
Online outreach
Increasingly, churches are embracing innovation solutions to improve communications, consolidate information, reduce operating costs and create a slick, user-friendly, interactive portal to the life of the congregation -- a permeable virtual facade meant to compliment the physical mechanisms of the church. More...

More 'heads in the clouds' help give power to the people
Dispersed control has brought about a fundamental change in the business and political worlds. The first commercial application of this was "cloud computing," power spread across the Internet instead of residing in a single locale on a particular server. More...

New CEO Apotheker seeks to restore HP's 'lost soul'
CEO since Nov. 1, Apotheker is breaking with Hurd's legacy in other ways. He's overhauling HP's $41 billion personal computer division and says he will use acquisitions to expand in the software market, dominated by rivals just as Oracle and IBM. More...

Newest iPad buyers line up in Fresno
The updated version of Apple Inc. 's iPad tablet computer went on sale Friday afternoon, and was greeted by the nevertheless-familiar lines of buyers outside Apple stores. More...

Fresno Piano to close after 38 years
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 's top U. S. executive told investors Thursday that the company is considering acquiring retailers with smaller stores to help turn around its weakened U. More...

Level4 Hardware Offers Companies Ways to Go Green
Minimize Electronic Waste and Increase Cost Efficiency with Leading Hardware SpecialistSanta Barbara, CA Level4 Hardware, the leading global distributor of networking hardware for businesses, is committed to the Recycle, Reduce, Reuse philosophy. More...

Metals supplier MTT goes with SAP Business One solution from 4most
SAP Business One specialist 4most, a Logic Group company, has won a contract to supply a SAP Business One financial and accounting ERP software system and consultancy services to Spartan-based specialist non-ferrous supplier, Metal Tool & Trade. More...

Notes from the Pepsi Playground
Just earlier SXSW attendees cracked open their bottles moments ago to toast to happy hour, we managed to wander over to the PepsiCo Playground, which the brand has built for the third year in a row at the Austin Convention Center. More...

"We need more start-ups"
The 189 stock market flotations of companies just as British duo Cambridge Silicon Radio and Bookham Research, and the 258 corporate takeovers it has overseen in that time have helped it record top decile industry returns - keeping Intel's board happy and making most other venture fund investors green with envy. More...

How to Make Public and Private Clouds Secure
With Gartner predicting $150 billion in cloud-related earnings by 2013, the march towards "the cloud" is not abating. As the market grows, "Is the cloud secure?" is a very familiar refrain frequently asked by corporate management. More...







