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Things We Love

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Sep 15, 1999

Last year Karl Meyer, the founder of Gentle Giant Studios, a maker of toys and 3-D models for the film and television industry, got a call from Lucas Lice...  Read more

The Show Must Go On

By Mie-Yun Lee |  Sep 15, 1999

Lightweight and affordable, LCD projectors can maximize the effectiveness of your computer-generated presentations.  Read more

Intranet Training Requires Careful Design

Sep 1, 1999

Designing a training program for the company intranet takes more than trying to adapt your old stand-up program to the computer age. First, be clea...  Read more

Is Your Company Web Site Turning Candidates Away?

Sep 1, 1999

Most corporate job sites are failing at one important goal: they make it difficult for candidates to apply for positions online. As a result, companies ar...  Read more

Big-Time IT for Small Companies

By Ilan Mochari |  Aug 1, 1999

A few start-ups are teaming up with tech-industry veterans to help small companies rent high-powered software that they previously could not afford.  Read more

Antiques Road Show

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jun 1, 1999

Inc. 's Road Warrior goes really wireless, ditching his laptop for a 1916 foldable, portable Corona typewriter.  Read more

Packing IT In

By Andrew Raskin |  Jun 1, 1999

Four CEOs share their tactics for on-the-road productivity. Includes tips on avoiding airport hang-ups, dealing with hotel inadequacies, cutting costs, and m...  Read more

Coffee, Tea or Formula?

By Joshua D. Macht |  Jun 1, 1999

A growing number of road warriors are recapturing lost family time by bringing their children along on business trips. Here are some of the keys to successfu...  Read more

Movable Least

By Claire Tristram |  Jun 1, 1999

Jeff Cable of Paragon Software reveals how he dramatically reduced the amount his company spends on telecommunications, technical support, and hardware.  Read more

Remote Control

By Anne Field |  Jun 1, 1999

To support rapid expansion, John Harvard's Brew House implemented Connect:Remote, communications software that automatically retrieves sales data from satell...  Read more

No Strings Attached

By Ramon Ray |  Jun 1, 1999

With recent improvements in transmission speeds, wireless local area networks are becoming a viable option for companies that need a LAN but don't want to wi...  Read more

The Web Site: Everyone's New Public Face

By Leigh Buchanan |  May 15, 1999

For 200,000 years human beings functioned in the physical and mental realms and--innocents that we were--figured that was good enough. Then in 1989 Tim Be...  Read more

IT Outsourcing Can Be Profitable - or a Headache

May 1, 1999

Here's how to strike a mutually beneficial partnership.  Read more

Earn Your Degree in Cyberspace

By Robin Taylor Parets |  Apr 22, 1999

After spending several years in college, most students eagerly await graduation ceremonies. There's a lot to look forward to. Not only do they receive a h...  Read more

Upstarts: Offices-to-Go

By Edward O. Welles |  Apr 1, 1999

An overview of Laptop Lane, a Seattle-based start-up providing by-the-minute office space and computer hook-ups in airports. Plus: a travel expert rates vari...  Read more

The What, Why, and How of Tomorrow's Technology

Mar 1, 1999

When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld Henry Holt and Company, 225 pages, $25. "The future of computing," writ...  Read more

Rent-an-Intranet

By David Raths |  Mar 1, 1999

It's not easy keeping up with Jade Bourelle. The president of two-year-old Teleskill Human Resource Solutions Inc. travels constantly among his offices in...  Read more

E-Poll Results: Do You Need a Technology-Use Policy?

By Inc. staff |  Mar 1, 1999

Readers respond to a poll from Inc. Technology #4, 1998. The verdict? Many small-company owners are creating technology-use policies because they've been bur...  Read more

Little Giant

By William R. Pape |  Mar 1, 1999

Web design firm USWeb/CKS grew at an astonishing rate by gobbling up existing businesses. Now it's using technology to keep its far-flung components all work...  Read more

Picture This

By M. Frances Sponer |  Mar 1, 1999

The president and CEO of Ascentra reviews a video communication system from C-Phone Corp.  Read more

Castles in the Air

By Gerard J. Holzmann |  Mar 1, 1999

Today's firewall software is comparable to the security systems of ancient castles--it assesses the characteristics of an individual, and then grants or deni...  Read more

Smog Lifters

By Shane McLaughlin |  Jan 1, 1999

There are people out there who are even more information deluged than you are. Eleven of the smartest--and most beleaguered--reveal their personal regimens f...  Read more

Y2K Survival Strategies

By Mike Hofman |  Dec 1, 1998

Mark Hebenstreit is a toy maker, not a tech guy. But he knows he hasn't done enough thinking about the millennium bug. "I'm almost embarrassed because I'm...  Read more

Y2K Toolbox

By Joshua D. Macht |  Dec 1, 1998

The Internet is Y2K Central, and book publishers have unleashed a flood of advice on how to prepare for the new millennium. Web SitesRead more

Update 2000

By Inc. staff |  Dec 1, 1998

A collection of short articles about the Y2K problem. Includes an interview with Millennium Bug guru Ed Yardeni; the solutions five CEOs came up with on thei...  Read more

Keep the Home Wires Burning

By Tim Celeski |  Dec 1, 1998

The president of Tim Celeski Studios reviews PassPort Plug-in Network, a hardware product that allows users to network PCs and printers through standard elec...  Read more

In the Cards

By Andrew Raskin |  Dec 1, 1998

Here's how smart cards--plastic cards that store information on an internal microchip--can help small companies learn about their customers' purchasing behav...  Read more

The Bag Man

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Dec 1, 1998

Inc. 's Road Warrior reviews two laptop cases that convert to portable offices.  Read more

Three Companies, One Discipline

By Jerry Useem |  Oct 15, 1998

By utilizing technology and mental discipline, CEO John Litwinka is able to run three companies simultaneously, including this year's Inc. 500 winne...  Read more

Fruit of the Loom

By C. Rodolfo Celis |  Sep 15, 1998

The co-owner of the Virtual Loom describes how he helped his mother, a textile designer, use graphic-design software to simplify how she gives presentations ...  Read more

A Motherboard's Love

By Emily Esterson |  Sep 15, 1998

In the future, PCs, like presidents, may be able to feel your pain. Or at least they'll recognize it, thanks to new software that lets computers observe a...  Read more

The Buying Game

By Leigh Buchanan |  Jun 15, 1998

Many business owners make poor decisions when they purchase information technology, wasting money on products they'll never use or need. Here's how to avoid ...  Read more

Paradise by the Dashboard Lighter

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jun 15, 1998

Inc.'s Road Warrior reviews the Tripp Lite PowerVerter Ultra Compact Inverter, a box that allows you to power your laptop--as well as other electrical device...  Read more

Criminal Record

By Shane McLaughlin |  Jun 1, 1998

Comdex brings to the Sands Expo Center, in Las Vegas, a lot of expensive computer equipment and a lot of opportunities for crime. So Frank Strocchia, whos...  Read more

Good Apples

By Shane McLaughlin |  Mar 17, 1998

Considering technology's rapid advances and built-in obsolescence, it's pretty amazing when a computer company ben...  Read more