Archive for the 'Productivity' Category

A Day Without Email

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Where do I sign up?

Can you go a day at the office without e-mail? Employees at U.S. Cellular try to do that every Friday. A policy implemented a few years ago gives workers a respite from the e-mail avalanche.

An E-Mail Vacation: Taking Fridays Off : NPR

Google Sites for everyone: GeoCities 2.0?

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Google announced on its official blog late Wednesday that Google Sites, its simplified Web site creation service, is now available to any registered Google user.

Google Sites for everyone: GeoCities 2.0? | The Social - CNET News.com

iPass to add in-flight Wi-Fi roaming

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Mobile Internet aggregator iPass it teaming up with in-flight broadband provider Aircell to give its customers access to broadband on planes.

On Tuesday, iPass announced that it would offer Wi-Fi roaming with Aircell Gogo, an in-flight broadband service expected to launch soon in the United States. Aircell's service is expected later this year on American Airlines and Virgin America.

iPass to add in-flight Wi-Fi roaming | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Over 50% of companies have fired workers for e-mail, Net abuse

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

A new survey found that more than a quarter of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and one third have fired workers for misusing the Internet on the job.

Over 50% of companies have fired workers for e-mail, Net abuse

Mozilla Offering Live Chat Support for Firefox

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Mozilla Corp. has been quietly offering live Web support for the Firefox Web browser since the beginning of the year. It is one of the open-source group's experiments in improving the user experience and woo more of them from Microsoft Corp.'s still-dominant Internet Explorer.

Mozilla Offering Live Chat Support for Firefox - New York Times

Don't Let Outlook Express Get Too Big!

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

The problem with a huge Inbox, besides the fact that you can't find anything, is a size limit to Outlook Express and once Outlook Express gets to the size limit, well, goodbye to your email!

Don't Let Outlook Express Get Too Big!

Service Outage Gives BlackBerry a Black Eye

Friday, February 15th, 2008

The second lengthy BlackBerry outage in less than a year has one consulting company advising clients not to rely solely on the popular smart phones for critical e-mail messages.

PC World - Business Center: Service Outage Gives BlackBerry a Black Eye

eBay sellers to be banned from criticizing buyers

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

In a move to curtail retaliation by vengeful sellers in its feedback system, eBay plans to prohibit sellers from posting negative feedback about their customers.

eBay sellers to be banned from criticizing buyers | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Sick of Vista? You can go back!

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Some people find themselves unhappy with the Vista operating system. If you are one of them, good news! You can downgrade, and best of all, for free! If you find yourself needing to do this, but are uncomfortable with the steps, please feel free to contact us here at Help with A Smile.
Ditching Vista: How To Downgrade To Windows XP - Yahoo! News

Will Google Docs be available offline soon?

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Looks like Google is hard at work on offline access to Google Docs. Google Blogoscoped has screenshots of what looks like the beginnings of such a service.

Google Docs going offline soon? | Tech news blog - CNET News.com