Renee Oricchio


Downtime - The Memorial Day Edition

Heading to the Beach? You probably don't need me to remind you to bring your sunscreen. But, it's not just you that needs protect...  Read story

Beware of Fake Emails From The BBB

The Internet bottomfeeders are at it, again! Apparantly, there's an email c...  Read story

Linux on Dell - Starting Today

After much anticipation and chatter, today's the first day you can actually get...  Read story

Linux on Dell - Starting Today

After much anticipation and chatter, today's the first day you can actually get...  Read story

Is Spam Toast?

Answer: maybe, looking good! The Internet Engineering Task Force , a leading internet standards body, h...  Read story

Being Green Just Got Easier

Computers, printers, laptops, monitors don't come cheap when brand new. But when it's time to upgrade to the next model, you can't give 'em away. Read story

This Just In: FedEx Still Relevant

When we left off on Friday, I was blathering on about terabytes. It's Monday and I'm going to blather some more. I ran Read story

What Bill Said

To be exact, at his keynote address at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Read story

eBay Sellers Get a Raise

It's hard to imagine there is anyone left on the planet who isn't a registered eBay user. But for those two or three people left, eBay is willing to pay t...  Read story

GPS For a Rainy Day

It's just so nutty, it just might work. This just in from Japan: the wired umbrella. And, I don't mean those little bracing wires that flip out the other ...  Read story

Pump up The Traffic

Looking for ways to attract more eyeballs to your company blog? Hot off the presses (what would be the online metaphor for that?)... the Read story

Factoring in the Lifespan of Your Products

I've been thinking about the average lifespan of common items all morning. What set me off, you ask? Thank you for asking. It was this Read story

Weekend Bytes

Who says Microsoft doesn't have a sense of humor... This is why I love youtube and other similar sites. Mic...  Read story

How web saavy is your customer base?

As well as you think you know 'em - think again, while I share with you this insightful tale. I have a friend who is a veteran IT professional. S...  Read story

How Green is my (Silicon) Valley?

Cheers to tech! One by one, they seem to be getting it. Hardly a day goes by without another press release or two announcing new intiatives to go gree...  Read story

First Peek at New Google Print Ads

This comes courtesy Marketing Pilgram , who somehow got hold of Read story

Weighing Connectivity Options

Cost isn't the only consideration when choosing how to connect to the Internet. Here's some advice on what business owners should think about besides price.  Read story

Making Cell Phone Usage Pay Off

Relying on employees to have their own mobile devices and plans, and letting them expense their business usage, can be expensive. To avoid the high costs, bu...  Read story

A Modest Proposal

It's so simple, there's got to be a good reason why it just wouldn't work. Mikko Hypponen, a chief research officer at F-Secure Corp. in Helsinki, Read story

How Do You Like Your New Microsoft Hotmail?

Yup, I barely noticed either. The new Windows Live Hotmail is officially out of beta today (18 months later). I switched over to check it out and, yes, th...  Read story

Strange, But True Bytes

What happens in Athens, stays in Athens? We recognize that the Read story

New Vista on Old Hardware

If you haven't heard enough about Microsoft Vista (the latest Windows version released back in January) to make you cling to your XP ver...  Read story

Two Cautionary Tales

The June issue of Business 2.0 Magazine will make it to newstands and subscribers on time. Why is that news? Because, it almost didn't. Just two ...  Read story

Lost in Time With iGoogle

Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa! Okay, so IRead story

New gadgets out the ears - literally

This is a gizmo you just have to see. It's out of Japan, of course. It's the latest development in earbud technology - an earbud that is also a microphone...  Read story

Fiber Optic Networks - A Hacker's Dream?

Say it isn't so! While fiber optic wiring rolls out around the country one building at a time to businesses clamouring for what has been heralded as the f...  Read story

Have you Googled yourself lately?

So many companies forget to do this once in awhile: check your rankings in the search engines. And not just with Google , of course! You should be...  Read story

Blackberry Goes Global

If you're one of those Blackberry users that gets twitchy everytime you take a meeting abroad and lose service, well good news for you. Your twitching day...  Read story

When Technology Lays An Egg

It's never pretty and it's always expensive (but the launch parties are always great!). I can't resist jumping in on this one. ComputerworldRead story

Would You Like Charts With That?

Google can now accomodate you on that one. Following last week's ...  Read story

HP's New Printer - So Ink Efficient, Not For Sale

Yes, you read that correctly! Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new line of high-end inkjet printers for the business market called Edgeline , only...  Read story

Blackberry on Your Windows Mobile 6 Handheld

It didn't work out so well on Windows Mobile 5 devices, but RIM and Microsoft are trying to make a go of it again. This time ju...  Read story

Weekend Bytes

Here's some fun little tidbits to get you through the weekend. We'll get back to business on Monday. Did Anyone see Lost this pa...  Read story

Dell Has Heard Your Cries

Does anybody besides Bill Gates like Vista ? Apparantly, enough Dell customers don't and the folks in Round Rock, Texas get it! The new <...  Read story

Are You Worried About Sarbanes-Oxley?

A lot of companies are sweating it out right now, since this is the year that smaller public companies are required to meet compliance. And compliance to ...  Read story

Black(berry) Wednesday

Que Horrible! The unthinkable happened last night. Blackberry's e-mail service provided by RIM (Research in Motion) went down about 8pm ...  Read story

An Online Goodie Bag From The Web 2.0 Expo

Today's the last day at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco . In other words, right about now, conference- goers have ...  Read story

Apple Bytes

Time is money and I'm sure you Mac folks would prefer not to waste it watching that little pinwheel spin round and round.... and round some more. While so...  Read story

Intel's At It Again

Good Morning, Bejiing! Big news today (tomorrow there already) out of the Intel Developer Forum, where Intel decided to unveil it's Read story

Your Corporate Web Site on Their Handheld

Think about that for a minute and just how that might look. Uh huh, thought so. Don't feel bad. It's a notion slowly dawning on many business owners right...  Read story