Switchfast Blog: The Future of IT
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 by Matt Hymel
In the beginning, there was Silicon Valley - a nested California
location where entrepreneurs flocked in order to follow their
startup dreams. This area was a hub for the necessary resources
required for up-and-coming tech companies, all confined within a
beautiful geographic location.
While the area still holds significant...
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Monday, August 16, 2010 by Matt Hymel
The resources for small businesses and entrepreneurs are
plentiful as more and more corporate brands move into small
business investment, ramping up efforts to provide the necessary
funds for small business growth potential.
Previously, we have seen Apple initialize a small business strategy in order to manage
local busines...
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Friday, August 13, 2010 by Matt Hymel
All this talk of a recession generally means a declining
economy, job cuts, and revenue drops. For the hundreds of thousands
of individuals involved in starting a new company, the word
'recession' can sound more like 'opportunity.'
An article by Heide Malhotra from The Epoch Times points out that "the economic
downturn has ...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Matt Hymel
Large corporations may be battling through economic shortcomings
and political criticism, but the small business industry has taken
off as a prime source for economic revival. If you have any doubt
about the influence of small businesses on America, just ask the
government's primary small business supporter: President Barack...
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Friday, July 23, 2010 by Matt Hymel
Microsoft has seen its fair share of success recently. In a blog post, the Microsoft Windows Team revealed
that 175 million copies of Windows 7 had been sold, a record pace
of over 7 copies sold per second. Furthermore, 16% of all PCs in
the world now run on Windows 7, quite a feat for a product launched
less than a year ago...
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Monday, July 12, 2010 by Matt Hymel
Many factors contribute to the growth and success of a small
business startup: the idea, the demand, the innovation, the
determination, the passion, the resources, and much more. In a
struggling economic landscape, consumers turn to conservative
spenders, relying more on familiar consumer experience (word of
mouth) to aid in...
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010 by Matt Hymel
Established companies are getting impatient with consumers' lack
of spending and have drawn up some interesting ways to not only
bring sales but stir up the small business arena.
An article from the New York Times points out how
some companies are not only "offering unconventional promotions
meant to attract visitors to sto...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Matt Hymel
In a new development for the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), the first collection of local telephone competition data to
comprehensively include interconnected VoIP was released in a
statement last Friday with some interesting and promising
results.
For those who aren't familiar, interconnected VoIP service
"enable...
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Monday, June 28, 2010 by Matt Hymel
Back in April, Facebook released their Open Graph API which will
allow all Open Graph-enabled web pages to show up in search when a
user likes them. Essentially, this gives websites the ability to
place the infamous "Like" button that is ubiquitous among Facebook
pages everywhere on their actual website. If a visitor happens...
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Friday, June 25, 2010 by Matt Hymel
It's been almost 40 years since Don Hoefler, a journalist from
California, coined the phrase "Silicon Valley" in a weekly tabloid
called Electronic News. He initially used the term to describe the
"congeries of electronics firms mushrooming in Santa Clara County."
Little did he know, this powerful and well-established phrase...
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