UP activity monitor (www.jawbone.com, $100). This colorful waterproof wristband, made to be worn 24 hours a day, measures the wearer’s number of steps and sleep patterns, issues reminders about getting up and moving around and tracks progress on a free iPhone app.
Nook Tablet (www.barnesandnoble.com/nook, $249). Sure, Amazon.com captured most of the budget-tablet buzz with Kindle Fire’s smoking...
Yahoo Fires CEO Carol Bartz after growing impatient with the lack of a the company's progress in making a successful turnaround. Bartz failed in multiple areas of attainment for which she was measured...
Yahoo CEO Bartz Fired
So Is Yahoo a Takeover Target?
HP announced a couple of weeks ago they were spinning off their PC business, which got a lot of industry analysts scratching their heads...
Computer network hackers have made the news recently by penetrating some of the largest companies’ networks. One of the more serious breaches targeted Sony Corporation recently. Customer information including credit card numbers and personal information were exposed causing a public relations nightmare and potential litigation risks for Sony. However in the last year or so, hackers have found much...
In late August Steve Jobs announced his resignation as Apple Computer’s CEO just on the heels of shaking up the Apple world last January when he revealed he would be taking medical leave for an unspecified health issue. Jobs had only been back on the job less than two years after receiving a liver transplant that resulted from complication from a rare type of pancreatic cancer called islet cell neuroendocrine...
Apple seems to be the gadget retailing wizard of recent years. Evidence: the introduction and dramatic growth of the iPad which has defined the tablet PC market, the iPhone, which is the single most popular smartphone, and the iPod which is the best selling and most identifiable music player over the last ten years. The iPhone’s success, coupled with smartphones that use the most popular operating...
Time and time again, I’m talking with prospective clients who are rightfully upset about the arrangement they have with their existing IT services provider. These complaints usually revolve around an agreement that was advertised as taking care of their day-to-day IT needs but in reality falls short in several important ways.
Far and away, the biggest complaint I hear is that when...
Cloud computing – It seems like we hear that term every time a business technology news item, commercial, or seminar pops up. Cloud computing has become one of the most frequently mentioned but rarely understood new technology terms to come our way in recent times. Despite the widespread use of the phrase, cloud computing lacks a universally agreed upon definition, or a water-tight understanding...
I've long felt that the main reason there wasn't more malware on the Mac platform isn't as much that it is invulnerable to attack as much as the fact that there hasn't been a big reason for someone to bother attacking it on a large scale. The open-source BSD/UNIX-innards that Apple used for their Mac OS product is solid enough but every operating system is vulnerable to attacks. BSD/UNIX gets attacked...
IntelliSystems is pleased to add Barracuda Message Archiver to our portfolio of solutions. This product creates a searchable archive of all emails in and out of the company. The archive can be used to retrieved old emails needed for compliance reasons or simply to reduce the burden on your Exchange Server by storing attachments on a separate piece of equipment.
Individual users can be granted...
Sometimes things happen that remind me of why we do things the way that we do... Recently, we’ve been speaking with a potential client (“The Organization”) who has been working with one of our competitors but having some concerns about response time. We met with them to find out if IntelliSystems could be a resource for them.
Our competitor has the users of this organization sharing their...