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Small Dog Electronics — New England’s Largest Apple Specialist

Posted on February 28, 2012 by | Leave a comment

 

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Small Dog Electronics provides us with an Apple Expert every Sunday at 5:30pm to answer your questions about everything and anything Apple. If you have a question, visit WGIR/AM or 96.7 The Wave and fill out the form.  You can listen live to our segments at WGIR AM 610 or 96.7 FM the Wave

Small Dog Electronics is New England’s largest Apple Specialist with over 16 tears of experience selling and servicing the complete Apple line. They share their passion for technology by providing the most personable, dependable and complete Apple shopping, training and support experience.

Their headquarters is in Waitsfield, Vermont.  Their three retail stores are located in Manchester, New Hampshire at the Mall of New Hampshire, and South Burlington and Waitsfield, Vermont. Their website, www.smalldog.com, features close to 3,000 products for the Mac or PC enthusiast.

Socially responsible, they are incredibly motivated by the triple bottom line: people, planet and profit. The effect they have on their community, environment, customers and employees factors into the equation they call “success.”

They offer complete solutions for businesses, regardless of platform, including systems analysis, sales and implementation, as well as training, technical support, maintenance and repair. Small Dog Consultants can provide on-site or remote support including troubleshooting, training, delivery, set-up and education on your new equipment.

Each of their three locations offers complete Apple repair services by Certified Apple Technicians. Services include data transfers, back-ups, data recovery, file system repair, software installations and more.

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The best bits from the “Steve Jobs” Biography

Posted on October 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment
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CNN has done a great job putting together a summary of the book outlining Steve Jobs‘ life.  To quote from the article:

“Steve Jobs,’ the biography of the late tech visionary that went on sale Monday, has already produced plenty of headlines: How Jobs met his birth father without knowing who he was, how he swore bitter revenge on Google for developing its competing Android system, and how he waited too long after his cancer diagnosis to get surgery that might have saved him.

“But the 656-page book by hand-picked biographer Walter Isaacson also contains a wealth of smaller, but no less telling, details about the brilliant but difficult Apple co-founder.

“Taken together, they build an illuminating portrait of a charismatic, complicated figure who could inspire people one minute and demean them the next. Even on their own, many of these snippets are still fascinating glimpses into an extraordinary life.

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Manage and Secure Business Mobile Infrastructure

Posted on October 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Jamie Barnett a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Zenprise joins Craig to discuss how businesses can manage and secure their mobile infrastructure and transform enterprise mobility into a competitive business advantage.

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Zenprise® MobileManager™ software is the first all-in-one platform with monitoring, device management, security and expense management for BlackBerry, Google Android, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Symbian and Windows Mobile.

Proven Mobile Device Management: Whatever Device You Have, We Secure It.

  • Effectively manages and monitors company- and employee-owned smartphones from a single dashboard
  • Get an overall snapshot of smaprtphone operations, with breakdown by device and carrier
  • Automatically ‘discovers’ your entire mobile infrastructure
  • Dynamically discovers new or upgraded servers, smartphones or applications as they are deployed
  • Manages and secures the full mobile lifecycle: BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad , Google Android, Windows Mobile and Palm devices
  • Provides a full-service Web dashboard for centralized control of employee-liable and corporate-liable smartphones and their platforms
  • Repairs smartphone problems remotely to minimize user down-time and improve help desk productivity
  • Embeds an Expert Knowledge base of 6,500 problem resolution workflows for rapid troubleshooting and remediation
  • Provides proactive 24×7 monitoring and automated alerts to protect smartphone users from availability and/or performance problems
  • Enforces security and management policies at both device-owner and department/group levels
  • Enables auto-configuration of password policies on all devices, including length, complexity and encryption
  • Proactively controls and monitors mobile expenses to limit unexpected costs

Mobile Productivity Regardless of Device or Location

  • Manage, monitor and secure your organization’s smartphones.
  • End-to-end visibility into both smartphone-specific issues and back-end network or server issues ensures mobile employees stay productive, wherever they are located.
  • Roles-based views provide each support team with instant access to the tools and information they need to get the job done right.
  • Users are more productive, the mobile enterprise is more secure, and you can sleep better at night.
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In Memoriam: 3 Technology Legends Die

Posted on October 18, 2011 by | 1 Comment
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It’s been a bad week for historic figures in the technology arena.  Most people, of course, know that Steve Jobs died.  He was able to transform the way we work and play more than any other modern figure.  RIP Steve.

Former Motorola CEO, Robert Galvin also died this week.  He was the man instrumental in the transformation of Motorola from a company who made police and business radio systems into the founder of the Cell Phone industry.  He made Motorola a household name for more than a decade.  RIP Robert.

Also dead this week is Dennis Ritchie.  This is a man who had a greater impact on all of our lives than Robert Galvin or Steve Jobs combined.  Dennis Ritchie was co-inventor of the UNIX Operating system and the inventor of the C Programming Language.  Dennis’s inventions went on to become the basis of all of Apple’s current products, Google’s Android (and all of Google’s servers), Amazon.com and just about ever other smart device you can think of — including Televisions and most automobiles.  Even Linux is written in C and is based upon UNIX.  RIP Dennis.

As I said, a sad week when you have so many deaths of so many great founders of our current technologies.

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Blackberry Loses Its Key Demographic – The Corporate User

Posted on September 15, 2011 by | 1 Comment
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Say goodbye to the world of Blackberry.  Research-in-Motion’s (RIM) lack of innovation and progress have left the company who was once known as the dominant force for business smartphone users in the dust, even dropping well below  analysts’ expectations.  A good 10% drop in profit and resultant layoffs are in the works.  It doesn’t look good, and things just aren’t going to get any better.

Apple’s iPhone is not only a market leader, but their recent changes to make it much more friendly to the business marketplace, with improved security and email integration, are likely to make it the standard replacement for Blackberry in business.  So much for RIM’s stronghold in the business community.  And Android is doing much better.

Google’s Android still has problems in the Corporate data center.  Its lack of standard security features which are required by corporations, including data wipe, on-device encryption, mean that Apple is the only growing player left in the Corporate space for now.

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Apple Loses Its Helm Again

Posted on August 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment
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Good-bye and good luck, Steve.  Steve Jobs resigned this week as Apple’s President and is looking to move to Chairman of their Board.

It would be difficult to overstate the significance of Steve Jobs to Apple, and harder still to overstate Apple’s influence on the tech sector. Jobs was the towering figure behind a towering company.

So says Steve Wozniak, the man who founded Apple with Jobs. Wozniak waxed poetic about Jobs in an interview with Bloomberg. He spoke at length about Jobs’ leadership, the culture he created at Apple and the future of the company.

“He’s always going to be remembered, at least for the next hundred years, as the greatest technology business leader of our time,” Woz said of Jobs.

Steve Jobs named Tim Cook as his successor, and he has already has stepped up.  Cook said working with Jobs and Apple has been “the privilege of a lifetime” and he’s looking forward to the years ahead.
There are many books written about Job’s rise, fall and ultimate ascension to build the most innovative computer company in modern times.  Good luck Steve.  Thanks for giving us such as great industry leader.
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Patent Disaster Grows as Google Spends $400,000 per Patent

Posted on August 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Jobs aren’t quite what they were – even in the tech industry where the unemployment rate for technology jobs was 3.3% in June, compared with a 9.2% unemployment rate overall that month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the most recent edition of its Occupational Outlook Handbook, the BLS said it expects IT employment to grow “much faster than the average” of all occupations through 2018.

So, along comes Google who’s trying to buy Motorola‘s Mobility division for $6 billion (actually paying some $12.5 billion).  The big reason?  To purchase their portfolio of communications-related patents to protect itself from the onslaught of inevitable patent battles which are likely to come from Apple and others.

(I wrote a detailed article about the Patent Wars last week.)

$6 billion isn’t a reasonable representation as to what it’s going to cost the economy.  These patent portfolios are busy stiffling innovation throughout the country and around the world.  It’s just too easy for big companies to establish patents that step all over small businesses attempting to make their mark through innovation.

We’ve got to change the US Patent system to eliminate software patents.  They aren’t helping spur innovation, they are truly destroying it.

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Google Steps Up Cell Phone Game

Posted on August 18, 2011 by | 1 Comment
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Google‘s $12.5 Billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility gives it the opportunity to truly own two markets that it’s been pursuing heavily, Cell Phones and set-top Boxes.

After the failure of its Nexus phones to build a real market, Google will be able to build on one of the best cell phone hardware platforms on the market.  And they already run Android.  Of course, other cell phone hardware manufacturers might not be so willing to use Android as a platform with Google competing against them on the hardware side.  It could push HTC and others away from Android and onto another platform.

The set-top boxes are going to allow Google further inroads into the television business.  Ultimately, this gives them unprecedented strength in content-to-TV delivery, email and even web browsing.  Think Microsoft’s WebTV which can actually work.

Although the deal still has to be approved, the Patents that will be acquired could make Google an impossible-to-beat handset manufacturer.  Good for them, bad for everybody else.

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