Almost three quarters of companies and public-sector organisations across nine European countries might not recover all of their data if they suffer an IT failure according to a new report released by the IT group EMC.  For the survey a total of 1,750 European companies and organisations were quizzed across the UK,  France, Germany, Italy, [...]

Categories: Server

Imagine that you have your business setup in Google under Google Places. Users from your town can search using location based queries to get your listing in the results or on Google Maps. Think Plumber Manhattan for instance. If you optimize the listing you usually have good chances to be at the top of the [...]

Categories: Google, Web Development

Managing a workspace as an independent contractor or micro company works much differently than in the past. There was a time when the independent contractor would either go out and find their own office space and pay for an entire office or stay home and work from bed. Those were pretty much the only two [...]

Categories: Online Services

Facebook’s presentation yesterday could not put a serious dent into the Google+ hype machine. But not everything is golden and first restrictions and unpleasant surprises have come to light as well. Google’s putting the focus in private websites at the moment, which some businesses, like the German mag GPlusOne had to experience first hand. Google [...]

Categories: Google

Next Tuesday Microsoft officially launches its Office 365 product.  This product, which was expected for several years before any official announcement came, is the company’s new subscription service for business.  In short it takes the IT department into the cloud with email, calendaring, exchange, Office, Sharepoint intranet services, Messenger and their new Lync communications suite [...]

Categories: Microsoft

If you run, own, or work for a business you know that communication is the key to success is successful communication. And to keep communication working well you must have a means to manage communication. Of course communication breaks into numerous categories. The Documents category is one that can not be overlooked. Documents can be [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

For more and more people these days, our identities are centered online. Whether you have a company, a blog, or just a Facebook page, most of us have some sort of online presence. The problem arises, however, when we’ve got more than one space online where we’re present. And that’s true for a huge, and [...]

Categories: Software, The Web

Voting is already underway for the 2008 Sourceforge Community Awards which for the first time allowed nominations for projects that are not hosted at the website to become a true Open-Source award. If you look at the finalists you immediately notice the cream of the crop of Open-Source applications. If you take a look at [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software

To put it short: SoundCloud is a social network for musicians and professionals in the music business. At least that’s the market the website is aiming for, other users (like me) can also join if they are lucky enough to get an invitation. No other website that I know of gives the user that much [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web