Canadian Real Estate
Point2 will assist Canadian real estate agents and home buyers with online listing information, thanks to a new agreement with the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) that provides online syndication rights for all Canadian property listings. Canada has taken greater control over online property information than the U.S., and the syndication will allow for much […]
05 / 31 / 12
YASC 2012 Recap
What closing thoughts can we leave you with regarding YASC DC 2012? It’s tough to summarize two and a half days of insight, instruction and all the energy, enthusiasm and good times that came along with it (kudos to all those dancers who joined Cirque USA on stage last night!). But that’s the task I’m […]
05 / 25 / 12
Solid State Drives
Is the era of magnetic storage is coming to an end? Those of a certain age will remember a time when cassette tapes were used to store data – please do not raise your hands, we see the gray hair and we know who you are. Those of a slightly less certain age will remember […]
05 / 24 / 12
Faces of YASC
After a busy day of training and networking for the nearly 1000 attendees at YASC DC 2012, it was time to relax and socialize a bit at the Washington Hilton on Tuesday night. Attendees enjoyed a buffet of delicious food, cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks, and the company of their fellow YASC attendees. Many chatted and […]
05 / 23 / 12
Isabella Mitchell
Isabella Mitchell’s outlook on life is simple: One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, or how much was in my bank account, but the world may be a little better because I was important to a child. But it’s not […]
05 / 22 / 12
Tabletop Computing
Has it really already been two years since Microsoft debuted their innovative Surface tabletop computer? That’s a trick question – it’s actually been five years, a veritable eternity in the lifetime of any consumer computing product. Surface was supposed to be the first shot of a revolution in business and game computing, the vanguard of […]
05 / 17 / 12
Yardi Acquires MSG
Yardi Systems announced today that it has acquired ista North America’s Multifamily Services Group (MSG), a company that provides utility metering, billing, and management for multifamily, military and manufactured properties. With the acquisition of ista MSG, Yardi will become one of the largest providers of energy management services in the U.S., serving more than 700,000 […]
05 / 17 / 12
MHN, CPE Now Digital-Only
Two publications that deliver news and insight about the multifamily and commercial sectors of the real estate industry, Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive, are moving to an online-only content distribution model. “We determined that the resources associated with printing and delivering are better allocated to giving our readers the absolute best content in the […]
05 / 16 / 12
3D Printing
3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing and stereo lithography) utilizes an extruder to construct objects a single layer at a time, in varying micron thicknesses, according to the specifications of a CAD program. These printers can use a wide range of materials, from various plastics and PVC, to aluminum and titanium. Watch as a […]
05 / 11 / 12
ALFA Honor
Yardi and Pathway Senior Living, a Yardi client, have received the 2012 Best of the Best Award in the technology adoption category by the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA), it was announced Monday, May 7. The award recognizes contributions from Pathway Senior Living, a Top 80 assisted living provider, to Yardi’s development of the […]
05 / 07 / 12
Taking data to go
Network security gets the lion’s share of the press, but an often overlooked part of data security architecture revolves around the use of USB drives. As the capacity of these devices continues to soar, more and more data is going mobile. But that convenience is a double-edged sword that also carries with it the danger […]
04 / 27 / 12
Google’s Nexus tablet
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt revealed in an interview last December that the company was hard at work on bringing a low-cost tablet to market, with a “six month window” until the debut. Since then, trying to piece together the specs for the “Nexus tablet” has been one of the industry’s favorite guessing games. Now with […]
04 / 20 / 12
Fair Housing Month
April is Fair Housing Month. Created in the aftermath of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., the 1968 Fair Housing Act aimed to eliminate housing discrimination in every neighborhood. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sponsors a month long celebration that began on April 4 – the 44th […]
04 / 17 / 12
Next Generation Firewalls
The primal contest between computer user security and the external threat environment will shift with next generation firewalls. Significantly upgraded over the previous state-of-the-art, next-gen firewalls offer improved visibility into the contemporary Web-based network landscape and a much-enhanced capacity to detect advanced threats. But is this truly a generational performance enhancement, or just the same […]
04 / 13 / 12
Educating the Future
The Texas Apartment Association (TAA) has been an advocate for the rental housing industry for decades. They are also hard at work shaping the future of the industry, and developing the talent of new potential hires, through the TAA Education Foundation (TAAEF). The program started 10 years ago in response to an industry-wide need for […]
04 / 12 / 12
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