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STORAGE
Spiking sales of PCs, external drives, and optical drives signal increasing revenue for the storage sector.
SOCIAL MEDIACan your franchise benefit from social media? Find out how the best franchises used this medium to their advantage.
MOBILE BUSINESSWith Square and Mophie Marketplace about to join the already launched PAYware Mobile, business owners will soon have an array of mobile credit card processing options to consider.
PORTABLE STORAGEMy Passport AV plugs into the USB port of a game console, camcorder, TV, digital video recorder or Blu-ray player.
VOICE SERVICESCompeting directly with Google Voice, Bandwidth.com introduces free inbound cloud-based phone services with call routing and auto-attendant features.
STORAGEDell is offering SMBs a fully-integrated, disk-based back backup solution with available deduplication that can be installed in less than 30 minutes.
HARDWAREThe 3000 series sports Intel's latest Core processors, Windows 7, and targets SMBs.
CLOUD COMPUTINGThe Google Apps Marketplace will let third-party developers sell their Web apps to Google Apps customers.
HARDWAREDell unveils four new laptops designed for small and medium businesses that lack in-house IT staff.
UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONSThe partnership will cover the joint development and marketing of integrated video, voice, and collaboration solutions.
INTERNET/WEBNearly half of those surveyed in an international poll said they did not think they could cope without the Internet.
CLOUD COMPUTINGSoftware-as-a-service vendor RightNow challenges other on-demand suppliers to get on the cloud pricing model.
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- Really Simple Success — March 5, 2010
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- Citrix, Carpathia Launch XenServer Cloud Service — March 3, 2010
- How To Buy A Scanner For Your Business — March 3, 2010
- Microsoft Tries To Turn Shady Internet Trustworthy — March 2, 2010
- ADTRAN Joins Cbeyond PBX Partner Program — March 2, 2010
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ANTenna Blog
News, Views, Insight, And Advice
| 5 Tips For SMBs To Seize The Mobile Web Opportunity |
With consumers flocking to mobile devices in droves, businesses need to meet customers where they are. These 5 tips will help your business navigate the mobile Web. Read Post |
| Yelp Lauches Business Promotion Webinars |
The online rating service Yelp has instituted a series of educational webinars called Yelp for your Business, aimed at helping businesses leverage Yelp to enhance their online reputations. Read Post |
| Meraki Enhances Wireless Cloud Service Security |
Cloud services have been very popular among small and medium businesses because it enables them to take advantage of leading edge technology without adding a lot of management headaches. As a result, Meraki, which has been delivering wireless cloud services, beefed up the security features found with its Cloud Controller. Read Post |
New FileMaker Boosts Analysis, Collaboration Features
FileMaker is now shipping FileMaker 11, with new spreadsheet-like features for creating charts and graphs and generating reports, as well as new ways to share and update information. Read Post |
Do As Security Pros Say, Not As They Do
Monitoring at the RSA Conference found plenty of security vulnerabilities on the wireless networks the security professionals were using. Read Post |
Polycom Adds Another Partner
The effects from Cisco's recent acquisition of video conferencing supplier Tandberg continue to ripple throughout the IT marketplace. Polycom added one more partner, Avaya, to a rapidly expanding list, and the move underscored how the video conferencing sector is evolving into a two horse race. Read Post |
Alfresco To Launch Content Management For SMBs
Enterprise content management and collaboration solution vendor Alfresco has announced its intention to launch a version of its service for SMBs and has opened its Early Access Program for a limited number of businesses to test. Read Post |
Intel Introduces Atom-Based Server Platform
The new low-power-consumption platform is intended for use in servers and network-attached storage systems for small offices and home businesses. Read Post |
Social Media, Video Become Email Marketing Staples For SMBs
SMB email marketers are seeing results from incorporating more video and social media into campaigns; 64% have boosted conversion rates using video email. Read Post |
Leaving InformationWeek SMB, And Introducing Enterprise Efficiency!
As regular readers of InformationWeek SMB may have noticed, I haven't been around much lately. That's because for the past few weeks, I've been hard at work at a brand new TechWeb "skunkworks" project called Enterprise Efficiency, or E2, which launched last Friday. Read Post |
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