Apr 22

Information technology professionals from around the region will descend on St. Louis April 30 for an IT conference designed to showcase the burgeoning IT scene in St. Louis.
The inaugural Gateway to Innovation Conference and Awards Gala will be chaired by Karlos Bledsoe, Internet Sales  a business unit leader at Edward Jones. Bledsoe said in a [...]

Apr 22

Capital Region business owners are feeling the pinch. Local gasoline prices have increased 53 cents over the past year to $3.45 a gallon, while diesel has risen from $1.46 to $4.40 a gallon, according to the American Automobile Association.
That’s more of a hit than in the rest of the country. Gasoline prices in the United [...]

Apr 21

Intel has launched what it believes are the world’s smallest processors, dubbed the Atom.
The x86 processors, formally codenamed Silverthorne and Diamondville, have been designed on new microarchitecture designed for low-power (MIDs) and and use10 times less power than its Celeron M chip.
They are built on Intel’s 45nm process and have a thermal design power [...]

Apr 21

Intel’s Silverthorne and Diamondville chips will be called Atom and the company’s Menlow platform for ultramobile computers will be renamed Centrino Atom when these products hit the market, according to a company spokesman.
The creation of the new processor brand sets the stage for the tiny, low-power chips’ upcoming release, and marks the opening salvo in [...]

Apr 21

The Internet’s leading standards bodies have joined forces to clarify a set of next-generation network transport specifications that critics warned could cause massive interoperability problems for service providers.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) formed a joint working group in February to reconsider a special transport network architecture the ITU [...]

Apr 21

Everywhere you turn nowadays, another company is targeting the Small and Medium Business (SMB) marketplace. SMBs are growing, and represent a segment of the IT market that has not been fully exploited by many, including open source software vendors that boasted early successes with large enterprises.
However, as vendors have learned, there have been obstacles to [...]

Apr 21

It’s possible to launch a successful Web startup with little money, especially if you shift your attention away from the business plan and focus on building a great Web application.
That was one of the many tips that attendees at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami heard on Friday for how to succeed as [...]

Apr 21

SMB EMail options improve

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E-mail: Can’t live without it, can’t stand the hassles. Is it any wonder many people rely on Instant Messaging for co-worker communications?
But old habits die hard, and IM doesn’t fit the work styles of many. Plus, e-mail was and probably still is the “killer app” for the majority of computer users today. Nothing will kill [...]

Apr 21

Savvy IT shops which encourage overlap between security and network administration have averted war ignited by recent efforts to merge the two groups.
Businesses that integrate security with networking produce more effective security measures, have a better view of users and can streamline network configurations.
But those companies which force the groups together based on the latest [...]

Apr 21

To say that strategy and technology are finally becoming interlinked in business is pure BS.
It has always been thus.
I’m certain that when the first cash-register salesman convinced the first general-store owner to buy a cash register, the sale went through because he was able to convince the owner that this new technology would improve the [...]