Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
LinkedIn just got another $13million; Are they ready for Verb Status?!?
I want to apologize for being out of touch again recently, but there are only so many things I can do at once. As I’ve mentioned before, I am an expert multi-tasking machine, with 10 browsers, four email accounts, three phone lines and three instant messenger accounts all going at once (along with the hyper [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Boston, IV General Posts, Innovation, LinkedIn, Software, Web2.0 by Jake Carey-Rand
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Too Good to Resist; Thanks Scott Adams!
No Comments » - Posted in Fun, IV General Posts, Linux by Jake Carey-Rand
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Does Innovative Innovation Still Exist?
How to really “Get Your Communications Off Life Support”
It seems that in the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable slowdown in innovative thinking within companies as it relates to IT. I realize that this is a strong statement and perhaps not everyone will agree with me. I’m OK with that, because I’m [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Google, IV General Posts, Innovation, Managed Services, Outsourcing, Productivity, Technology Planning by Jake Carey-Rand
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
FCC vs. the Center for Public Integrity
Previously, I have discussed the state of our domestic broadband offerings and the danger it poses to future generations’ ability to innovate and compete in the world market. Prices are high for services which are slow… and this is all compared to what you can get in Lithuania! In the process I directed your attention [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Broadband, FCC, IV General Posts, Internet, Law, Reference by Jake Carey-Rand
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Windows Vista: Top 10 for and against upgrading
Last May I discussed the importance of proper, thorough planning when considering your corporate software standards and the associated upgrades. Now that Windows Vista is fully available to corporations (with the consumer release only a week away), please keep in mind the importance of planning this out and review the total cost of upgrades and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IV General Posts, Microsoft, Software, Technology Planning, Technology Upgrades, Vista by Jake Carey-Rand
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
If the Kraft family won’t do it, then IV will have to…
As I woke up this morning there was an unusual feeling of peace and quiet about this great city of Boston I live in. Walking the dog around the block there weren’t any charred remains of cars, drunken college kids still celebrating or any sense that this is January in Boston (except that bitter wind [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Disaster Recovery, IV General Posts by Jake Carey-Rand
Sunday, January 21st, 2007
A Centralized Resource for Relevant Information
Are you experiencing information overload when trying to research a particular subject or project? What sort of information management system do you use to organize and direct your search towards the most appropriate result? There are times when I will put the direction of my search in the very capable hands of Google, however if [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IV General Posts, Productivity, Reference, Web2.0 by Jake Carey-Rand
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Determining your Vendors: Who will Walk the Talk for you?
Throughout my years of experience in channel building, management and development I have come across the good, the bad and the really, really ugly in vendors of all shapes and sizes. Some of them sell routers designed to work with cable/DSL modems, when you actually have full T1’s coming into your offices. Others develop Microsoft [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Channel, IV General Posts, Reference, Technology Planning, Vendor Relationships by Jake Carey-Rand
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
What exactly is a Channel Broker?
Yesterday I was reading through one of the 15 million RSS feeds I have set up in my reader, NetVibes. As you know, it is a full-time job to keep up with everything that is going on in the world of technology today. However, NetVibes has done a great job of at least filtering out [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Channel, IV General Posts, Vendor Relationships by Jake Carey-Rand
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
The iPhone (or whatever Cisco wants us to call it)
OK. I have to start by apologizing to all of our clients and partners who read this blog to gain some insight into today’s technology hot topics and how it affects their businesses. (Yes, I’m assuming what I write it at times useful to you… bear with me.) This post is meant for the techno-geek [...]
