ANTenna Blog -- October 2008 Archive

Recycled Storage Media Includes Confidential Data

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:21 PM ET | Oct 31, 2008

We've said it before and often: if it's ever held data, don't throw it away no matter how sure you are it's been wiped clean. Now there's evidence that you shouldn't recycle old media either.

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Backup | Security | Storage

Is Linux The Quick-Boot Miracle Fix? Don't Bet On It

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 12:02 AM ET | Oct 31, 2008

Will demand for quick-booting PCs give Linux a leg up on Windows? That's how some folks see it, but I'm not one of them.

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source | Windows

Crisis Survival Kit: 15 Tips From Venture Capitalists

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:00 PM ET | Oct 30, 2008

At a recent Silicon Valley event focusing on the economic crisis, famed venture capitalist John Doerr offered up 10 tips on “How to manage your start-up in the downturn," but the advice is useful for any business owner.

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Economics

Smaller Business SaaS Still In Early Adopter Phase

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 01:22 PM ET | Oct 30, 2008

Despite bullish predictions that the market for SaaS is ripe and small and midsize businesses are embracing subscription-based applications and IT services, the market for may still be in the early stages, which means lots of opportunity.

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Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Services | Software-as-a-Service

Halloween Treats: Ghouls, Goblins And -- Backups!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:17 PM ET | Oct 30, 2008

Maxell has a good, timely suggestion:in addition to traditional Halloween activities (whether allowed in your workplace or not) use Halloween as the day you begin (or re-commmit to) regular backups of your data.

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Security | Storage

Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Ways To Increase Revenue From Current Customers

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:19 PM ET | Oct 30, 2008

Hanging on to your customers is crucial in these tough times, but just keeping them isn't enough. Growing revenue from your existing customers will help keep your business afloat by offsetting, in part, the inevitable slackening of orders and departure of other customers.

Smaller Businesses Have IT Envy, See SaaS As Solution

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:54 AM ET | Oct 30, 2008

How do smaller businesses use and manage IT? Not surprisingly, smaller organizations struggle to compete with larger enterprises and often don't know how to gain access to the high-quality IT services that could offer competitive parity or advantage. But hosted services may open doors previously closed to smaller organizations.

What Horror Movies Can Teach Us About Disaster Recovery

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:36 AM ET | Oct 30, 2008

Sharks in the water. Spinning heads. Freaky clowns. Who knew those flicks we paid good money to scare the living daylights out of us, and forced us to invest in nightlights, bore lessons applicable to disaster recovery and business continuity?

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Company Size: 1-49 | Security

Google Apps Looks To The Future

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:01 PM ET | Oct 29, 2008

In the wake of yesterday's announcement of Labs for Google Apps, I just happened to get a chance to sit down with a Google project manager on the apps enterprise team. He offered some insight into the company's plans to differentiate its products.

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Cloud Computing | Hardware & Software | Software-as-a-Service

AMD Setting Out To "Shanghai" The Server Market

Posted by Lamont Wood 01:20 PM ET | Oct 29, 2008

As Intel's chief competitor in the SMB server processor market, AMD lost ground when its latest generation of quad-core Opteron processors, code-named Barcelona, appeared later than planned last year. AMD is rushing to make up lost ground this year with its next quad-core Opteron generation, code-named Shanghai.

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Server How-To

LinkedIn Carefully Opens Its Network To Outside Apps

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:42 AM ET | Oct 29, 2008

LinkedIn, arguably the most business-focused social network on the Web, has opened its network to outside application developers with the intent to help its 30 million members (and counting) better communicate, collaborate, and share information.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Internet/Web | Social Networking

The Next Networking Battleground: GreenIT?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:25 AM ET | Oct 29, 2008

As fuel costs rose and energy pricing skyrocketed, many small and medium businesses were searching for ways to cut their energy costs. Network equipment has been one IT segment that has been a bit of a black hole when it comes to energy usage, so a couple of vendors are now trying to fill that void.

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Networking & Communications

Ubuntu Server Or Desktop? Some Tips For Making The Right Pick

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 09:42 PM ET | Oct 28, 2008

This Thursday, the latest version of Ubuntu Linux will hit the streets. If you're looking for the perfect small-business Linux distro, this one just might fit the bill.

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Linux

bMighty vs. Bernanke: More Mixed Signals

Posted by The rANT 09:06 PM ET | Oct 28, 2008

The rANT is becoming seriously confused -- these days it seems like the only certainty is uncertainty. On a day when U.S. consumer confidence dives lower than ever before, the stock market celebrates with its second-largest point gain in history.

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Economics | The rANT

Sun/Fujitsu Offer A Server They Call "The Mainframe For The Rest Of Us"

Posted by Lamont Wood 05:25 PM ET | Oct 28, 2008

At the upper range of the SMB server price range, the $15,000 SPARC Enterprise M3000 server amounts to an entry-level machine for Solaris users—one with some interesting features.

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Server How-To

Social Networking Growth Grows Business Risks Too

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:20 PM ET | Oct 28, 2008

We've said it before but it bears repeating: social networking can be a valuable business tool. Whether or not you use social networks for work, your employees are using them at work, and the risk of data breaches and other security incidents is growing along with their use.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Security | Social Networking

Yahoo's Zimbra Joins The Cloud Club

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:52 AM ET | Oct 28, 2008

Yahoo's Zimbra is becoming a hosted service provider in its own right, for the first time taking its open-source, Web-based messaging and collaboration application straight to a select customer segment.

Firefox + NoScript: Throw 'Clickjackers' Under The Bus

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 11:42 PM ET | Oct 27, 2008

Is "clickjacking" the security risk some people make it out to be? Not if you're acquainted with one of my favorite Firefox browser extensions.

Microsoft Unleashes Cloud OS: Red Dog

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 05:56 PM ET | Oct 27, 2008

Into the intersection of contracting IT budgets due to the financial crisis and gathering momentum for cloud computing steps Microsoft with Azure, a platform that allows developers to create cloud-computing architectures run from (where else?) Microsoft servers.

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Cloud Computing | Hardware & Software | Services | Windows

Riverbed Enhances WAN Acceleration Line

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 03:14 PM ET | Oct 27, 2008

WAN acceleration products have been becoming more functional. Consequently, a growing number of small and medium businesses are recognizing that they can cut their telecommunications costs and improve productivity with such tools. Recently, one leading vendor added functionality to its product line.

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Networking & Communications

Economy Declines: Zombies Multiply And Spam Soars!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:27 PM ET | Oct 27, 2008

Even as the economy plummets and economic projections tumble, quarterly threat reports show rapidly rising threats and another outright explosion in spam, according to Secure Computing's quarterly Internet threat report.

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Security

Crisis Survival Kit: 20 Ways To Trim IT Costs

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:45 PM ET | Oct 27, 2008

Any way that a business owner can conserve cash right now is pure gold. That includes not only expenses on the business side but also on the IT side. The key is to trim IT costs carefully -- with a scalpel not a hatchet -- so the cuts don't hobble your business.

Google Earth Has Landed on iPhone

Posted by Alan Zeichick 12:24 PM ET | Oct 27, 2008

What a fun surprise, to learn that Google has released a really cool version of its Google Earth mapping program for iPhone (and for iPod touch).

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Apple

Windows 7 Alpha Among The Stars At Microsoft's Developers Conference

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:51 AM ET | Oct 27, 2008

Ready or, well, ready, Microsoft is rolling out the red carpet for its first public alpha release of Windows 7, the successor to its much-maligned Vista operating system.

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Hardware & Software

Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Business-As-Usual Survival Tactics

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 03:37 PM ET | Oct 24, 2008

Amid a recession, it's tempting to cut back, to forgo risks, and play it safe. For some things that makes sense, but business owners risk sending their company into a downward spiral if they don't seize some opportunities to keep the business growing.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Economics | Finance/Banking/Insurance | Tips

Click Frauding Botnets On The Rise

Posted by Keith Ferrell 07:25 AM ET | Oct 24, 2008

Around 16 percent of all advertising clicks were fraudulent over the last three months, according to industry watch-firm Click Forensics. That's about the same percentage as the last two quarters -- but an upclick in the number of fraudclicks coming from botnets indicates that things may be changing.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Security

Jump-Start The Web With Mozilla's New 'Monkey'

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 09:06 PM ET | Oct 23, 2008

The latest Firefox beta release is packing a secret weapon that will light a fire under slow-loading Web pages. The trick is knowing where to find it.

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Internet/Web | Open Source

SMB Server Virtualization Market Showing Signs Of Maturity

Posted by Lamont Wood 12:38 PM ET | Oct 23, 2008

Growth remains explosive, but the low-hanging fruit appears to have already been taken according to a new report.

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Hardware & Software | Server How-To

SaaS Revenue Poised To Double Within 5 Years

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:54 AM ET | Oct 23, 2008

Business may have concerns about letting vital business data move offsite, but those concerns aren't stopping the SaaS market from growing by leaps and bounds according to a new report. And more big name vendors, such as IBM, are jumping on the SaaS bandwagon.

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Cloud Computing | Hardware & Software | Services | Software-as-a-Service

We Have Lift-Off: IBM Launches Lotus Notes Into The Cloud

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:42 AM ET | Oct 23, 2008

Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a rocket from India, AND it's Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging, a software-as-a-service version of IBM's popular e-mail offering.

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Business & E-Business | Cloud Computing | Internet/Web | Messaging | Software-as-a-Service

Crisis Survival Kit: 6 Ways To Contain IT Costs

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:04 AM ET | Oct 23, 2008

Infrastructure -- roads and bridges -- is what keeps our society moving, literally, and without management and maintenance, it crumbles. The same is true of your company's IT infrastructure -- the hardware, software, networks, and other systems that keep your business moving require care and feeding. And that costs money. Here are 6 ways to keep those costs under control without allowing your infrastructure to deteriorate and take your business with it.

Linux: The $10.8 Billion Bargain

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 01:33 AM ET | Oct 23, 2008

A new study that puts a "price tag" on Linux development makes for interesting reading. As a tool for measuring the true economic value of Linux, however, I suspect that it barely scratches the surface.

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Business & E-Business | Economics | Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

Crisis Survival Kit: 4 Low-Cost Ways To Build Customer Loyalty

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 01:15 PM ET | Oct 22, 2008

Customers are the lifeblood of business, but acquiring new customers can be expensive. By contrast, taking steps to hold on to the customers you already have and encourage them to spend more on your products and services can bolster your bottom line.

Radio Daze: Are Your Keyboards Sending Signals To Cybercrooks?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:15 PM ET | Oct 22, 2008

Some new research confirms that even wired keyboards may be sending detectable keystrokes as much as twenty meters. Detectable signals means signals that can be captured, and that twenty meters includes penetrating walls. Great.

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Hardware & Software | Security

Symbian Tries to Set New Course

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 01:01 PM ET | Oct 22, 2008

The cutthroat competition evident in the cell phone market is evident by conflicting messages coming from Symbian. On the one hand, the company has been garnering more support from third parties, yet revenue has dipped. Consequently, small and medium businesses are beginning to ask,”What does the future hold for the company?”

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Mobile

Entrepreneurs Needed For New Reality Show

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:13 AM ET | Oct 22, 2008

When you're down and troubled, and you need a helping hand, it could be time to escape from reality and into reality TV. Starring YOU.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Entrepreneurs

Upgrades and Updates: Apple Tries to Parse the Difference

Posted by Alan Zeichick 04:56 PM ET | Oct 21, 2008

Apple, like all major software companies (and hardware companies that also ship software), is constantly upgrading and upgrading its code. And yes, there's a difference between upgrades and updates.

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Apple

Let's Dance: Learning The Samba

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 02:53 PM ET | Oct 21, 2008

Today, I'll point out some good resources to help you tackle an essential job for many small-business owners: Cross-platform (including Linux) networking.

Latest IBM System Z Brings Server Mainframe To The Midrange

Posted by Lamont Wood 12:43 PM ET | Oct 21, 2008

Ever dreamed of having your own IBM System/360? Its linear descendent is now available in the $100,000 range.

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Server How-To

Counting The Costs Of Cybercrime

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:16 PM ET | Oct 21, 2008

Have we been underestimating the financial costs of cybercrime? Maybe so says a new guidebook from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and The Internet Security Alliance (ISA.) And it may well be maybe so and then some.

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Security

Texting While Driving Continues To Be A Huge Problem Among Workers

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:06 AM ET | Oct 21, 2008

Last month I got some grief when I confessed to texting while driving in a post that appeared on bMighty.com sister site SmallBizResource.com.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Internet/Web | Messaging | Mobile

Polycom Retools Telepresence Product Line

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 02:51 PM ET | Oct 20, 2008

High quality, high definition video has become common in the home and has been making its way into the business sector. A number of vendors are trying to deliver telepresence systems, which offer higher quality video connections than traditional video conferencing systems. Competition is fierce in this emerging market segment, and one vendor recently enhanced its portfolio.

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Unified Communications

Anti-Social Network: Criminal Web Data Brokerage Busted

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:55 AM ET | Oct 20, 2008

An online members-only marketplace trading in stolen credit card and other financial and confidential information got shut down by the FBI, resulting in dozens of arrests and a renewed law enforcement commitment to chasing economic crimes. Maybe large-scale cycbercrimes and crime networks are going to start getting the sort of concerted and concentrated attention their spread and influence demands.

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Security

Who Will Be Our Next President, According To Facebook

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:15 AM ET | Oct 20, 2008

Social networks as a business tool are gaining ground, but can they also predict the 44th president of the United States?

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Company Size: 1-49 | Government | Internet/Web | Social Networking | Web 2.0

Missing from the New MacBooks: FireWire 400

Posted by Alan Zeichick 08:37 PM ET | Oct 19, 2008

When Apple announced its new lines of notebook computers last week, not much was said about something that the new machines lacked: FireWire 400 ports.

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Apple

Complacency: The Real Cross-Platform Security Threat

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 02:30 PM ET | Oct 17, 2008

Is Linux less vulnerable to malware than Windows? Absolutely. Will that fact get a lot of Linux users in serious trouble? Oh, yeah.

Anti-Malware Ain't Effective If It's Fake (And Plenty Of It Is!)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:00 PM ET | Oct 17, 2008

30 million anti-virus users can be wrong, very wrong. That's the number estimated to have installed fake anti-malware programs. Not just ineffective against malware, but malware itself!

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Security

Iomega Thinks Small With Low-Cost Storage Appliance

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:26 PM ET | Oct 17, 2008

Iomega intends to simplify local network storage for small businesses with a low-cost desktop appliance that the EMC subsidiary says takes four mouse clicks to configure.

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Backup | Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Storage

Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Ways To Prevent Being Bought Out

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:04 AM ET | Oct 17, 2008

Right now, business owners are focused on keeping the doors open and rightly so given the business climate. But in the scramble to keep a business afloat, it's easy to overlook another threat -- acquisition from competitors with deeper pockets.

OpenOffice.org 3.0: The Best Value In Free Software Just Got Better

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 09:11 PM ET | Oct 16, 2008

As of this week, OpenOffice.org 3.0 is officially available for download. That's especially good news for OS X users who want to join the party, but they aren't the only ones who will like what they find.

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Apple | Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source | Windows

Intel, Samsung Bring SSDs For Servers Closer To Reality

Posted by Lamont Wood 01:37 PM ET | Oct 16, 2008

Solid-state drives (SSDs) offer a quick and easy (albeit not cheap) way to dramatically boost server performance, and they took another step closer to becoming standard server equipment with recent announcements from Intel and Samsung.

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Hardware & Software | Server How-To

Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Ways To Focus On Business Fundamentals

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:26 PM ET | Oct 16, 2008

Even in the best of times, the deck is stacked against small and midsize businesses -- fewer resources, less access to capital, and little or no brand awareness. That's why strong fundamentals are so essential to business owners in smaller organizations.

Majority Of Small Transportation Businesses Raised Prices In Q2

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:23 PM ET | Oct 16, 2008

A new survey confirms what SMBs have been feeling in their wallets: The ailing economy has forced shipping companies in North American to raise their prices.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Economics | Transportation

Georgia Tech Security Report Scarier Than Its Football Team

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:43 AM ET | Oct 16, 2008

Ready for your cellphone to get grabbed by a botnet? What happens if your VOIP system is targeted by blackmailers? Those are just a couple of the cybercrime concerns raised by a new report from Georgia Tech's computer security watchers and researchers.

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Internet/Web | Mobile | Security

bMighty vs. Bernanke - Back To The Drawing Board

Posted by The rANT 06:57 PM ET | Oct 15, 2008

Well, it seems The rANT might have been a bit premature when we hailed last week's global 1 trillion-euro bailout. Today's 733 nosedive in the Dow made it pretty clear that we are not out of the woods yet.

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Economics | The rANT

Videoconferencing Gets Better, For A Price

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:30 PM ET | Oct 15, 2008

LifeSize Communications has expanded its line of high-definition video conferencing products, and while the new capabilities cost more, their improved codecs may allow business owners to save money by avoiding expensive dedicated networks.

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Networking & Communications

Time To Test Firefox 3.1 Beta 1

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:00 AM ET | Oct 15, 2008

Practically four months to the (D-) day that Firefox 3 debuted, Mozilla has released the beta of its browser's successor.

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Internet/Web

802.11n High Speed Wi-Fi Good Fit For SMBs

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:47 PM ET | Oct 14, 2008

Faster speeds in an ongoing network mantra. Recently, that need has been intersecting with an increasing use of mobile devices. As a result, one market research firm views more than one million small and medium businesses as candidates to double the speed of their wireless LANs and drive adoption of nascent 802.11n technology, which supports 100M bps transmissions.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Mobile | Travel

What Traditional Software Vendors Are Saying About Cloud Computing

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:13 PM ET | Oct 14, 2008

At today's Cloud Summit in Silicon Valley, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka gave a thoughful analysis of why he thinks cloud computing isn't ready for prime time. But is that an honest assessment or just the stance of traditional software vendor worried about being outflanked?

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Cloud Computing

Desktop Linux: Certified, Not Certifiable

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 06:16 PM ET | Oct 14, 2008

A lot of hardware vendors are jumping on the Linux bandwagon these days. Some of their pre-installed Linux systems are easier to find than others -- and some you might wish you hadn't found at all.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

New Mac Laptops - Read All About It

Posted by Alan Zeichick 02:56 PM ET | Oct 14, 2008

As expected, Apple today revamped its notebook computer line, with updated versions of its entry-level MacBook, business-class MacBook Pro, and executive MacBook Air.

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Apple

New Sun/Fujitsu Server Points To Possible Future For SMB Server Market

Posted by Lamont Wood 01:05 PM ET | Oct 14, 2008

Jointly announced by Sun and Fujitsu, the new T5440 server may be a little much for the SMB market, but it does show what the SMB market can expect in a few years.

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Server How-To

Benchmark Your Business With Freshbooks

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 01:01 PM ET | Oct 14, 2008

Business owners know how well they're doing relative to last year, last quarter, and last month. Knowing how you're doing relative to your competitors, is another story. That's the gap Freshbooks aims to bridge.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Finance/Accounting | Services | Software-as-a-Service

Siemens Combines Mobility and Unified Communications

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:02 AM ET | Oct 14, 2008

Siemens' OpenScape Mobility Solution brings together its mobility, wireless, and Unified Communications product lines to create an end to end solution -- along with upgrades to both products.

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Company Size: 250-999 | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Unified Communications | iPhone

Egnyte's On Demand File Server For The iPhone

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:35 AM ET | Oct 14, 2008

What would you say to a single solution that centralized storage, collaboration, and backup in an on-demand infrastructure for $15 per user per month? Oh and it works on the iPhone too. The power of cloud computing realized or more cloud vapor?

Buying A Netbook? Think Linux

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 05:41 PM ET | Oct 13, 2008

Many netbook computer buyers are still reluctant to "take a chance" on Linux rather than Windows XP. But which operating system is really the riskier choice for a netbook buyer?

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Mobile | Open Source

bMighty vs. Bernanke - Good News Edition?

Posted by The rANT 03:47 PM ET | Oct 13, 2008

It seems that the $700 billion US bailout was just too puny to do the job. The global bank bailout proposed this weekend at the G7 conference raised the ante to more than 1 trillion euros, and sent Wall Street soaring. And it's not a moment too soon for business owners, as almost a fifth of US small businesses say the economic conditions threaten their very survival.

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Economics | The rANT

Press Releases Need A Home -- Ideally With Good SEO

Posted by Fredric Paul 02:44 PM ET | Oct 13, 2008

You'd think it would be obvious that when you send out a press release, you need to make sure that it can be linked to at a specific permanent URL -- and that URL should be optimized to attract search engines. But even those in the know don't always follow through.

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Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Tips

McAfee Offers One-Stop Business Security: In 15 Minutes!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:32 PM ET | Oct 13, 2008

McAfee's new Total Protection for Secure Business aims to address the top small and midsized business security concerns and give you the tools to deal with them in 15 minutes a day.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Security

How To Convince Picky Investors To Part With Their Capital

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:08 AM ET | Oct 13, 2008

Granted, venture capital firms have been backing faaaar fewer IPOs this year, but investors are still willing (and able) to invest.

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Economics

Marketing: 7 (+1) Trends and 2 Thrifty Tips

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:51 PM ET | Oct 10, 2008

I had the pleasure of talking briefly about bMighty.com at a BtoB NetMarketing Breakfast meeting this week, and a couple of marketing veterans at the San Francisco event gave presentations containing some real insights online digital marketing for business owners. Fortunately, bMighty loves to share…

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Sales/Marketing

Welcome To Fantasy Island

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:12 AM ET | Oct 10, 2008

With fewer dollars to spend in the real world, consumers have been hanging out in virtual worlds -- where their money goes farther, according to operators of such sites.

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Business & E-Business

New Mac Laptops Coming - Maybe Cheap Ones

Posted by Alan Zeichick 08:58 AM ET | Oct 10, 2008

Apple is holding a product launch event next week to focus on its notebook computers. The Oct. 14 event is expected to see dramatic changes in the entry-level MacBook line, as well as upgrades to the MacBook Pro and lightweight MacBook Air.

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Apple

bMighty vs. Bernanke - The TED Spread

Posted by The rANT 05:18 PM ET | Oct 9, 2008

The rANT is learning about arcane new finanical measurements on a daily basis -- and we are not pleased about it. Today's unhappy word is the TED Spread, the difference between what banks pay to borrow from each other for 3 months and what the Treasury pays. TED is going places it has never been before, and they are not good places, which helps explain why the market dived another 679 points today.

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Economics | The rANT

Most Data Breach Problems Caused By Insiders (By A Long Shot!)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:02 PM ET | Oct 9, 2008

Your largest data vulnerabilities may be working for you. In fact, according to a new survey the odds are good (very) good, that if your business experiences a data breach it was caused by an employee, either accidentally or maliciously.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Security

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