It’s the nightmare scenario of every business owner or leader. You’ve invested time and money in buying and integrating the right hardware and software. You’ve built the right broadband and wireless connectivity and implemented the proper support processes to keep…
Read moreTo the legions of BlackBerry loyalists out there – and despite what you may have heard there are still over 70 million of them worldwide – the keyboard was, is and always will be one of their favourite things. In…
Read moreWithin the business world, there can be many barriers to entry against entrepreneurs looking to enter a market. But every now and then a new technology will emerge that has the potential to disrupt markets and create many new business…
Read moreMany of today’s smartphones are just as powerful as the laptop on your desk, and they come with an added bonus – they fit in your pocket, keeping you truly mobile. In this blog post, I’ll show you how you…
Read moreIn the early 2000s, it was perfectly normal for employees to be confined to their desks every day as they worked on desktop PCs with tethered CRT monitors. After all, employees basically had no other options to get their work…
Read moreThere are always a few holdouts who take a bit longer to embrace new technology. I know this personally because my parents didn’t buy a microwave until the 1990s. I also know there are still some doubters out there when…
Read moreBring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies are becoming more and more popular with Canadian businesses, and for good reasons. Supporting BYOD helps businesses cut costs, increase employee productivity, and improve work-life balance. However, it’s important to consider the security challenges that BYOD can…
Read moreToday’s technology is so fast, powerful, and convenient that it’s often easy to forget it’s not always perfectly secure and infallible. Many Canadian businesses experience unfortunate events like malware infections, network failures and data breaches due to IT environments that…
Read moreIt’s kind of ironic, but it turns out that the Twitterverse is an amazing place to talk about email. On Thursday, June 20th at 1PM EST, we held the latest #BellBiz Twitter chat on ‘The Real Cost of Email’. It’s…
Read moreAs we covered in our first post in this series – Understanding the cloud – the cloud is a way to store and access data from anywhere using the Internet. If you understand email, catching on to the concept of…
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