by Marci DeVries Published: May 18,2012
Tags: tech talk
I have to admit that I’m a late adopter of this technology. Skype and video calling software has been available to us for free for a few years now, but I’ve noticed the adoption rate really changing lately so I thought I’d bring it up. Maybe the addition of Face to Face on iPhone is [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: May 11,2012
Some great ideas are born in the nation’s universities and laboratories but never leave there. [...]
by Marci DeVries Published: May 11,2012
Tags: tech talk
“We’ve gotta have an app!” was the battle cry when Apple launched its App Store in 2008. And yes, that was the marketing department on the phone again, asking me for something they didn’t really understand. I developed several apps that had no purpose except to bolster the brand image of the company that wanted [...] [...]
by Monica Mendoza Published: May 10,2012
Tags: clean energy, Colorad Cleantech Industry Association, Colorado
The Colorado Cleantech Industry Association is looking for a few good CEOs. The association has launched a Cleantech Fellows Institute in an effort to jump start advanced technology startups in Colorado by training CEOs to lead the firms. CFI is an intensive program that aims to train 12 to 15 business executives this fall to [...] [...]
by Amy Gillentine Published: May 9,2012
Tags: app, deployment, Military, smartphone, Technology
The Department of Defense released a mobile app that will help service members adjust to life at home after returning from combat deployments. The app, called the Positive Activity jackpot, was developed by the national Center for Telehealth and Technology. It uses augmented reality with a smartphone GPS to help find nearby activities and diversions [...] [...]
by Marci DeVries Published: April 27,2012
Tags: tech talk
Last week I was invited to participate in a “Fail off” — an event designed to embolden potential entrepreneurs and show them how to start up a company based on their own ideas. The content included a bunch of business owners (including me) going up on stage and publicly divulging their worst failure(s) in gory [...] [...]
by Marci DeVries Published: April 20,2012
Tags: tech talk
We’re rising up in protest. Now that the marketing department is foisting all of their mediocre social media campaigns on us, the information technology department is lashing out through grimacing, sighing loudly and sending tersely worded emails. This habit that the marketing department has of “growing bored” with their tech projects has got to stop. [...] [...]
by Marci DeVries Published: April 13,2012
Tags: tech talk
Right now there are two poor fellows in my office sanding all the paint off the bookcase they painted for me last week. They have to start over from scratch because they made the same mistake that a lot of software development teams make: The sales person/project manager screwed over the technicians. And I can [...] [...]
by Monica Mendoza Published: April 12,2012
Tags: Colorado Springs, help desk, IT, Robert Half Technology
The IT help-desk gurus field all kinds of highly technical computer questions. But, imagine fielding a call like, “We need you to fix the microwave in the lunchroom.” It’s the funnier side of being a help-desk expert. And, a request like, “I dropped my phone in the toilet. What should I do?” is not unusual [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 11,2012
Tags: Apple, electronic books, lawsuit, United States
The U.S. government has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. and book publishers. It said Wednesday that the publishers conspired with Apple to raise retail electronic-book prices to limit competition. The government also filed papers saying it has reached a settlement with publishers Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. It says it will proceed [...] [...]
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