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  Are BYOD workers more productive?

  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?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 24 April, 2012 09:01

  Tags: Aberdeen Group, Blackberry, business issues, byod, consumer electronics, hardware systems, iPad, iPhone, IT Organization, IT Organization | Consumer IT, personnel, productivity, smartphones, tablets

• Office for iPad not happening? Don't believe the naysayers, claims site that leaked image

  PCWorld's Damon Brown says yesterday's Office for iPad tease by The Daily is probably just hype, and he's in good company -- Microsoft itself said in a recent New York Times story that the purported screenshot was bunkum.

  By Matt Peckham | 23 February, 2012 07:14

  Tags: Apple, apple ipad, applications, hardware systems, iPad, Microsoft, microsoft office, Office suites, productivity, software, tablets

• Wunderkit offers collaborative project management on Mac, iOS

  Wunderkit -- a collaborative getting-things-done Web-based application for Mac and iOS -- has emerged from beta testing and is available to the public.

  By Joel Mathis | 02 February, 2012 04:39

  Tags: Facebook, mobile, productivity, software, twitter

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

  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.

  By Katherine Noyes | 06 October, 2011 07:25

  Tags: Microsoft, Office, OpenOffice.org, open source, oracle, productivity, software, suite

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  Useful sites for small business

  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.

  By Elsa Wenzel | 29 September, 2011 23:46

  Tags: accounting, application development, applications, Business Center, Business Management, cloud, cloud computing, e-mail, Google, internet, Microsoft, productivity, remote control, social networks, software, web services, Web services development, zoho

• How Quora could help your business

  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.

  By Katherine Noyes | 21 January, 2011 12:00

  Tags: internet, Internet-based applications and services, productivity, social networks, Web-based Applications, Yahoo

• How to clean up your online reputation

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

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

  Tags: internet, Microsoft, online privacy, online security, productivity, social networks

• Top 5 free Google Apps add-ons for business

  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.

  By Keir Thomas | 25 November, 2010 05:48

  Tags: applications, apps, cloud computing, Google, internet, productivity, software

• Telecommuting is good for employees and employers

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

  By Tony Bradley | 12 January, 2011 03:09

  Tags: cloud computing, internet, networking, productivity, tablet PC, vpn

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

  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.

  By Katherine Noyes | 08 December, 2010 07:43

  Tags: cloud computing, consumer electronics, IDC, internet, productivity, social networks, tablet PC, tablets

• 12 amazing productivity boosters

  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.

  By Robert Strohmeyer | 11 November, 2010 11:11

  Tags: applications, collaboration, productivity, schedulers & contact managers, software, voice recognition

• 11 free Linux apps your business needs now

  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.

  By Katherine Noyes | 05 August, 2010 05:42

  Tags: Linux, Microsoft, non-Windows, open source, operating systems, productivity, software, unix

• 16 no-cost tools to improve productivity, collaboration

  Be more productive

  By Adam Pash and Rick Broida | 02 March, 2010 02:41

  Tags: productivity

Whitepapers about productivity

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  Case Study - TNT Express successfully reduces their paper usage and costs using a new document solution

  in 2009 TNT decided to evaluate the market for new head office multifunction devices (MFD) as their current MFD fleet was almost seven years old. The objective was to reduce the number of devices and improve productivity, meet TNT’s future technical requirements and reduce the total cost of ownership of the equipment. They were also looking for a provider who would provide cost and service reporting as well as help streamline their electronic archiving requirements via the scanning of dockets and documents. Read on.

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