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This article was first published by  iowabusinessjournals.com In the world of small business management the one budget that lives up to the moniker is in IT. As imperative as technology is do modern business, day-to-day operations and providing actual services requires a great deal of capital. Sure you'd like to give every employee brand new iPhones, laptops, and unlimited cloud storage but being an entrepreneur means being thrifty and prudent with every dollar. However if I may play devil's advocate, if there's one IT area you might want to spend a little extra on it's email. As counterintuitive as it sounds, investing in email early can be one of the smartest decisions you can make. I know, you probably remember one of the perks of your website was something like 25-100 included email accounts. That is a great deal, but who owns those emails? Are they stored on some unaccounted server your service provider leases space from? If they suffer a breach or data loss, w

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Everyone has that awfully frustrating experience of sitting close to someone with awful headphones. Not headphones that are unstylish but an set of stone-age ear covering headphones that seem to send audio in all directions. This encounter always seems to happen during inescapable situations such as on a packed plane or on a family vacation. Addressing the offender can result in hours of tension, so if you truly can't escape there is only one surefire remedy; noise cancelling. All kinds of headphones claim to be “noise cancelling,” but few truly neutralize the world at large. Since the technology entered the consumer market in the mid-1990s, the company synonymous with noise cancelling has been Bose. At a premium cost, audiophiles could pickup a set of Bose over-the-ear headphones and hear practically nothing but the music they were hoping for. The word “practically” is key. See while the first few generations of technology