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	<title>TVC Field Notes</title>
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	<description>TVC Consulting, Inc is a Seattle IT consulting practice focused on helping customers successfully develop and implement strategic Microsoft technology. We create business value for customers by utilizing Windows infrastructure, the .NET programming stack, and Dynamics Navision.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Droid, Evo, Galaxy &#8230; ANDROID !</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=122</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very partial to the Apple i Phone, but it&#8217;s astounding to me how much momentum the Android platform has gained in just the past couple of months. With Samsung cranking out its elegant Galaxy series, Motorola off of life support thanks to Droid and Droid 2, and HTC breaking out with innovations like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Replacement Spend</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=121</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A slow economy continues to keep many companies in &#8220;wait and see&#8221; mode, but as the existing IT infrastructure ages, there are bound to be system failures.  Replacement systems are one of the most common IT spends that we see from customers.  Replacement systems differ from new gear in that there are usually important budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 4 Holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=120</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TVC Consulting is CLOSED July 5 for the Independence Day holiday. If you are a customer with an urgent issue, support is available by email at afterhours@tvcconsulting.com . Please include an issue description, and your contact details, and we will call you back shortly.
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		<title>iPhone 4 = Home Run</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=119</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I got my hands on Apple&#8217;s new iPhone 4, and I already feel that it&#8217;s one of the most elegant, beautiful products I&#8217;ve ever owned.  The FEEL of the iPhone 4 is amazing, with it&#8217;s glass / metal exterior in a tight and very dense form factor.  The display is vibrant and crisp, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Development.</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=116</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(May 2010) TVC Consulting announces its new iPhone Development service, available now. The iPhone is the leading mobile platform with nearly 100 million users worldwide. The iPhone mobile platform offers game changing new ways to develop business and interact with customers. TVC offers deep expertise in Cocoa multitouch / Objective C development, and our offshore/onshore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venture Event.  Smash! Mobile</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=115</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We will be at the Perkins Coie &#8220;Seattle VC and Angel Event&#8221; next week to catch up on the state of venture and angel investing. As we&#8217;ve discussed in other posts, now is a GREAT time to start a tech based venture, and we&#8217;re looking forward to seeing what kind of exciting new companies will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile - the new PC.</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=114</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With Apple&#8217;s earnings announcement yesterday they&#8217;ve essentially caught up with Microsoft in terms of both revenue and profit &#8230; beyond that, Apple has largely surpassed Microsoft as far as capturing the imagination of customers, and the broader technology industry.  After years of hearing that the desktop is no longer all that relevant, we may finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 - as good as it has to be.</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=107</link>
		<comments>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=107#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[



    
Microsoft Windows Vista was a total disaster for Microsoft. Slow and bloated, Vista was reviled from almost the moment it shipped. Microsoft initially reacted badly, insisting that Vista was a good product, and that consumers didn&#8217;t understand the operating system. Reality soon set in, however, with all of Microsoft&#8217;s efforts focused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 - A big year for Tech</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=110</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[2010 cloud recession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



  

2010 will be an important year in the information technology business, with important consequences that will impact business customers for years to come. In coming post well be reviewing some of the major tech trends, and how they will play out in 2010 and beyond.
As far as 2010, there are two major currents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon = Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=109</link>
		<comments>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=109#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services (AWS) continue to blaze the trail of cloud innovation.  For a very interesting and detailed look at the economics of AWS, see the Amazon economics center.
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		<title>Holiday Schedule, December 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=108</link>
		<comments>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=108#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TVC Consulting will close at noon on December 24th, and will be closed all day Dec 25th. If you are a customer with an urgent issue, support is available by email at afterhours@tvcconsulting.com . Please include an issue description, and your contact details, and we will call you back shortly.
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		<title>Holiday Hours, November 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=106</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TVC Consulting is CLOSED November 26-27 for the Thanksgiving holiday. If you are a customer with an urgent issue, support is available by email at afterhours@tvcconsulting.com . Please include an issue description, and your contact details, and we will call you back shortly.
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		<title>VPS for Business Velocity</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=105</link>
		<comments>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=105#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A customer recently asked for a very quick turnaround on a SharePoint based proof of concept project. While hosted SharePoint can often work for this purpose, this specific project required that we have administrative control of the entire system, including Windows, so we needed a &#8220;SERVER&#8221;.
Not long ago needing a server meant either squeezing onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 4 Holiday Schedule</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=104</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TVC will be closed Friday, July 3, 2009, in observance of Independence Day.
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		<title>Virtual Private Server (VPS) - Server 2.0 ?</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=102</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time with Virtual Private Server (VPS) technology, ranging from Amazon&#8217;s incredible EC2 offering, to the less sexy but very affordable choices from Mosso, Godaddy, etc. VPS represents a mind blowing technology shift, with major implications for customers of all sizes. Let&#8217;s review a few of the basic trends in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Data Protection Manager</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=101</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Service Pack 1 update for Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 features support for Iron Mountain&#8217;s CloudRecovery solution. DPM is a very capable real time backup and data archive solution from Microsoft that matches up very well against tradition backup solutions like Veritas Backup Exec. Now with Iron Mountain CloudRecovery, customers can backup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EveryDNS - An Essential Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.tvcconsulting.com/field_notes/?p=100</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kneip</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[DNS Free everyDNS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DNS is likely the foundation of your work technology, and you may not even know it. DNS is what makes email work when you send it to user@yourcompany.com, and the internet work when you buy something at thestore.com &#8230; many companies host with their registrar (e.g. Network Solutions) or with their ISP (e.g. EarthLink) &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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