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Smartphones, tablets and laptops are traditionally considered connected devices, because each device connects to and interacts with the Internet. However, HDTVs, Blu-ray players and gaming consoles are also connected products, as a high percentage of their functionality performs on the Internet.

Looking for a great book? Here's a list of recommended titles from users at Quora.com:

"Good to Great" by Jim Collins
"Rework" by Jason Fried and Davind Heinemeir Hansson
"Purple Cow," "Linchpin," and "All Marketers are Liars" by Seth Godin
"The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu
"The Tipping Point," "Outliers," and "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
"Innovators Dilemma" and "Innovators Solution" by Clayton Christensen
"Do More Faster" by Brad Feld and David Cohen
"Gamestorming" by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
"The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson
"Delivering Happiness" by Tony Hsieh
"Four Steps to Epiphany" by Steve Blank

 Happy reading!

Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops have always been our "go-to" laptop for businesses class performance and reliability. Lenovo has recently come out with some great new laptops that feature the new "RapidBoot" technology. This amazing new technology can boot up your laptop in less than 10 seconds.

WebShare is a great new feature in our Exchange Defender solution.

Distribute Large Document Libraries
ExchangeDefender Web File Sharing uses the concept of a "document library" to collect documents that users wish to share and make available over the web.

People who study technological advances and world-changing innovations typically agree on one point: nothing revolutionary comes out of the blue.

New ideas and technologies spend a long time hiding in plain sight before they suddenly change the world as we know it.

Creating a snappy email signature, assembling a slide deck for a big sales presentation, or throwing together a flyer at the last minute for a conference or trade show? With the proliferation of desktop publishing apps and cheap image editing software, we're all graphic designers now.

Hint:  Ask the right question
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Leadership expert Simon Sinek has made a living encouraging business owners, managers and entrepreneurs to do one REALLY SIMPLE thing: Figure out why you do what you do.

McKinsey Quarterly Offers a Few Tips

If you're feeling like sales at your small business have reached a plateau (or even dropped), here are some suggestions to get you up and running strong once again.

Hunt in packs

No one likes to cold call. Even gristly sales veterans would rather "farm" existing customers for new business than hit the phone.

We recently partnered with Central Washington Sleep Diagnostic Center to launch a new website.   We wanted to give the site a modern and clean look, along with ensuring it was easy to navigate for visitors.  You can visit their new website at www.cwsleepcenter.

If you travel for work, you've probably experienced something like this before: You board an airplane for a long flight with the idea of getting some work done during the trip. With several hours free from cell phones and the usual office interruptions, you should be able to get some real work done — until you realize that your laptop battery's going dead and there's no way to recharge before arriving at your destination.