With SmartPhone adoption growing rapidly, the migration from BlackBerrys to Apple/Android/Windows, and massive shift to multimedia; SmartPhones could cost your business a fortune if you’re not careful. Learn why, and how you can prevent it.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 21:25
Monday February 13, 2012
Construction companies are swarming to SmartPhones. Learn how your peers are using them.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 21:17
Thursday February 2, 2012
The Cloud is having a major impact on all industries, construction is no different. Learn what the Cloud is and how it will impact your firm.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 15:30
Wednesday January 11, 2012
Are you in the construction industry and looking for a free pass to the BUILDEX Vancouver 2012 show? Click here to request a free pass.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 16:09
Tuesday January 10, 2012
TD Canada Trust’s TD Economics group has just released a special report titled “REGIONAL HOUSING MARKETS: A YEAR IN REVIEW AND A LOOK AHEAD”. Their report which takes a look at the current state of the regional housing market in Vancouver is predicting a decline in new residential construction of 11% in 2012 and 9% in 2013.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 13:11
Wednesday January 4, 2012
Trimble, www.trimble.com, Sunnyvale, Calif. acquires StruCad and StruEngineer from AceCad Software. These software products will extend Tekla's BIM solution.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 08:32
Wednesday January 4, 2012
Google Grants, a division of Google is offering grants of up to $10,000 per month in free Google Adwords advertising to not-for-profit organizations who share their philanthropic philosophy.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 08:00
Wednesday January 4, 2012
SalesForce.com, the pioneering cloud-based CRM company is now offering Not-for-Profit organizations 10 free full user accounts to their SalesForce.com CRM system. The system has a number of free and paid not-for-profit addons which can be used to tailor the solution to fit most organizations needs, and replace the need for some expensive applications such as RaisersEdge.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 12:15
Thursday December 15, 2011
CompTIA has conducted a study of Trends in Managed Services which has revealed that among current users of managed services, have slashed their IT costs by up to 43% annually.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 14:21
Tuesday December 6, 2011
This is a warning regarding illegitimate email being spammed out that is claiming to be from Adobe and contains an attachment that is malicious and could potentially infect your computer with a virus
Posted by
Kyle Power
at 13:45
Tuesday December 6, 2011
Once you start using OneNote to create digital notebooks of your notes and ideas, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 14:56
Wednesday November 30, 2011
Consumer tablet devices have garnered a lot of the attention in the construction industry as of late, but rugged, business tablets still have a place in the industry as a durable way to collect and manage data at the jobsite. Many construction firms are using these rugged devices to manage processes in the field.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 14:40
Wednesday November 30, 2011
Residential homebuilder Logan Homes of Leland, N.C., who plans to have 150 home starts this year, is leveraging Building Information Modeling (BIM) to help them close more sales, reduce build and administrative complexity, keep costs down and ensure profitability.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 13:29
Wednesday November 30, 2011
The extreme flooding in Thailand in October has caused a world-wide shortage of hard drives. Thailand is the world largest manufacturer of hard drives and is responsible for approximately half of the world’s supply. The current estimate is that supply will be short of demand by 40-50%, limiting the availability of computers and driving the cost of hard drives and the systems they’re installed in up.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 11:54
Thursday November 17, 2011
“The City of Surrey is the first municipality in Canada to introduce this type of inspection technology,” says Mayor Dianne Watts. “The application allows us to improve communication and streamline our procedures. The end result is that we improve customer service and prevent trades people from wasting time by having to wait around on work sites.”
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 12:56
Friday October 21, 2011
Many of our clients are looking for a quick comparison of what is included with each of the Adobe Creative Suite CS 5.5 suites. We’ve put together this page as a quick point of reference.
Posted by
Kyle Power
at 12:19
Wednesday August 17, 2011
BIM is a relatively new technology in an industry typically slow to adopt change. Yet despite slow adoption, the early adopters who have begun to leverage BIM are already reaping major benefits.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 22:32
Thursday July 21, 2011
Shaw Business has just launched new ultra-fast, low cost cable internet connections up to 100Mbps for rates on par with typical ADSL connections. And as usual with Shaw, there are no contracts.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 13:23
Friday July 8, 2011
We've put together a list of 11 free and easy things that you can do today to help the environment, and save yourself money.
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at 23:51
Wednesday June 22, 2011
BC’s Return-It Electronics is a province-wide, end-of-life electronics recycling program available to all consumers and businesses in British Columbia. As of August 1st, 2007, you can drop off any of the regulated products at designated collection sites without charge, and be assured they will be recycled responsibly.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 10:38
Wednesday June 15, 2011
Panasonic just announced that it wil be releasing the new Panasonic Toughbook tablet / slate this fall.The new tablet will have a sunlight friendly 10.1" screen, built-in GPS, 8+ hours of operating battery life and optional 3G/4G internet connectivity. The new tablet is designed to be water proof as well as drop and impact resistant.
Posted by
Lee Van Iderstine
at 00:00
Tuesday June 14, 2011
