The humble business card is still the best way to quickly and conveniently share your contact information in a networking situation. Even in this digital age, it's generally easier (and more socially acceptable) to hand over a card at an event, than it is to fiddle with typing in emails and phone numbers into your smartphone.
Mobile printing
Keeping up with the latest information in the digital age is relatively simple. There is an abundance of different news and information sources out there, you just need to find one you like and subscribe to it. What isn't so simple is finding different views and opinions on a subject.
Mobile applications
The humble USB drive has been a staple piece of tech for people who need to shuffle documents between work and home.
To be on the top of your game when you’re travelling for business you need to have energy, something which can be difficult when you’re jetlagged after travelling thousands of kilometres and over several timezones.
The upsurge of networked devices and applications means that more data is being collected than ever before. This has lead to an explosion of large-scale data sets which is changing business and science around the world.
The Pirate Party of New Zealand says New Zealand law and the rights of New Zealand citizens who may have legally stored material on Megaupload’s servers should have been taken into account before the file storage service was closed.
Recently I travelled to Florida to cover a technology conference. The trip each way took around 24 hours, and I was expected to be able to work and report as soon as I landed. Before I left I prepared all the gadgets I’d need to take with me, but while travelling I picked up some tips about how to approach technology when travelling for business.
Lets face it, paper isn’t going to disappear any time soon, and as long as there are important documents and receipts to be maintained, there will be people who manage to lose their sole hard copy.
It is clear from coverage of this year’s CES in Las Vegas there is one word that will define the laptop market in 2012: ultrabooks.
There has been significant investment in local datacentres lately.
Cloud benefits reinforced
Waiting in line for 45 minutes to send a parcel at a Paper Plus store doubling as a NZ Post outlet, the customer used the time to complain online about having to wait while people did banking transactions when all he wanted to do was buy a stamp.
The worldwide number of users of business intelligence, analytics and performance management solutions will double by 2014, according to Gartner. This growth is driven by an ongoing revolution in information consumption and usability, says the research firm.