Technology has vastly improved retail transactions and made running a store more efficient, especially as stores now rely on point of sale (POS) systems, tablets and computers, digital signage, and inventory and asset management systems. Many of these require power…
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If you’re anything like me, you may sleep with your smartphone close at hand. On the nightstand, perhaps. And when you wake up in the middle of the night to the addictive glow of a newly arrived notification, you probably…
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Global forecasts show that companies are rapidly embracing the cloud to make their businesses more productive, collaborative and cost-effective. And while many organizations understand the capabilities offered by the latest cloud-based services, it’s important that they also consider the network…
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I consider myself a mobile tech enthusiast. Why? Well, I own more smartphones, tablets and laptops than I probably should, and I’m always the person my friends come to when they can’t figure out how to make something work on…
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Energy and resource development was a big data industry long before big data became all the rage. If you work in the industry you also know how challenging it is to connect your remote locations, and your remote teams, to…
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Our use of Internet bandwidth and consumption of bandwidth-heavy content is growing fast and will only accelerate. We often hear about this in a consumer context, but it does have ramifications for business, too. What can you expect, and how…
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Any complex suite of software tools includes a broad range of features and capabilities. Some of them take time to uncover, and even long-time users rarely get around to exploiting them all. Certainly, over the decades that I have used…
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You want to ensure your business has the Internet horsepower it needs to keep your team as productive as possible. Service providers tout a fibre connection as the superior choice, but you’re not sure how it differs from more traditional…
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Microsoft’s Office 365 is the latest version of the most venerable suite of productivity tools. And it seems to be winning over users with Microsoft reporting it had more than seven million subscribers in the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal…
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There really is an app for just about everything. But should there be one for your business? A comScore report confirms our affinity for apps, noting that 82% of the time consumers spend with mobile media is via apps. And…
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