Managing Technology


Recent Managing Technology Articles

Smarter Network Setup Stops Surges

Jan 1, 1998

Sheila Skolnick thought she had plenty of protection. Surge protection, that is. The owner of Elite Companies, an $18-million hotel-supplies company in Se...  Read more

Update Your Virus-Protection Software

Jan 1, 1998

For years now, Alex Haddox, of the Symantec Antivirus Research Center, in Santa Monica, Calif., has studied the devastating effect of boot-sector viruses....  Read more

Protect Your Computers: It's Worth the Price

Jan 1, 1998

Computer security isn't always expensive. Break-ins usually are. Simson Garfinkel, author of Practical UNIX and Internet Security (O'Reilly, 800-...  Read more

" Face-to-Face, Almost"

Jan 1, 1998

Do your salespeople hop on and off airplanes as much as most people get in and out of bed? Videoconferencing may be the answer to your sales expense-accou...  Read more

Safe Passage

By Alan Joch |  Dec 15, 1997

How to make financial transactions secure on your Web site. A look at the technology, registering with certification authorities, and digital cash as an alte...  Read more

Data Duty

By Dan Caulfield |  Dec 15, 1997

The founder of Hire Quality recounts how he turned his business around by learning to manage information instead of people.  Read more

Have It Your Way

By Sarah Schafer |  Dec 15, 1997

Mass customization is a popular trend in the business-to-business arena. Read how manufacturing and communications technology have allowed small companies to...  Read more

Tales from the Encrypt

By Gerard J. Holzmann |  Dec 15, 1997

Safeguarding computer information from unprivileged eyes isn't a new concept. Encryption devices were invented by the Ancient Greeks and Thomas Jefferson.  Read more

Adventures in Never NeverLost Land

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Dec 15, 1997

Inc.'s Road Warrior abandons maps in favor of the NeverLost global positioning system available in Hertz rental cars.  Read more

Zero Zero Hour

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 15, 1997

The year 2000 bug will affect your computers no matter how small your business is. A look at some methods for testing your systems and the costs you can expe...  Read more

Joined at the Chip

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 15, 1997

Everyone's computers may be affected by the Millennium Bug, from corporate giants to small businesses. Here are some tips for protecting your company from a ...  Read more

Case Studies

By Emily Esterson |  Dec 15, 1997

Laptop schleppers are a demanding lot. While Silicon Valley engineers rack their brains to create a better, faster mobile computer, their customers are mo...  Read more

Outer Resources

By Anne Field |  Dec 15, 1997

A look at two companies, Air Taser and CFData, that became successful largely because they outsourced the technology-intensive aspects of their businesses.  Read more

Uneasy Rider

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 15, 1997

John Healy, CEO of Coventry Spares Ltd., realized that the year 2000 bug would paralyze his antiquated computer system. Here's how he brought his motorcycle-...  Read more

Network

By Inc. staff |  Dec 15, 1997

Inc. Technology readers react to past articles, including Leigh Buchanan's, "Tick...tick...," John Grossmann's "Efficiency Experts," and Jeff Seglin's "Where...  Read more

Surfer's Paradise

By Russ Baker |  Nov 1, 1997

A beginner's guide to using the Internet. Includes tips for finding useful information, definitions to common terms, and suggested sites.  Read more

A Meeting of Minds

By William R. Pape |  Sep 15, 1997

How to run a virtual meeting that will treat all participants as if they were in the same room.  Read more

The Right Stuff

By Bob Bruce |  Sep 15, 1997

A business owner reviews a software package that helps search the Internet for information without getting junk.  Read more

Moving Presentations

By Judith Nitsch |  Sep 15, 1997

The president of a civil engineering firm reviews an animation software package.  Read more

Tick...tick...

By Leigh Buchanan |  Sep 15, 1997

Inc. Technology's editor gives readers her thoughts on the CEO's greatest enemy--time.  Read more

Timing's Everything

By Allison Rosson |  Sep 15, 1997

A CEO recounts how she brought computers online in her office in a short amount of time and how you can do the same.  Read more

Power Struggle

By Cary Lu |  Sep 15, 1997

A technology expert explains how reducing the power a computer needs would truly make it portable.  Read more

Wherever You Go, There You Are

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Sep 15, 1997

Inc. magazine's executive editor shares with readers his thoughts on E-mail and how it can be improved.  Read more

Air Waves

By Andrew Petrehn |  Sep 15, 1997

The president and pilot of a hot-air ballon firm tells how he is using technology, both aloft and on the ground.  Read more

E-Mail Talkies

By Garry Kvistad |  Sep 15, 1997

A CEO reviews a video software package, which he likes, but not as a sales tool.  Read more

Push 'Em Back

By David B. Sicilia |  Sep 15, 1997

A look at the early history of pushtechnology that started with stock market ticker tape machines.  Read more

Good Cheap Data

By Susan Greco |  Aug 1, 1997

Here's how you can build a powerful marketing database at bargain-basement prices.  Read more

Group Insurance

By William R. Pape |  Jun 15, 1997

A former CIO explains how virtual teams can quickly gather information for even your most far-flung staffers.  Read more

Grand Illusions

By Moe Meyerson |  Jun 15, 1997

A middle manager's lighthearted look at why intranets are great for sharing inaccurate information.  Read more

Good Vibrations

By Alex Palermo |  Jun 15, 1997

An online psychic explains how he is using technology to predict the future, talk with the dead, and track customers.  Read more

Interfacing the Facts

By Alan Joch |  Jun 15, 1997

A technology expert wonders if the next universal desktop will be easy to use, and tells why ease-of-use is important.  Read more

Future Computing

By Gary A. Taubes |  Jun 15, 1997

The ultimate business software is here, but you'll have to wait about 10 years to run it.  Read more

Mission Impossible?

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jun 15, 1997

An executive editor at Inc. declares the Road Warrior mission: Manufacturers, make things work!  Read more

Is Your Data Safe?

By Sarah Schafer |  Jun 15, 1997

Tips and suggestions for choosing the best security for your company's computer system.  Read more

Wee Windows Computer

By David Abrahamson |  Jun 15, 1997

A U.S. Army major reviews a handheld device that works in the Windows environment, but that may cramp your style.  Read more