Computer Support Blog

There are few sectors of business where the glass ceiling is more evident than the technology sector.  For whatever reason, women in executive level and high management positions are almost completely absent from the ranks of the tech sector.  Even as some companies in the tech sector work to change the disappointing way women are excluded from top positions, the companies that lead the charge of businesses that have women on their executive management team are always looking to put the best person in the available position.  For Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobile U.S.A., that meant hiring Claudia Nemat.

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There are so many options when it comes to USB flash drives that it is hard to decide what factor one ought to prioritize when choosing a flash drive.  There are so many options for those who want their USB flash drive to reflect their personality.  For sheer volume of information, Victorinox now offers a 1TB flash drive and many other flash drives appeal to consumers based upon their fast data transfer speeds.  But what about security?  When it comes to security, no one beats Ironkey for USB flash drives!

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The social network landscape continues to change.  With Facebook going public and changing their privacy policies and the rise of Google+, the media would almost have you forget there are any other social networks on the Internet!  Despite that perception, there are several other Internet social networks and many of them have benefits and intriguing aspects that the major social networks lack.  The differences in how the Internet social networks look, feel and operate are the result of each networks engineering department.  For Yammer, Kris Gale is the engineer in charge.

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With so many consumer electronics devices on the market, it is hard to find enough space to store all your gadgets, much less charge them all!  While technological growth has expanded incredibly fast over the past decade, housing requirements have not; the standards for the spacing and number of electrical devices in new buildings have not adjusted for the sheer volume of devices one might plug in these days.  Fortunately, for the tech savvy consumer who has a lot they need to recharge, there is the Chargepod.

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Every great idea in the tech sector requires good people to execute.  No matter how clever or constructive a concept is, without the right technical people to execute the plan, a business or ambitious idea will fail.  So when a number of influential individuals in finance, education and business began departing their lucrative careers to form the Khan Academy, some of their most important hiring choices involved staffing their technical support positions.  That made Marcia Lee an important hire for the Khan Academy.

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So far in computer technology, there remains one enduring truth about laptop computers.  It seems no matter how advanced laptop computers become, they all warm up and get so hot that one either needs to cool the laptop off quickly or risk damage to the chips and drives within.  Unfortunately, that means that almost immediately after investing in a new laptop computer, you are likely to need to buy a cooling peripheral.  Given that this is a pretty necessary expense, you might as well go with one of the best cooling products for laptop computers.  The Arctic Cooling Pad is a great way to keep your laptop computer cool!

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While the computer mouse is a pretty indispensible peripheral for computer users, with so many different types of computer mice on the market, it is hard for many companies to market a sophisticated computer mouse.  As the price of the basic computer mouse and even the basic optical mouse with scrollwheel has dropped, the higher end computer mouse companies have had to work much harder to sell users on their more expensive computer mice.  When Movea acquired Gyration, the maker of the Air Mouse line of premium computer mice, it seemed like continuing the Air Mouse line might be unprofitable.  But Bryan Hoadley has seamlessly integrated Gyration into the Movea family.

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Sometimes, the very best thing for a technology company is an outsider who understands the products and goals of the company, without necessarily understanding all of the intricacies of the business.  It takes a fairly daring company to grant a seat on the Board of Directors to an individual who has vision, but not business experience.  In the case of Sigma-Aldrich, one of the world’s leading scientific equipment manufacturers, the company took a calculated risk when it hired Rebecca M. Bergman directly to the Board.

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Because of how fast the technology sector adapts and changes, sometimes it is hard to remember how significant some of the overnight successes for companies truly were.  After all, one year the hot product is an iPad, the next year it is an Amazon Kindle Fire, the next year, the market explodes for an entirely different product.  Because the attention span of consumers is so short, you might have forgotten one of the most significant product releases in the last decade.  There have been sixty million of them sold since 2004.  Give up?  It’s the TomTom GPS navigation system.  The founder and CEO of TomTom is Harold Goddijn and he is one of the coolest businessmen around.

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Video cameras have become such a commonplace accessory built into laptop computers that many young people forget that they can still be freestanding units!  Far from the clunky video surveillance tools of the film era, new IP cameras use wireless networks to transmit streaming videos from the camera unit to a secure, central router.  This allows you to use video cameras with much more discretion than ever before.  That does not mean that you should not have a stylish video camera, though.  For the perfect blend of style and functionality, the Zonet IP Camera is the IP camera to buy.

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