Today’s a significant anniversary in the history of recorded music: the world’s first CD players were announced in Japan on October 1st, 1982. via The CD is 30 years old today | whathifi.com.

Windows 8 will fail in the enterprise because of the “big gamble” Microsoft took in designing it more for tablets than traditional PCs. So warns Gartner, which adds that the operating system will never get more than 20% to 25% of the enterprise market. Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Steve Kleynhan wrote in a research […]

Computerworld – A security researcher known for finding Java bugs has uncovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all currently-supported versions of the popular Oracle software.The bug, which was publicly reported on the Full Disclosure security mailing list Tuesday by Adam Gowdiak, the founder and CEO of Polish security firm Security Explorations, can be leveraged […]

  Here’s a really great article in MSPmentor. If you are an online backup service provider, read this for some good statistics on just how expensive tape backups can be. Use it in your marketing and sales.

Back on April 14 I told you a funny story about one of my competitors who had a little trouble with Google Voice. It was hilarious. Well, now they called back again, trying to sell us their inferior software from a faraway country, well, I mean far from the USA.

Oh poor Carbonite. Everyone beating up on them. Stock price tumbling. Now they can’t say “unlimited” anymore in the UK. But this time I am going to stand up for them.

Like most businesses I employ sales people. Some of them make phone calls all day long to businesses that we think might like to offer Online Backup Services using our software. Once a week or so someone we call gets all snarky and says, “We don’t need your software. We wrote our own.”

Many people may think offering discounts, free services or other monetary incentives will keep their customers happy. The truth is that it takes a whole lot more than simple discounts to keep customer loyalty high. While there are various ways to build customer loyalty, below are three actionable components to help retain your customer base. […]

OK, use Google the way it’s supposed to be used – as a search engine, not as your personal bookmarks page or a phone book or 411 when you can’t remember a website’s URL.

Parody on HPs Cloud Computing Announcement. Very funny. http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-on-that-cloud-thing-that-everyone-else-is-talki,28789/  

We finally have authoritative details on the automatic backup system built into Windows 8. Called “File History,” the feature is far less capable than many of us thought it would be. The big news is that it WILL NOT do online backups.