’s economy is underpinned by small enterprises, businesses that are becoming increasingly technology-savvy in [...]

I can never tell when Gmail is going to start taking my legitmate email and consider it “spam” … there seems to be little rhyme or reason.
Sometimes Gmail disposes of some pretty important email in it’s quest to protect from Spam.
Here’s a quick technique to help you identify real mail you might trash.
From Technology Evangelist
Gmail’s [...]

This is supposed to be good for telecommuters so I’m posting it. I’m all for increasing access to broad band for small and home based businesses. But in the end somebody winds up paying. Many telecommuters would rather “pay” for wifi by paying for food and drink at a coffee shop or other business.
The first [...]

Chuck’s Note: You can read all our LiveOps related posts here. You can check here if you’re coming to this page because of an outage at the LiveOps site. 
I was talking to a friend of mine.
He was telling me what it’s like to be a home based call center representative for LiveOps.com
Basically he [...]

Broadband access is essential for the growth and competitiveness of small business and home based work at home business. So the fact that the growth of broadband access seems to be slowing is troubling. Big firms are competing for the low hanging fruit of broadband customers living in the major metro areas while many who [...]