October 23rd, 2012
How many times have you had an important document to fax, walked over to the fax machine paused for a minute and asked yourself, ‘which side goes up?’. Once you figure it out, punch in the recipient's phone number and hit send you often find you have a paper jam. Let’s face it, fax machines aren’t the easiest things to use. Luckily, there is a way to make faxing easier.
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Are you a Microsoft or Google supporter? In the world of technology professionals tend to be either, and rarely both. This is especially true if you ask them which cloud office suite is better. Some will wax lyrical about Google Apps while others swear by Office 365. When it comes to you, as the consumer, it can be tough to decide which is best for your business.
In the book 1984 by George Orwell, civilization struggles to survive in a dystopian state that is controlled by the all seeing and knowing Big Brother. We passed 1984 28 years ago, and have since entered the Information era, with nearly unrestrained access to anything. While Big Brother is a concept from a book, many governments have tried to introduce seemingly Big Brother-ish bills that could drastically change the Internet as we know it.
Have you ever had an idea that you thought people would enjoy, or benefit from, pitched it to potential investors only to have it squashed? It can be a draining process that leaves you not really willing to share ideas, in fear of having them rejected. Crowdfunding is an alternative to this process that’s quickly becoming one of the most popular ways to gain investment and interest.
Small businesses have some powerful communication tools at their disposal, ones that they can use to reach a potentially unlimited customer base. One of these tools is Twitter, a social network that gives users 140 characters to reach out to other Twitter users. While Twitter is a useful tool, it can cause companies to lose their reputation if they tweet about the wrong things.
Every once in awhile an innovative technology comes along that completely changes both the way we interact with computers, and the dynamics of how we conduct business. The latest technology to do this is related to the cloud. Many of the popular programs we use have some cloud elements to them. The only problem is there’s a lot of confusing terminology that goes with this technology. 
With a large number of technological devices and access to an incredible amount of data, our collective attention span is shorter than ever. This has posed a serious issue for SMBs. A rising number of companies and app developers are taking popular concepts and elements used in video games and applying them to business situations with the goal of holding our attention.
