Posted by Philippe Creytens at 12:18
Jason Fried is one of the co-founders 37signals, a company active in web development with a more than an impressive track record. Applications such as Basecamp and Highrise with millions of users were developed by them. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:36
Many people in Europe still have their doubts about the power of social netwerks and media. Does a politician necessarily have to twitter about what he is doing that day? Are we really interested in what friends or strangers are publishing on their Facebook pages?
Big debate with advocates in favor and fierce opponents.
When we start to talk or think about using social media in a business environment, it even gets more difficult. By trial and error some innovative companies try to find added business value for their company in using these new forms of communication.
In any case, these days there are plenty of webinars, seminars and consultants that try to convince you to start using social media.
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Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:07
On a daily basis we get questions from our customers in Belgium and The Netherlands that start with “What is the best solution for…” followed by some business problem.
Whether it is about managing jobs applications, personnel files with receipts for company laptops or mobile phones, or sharing documents with external collaborators, clients are convinced that we can offer them cloud based solutions. Nevertheless they sometimes need a gentle push and some support from us to point them in the right direction towards a workable solution. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:48
3 is undoubtedly one of the more innovative mobile phone companies in the UK. They recently started to offer a Mifi router with car accessories that make it possible to hook up different internet enabled devices such as an iPad, iPod or laptops to the internet in your car.
Internet acces in your car
Sounds a bit weird? May be not. Most of the devices you carry along all day have options to access the internet through wifi but not through mobile 3G/UMTS. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:47
Until recently spreadsheets, word processing documents and presentations in Office or OpenOffice format were converted to Google Docs format when uploading them into Docs.
In January 2010 Google announced the possibility to save documents in their original file format in Google Docs. Not only graphics, but also pieces of code and original Word, Excel and Powerpoint files could now be saved in Docs. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:35
A couple of months ago Studio Brussel made international headlines with their tribute to Michael Jackson: Eternal Moonwalk. Everyone could add a clip with their version of a moonwalk.
Another example of viral marketing. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:21
Undoubtedly one of the greatest advantages of SaaS-solutions is that patches and updates become available to the end user with any intervention by that user.
Microsoft BPOS updates are tied to their release schedules of Exchange and Sharepoint products and are published on a quarterly basis. So BPOS users can know what will change and when. Because BPOS is closely used with Outlook and/or Office Microsoft users are not entirely freed from local updates.
Most of the times Google does not announce any functionalities prior to their actual release. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:07
During seminars or webinars small and medium size business owners ask us over and over: “Is the cloud safe?”.
With their reputation on the line Microsoft and Google will do everything necessary to prove that Microsoft Online Services and Google Apps are more secure and more reliable than most companies in-house IT.
From personal experience I can easily give you three examples of small businesses that ran into troubles with backups. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:02
I don’t think that I need to emphasize the importance of IT in business. However, in a lot of medium to large size companies their IT department has become a bottle neck for projects that marketing and sales people deem really necessary. In many cases they want to have their project sooner than later.
Being responsible for IT these days is not much fun: limited budgets, limited resources, difficulties in finding and hiring the right people, a tsunami of projects and project proposals and at the same time keep everything going. Keep Reading…
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:45
As Microsoft BPOS partner we often get asked how to configure the iPhone for use with Microsoft BPOS.
A piece of cake? Not convinced? Just watch this movie and you’ll have everything configured to read mail on your iPhone in less than 10 minutes.
