P. J. Connolly

For Everyday Use by Everyday Users The entry-level D40 supports one or two lines, and is designed for the broadest range of use cases, where employees are occasionally on the phone. Simple and Inexpensive At $129 MSRP, the D40 is affordable and useful for a broad range of applications; it offers four feature keys, for […]

Add Some Bling to Your iPhone Crimson USA added new colors and finishes to its line of aluminum iPhone 4/4S cases: anodized orange, pink and purple (shown here), one with a chrome finish, and a 24k gold-plated model. Bagless Strap, by Design The Runnur strap holds a variety of items that would fill pockets, while […]

View From the Top The user dashboard in Alfresco Team can be customized with a variety of useful features, which are packaged as dashlets that can be arranged on screen as desired. At-a-Glance Document Management The document library in Alfresco Team offers an at-a-glance view of content and the document hierarchy; document properties can be […]

Collaboration tools used to be a big-IT, PC-based affair. The object was to link the work product of hundreds or thousands of desk-bound workers throughout an organization. At the enterprise level, such tools are invaluable, but they may be needed most desperately in the small or midsized organization. The challenge has been how to package […]

Telephony is a pain point for most IT departments. It’s become common for companies to expect increasing amounts of information about how the equipment is used, especially when it’s used in a customer-support function, where call queues and staffing define success or failure. At the same time, phone systems now have to integrate with other […]

SUMMARY: Colleges and universities across the country are trying to do more with less these days, and in most states, the community colleges are at the end of the funding train. Unfortunately, the last decade of belt-tightening at the City College of San Francisco has led to a state of affairs where almost anyone who […]

[WP_IMAGE] Last week, Vint Cerf, one of the undisputed fathers of the Internet, published a controversial op-ed piece in the New York Times that confronted the emerging belief that access to the Internet is a human right. He is onto something with his argument that it may be more akin to a civil right, notwithstanding […]

Santa was pretty good to me at Christmas, but what does he have in store for 2012? Here’s my roundup of what I want from the folks in Cupertino and elsewhere. (I hate listicles, but ’tis the season for that sort of thing.) [WP_IMAGE] 1) An iPad with the “Retina” display. This you can bank […]

A lot of things happened this year to make me wonder if it isn’t time to stop covering technology for a living, but a couple of weeks ago, I was given a ray of hope, in the form of Microsoft’s exposure of an XMPP interface for the Windows Live Messenger network. [WP_IMAGE] People who know […]

It’s the time of the season where I clear my desk of press releases and whitepapers to make room for the year to come. Although I’m pretty good about herding stray paper into recycling bins, file folders and drawers, there are usually a few things that evade me unless I’m being particularly aggressive about my […]