Entries by Kirill Bensonoff

IT Support and the Worker-Driven Tech Revolution

As you’d expect from an event with “consumer” right in the title, the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show kicking off Tuesday in Las Vegas isn’t particularly focused on business’s needs. But the business IT site Information Management has an interesting take on why enterprise should be paying attention to CES anyway. For one thing, a lot […]

IT Service Trends for 2013

Each year it sees like business processes, even for the smallest of enterprises, become more deeply enmeshed with technology. Here are three trends you’ll want to stay on top of this year. 1. Devices. Technology research firm Gartner predicts worldwide spending on devices—including PCs, smartphones, tablets and printers—will jump 6.3 percent to $66 billion in […]

Does Your Business Need An App?

Confucius once said that the inferior man knows what would sell, while the superior man knows what is right.  Any small business owner will tell you that it’s much easier to be the superior man, because it’s hard to pin down how to sell. What we do know is that technology often goes hand-in-hand with […]

BYOD: Reining in the Cost

We over here in tech land have often extolled the virtues of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Allowing your employees a certain modicum of freedom can go a long way in increasing their comfort and productivity.  However, this relatively new business practice can come with unforeseen costs. Originally, the phenomenon was coined the consumeration of […]

Vaulting the Language Barrier

Who are you talking to when you talk about your business? If you’re only creating materials in English, the answer is “not as many as you could be.” Whether it’s customers, material suppliers or potential partners, looking beyond the English-language market can make sense for all sorts of businesses. These days the fastest-growing markets for […]

Staying Safe This Holiday Shopping Season

It’s that time of year again.  Whenever you walk into a big box store you hear that music playing, people are ringing bells outside, and you’re looking for gifts online.  Now, more than ever one must be careful when making purchases.  However, you can thwart these thieves and scam artists hoping to cash in on […]

AT&T rolling out the SaaS

To most consumers, the Cloud is a place to have offsite storage.  To designers, it can be a place to dump data to free up more hardware for other things.  How about adding retail space to the list? AT&T is rolling out SaaS (Software as a Service) products to over three million of its small […]

Using Managed IT Services for Savings

We all know that you get what you pay for, right? You can’t expect to pay rock bottom wages and get the best employees, or spend next to nothing for a great office space. When it comes to technology, though, things are different. Some companies are still using old-fashioned software at a big up-front cost, […]

Three Habits of Successful IT Pros

Three Habits of Successful IT Pros 1. Keep Your Head in the Clouds Sounds like the opposite of what your mother use to tell you, but the Cloud is becoming increasing important. As more and more business professionals are becoming more tech savvy with individual device. However, more and more of these devices can now […]