Dave McClure

June 8, 2013 

These are not easy times for the commercial GPS marketplace. That may seem peculiar to those who have grown up with these devices.

Dave McClure

June 8, 2013 

These are not easy times for the commercial GPS marketplace. That may seem peculiar to those who have grown up with these devices.

Dave McClure

May 27, 2013 

The fascinating thing about an economic downturn is that it often gives computer users a glimpse into the souls of the vendors they rely on for their software and information.

Dave McClure

May 22, 2013 

In the very early days of the PC revolution, untold thousands of hobbyists and programmers spread their fledgling programs across the seven major online services (The Source, The Well, CompuServe, AOL, ZDNet, Prodigy and MSN) and thousands of Bulletin Board Systems.

Dave McClure

May 10, 2013 

In an awkward and unprecedented announcement this week, the Internal Revenue Service admitted that it targeted non-profits with “Tea Party” and “Patriot” in their names during the 2012 election year. The agency admitted they held up non-profit status for these groups, demanded lists of contributors to those organizations, and sought additional information about the groups.

Dave McClure

May 8, 2013 

I’ll be the first to admit I have had a checkered career. From 18 years running the national trade association for the Internet in Washington…to eight years with the space shuttle program for BFGoodrich…to my years as a business consultant working with a range of problems common to small businesses.

Dave McClure

May 6, 2013 

Here’s your next best strategy for social media: Go home, go to bed, and try to forget you ever got suckered into spending untold thousands of dollars to some nitwit marketing firm to develop your “Social Media Strategy.”

Dave McClure

May 2, 2013 

Small and mid-sized businesses are failing at security. This puts them in peril and, if they're your clients, you could suffer, too.

Dave McClure

April 29, 2013 

Seeing Apple and Google rake in oodles of cash with crippled cell phone apps and ringtone downloads, Microsoft decided to go them one better and convert their entire Windows operating system to something that looks and works like a cell phone screen.

Dave McClure

April 12, 2013 

More than half of all tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service are prepared by professionals. That’s a substantial number of returns, so it is sad to see the number of preparers who make significant errors.

Dave McClure

April 8, 2013 

More than half of all tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service are prepared by professionals. That’s a substantial number of returns, so it is sad to see the number of preparers who make significant errors.

Dave McClure

March 27, 2013 

You’ve seen the ads. The ineffective husband trying to clean viruses off of his machine. The college student who wants a new laptop because hers is running “too slowly.” The flower shop girl whose PC is so slow she can’t complete a transaction. Yes, the ads are like fingers on the chalkboard of PC utilities.…

Dave McClure