Diss Connection
Inc.'s Road Warrior explains that while the Internet can keep you in touch with work no matter where you are, sometimes you have to pull the plug and relax. Read more
Managing Technology
Recent Managing Technology Articles
Room for One More?
The CEO of Jaffe Associates reviews DiskMapper, a graphical file-management software product. Read more
Best of Show
The president of Target Marketing reviews TRAQ-IT Tradeshow Software, a tool for planning, managing, and overseeing the exhaustive details of your company's ... Read more
Hey Web-ster, What's an FAQ?
If you're about to tackle the Internet, you should know these key terms and tools: Browser: A software package that allows you to access t... Read more
Want Them to Buy from Your Site? What's the Incentive?
If you're not offering incentives to your Web site visitors, you are missingout on several sales, especially impulse sales. Many Netizens have shortattent... Read more
Smog Lifters
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
Play Computer Games to Sharpen Skills
Sneaking in a daily round or two of Doom might actually help you run your business better, says Lewis Paine of Opta Food Ingredients, in Bedford, Mass. Th... Read more
Software That Cuts Legal Fees
When Munchkin, a $15 million designer and marketer of baby bottles and other products for infants, needed a secondinternational-distribution agreement, Ch... Read more
Screen Test: Separating Fact from Fiction Online
The Internet's greatest strength -- that anyone with a computer and a modem can make their voice heard on virtually any subject -- is also its greatest we... Read more
The Matchmaker
An anatomy of start-up Career Central, a matchmaker for companies and business school graduates. Includes CEO Jeffrey Hyman's business plan, financial strate... Read more
Y2K Survival Strategies
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
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
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
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
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
Inc. 's Road Warrior reviews two laptop cases that convert to portable offices. Read more
Personal Best
The president of Amicus Legal Staffing reviews LifePeak, a personal-achievement software product that helps users find balance in their lives through self-ev... Read more
Film Buffs
Eliminating paper in favor of space-saving digital storage isn't a new concept. The idea began in the 1930s with the advent of microfilm. Read more
While You Were Out
Here's how two companies purchased their voice-mail systems. Includes the options they faced, the cost of each system, and technical glitches that arose duri... Read more
Inner Beauties
Here's how Children's Orchard, a franchiser of children's discount stores, uses an intranet to alert franchisees to news about new products and unite them un... Read more
Three Companies, One Discipline
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
Darkest Hour
Ascent Solutions hired salespeople fresh out of college, knowing full well that they'd leave within a couple ofyears. But CEO Tim Meade never expected to ... Read more
Daddy, I Crashed the Company
In 1991 Stephen Smith's parents handed him the keys to Axxis, the audiovisual equipment rental company they had started out of their garage a decade earli... Read more
Upstarts: New-Biz Watch
A look at how Toby Lenk founded eToys.com, an online toy retailer that's taking lessons from Amazon.com. Plus, several shorter articles about the unlikely pr... Read more
Three Easy Pieces
Inc.'s editor summarizes three recent articles that provide original ideas about management. Read more
What's Hot: The Wired Traveler
A guide to books and Web sites devoted to helping you get work done while traveling. Resources include great pre-trip checklists and ways to solve common on-... Read more
Seller Door
An interview with Glen Meakem, CEO of FreeMarkets OnLine. Meakem explains why Internet commerce increases competition and rewards only the most efficiently r... Read more
Separate but Equal
The Internet is growing so huge and unwieldy, it's now extremely difficult for Web site merchants to attract the attention of buyers. Now, new software could... Read more
Fruit of the Loom
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
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
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Plug In and Play on the Internet
The cofounder and CEO of Select Design reviews Whistle InterJet, a machine that lets you easily connect your LAN to the Internet without a Web server, modem,... Read more
Just the Fax
Believe it or not, today's fax machine isn't a new technology. The first faxes traveled electronically over telegraph wires more than a century ago. Read more
