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  • Quick tips for easier business trips

    By Lauren Brousell | 01 May, 2012 05:57

    How do I stay organized and keep up with work while traveling?

  • Are BYOD workers more productive?

    By Tom Kaneshige | 24 April, 2012 09:01

    Bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, is a movement blurring the line between work and personal life. After all, BYOD is all about employees using personal smartphones and tablets for business purposes. So does this mean people check Facebook when they should be working or read job-related emails on weekends?

  • Time management for CIOs

    By Georgina Swan | 16 January, 2012 13:18

    Everybody has a few New Year’s resolutions for 2012 and CIOs are no exception. An old chestnut: Time management.

  • As LibreOffice turns one, a peek ahead at what's to come

    By Katherine Noyes | 06 October, 2011 07:25

    It was just about a year ago that I was writing about the launch of LibreOffice, and now here we are today, marking the free productivity software suite's first year.

  • Useful sites for small business

    By Elsa Wenzel | 29 September, 2011 23:46

    Whether you're running a business out of your den or from a penthouse in the sky, you don't have time or money to waste on second-rate tools. These well-designed services and resources are among the best the Web offers for small and midsize businesses. Some include apps for smartphones and downloads for your desktop, but all of them provide the bulk of their features within a Web browser.

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  • How Quora could help your business

    By Katherine Noyes | 21 January, 2011 12:00

    Question-and-answer sites like Yahoo Answers may offer a quick way to ask questions and get answers, but they tend to be plagued by wisecracks, poor spelling, and generally low quality. On the other hand, a new site targeting this niche, Quora, is going to great lengths to keep quality high.

  • How to clean up your online reputation

    By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 11 January, 2011 13:02

    If you own a small or medium business, a good reputation--online and offline--is clearly key to your success.

  • Top 5 free Google Apps add-ons for business

    By Keir Thomas | 25 November, 2010 05:48

    Google launched its Apps Marketplace back in March, effectively inviting companies to create business software for the cloud that would sit alongside the standard set of Google Apps.

Features about productivity
  • Telecommuting is good for employees and employers

    By Tony Bradley | 12 January, 2011 03:09

    As technology evolves, many of the barriers that have traditionally limited telecommuting continue to disappear.

  • What's in the Tech Crystal Ball For 2011?

    By Katherine Noyes | 08 December, 2010 07:43

    Market research firm IDC makes a number of tech-related predictions near the end of every calendar year, but its prognostications for 2011 may well be among the company's most dramatic yet.

  • 12 amazing productivity boosters

    By Robert Strohmeyer | 11 November, 2010 11:11

    It's official: I can no longer think of a single person I know (unless, of course, you count my two-year-old) who doesn't have more work on their to-do list than any human being can reasonably be expected to handle. If you're like everyone I know, chances are you could use a few new tools to help you manage your priorities, simplify your life, and accomplish more. This guide is for you.

  • Going Google

    By Darren Horrigan | 03 September, 2010 08:41

    It is 8pm midweek and three senior executives at Altium are working on a document they need first thing the next day — a presentation to staff about behavioural change. The program manager is editing text; the company president is asking questions about the program; and CIO, Alan Perkins, is answering his president’s questions.

  • 11 free Linux apps your business needs now

    By Katherine Noyes | 05 August, 2010 05:42

    Despite the wealth of free applications out there, many small business owners continue to spend an inordinate amount of their all-too-scarce resources on software.

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