Author Archives: Dave Macaulay

“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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The Search For Search, Part III: Bing v. Google v. Yahoo

By Dave Macaulay | Published: November 24, 2009
Now that Microsoft and Yahoo are joining forces in search (Microhoo?), this three-way comparison may no longer be needed. Google still dominates the market: as of last summer, Yahoo and Microsoft had a combined U.S. query market share of 28 percent while Google stood at 65 percent, according to ComScore. However, the Yahoo/Microsoft deal is [...]
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Monday Miscellany: “Unfriend”, Internet for Nobel, and more

By Dave Macaulay | Published: November 23, 2009
It’s finally happened: social media has risen to the top of our everyday terminology. The New Oxford American Dictionary just announced “unfriend” as its 2009 Word of the Year. That’s right: unfriend (verb) “To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.” Other Internet/technology words considered this year include hashtag, [...]
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Managed Hosting from A to Z

By Dave Macaulay | Published: November 19, 2009
Our own Ryan Elledge (Chief Operations Officer) was a featured speaker at ITEC-Kansas City recently. And he had a lot to say about managed hosting for small businesses: saving time and tapping expertise as hosting becomes more and more complex. Is it right for your company? Ryan offers a few suggestions below in this 3-part [...]
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Remember a Time B.C. (Before Craigslist)?

By Dave Macaulay | Published: November 18, 2009
The Webby Awards just came out with their “Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade” – beginning with “Craigslist expands outside San Francisco” in 2000. That same year Google AdWords launched, followed by Wikipedia in 2001. Google’s IPO, the rise of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter and the debut of the iPhone in 2007 also [...]
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