All posts by jiml

In roughly the last decade, Bell Atlantic and GTE formed Verizon, SBC and Bell South formed Cingular, Sprint bought Nextel, AT&T bought Cingular, and Verizon bought Alltel and now AT&T has purchased T Mobile this past week for $39 billion.  … More

IBM is withdrawing AIX 5.3 from its product suite effective 4/29/11

Exhibit A:

What does this mean to you?… More

Keeping up with new technology is a challenge for any business, particularly in knowing what technology is valuable for your business and what technology is detrimental. In some cases a certain technology can be both, containing both positive and negative … More

Microsoft announces Office 365, a new service that brings familiar applications, including Office desktop software and Office Web Apps, together with SharePoint, Exchange and Lync in the cloud, for the first time.

In October 2010, Microsoft unveiled a new product … More

Microsoft announced the arrival of its newest office product, called Lync 2010.  Lync is considered a convergence of communication methods providing a combination Instant Messenger (IM) client, soft phone and video collaboration tool.  The tool is designed to serve as … More

As we prepare our budgets for 2011 and evaluate the business needs, there are some extenuating circumstances that should be considered.  The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 allows for greater write-off of capital expenses, which means less tax for … More

Beginning in October 2010, Microsoft’s anti-virus protection suite, Security Essentials, will become available to small businesses on ten (10) or fewer PCs at no charge. The following link will direct you to the Microsoft press release:

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2010/sep10/09-22SecurityEssentials.mspx

Colden Company Inc. … More

Colden Company Inc. is proud to sponsor Playnet Inc., an organization dedicated to helping educate under-privileged children who do not have access to public education in the Philippines. Playnet is conducting a fund raising dinner event as the new school … More

Over the years various technologies have been hailed as “game changing” technologies.  Certainly the Internet was one.  Smart phones, cloud computing and virtual computing are also game changing technologies that have altered the way businesses operate.   Managed Services is also … More

One of the technology buzz words that has been in the news over the past year is cloud computing.  What is cloud computing?  The true meaning is Internet-based computing where applications and computing resources are provided as services through … More