Monthly Archives: December 2009

“Penny Wars” Means More Toys for Tots

By Dave Macaulay | Published: December 30, 2009
Codero recently wrapped up its 1st Annual Toys for Tots campaign, raising more than $3,600 to buy new toys for Kansas City-area (our hometown) youth during this holiday season. That bought a lot of toys for kids. See the full release, “Codero Teams With Toys for Tots, Helping Kids in Need This Holiday”.
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12 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade

By Dave Macaulay | Published: December 29, 2009
We’re entering 2010 with all kinds of new gadgets, gizmos, and tech tools, but let’s not forget that we’ve lost a few things this decade, too. HuffPostTech took a look back at 12 things that became obsolete this decade. From fax machines to landline phones check them out (and get nostalgic) in the slideshow below! 12 Things [...]
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Monday Miscellany: Gadget of the Year, RIP Encarta, and wiki’s for everyone

By Dave Macaulay | Published: December 21, 2009
Time Magazine’s 2009 Gadget of the Year? Not Apple’s iPhone 3GS – that came in at #4 – but DROID, thanks to a creative alliance between Motorola and Verizon and use of Google’s Android platform. It’s sleek, features a big display and is fully customizable with apps downloaded from the Android Market. See all of [...]
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Striking Gold – Microsoft Gold Certified, that is

By Dave Macaulay | Published: December 17, 2009
Recently, Codero joined the ranks of the Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Program. Representing the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, the program recognizes several areas of technical and business expertise as a hosting provider. As part of this certification, “Codero was awarded three key Microsoft Competencies ­– Networking Infrastructure Solutions, Security Solutions and Hosting [...]
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Cyber, Green, or Brown Monday? Why Not Cyber Month?

By Dave Macaulay | Published: December 16, 2009
Tis the season for online shopping. According to CNNMoney.com, Cyber Monday (the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday) was big this year for online retailers, with more than 4 million shoppers per minute visiting sites early that morning (November 30), all in search of bargains via their laptops and desktop computers.  By day’s end, Coremetrics estimated [...]
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The World’s Next Big Thing: According to LeWeb

By Dave Macaulay | Published: December 11, 2009
The best new apps for your smartphone, “the cloud,” your desktop and more. Many were on display at this week’s LeWeb ’09 in Paris, drawing over 2000 participants from 46 countries in Paris for Europe’s #1 Internet event. North America will dive into its own big technology expos starting next month, but LeWeb gave us a [...]
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Codero Launches All Out Penny Wars for the Holidays

By Suzya | Published: December 10, 2009
We started our 1st annual Toys for Tots fundraiser. We have a company wide competition known as Penny Wars going on at Codero. If you would like to see how your favorite department is doing check our facebook page for daily updates.
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The Future of Web Design: It’s All in the Details

By Suzya | Published: December 9, 2009
The 2009 Future of Web Design (FOWD) conference, held November 16 and 17 in New York, offered a great, once-a-year opportunity to learn about the biggest web design trends, with a unique look at what we will be able to do in the future when programming websites and web apps. Among the new ideas and technologies [...]
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Green Tips for Small(er) Businesses

By Peter Matulka | Published: December 7, 2009
Cause marketing and going green is triple H-O-T in the business world. Rightfully so, as nowadays determining a business’s level of corporate responsibility has become a staple in the consumer buying process. Companies can hardly ‘fake’ green anymore due to the amount of consumer skepticism and the watchful eye of competitors.
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