Presence, a recently launched smartphone application from Mesa-based People Power, is the first free wireless Web camera made by recycling old smartphones or mobile devices as cameras, which can be used as monitoring devices. Users include the City of Globe’s school district, which uses smartphones donated by the residents as an affordable measure to maintain security … [More]
Business Advice in All Industries
A UK company has come up with a way to get business advice online for free. GuruOnline, a “video network” of clips on advice for every business situation from regions around the world. Members can access for fast and relevant answers to their business questions. … [More]
Counterfeit Software Hurts
A survey by Microsoft and IDC looked at the effects of malware and counterfeit software that infect computers. The study finds that time and costs are significant. Visit the site to see the results and learn more as one in three consumer PCs will be infected by malware in 2013, and consumers will waste $22 billion and 1.5 billion hours dealing with security issues from … [More]
Get IT $avvy
Baseline is a website that helps tech managers and business executives work together to understand and find the ROI in IT. Baselinemag.com provides valuable information on all areas of IT through articles, latest technologies and reports to help build business. With content organized for easy, intuitive search, this site is known for truly bringing an understanding of IT and … [More]
Evernote Does Everything
An app, Evernote claims it can help you remember everything. In business, that is a real plus. With Evernote, all of a user’s notes, Web clips, files and images are made available on all of his or her computers and devices. Reference to all that one does, stores awnd schedules is right at one’s fingertips. … [More]
Microsoft Biz Hub
Microsoft’s Business Hub is dedicated to helping small business thrive through business products, support and resources. Microsoft is supporting the Braddock’s Procurement Opportunities Guide online as an e-Guide. A key tool in helping small businesses secure government contracts, it provides information on how to compete with large corporations. … [More]
Healthcare Cost Calculator
The new healthcare reform law allows small businesses to purchase healthcare coverage at group rates from the new Health Insurance Exchanges and provides significant tax credits to help small businesses pay for this coverage. Businesses can use the link below to find out how they will be affected by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. … [More]
Knowing Asian Business
Asiagate, a leader in Asian corporate credit information, offers members a one-stop shop for Asian business intelligence with a dozen national credit information agencies across Asia to provide a searchable database of nearly 13 million business records, from China to Vietnam, for those doing global business in that region. Membership fees apply. … [More]
Visualize This: FIRE & ICEE
Colliers International, a leading commercial real estate firm in the Valley, offers a series of videos on our local market. The “Colliers Market Insight” videos are relevant commentaries on the latest market trends and insights by Bob Mulhern, managing director for Greater Phoenix. To sign up for these weekly videos and market information, visit www.colliers.com. … [More]
Technology in Practice
While new technology is blamed as a reason affordable healthcare seems a thing of the past, some Arizona organizations are using such innovations to make medical care accessible on a number of fronts: patient records available immediately, links between rural physicians and urban specialists, use of wireless devices that even patients can afford, and, yes, a life-saving … [More]
Bytes: February 2013
Find More Like This A new, simple-to-use website helps find business books and articles with its “what business books to read” search engine. Have a problem? Curiosity piqued about something read elsewhere? Copy content (up to 10,000 words) into the search box and Epi-Biz will do the rest. It is a free service by the Institute for the Study of Coherence and … [More]
Council Launched to Address Fraud, Security and Identity Theft in Digital Age
Identity theft comes in many unexpected guises that can harm a business, a realization that prompted LifeLock to sponsor the recently launched Council for Identity Protection. Says Todd Davis, chairman and CEO of LifeLock, “It is our belief that challenges in the digital age are not independent, but must be viewed with a more integrated view of the problem and ultimate … [More]
On-demand Mobile App Testing
Mobile apps have become a hugely popular way for businesses to attract, engage and retain customers, but testing the apps for usability can be an equally huge process and expense. Offering an alternative to the traditional lengthy and costly testing that has been recognized as “best practices” but often prohibitive for any but the major companies, UserTesting recently added … [More]
Touchscreen Innovation in Airport Dining
HMSHost debuted the latest innovation in its dining service — Presto tablet, a table-top touchscreen that lets diners order and pay for their meals quickly and conveniently — at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. “We wanted to test it out in an airport where management is open to new ideas. … Also, this is one of the busiest terminals,” says Paul Mamalian, chief … [More]
Rx: When a Website Needs Surgery
... So the guy stands there with his mouth agape and says, “But Doc, why do you have to operate on my foot? The splinter is in my finger!” What does this punch line have to do with fashioning a successful website? Its underlying lesson applies to about 80 percent of people who can’t figure out why their website doesn’t “work.” Pretend your website is the patient in my … [More]
Matt Widdows: Advancing Real Estate through Technology
When it comes to technology and the many ways it can help real estate agents do their jobs better and more efficiently, Matt Widdows, founder and chairman of HomeSmart International, is a true visionary. Even before he opened his Phoenix-based company in January, 2000, Widdows recognized the need for better technology in the real estate business. “I saw a lack of technology … [More]
Bytes: July 2012
Home-grown Alphastripe.com This global online network is exclusively for members of the military, their families, humanitarian organizations and civilians to share their war-time stories and connect in one place from around the globe. ASU students and co-founders Eli Chmouni and Pete Chinnici created this social network that has launched its beta site. … [More]
Security and Technology: The Growing Risk of Compromised Data
There’s no disputing a company’s data is as valued as its best worker. But that “best worker” employee could be the source of data being compromised. Hunter Bennett, vice president of managed hosting of Scottsdale-based OneNeck IT Services, offers this rundown of risks that are too close to home for any business: internal breaches from employees (70 percent of security … [More]
