Solid state storage – like that which your camera or iPhone uses – is slowly making its way into laptops, as a speedy and reliable alternative to hard drives.

The biggest hurdles for our clients is the price – a 120 gig solid state drive (SSD) is usually a $300 option, not to mention a step down in size from the 250 or 320 gig drives that are standard nowadays.

The performance benefit can be impressive, however – on a fresh build I’ve seen boot times in the neighborhood of 15 seconds and Microsoft Office applications that load instantly.

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Back in 07, Google acquired Postini, one of the top mail security companies. We’ve been offering their antispam service for over a year and have been very happy with it. It works by intercepting mail, quarantining viruses and spam, and forwarding only legitimate mail onto the client’s server.

Google proceeded to take their offerings and severely undercut Postini resellers with rock-bottom pricing:

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Here’s a good, albeit technical, explanation of why firewall software isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Ever since the first Intel based Mac hit the streets, there’s been a race to boot Windows on it. You see, these new products from Apple shared most of the innards of a Windows based system. Its brain was no longer a PowerPC chip, but the latest Intel processor. (more…)

Blackberries have long been a staple of executives, financial types and movie stars. But there’s a new sheriff in town.

Microsoft has been slowly developing a competing technology to Blackberry. While it has been able to sync with Microsoft Exchange mailboxes for some time, it always required the device to constantly check in with the server. (more…)