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5 Tips For SMBs To Seize The Mobile Web Opportunity

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:01 AM ET | Mar 12, 2010

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.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Internet/Web | Mobile | Sales/Marketing | iPhone

Yelp Lauches Business Promotion Webinars

Posted by Jake Widman 07:54 PM ET | Mar 11, 2010

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.

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SMB Confidence Up, Spending And Hiring Still Flat

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:32 PM ET | Mar 11, 2010

A new survey of local merchants finds that most see the economy holding steady in the doldrums and widespread caution about hiring or spending.

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Meraki Enhances Wireless Cloud Service Security

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:02 PM ET | Mar 10, 2010

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.

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Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Security | Services

New FileMaker Boosts Analysis, Collaboration Features

Posted by Jake Widman 04:06 PM ET | Mar 9, 2010

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.

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Do As Security Pros Say, Not As They Do

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:14 AM ET | Mar 9, 2010

Monitoring at the RSA Conference found plenty of security vulnerabilities on the wireless networks the security professionals were using.

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Polycom Adds Another Partner

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:49 AM ET | Mar 9, 2010

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.

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Bye Bye Essential Business Server, Hello Cloud

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:22 PM ET | Mar 8, 2010

Microsoft announces its betting big on cloud computing and discontinues its midmarket server offering.

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Twitter Attacks Get Automated

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:46 PM ET | Mar 5, 2010

A security researcher has released an automated social network attack tool in an attempt to show just how vulnerable social nets are.

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10 Tax Prep Tips To Reduce Audit Risk

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:56 AM ET | Mar 5, 2010

Tax day is almost here and business owners are diligently itemizing deductions and calculating depreciation - keep your chances your return being audited with these tips.

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Alfresco To Launch Content Management For SMBs

Posted by Jake Widman 02:25 AM ET | Mar 5, 2010

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.

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Intel Introduces Atom-Based Server Platform

Posted by Jake Widman 02:01 AM ET | Mar 5, 2010

The new low-power-consumption platform is intended for use in servers and network-attached storage systems for small offices and home businesses.

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Social Media, Video Become Email Marketing Staples For SMBs

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 03:07 PM ET | Mar 3, 2010

SMB email marketers are seeing results from incorporating more video and social media into campaigns; 64% have boosted conversion rates using video email.

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Leaving InformationWeek SMB, And Introducing Enterprise Efficiency!

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:40 PM ET | Mar 1, 2010

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.

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Small Business Employment On The Upswing

Posted by Jake Widman 05:44 PM ET | Mar 1, 2010

According to new data released by Intuit, U.S. small businesses employed more people in February than the month before, continuing an 8-month trend of rising SB employment.

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