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Recent Managing Technology Articles

Rapid Transit

By Ramon Ray |  Sep 15, 1999

Need faster, cheaper Internet access without a T1 or an ISDN line? Here's a sampling of cable, DSL, and fixed wireless providers that can give you more speed...  Read more

You've Got Mailings

By Ilan Mochari |  Sep 15, 1999

To relieve the hassle of direct mailings, David Gerdner, sole proprietor of Next Generation Software, turned to ELetter, a Web-based direct-mail service.  Read more

Block that Megabyte

By Shane McLaughlin |  Sep 15, 1999

With increasing numbers of dancing babies, holiday greeting cards, and space games whizzing through cyberspace as E-mail attachments, servers across the c...  Read more

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

Housing Crisis

By Deborah Asbrand |  Sep 15, 1999

Considering bringing a substantial technology project in-house? First read how Market Insights' founders fell victim to poor planning, bad advice, finicky te...  Read more

Will High Online Customer Satisfaction Last?

Sep 6, 1999

While consumers are continuing to feel the bumps associated with the relatively new online shopping experience, overall they're happy. Many more Americans...  Read more

Seeing the Light

By George Gendron |  Sep 1, 1999

Don Dennis, president and CEO of AVT Inc., in Littleton, Colo., said he was a "total non-believer" in E-commerce until recently. The General Electric vete...  Read more

The Real Legacy of Spring Street Brewing

By Susan Greco |  Sep 1, 1999

Thinking about doing your own public offering on the Net? Not so fast. Read the story behind Spring Street Brewing Co., the most celebrated direct public off...  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

Gates and the People Who Hate Him

Sep 1, 1999

The Plot to Get Bill Gates by Gary Rivlin. Random House, 360 pages, $25. For some, he's a brilliant visionary; for others, a monop...  Read more

Secrets to Wooing Your Online Customers

Aug 23, 1999

Wanna know how to keep customers loyal to your e-commerce Web site? Well, NFO Interactive might have the answers you're looking for. According to NFO, con...  Read more

Choosing Accounting Software

By Michael Pellecchia |  Aug 15, 1999

Here's what you need to consider when choosing accounting software: Auditing features. These might include a map mode, an...  Read more

E-tailers Losing E-Consumers with Poor Navigation

Aug 2, 1999

E-tailers need to shape up their Web sites and improve navigation if they're going to retain customers, according to a recent survey by NetSmart. A...  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

Tactics for Turning Web Browsers into Buyers

Jul 5, 1999

Recent studies have shown that only about half of the estimated 60 million people shopping online actually make purchases. NFO Interactive recently survey...  Read more

Forecast: Kids and Teens to Spend $1.3B Online in 2002

Jun 14, 1999

Kids (5-12) and teens (13-18) have become two of the largest growth sectors online, according to research by Jupiter Commmunications, with sales from this...  Read more

The Once and Future Traveler

By Hal Rosenbluth |  Jun 1, 1999

A travel-management expert describes how future technology might change the way we do work on the road.  Read more

Even a Child Can Do It

By Jim Sterne |  Jun 1, 1999

Building a fantastic Web site is incredibly simple, but it seems that very few companies manage to pull it off. Here's a list of the most commonly ignored ke...  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

Groupware Reality Check

By Christopher Caggiano |  May 1, 1999

Warren Puyarena, the information technology manager of Porter Keadle Moore, says the price of installing and maintaining a groupware system can be conside...  Read more

Five Technologies You Should Know About

By Aaron Spitzer |  May 1, 1999

Here are five technologies small business owners on the Web might want to track: XML (extensible markup language). XML lets W...  Read more

Don't Understand Networking? Learning Can Be Profitable

May 1, 1999

Getting Your Business Wired, by William E. Kilmer AMACOM, 220 pages, $24.95 As a small-business owner, you expect there's a profit w...  Read more

Netrepreneurs: A New Breed of Entrepreneur

By Mario Morino |  May 1, 1999

You can't help but be dazzled by the growth of digital industries these days, whether it's the stunning success of Read more

IT Outsourcing Can Be Profitable - or a Headache

May 1, 1999

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

E-Mail: Your E-Commerce Ally

By Bradley Feld |  May 1, 1999

As large and small companies alike turn to the Internet to sell products and services -- what is known as "e-commerce" -- entrepreneurs should be sure to ...  Read more

A Mother of a Board

By Marc Ballon |  Apr 27, 1999

GreenTree Nutrition and its founders Don Kendall and Eric Budin have some seriously golden contacts.The San Francisco-based company's quest to become ...  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