Tech At Work by Richard Morochove

Solve Your Data Growing Pains

Richard Morochove — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:14:23 +0000

How can you smoothly transfer programs and applications data to another, larger hard drive? That’s where the new, ultra-portable version of Disk Jockey ($349) from Diskology rides to the rescue. This compact device is an all-purpose tool loaded with useful capabilities that make it easy to copy data from one drive to another, wipe data [...]

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Planning for Success

Richard Morochove — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:21:34 +0000

If you fail to develop a business plan, you’re planning to fail. Business Plan Pro, an application from Palo Alto Software, can help you plan for success. It may also help fund your operations, since most sources of financing, from banks to venture capitalists, require a business plan before they’ll consider giving loans, lines of [...]

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Outsourcing Your Payroll

Richard Morochove — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:21:37 +0000

Let someone else process your business payroll and relieve your tax headaches. If you’d like to learn more about how to use technology to process business payroll more efficiently, I discuss several accounting options from small business friendly Intuit to ADP, which can handle almost all human resource, employee record-keeping and payroll requirements, including those of [...]

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Search Engine Ads

Richard Morochove — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:38:57 +0000

Pay-per-click advertising can deliver visitors to your Web site, fast. If you want to learn how you can boost the number of visitors to your e-commerce Web site fast, read more about how to use PPC search engine text advertising, such as Google AdWords. My third Tech at Work column, on this topic, is now online at [...]

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Is Skype VoIP Ready for Business?

Richard Morochove — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:39:11 +0000

My second Tech at Work column is now online at PC World.com on this page. It considers Skype’s first step, though probably not its last, into the business market for Voice over Internet Protocol phone services. The small-business Internet phone service features a consolidated billing option–but not much else. Despite its current lack of business level reporting, you may still [...]

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Has Microsoft Jumped the Shark?

Richard Morochove — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:25:01 +0000

How will the departure of Bill Gates from full-time involvement with Microsoft affect the software developer? Microsoft’s long-suffering shareholders may finally see a glimmer of hope for a better future. Suffering shareholders? Gates, still the world’s wealthiest man, isn’t suffering. He remains a major shareholder of the company he co-founded. But for latter-day investors, the ticker [...]

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E-Commerce on a Budget

Richard Morochove — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:04:35 +0000

My new twice monthly Tech at Work column for PC World kicks off today with a look at e-commerce on a budget. If you sell on the Web, you need a way to collect your money. Fortunately, there are tools for businesses of all sizes. This column is now online at the PCWorld.com Web site and discusses PayPal [...]

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Motorola Q hands-on: Best smartphone for business?

Richard Morochove — Sun, 28 May 2006 18:44:33 +0000

Here’s my first look at the hot Motorola Q smartphone. I showed it to anchor Fred Langan on the CBC NewsWorld Business News last Friday evening. If you didn’t see this TV interview, where I compared the Motorola Q to the competing Palm Treo and Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry smartphones, here’s the scoop. The Motorola Q is the thinnest smartphone I [...]

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Are you ready for Microsoft Windows Vista?

Richard Morochove — Sun, 21 May 2006 16:55:20 +0000

Windows Vista is more than half a year from release but Microsoft recently unveiled more specific information about hardware requirements for its next generation operating system on its Windows Vista home page. Will your PC be able to run Vista? Based upon the stated hardware requirements, it appears most PCs made in the past two to three years will [...]

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Will Microsoft RoundTable boost business video conferencing?

Richard Morochove — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:36:26 +0000

Microsoft coyly lifted its kimono to show off its RoundTable video conferencing device at a briefing in Toronto this morning. RoundTable is a compact, circular, audio/video conferencing system designed to sit in the center of a table to facilitate remote collaborative communications. RoundTable captures a panoramic, 360-degree view of the room, thanks to six video cameras mounted around a [...]

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