Science & Technology
Science & Technology
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Making Connections After a chaotic start, the pandemic has proven to be good for business in the IT world, where professionals were deluged with requests from clients to set up […]
What Works, What Doesn’t By Lisa Apolinski Here’s a surprising statistic from Kinsta: LinkedIn has over 575 million users, and nearly half of those are active every month (meaning […]
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A Critical Gap Margaret Tantillo clearly remembers — honestly, who doesn’t? — the day Gov. Charlie Baker started shutting down the economy a year ago this month. As the […]
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Learning on the Fly Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) had a long-term plan to ramp up online and digital learning. But then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced staff working at […]
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Remote Connections While most of the business world slowed gradually in March, or even ground to an eventual halt, the story was more dire for the events industry. It just […]
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Career Connections To celebrate Massachusetts STEM Week, Oct. 19-23, Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) announced a week-long series of events. STEM Week 2020 is organized by the Executive Office of […]
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Taking the Long View The idea of doctors and patients communicating across a distance, via a video connection, is not a new one, Carl Cameron notes. But COVID-19 “opened the […]
From a Distance By Sean Hogan COVID-19 has changed the way we all do business. The remote workforce, which was embraced by a few, is now the new norm and […]
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Risk and Reward If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught businesses anything, it’s that employees, in many cases, can do their jobs from home — which can, in theory, lead to […]
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Drying Times When it comes to the XLERATOR, his company’s signature hand dryer, filtration is nothing new, Bill Gagnon said. “We’ve had an optional HEPA filtration system in it for […]
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Into the Breach Cybersecurity experts say there’s still plenty of misunderstanding when it comes to the reality of data threats. For example, it’s not just big companies being attacked — […]
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Air Apparent By Sean Hogan Small businesses have been drawn to VoIP technology because of the substantial cost savings they gain when making the switch. However, as VoIP has continued […]
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High-tech Harvest From its humble beginnings in a Southwick basement 40 years ago, Whalley Computer Associates has become a technology company with remarkable reach, providing a host of services to […]
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Bit by Bit While growing his business and keeping his employees busy at all times is Jitu Changela’s primary goal, his mission in business is to keep his clients’ employees […]
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Mom Tech Many people assume that working from home is less productive than spending time in the office. However, the opposite is oftentimes true. This is especially true now that […]