Sure, most of us are getting our daily dose of horror from watching the stock market. And heaven knows that a lot of companies, ours included, are going through some trying times. But I can tell you from personal experience that when the fun goes out the door, I’m generally not too far behind.
Which is [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 31, 2008
Scary Times at MPC!
October 28, 2008
Never Send An Adult To Do A Kid’s Job
I got a chuckle out of a recent review of our TXTbook product in Tech & Learning Magazine. Awhile back, the pub’s editor, Kevin Hogan, requested that we send an evaluation unit for a product review. A few days later I pinged him to make sure that the unit had arrived safely (one can never [...]
October 21, 2008
Safe Harbors and Hockey Moms
Those of you who count yourselves as both political AND technology junkies should appreciate a recent blog post from MPC’s technology partner, Steve Spence.
You may recall Steve (CEO of NorthSeas, the company that provides the software for our MailFRAME e-mail archival appliance) from an earlier interview I did with him on the application of Federal [...]
October 14, 2008
Can You Feel the Love?
As a computer supplier, we participate in plenty of product reviews…but this unsolicited e-mail remark from Kurt Dyrli, products editor for District Administration Magazine, was an unexpected pleasure.
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October 8, 2008
Technology Business Research Weighs In On MPC
Quoting from a recent report on MPC from the analysts at the market research firm of Technology Business Research. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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October 7, 2008
When the Game Changes: TXTbook Takes Off
Flashback. The time: July 1. The scene: the MPC booth at the National Educational Computing Conference in San Antonio. Crowded around a very small notebook computer, a group of educators looks at the next “small” thing in 1:1 computing. A month and a half later, MPC announces its ultra low-cost mobile netbook for K-6: TXTbook.
Fast [...]
October 7, 2008
When the Burger Looks Like the Picture: A MailFRAME Experience
We all know the story. You get the direct mail ad from your local fast food joint with an impossibly luscious hamburger pictured above a discount offer. Coupon in hand and salivary glands in overdrive, you succumb to temptation — only to find upon unwrapping your guilty pleasure that…you guessed it…the burger bears little resemblance [...]
