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Top 5 Ways to Satisfy Your March Madness

By Colleen03/05/2010 1
March Madness 2010 begins on Thursday, March 18th – Are you ready? CBS Sports Bracket Manager – If  you’ve organized a few friendly wagers among your family, friends, or coworkers this season, then you should definitely check out the CBS Sports Bracket Manager. This site allows you to register your entire group, and even gives you your [...]
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Product of the Month: Spring Cleaning Your PC

By Colleen03/05/2010 Leave a comment
If you’ve been following our blog, then by now you should know that defragging your computer on a regular basis is a great way to keep your PC running smoothly; however, tis the season for Spring Cleaning, and if you’ve spent the last few months neglecting your cluttered hard drive then Orbis is here to [...]
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Orbis Turns 10!

By Chris03/01/2010 Leave a comment
This month, Orbis Solutions is proud to celebrate its tenth year in business. It’s a big milestone for us, and it would not have been possible without the help of many people. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to work with great customers who trust us and treat us like valued partners, not simply [...]
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Word of the Week: IP Address

By Colleen02/23/2010 Leave a comment
An IP Address is a number assigned to both servers and users connected to the Internet. For servers, the IP address comes to be the domain name through a Domain Name Server (DNS). For individual users, it is assigned by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) when the user logs on. This address could be the [...]
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Top 5 Podcasts for Business

By Colleen02/18/2010 1
The Starbucks Experience: Once a week Dr. Joseph Michelli hosts a podcast based on the principles related in his bestselling books The Starbucks Experience and The New Gold Standard. Dr Michelli analyzes business strategies implemented by the Starbucks Corporation – and relates these wildly successful procedures to how they can be applied to running a [...]
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Tech Story: 2010 Olympic Medals

By Colleen02/18/2010 Leave a comment
This year, the Royal Canadian Mint will produce 615 Olympic and 399 Paralympic medals for the greatly anticipated 2010 Winter Olympics being held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Not to be outdone by generations past, Canada has given the typical Olympic medal a thoughtful new facelift, blazing new trails in terms of design, composition, and innovation. [...]
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Product of the Month: Dell Studio One 19

By Colleen02/18/2010 Leave a comment
The Dell Studio One 19 is an extremely appealing desktop option for businesses interested in space saving designs. Equipped with ample memory (up to 4GB), this innovative new model manages to eliminate the bulky computer tower by instead incorporating it within the desktop monitor. The Dell Studio One 19 is not only aesthetically pleasing, it [...]
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Word of the Week: Beta

By Colleen01/26/2010 1
The term beta refers to an accelerated testing stage for a new technology (this could be software or hardware). When a product is in its beta stage, developers typically select a few outside users to try the product and report any bugs or functionality issues they encounter while using it. Developers take user suggestions into consideration [...]
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Word of the Month: Wiki

By Alex12/17/2009 Leave a comment
A wiki is a website that allows users to easily create interconnected web pages. Perhaps the most famous is Wikipedia.com, a free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. While this open philosophy can allow erroneous information to appear, typically the user community is able to police itself and quickly make corrections. “Wiki” is a Hawaiian [...]
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