Posted by Jim Van on August 5, 2011 under data security, eOffice, security, small business | 
I was recently asked to write a piece concerning small business network security. Regular readers of this blog may observe that security is often a topic here. There’s a reason for that: a recent study by Comcast, no small player in providing internet services to small businesses, found that a shocking 74% of respondents had some sort of security ‘incident’ over the past year. Here’s how to keep your business out of that group: Read more of this article »
Posted by Jim Van on July 15, 2011 under entrepreneur, eOffice, mobility, portability, small business |
Ok, one more mention about Phil Simon’s ‘The New Small’ and then I’ll give it a break. Promise.
It’s just that the book is so spot on regarding how smaller business is out there succeeding these days by leveraging technology that simply didn’t exist, or was unavailable to small business until very recently. The Five Enablers: Read more of this article »
Posted by Jim Van on May 20, 2011 under entrepreneur, eOffice, mobility, portability, small business |
In 2008, when the economy began the worst implosion since The Great Depression, one of the industries hardest hit was the legal profession. Hundreds of high-powered law firms were forced to cut expenses, including layoffs of lawyers, paralegals, administrators and other staff, many of whom found themselves on the unemployment line for the first time ever. This is the story of a group from a Boston firm who decided to do something about it. Read more of this article »
Posted by Jim Van on October 13, 2010 under eOffice, mobility, portability |
I was recently at T.F. Green airport, waiting at the gate area for my flight to board. I had my iPhone with me, and was listening to a favourite Paris-based radio station while reading a book on the Kindle app. I took a break to take a moment to shop for a birthday present for a friend on Eddie Bauer, and went back to my book. All of a sudden, I received an alarm that one of my clients’ servers was acting abnormally. Within a minute, I was accessing the server, and within two minutes, I’d solved the issue and was back to my book. The flight boarded 10 minutes later.
This is perhaps one of the best examples of two things: How our personal and professional lives have merged due to tedchnology, and how they’ve done so in the absence of a conventional computer desktop. Meet the new portability. Read more of this article »
Posted by Jim Van on October 6, 2010 under entrepreneur, eOffice, mobility, portability, small business |
I live in a relatively affluent neighborhood. Everybody, even the 80-year old couple across the way, has a broadband internet connection. And, most people I know own smartphones and access various internet functions through them.
When I go to almost any public gathering place, from the library to a restaurant, Wi-fi internet access is a given, even at the local McDonald’s. In less affluent areas, broadband, while widely available, isn’t as well deployed, but is still widely available.
So, now that we’ve established the near ubiquity of broadband access to the internet, at least locally, what’s next Read more of this article »
