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April 2012
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New iPads Sold Every Day |
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Future-Proof Your Business |
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Apple Launches New iPad |
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Disruptive Technology |
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How to Delete an Excel Table |
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What is Software as Service? |
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Poll of the Month |
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Ask a Nerd |
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Worth a Click! |
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Quote and Cartoon |
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Now Playing |
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Safer Downloading Basics |
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We make a
living by what we get, but we make a life by what we
give. He that does good to another does good also to
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~ Seneca
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750,000 New iPads Sold
Every Day;
100M and Counting!
This month you’ll
notice a slant towards coverage for the Apple iPad. Infinity
isn’t becoming an Apple centric company, but the sales
numbers are hard to refute. According to the Washington
Post, Apple announced that it had sold 3 million new iPads
in the tablet’s first weekend on the market. In the first
quarter after the iPad 2 was released, iPad total sales
exceeded 4.6 million units. It is projected that by the end
of 2012, Apple will have sold 100 million iPads. That’s
impressive by anyone’s standards! Gartner research reports
that there were over 1 billion PCs in use worldwide by the
end of 2008. Because of emerging market adoption, it’s
predicted that there will be more than two billion by 2015.
So it will have taken 27 years to reach the 1 billion mark,
and 7 more to reach 2 billion. By comparison, it’s taken the
iPad two years to hit the 100 million mark. There are
hundreds of industry ‘experts’ that will try to explain the
‘why’ of this; Apple’s ads make you believe in the device,
their brand inspires confidence, they are fun, they are less
expensive than PCs, they are easy to use, and on and on. The
truth is that all of this is correct; it’s a combination of
a lot of things. However, we’re thought you’d be more
interested in what’s going on with companies just like
yours. Why are they using iPads? What are they being used
for ? How is it working out? How is it NOT working out? So
let’s take a little closer look at that area.
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10 ways to future-proof
your business
reprinted with permission from
HP
 If
there’s one constant in business, it’s change.
Knowing what your business will look like in five or ten
years is important, but your long-term goals should never
detract from your short-term objectives. If you don’t have
specific, measurable, action-oriented and—most
importantly—realistic short-term objectives in place, your
business may not have much of a future.
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Apple Launches New
iPad
used with permission from Apple
New iPad Features Retina Display,
A5X Chip, 5 Megapixel iSight Camera & Ultrafast 4G LTE
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FRANCISCO - March 7, 2012 - Apple today introduced the new iPad, the
third generation of its category defining mobile device, featuring a
stunning new Retina display, Apple’s new A5X chip with quad-core
graphics and a 5 megapixel iSight camera with advanced optics for
capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video.
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Disruptive Technology
by Chris Geiser - cgeiser@pcstechnology.com
 Can you make it
to the end of this article without getting distracted?
I admit, in writing an article advocating less technology, I
feel as sheepish as Anheuser-Busch must feel in posting the
“Enjoy Responsibly” tag at the end of one of their million
dollar Super Bowl commercials. But this problem of office
distractions has been gnawing at me since Outlook began
popping up email notifications some 10+ years ago. Ding!
Hey, there’s another one -
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How to delete an Excel table without losing data or
formatting
Let's say you've
created a table in Microsoft Excel. You don't want the
table, but you want to keep the data or formatting. The
solution is simple: convert the table back to a data range.
Note: For
this to work, you need to have an already completed table.
You can also watch the video version.
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What is Software as a Service?
Software as a
Service (SaaS) is a software delivery method that provides
access to software and its functions remotely as a Web-based
service. SaaS allows you to access business functionality
for less than paying for licensed applications.
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Apple Consultant’s Network
Infinity is now a part of the Apple Consultant’s Network! So
that we can better support the growing base of Apple products in
our customer networks, we’ve completed the training and testing
required to qualify for the ACN designation. For more
information on ACN,
click
here. And if we can help with your mobility questions
and deployments in any way, give us a call!
mobilEcho – Enterprise File Sharing
Now that you’re carrying your iPhone and iPad with you
everywhere, would you like to give them (secure) access to your
corporate data? With mobilEcho, you can do just that. With both
one-way and two-way syncing as well as real-time access, you can
have your data available to you when you need it where you need
it. To maintain data security, mobilEcho maintains the same
security level for your files as you have when accessing them on
your network locally. The intuitive interface requires virtually
no end user training. Quick to set up, easy to use, safe and
secure file access. For more information, email or call us
today!
Evernote - Remember EVERYTHING
How would you like a program that ran on your iPhone, your iPad,
your BlackBerry, your Android, your Windows PC, and your Mac
that would help you collect your thoughts and ideas, interesting
web sites, images and much, much more. Does it make this sound
better if it synchronizes the things you capture between all of
these devices automatically? Now what if I told you that it was
free? Check it out at
www.evernote.com.
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Basics for safer
downloading
used with permission from Microsoft at
Work
Whenever you download a
file—whether you open a spreadsheet attached to an email message,
grab a cool little screensaver or mouse cursor from the web, or
download music or video files from someone else's computer—you could
be putting your computer at risk.
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