The Internet Is My Favorite TV Station My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica (the FD7, if memory serves). I selected it over all the others for one reason alone: It relied on the ubiquitous floppy disk for storage. I couldn’t sta ... read more>>
Dream Hardware You’re in no danger. The extreme carnival ride and 4D movie theater may trick you into believing so, but it’s all digital smoke and mirrors. Even your ride home is safer than the popemobil ... read more>>
An Introduction to ODBC. ODBC stands for Open DataBase Connectivity. It is a client side cross platform data communication standard developed by Microsoft and is used predominantly on the Windows platform, although I am aware ... read more>>
Municipal Wireless on the Ropes WIRELESS MINNEAPOLIS In one of the few moderately successful municipal Wi-Fi programs in the U.S., Minneapolis has planned to roll out better coverage in six geographic phases, shown here. read more>>
Luring Customers, SMB-Style For small and midsize businesses, marketing means doing a lot with a little— fi nding ways to initiate targeted marketing on a shoestring budget. Fortunately, getting started isn’t complic ... read more>>
Determine Your Backup Process There are nearly as many ways to back up your business data as there are ways to lose the data and require that backup. Products available to perform archiving duties range from the venerable tape bac ... read more>>
Security That’s All Business The most comprehensive tools I’ve found that business IT administrators can use for detecting and repelling attacks are in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 (EP 11). Typically, in a product this f ... read more>>