Computers

  • Team Players

    Leading tech firms combine forces to offer best-of-breed products to builders.

     
  • Complete Connection

    Construction management software provider Builder MT is now marketing and supporting Corrigo's Web-based warranty application.

     
  • Work on the Web

    A FAMILIAR COMPLAINT among builders is that they can automate their own companies, but getting subs to buy into such automation is still very difficult.

     
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    It's Laundry Time

    A new Internet Home Alliance pilot program looks to use technology to ease the pain of doing laundry.

     
  • NAHB Briefs: May 2006

    - The NAHB's education simulation program is named as a finalist for the first Computers for Youth Family Learning Software of the Year Award. - The National Housing Endowment receives a $1 million gift from The M/I Homes Foundation. - The NAHB releases a national study of more than 350 builders'...

     
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    What If

    Many small businesses lack plans to weather—and recover from—a disaster, whether it's natural or man-made, unique to their business or affecting an entire region.

     
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    First Impressions

    At the Ryland Homes sales center for its newest phase, Northwest Village, the team of three sales consultants—Darci Brammer, Troy Alexander, and Maddy Rosado—and an assistant have arrived early to unlock the models and to check their to-do lists, a computer-generated task list of follow-up phone...

     
  • Points of (Red) Light

    BM INTRODUCED ITS FIRST PERSONAL computer

     
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    The Future is Now

    A FAMILY OF FOUR DECIDES TO SPEND the first night in their new home watching a movie. After dinner, they retreat to the entertainment room to try out the new media server and voice command system from Honeywell and its partner, software maker DigitalDeck.

     
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    In Control

    Microsoft's new platform for home entertainment and home control, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, could very well become a strong force in the home building industry.

     
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    Beware of Spyware

    Many builders we've talked to have experienced serious slowdowns or have had to scrap their computers altogether because of spyware invasions.

     
  • Journal Entry: January, 2005

     
  • Drive Train

    THE COMPUTER HAS MADE life easier for architects, builders, and contractors who send and save files and images. The necessary hardware and storage space can get pricey, however. Santa Monica, Calif. –based Xdrive offers a solution: an Internet-based virtual drive that allows construction...

     
  • Spyware Alert!

    The message is clear: Spyware is a threat to all industries and home PC users, and home builders are not immune. If anything, builders are more at risk, since so many builders don't always put computers issues on the front burner. Here's how to fight the spyware plague.

     
  • Automatic Fix

    Most industry analysts agree that autonomic computing is a vague concept that's been tough for large computer vendors to sell.

     
  • Gadgets and Gizmos

    Kim Haegele, design gallery manager at St. Louis-based Taylor-Morley, is a testimonial to how technology can influence employees' attitude toward their job.

     
  • Intelligence Report

    By far, the technology person who can have the most impact on your company is the product-specific consultant who manages a back-office deployment.

     
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    Wireless Generation

    The tech-savvy Gen-Xers are starting to run building companies

     
  • Tablets Step Up

    New Tablet PC applications could drive building industry's use of wireless.

     
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    Tech Gear