Screenshots of iPhone Nike+ running app emerge, we’re out of breath already

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It has taken its sweet, sweet time in arriving, but it seems the iPhone Nike+ running application is just… about… here. A slew of new screenshots of the application have emerged, and while there are no juicy tidbits to accompany ‘em (release date, cost, etc.), we all know how many lines of text a single […]

Aug

12

Coming Soon to an iPhone Near You: VoIP

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Steve Bosak, newsfactor.com Mon Aug 11, 5:28 PM ET
Instant-messaging chat or dissing your Texas Hold ‘em opponents on the iPhone just got one step closer. Global IP Solutions (GIPS) has announced the release of its near-ubiquitous voice-over IP (VoIP) developer software for the iPhone engineering crowd. GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile is a development toolkit for […]

Aug

9

iPhone: Trouble in the App Store

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It’s been a confusing week for both sellers and buyers at the App Store — the venue for third party software that is the best thing to happen to the iPhone (except maybe the price cuts) since it arrived more than a year ago.
The iPhone 3G is OK, if you manage battery consumption very […]

Aug

8

‘I Am Rich’ Dude: I Made $6000 From My Dumb iPhone App (AAPL)

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Apple removed “I Am Rich” — a $999.99 iPhone app that did nothing — from its iTunes App Store less than a day after it went up. So was it worth German coder Armin Heinrich’s time to make it?
Absolutely! In an email interview with the LA Times, Heinrich says he sold eight copies of […]

Aug

7

IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: ‘Stop Copying Windows’

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By Antone GonsalvesInformationWeek August 7, 2008 04:00 AM

IBM (NYSE: IBM), whose decision to back Linux years ago was a driving force in its adoption by business, called on developers of the open-source operating system to make it more “green” and to stop copying Windows, if they want to see Linux on the […]

Aug

5

Steve Jobs confesses to poorly planned MobileMe launch

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By Slash Lane
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is admitting that his firm bit off more than it could chew with last month’s simultaneous product launches, which resulted in a MobileMe Internet service that was pushed out prematurely “and not up to Apple’s standards.”In an email to employees on the matter Monday, seen by ArsTechnica, Jobs […]

May

29

Call It Health Care for Your Computer

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Decatur, GA - One minute a small business is humming along - the next, one computer cant print, another is stalled from spam, and a third wont stop flashing an error message. A small business can be startled with I.T. bills that range from zero dollars a month - to thousands of unbudgeted dollars.

The new trend is paying up front for the security of knowing your computer will not stumble when you need it. Many computer consulting firms nationwide are now offering what the industry calls Managed Services, a sort of health insurance for small business computer needs.

For a flat monthly fee I.T. gurus like Chip Reaves handle all regular maintenance and take care of any computer problems. Technology consulting firms like ours used to get paid when computers broke down. Now, more and more, our franchise owners are telling us clients prefer to pay a predictable monthly bill to keep computers healthy.

Companies that are large enough to have I.T. departments can deal with the occasional computer crash, but businesses with 25 or fewer employees tend to contract out their computer repair and maintenance.

Those smaller businesses are actually the ones that can least afford to have computer trouble, says Reaves. Little guys really depend on all their staff being productive all the time. We fix everything from virus infections to server crashes. His company, Computer Troubleshooters, is the worlds largest provider of Managed Services and offers a unique No-Downtime-Guarantee.

Its actually a much better service, says Reaves. Instead of getting paid when your computer is broken, your local I.T. guy gets paid to keep it from breaking. We have an incentive to keep the business problem free. Its better karma, he laughs.

New technology doesnt just mean more computer components to break. New advances mean more ways to keep the small business up and running. Some technology consulting firms are able to install software so that I.T. service is paged when the computer system gets too hot, or gets infected. Sometimes, we know before the client does. Well call up and say, Hey, I see your back computer isnt hooked into the network, and theyll go check and say, Hey, your right!

Small and medium sized businesses, like the Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center operated by Darrell Keating, find it more cost effective to pay I.T. repair companies to keep their computers working, rather than pay when they break down. The best part is that we dont see enough of them - this is meant as a compliment. Monitoring is done from their home office.

Reaves says small companies are wasting valuable time on computer issues. We want to eliminate computer problems so that our small businesses can stop worrying about when their next computer problem will be and, instead, let us show them how they can enhance their businesses with new technologies.