By Jeff Zbar 
www.chiefhomeofficer.com

Let’s survey the landscape of my home office’s technology graveyard: I have an old PC — circa Last Century and long since obsolete; a once-coveted, leading-edge Nokia analog cell phone my daughter now uses as a playtoy; two CRT monitors long ago replaced by flat-panel monitors; a few keyboards, mice and other gadgets and hardware that serve no purpose but to keep me from having to dust the shelf-tops on which they rest. They consume my space. There has to be a better solution.

Enter MyBoneYard, an online service designed to help people ditch the old tech.

This is no idle concern. The mercury, chemicals and various elements that exist in PCs and monitors is enough to make your body glow green. Once crushed and in the landfull, these nasties leech into the groundwater, polluting the environment and the water that irrigates our crops, quenches the native fauna — and flows through our taps. read more »

The biggest threat that faces every student, business person, family, company, anyone you can think of, is a computer meltdown. Stop keeping a constant eye out for the warning signs and protect your files, free your memory space and speed up your computer by investing in an external hard drive. Buffalo Technology offers the best in file protection with their newest external hard drive the 1 TB DriveStation Combo 4.

If universal connectivity is what you’re looking for this device is the leader in versatility with four interface- eSATA, FireWire 400/800 and USB 2.0 and connects to either Mac or PCs. File transfer has never been faster with a 20% increase in transfer rates with TurboUSB software that incorporates 7200-RPM SATA drive. Noisy fans are no problem here, with whisper- quiet operation of the unique Heat Sink Chassis for internal cooling. For file security you can trust the product comes with a full version of Memeo AutoBackup software and Buffalo’s SecureLockWare that offers file and folder encryption for Windows users through 256-bit AES encryption technology. read more »

Marketing and communications "experts" like to tell us how the Internet and Web 2.0 have opened up new opportunities for the industry to reach out to and influence people in new, exciting, more effective ways.

Instant information web sites, 10s of thousands of ready for your news bloggers, almost free social networks in which you can embed your news. Unique opportunities for the company to tap directly into the consumer before he/she makes a purchase.

How much better can it get? Marketing is fired up.

In unison they ask:

• Did you send them the well crafted release we approved?
  
• How many clips/hits did you get?
• Why are you working with XYZ user community group? How many buyers are there?
• Why did you send product to him/her to review…it's just an ego, self-expression blog? They are important…but. Managers and communications people talk the talk when it comes to blogs, podcasts, UGs, social sites.
  

Jack Peterson, VP of Marketing at Corsair, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, called today to let us know that the company has expanded its Flash Voyager and Flash Survivor USB family lines with huge, new 32 gigabyte capacity models. Corsair earned a reputation as being a first-to-market performance leader with cutting-edge products for the PC enthusiasts. Corsair supplies DRAM Memory, Flash Memory, Power Supplies and Water-cooling solutions for high-performance gaming systems, mission critical servers, and portable notebooks.

At 32 GB, these new drives have monster capacity. Only last year you were lucky to get 1 or 2 GB flash drives (or thumb drives, as some folks call them). These new drives may be the ultimate solution for storing, transporting and backing-up critical data. There are portable hard disc drives on the market that go to-- and beyond-- 32 GB, but they are much more delicate than these virtually indestructible flash drives. These Corsair USB drives provide ruggedness and performance simply not available in hard disc drives. read more »