ANTenna Blog -- November 2008 Archive

Business Owners Give Thanks -- For What?

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 03:48 PM ET | Nov 26, 2008

A common Thanksgiving tradition is sharing what we are thankful for this year. Given the financial crisis, this is a more daunting challenge than in the past.

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Business & E-Business

ONEsite: A Custom Social Networking Platform that Supports iPhone Users

Posted by Alan Zeichick 08:03 PM ET | Nov 25, 2008

There are oodles of social networking sites. I'm partial to Facebook and LinkedIn, but there's MySpace and countless others. Why pay attention to another one, ONEsite? Because this is one that your company can build for itself, and use to build brand loyalty and create marketing opportunities.

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Apple

Are Netbooks On Your Company's Shopping List?

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:55 PM ET | Nov 25, 2008

If your company occasionally sends workers out of the office, you might want to consider a having a "loaner" Netbook available to keep them productive without weighing them down. Especially since holiday sales are pushing prices down below $300 on Black Friday.

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Mobile

IBM Launches New Cloud Computing Services

Posted by Jennifer Moline 05:24 PM ET | Nov 25, 2008

IBM has announced new services aimed at helping businesses take advantage of cloud computing. And small- and midsize-business owners that have been thinking about making the leap to the cloud will be most interested in the industry-specific consulting service that assesses the cost of building a cloud.

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Cloud Computing | Company Size: 250-999 | Hardware & Software | Services | Software-as-a-Service

Cyber Monday Risk Factor: Employees Back At Their Desks, Ready to Shop!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:25 PM ET | Nov 25, 2008

When everybody comes back to work next Monday, count on some of them spending at least a bit of the day surfing for online bargains. And some of them are going to be spending a lot of their time shopping -- some estimates place Monday's online shopping time as consuming more than half the workday. How much of that time also puts you and your network is up to you.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Retail | Security

Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Ways To Build Your Brand

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:13 AM ET | Nov 25, 2008

Cost cutting is the top priority for most business owners right now. Yet, extracting maximum value from efforts is just as important as slashing expenses. That's particularly true with marketing efforts that bring in new business and keep your business brand fresh in customer's minds.

To Remain Viable, Palm Plans to Cut Positions

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 08:55 AM ET | Nov 25, 2008

Remember Palm, the company that helped to define the smartphone market? While many may have forgotten about the company in the midst of all the hoopla about Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android, Palm still has a sizable customer base. The company plans significant moves to try and retain that base.

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Mobile

(Not So) Stupid Linux Netbook Tricks

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 10:17 PM ET | Nov 24, 2008

Having trouble with a netbook running a locked down -- and perhaps dumbed down -- Linux distro? Check out a series of articles the show you how to unleash the hidden power of your pint-sized PC hardware.

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Linux

4 Tips For Cyber Monday Profits -- Plus 3 For Your Own Shopping Savings

Posted by Jennifer Moline 07:05 PM ET | Nov 24, 2008

As more people count on Cyber Monday for big deals on holiday shopping, smaller retailers face stiff competition from big-box stores. We have some tips on how to attract and keep online customers, as well as ideas on ways to rack up big savings yourself.

WebEx Explains The REAL Value Of Virtual Meetings -- Or How Can You Be In Two Places At Once If You're Not Anywhere At All?

Posted by Fredric Paul 02:55 PM ET | Nov 24, 2008

Everyone know that saving money on travel costs is the whole point of Web meetings. Could everyone be wrong?

IBM Buys An Entire Corporation To Enhance Server Virtualization

Posted by Lamont Wood 01:17 PM ET | Nov 24, 2008

IBM's M&A activity during the current economic crisis shows the importance of server virtualization.

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Server How-To

Underground Economy Booms While World Goes Bust

Posted by Keith Ferrell 07:46 AM ET | Nov 24, 2008

Turns out the real "new economy" may be the one the crooks have created. A new Symantec report shows just how organized the underground is -- and how fast it's growing.

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Security

This Presidential Blackberry Thing Is More Complicated Than We Thought

Posted by The rANT 05:29 PM ET | Nov 22, 2008

Earlier this week, The rANT posted a screed blasting the powers that be for denying President-Elect Obama his prized Blackberry once he enters the White House. Well, it turns out that Blackberry has already been hacked.

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Government | Mobile | Security | The rANT

BlackBerry's Storm Rolls In -- Do You Need One?

Posted by Jennifer Moline 02:04 PM ET | Nov 21, 2008

With the launch of the BlackBerry Storm -- and Apple's midnight-hour iPhone upgrade -- comes the long-awaited battle between the smartphones. Which will prevail -- the Storm or the iPhone? Lest all the hype cloud your good judgment, a better question might be: Does your company really need either one?

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Company Size: 1-49 | Mobile | iPhone

iPhone 2.2 Firmware Brings New Toys

Posted by Alan Zeichick 08:54 AM ET | Nov 21, 2008

iPhone owners should be happy with the new features in Apple's version 2.2 firmware, released today. They'll also say that the new software doesn't go far enough.

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Apple

Software Selection Tips: StarOffice Vs. OpenOffice

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 10:10 PM ET | Nov 20, 2008

Now that Sun has released StarOffice 9, it's a good time to answer an important question: What, exactly, is the difference between OpenOffice.org and StarOffice?

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Hardware & Software | Open Source

Servers Not Covered By Latest Intel Processor Announcement

Posted by Lamont Wood 12:54 PM ET | Nov 20, 2008

Right on the heels of the AMD Shanghai announcement, Intel brought out Nehalem—but so far it lives only on the desktop.

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Server How-To

As More Lose Jobs, More Job-Spam Scams On The Loose

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:29 PM ET | Nov 20, 2008

Spammers get their clicks by preying upon fear, among other things. And as unemployment levels rise, job, income and related concerns are becoming more common spam-prompts than ever.And prime among them are money-mule scams that try to rope people into laundering money from home.

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Security

Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Resolutions For Managing IT In 2009

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:17 AM ET | Nov 20, 2008

The second half of 2008 has already been brutal for business. The prospects for early 2009 aren't glowing, but now's the time for business owners to think hard about the strategy and decisions that will carry the company through next year.

Small Is The New Large: Presidential Edition

Posted by The rANT 10:36 PM ET | Nov 19, 2008

bMighty likes to say that small organizations enjoy plenty of benefits compared to larger outfits, and the curious case of Barack Obama and his Blackberry is a perfect illustration.

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Government | IT | Mobile | The rANT

More Midsize Companies Adopting Virtualization

Posted by Jennifer Moline 04:48 PM ET | Nov 19, 2008

More than three-quarters of midsize companies have adopted some form of virtualization, according to a just-released study. And while prices may be dropping for the products, respondents said cost is one of the top reasons their businesses have not jumped on the virtualization bandwagon.

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Hardware & Software

CA Revamps Management Product Line

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:51 AM ET | Nov 19, 2008

Being one of the industry’s leading suppliers of management software can be challenging. A vendor needs to satisfy its current customers while making sure that its product line remains in tune with rapidly changing customer desires. One of the industry’s leading suppliers has taken steps to maintain that balancing act.

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Management

Speedy New USB Spec Ready To Roll In 2009

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 09:56 PM ET | Nov 18, 2008

Would you rather watch paint dry than wait for files to transfer to and from your USB devices? Relief is on the way -- and its name is USB 3.0.

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Open Source | Storage

Intel's Fast New Processor -- For Gamers Or Business?

Posted by Jennifer Moline 01:36 PM ET | Nov 18, 2008

Intel's new Core i7 processor, launched on Monday, is being praised as the fastest desktop processor "on Earth," and reviewers are already saying that it "destroys previous CPU benchmarks." It boasts features that save power -- and money -- and the cost is about right for smaller companies. Why, then, was the processor lineup being marketed primarily to gamers?

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Company Size: 250-999 | Hardware & Software

Amazon Brings PayGo Pricing To Content Delivery

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 01:34 PM ET | Nov 18, 2008

Amazon's pulls back the curtain on another component of its increasingly broad cloud computing services with the beta release of the CloudFront CDN. Content delivery networks are hardly new, but CloudFront's accessible pricing structure makes it particularly appealing to growing businesses that can't or won't enter into long-term contracts.

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Cloud Computing | Services

HP Virtualizes Ethernet Ports As Well As Servers

Posted by Lamont Wood 12:19 PM ET | Nov 18, 2008

It's a little-understood fact that in a virtualized server each virtual machine will need its own very real network connection, multiplying networking costs. HP has a solution that at least shows that things don't have to be that way.

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Server How-To

Economy Sinks, Phish Rise

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:26 AM ET | Nov 18, 2008

Shouldn't surprise anybody, but the worse the economy gets, the more aggressive the phishers become. Some new statistics show just how aggressive that is.

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Security

Calling All Math Guys: Fortran Comes to Mac OS X

Posted by Alan Zeichick 06:18 PM ET | Nov 17, 2008

When I was a newly minted programmer, we programmed in FORTRAN (it was all capital letters then), COBOL and other geeky languages like that. C was pretty new, and C++ hadn't been invented. BASIC was around, but it was a teaching language for universities.

If you were doing business computing, you used COBOL or RPG, a report-writing language. If you were doing scientific or engineering work, you used FORTRAN.

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Apple

Going on Safari - the Apple Safari 3.2 Browser, That Is

Posted by Alan Zeichick 05:26 PM ET | Nov 17, 2008

Apple has released a minor update to its Safari Web browser for Windows and Macintosh. The goal of this update is to improve security. Sadly, it seems to have improved security at the expense of stability.

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Apple

Microsoft Launches SaaS Software – Finally

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 04:42 PM ET | Nov 17, 2008

Late to the party would be an apt description of Microsoft’s launch of its new hosted business products software service. However, that does not mean that anyone can take the company’s entry lightly. The Behemoth tried to make a big impression by claiming to have already secured millions of customers and to differentiate itself by offering a wide variety of service options.

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Software-as-a-Service

What Will Be The Cell Phone Killer?

Posted by Jennifer Moline 03:41 PM ET | Nov 17, 2008

What is the future of the cell phone? Are smartphones going to eventually replace laptops? And how much hope should be placed in the BlackBerry Storm, which is being released on Friday?

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Mobile | Networking & Communications | iPhone

Privacy & Protection Challenges: The European Perspective

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:12 AM ET | Nov 17, 2008

Curious about how other nations are addressing security and privacy concerns? A new report from an EU agency offers some interesting and provocative insights.

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Business & E-Business | Government | Internet/Web | Security

Office Web For Linux? You Bet, Says Microsoft

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 03:30 PM ET | Nov 15, 2008

Will Microsoft extend its planned Office Web to Firefox and Safari browser users? That appears to be the case -- and it also looks like both Mac and Linux users will have a standing invitation to join the party.

bMighty vs. Bernanke: Unintended Consequences

Posted by The rANT 10:02 PM ET | Nov 14, 2008

This whole economic crisis is starting to look like a movie of a spectacular multi-car freeway wreck -- in slow-motion with no sound. We watch individual drivers careen about tying to avoid the pile-up, but end up causing new accidents.

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Economics | HR | The rANT

Mozilla Readies A Final Farewell For Firefox 2

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:20 PM ET | Nov 13, 2008

Apparently, quite a few Firefox users still haven't made the leap to version 3.0. That will have to change soon, as Mozilla plans to bring down the final curtain on its Firefox 2 codebase.

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Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Open Source | Security

6 Lessons To Take From Big Business

Posted by Jennifer Moline 06:42 PM ET | Nov 13, 2008

Small and midsize companies don't run like megacorporations -- and usually, the smaller businesses want to keep it like that. But often, big business got that way through shrewd practices and an ability to cut costs. Small -- yet growing -- companies could learn a thing or two.

IBM Follows AMD's "Shanghai" Announcement With New x86 Servers

Posted by Lamont Wood 01:31 PM ET | Nov 13, 2008

AMD announced its next generation of Opteron processors and IBM immediately announced four servers that use the new chips -- a move that has broader implications for the health of the SMB server arena.

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Server How-To

Is Social Media Killing PR?

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:05 PM ET | Nov 13, 2008

Or is it a possibility they can they co-exist -- or, heaven forbid, morph into one?

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

Spam Falls By More Than Half After Single Host Is Closed

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:42 AM ET | Nov 13, 2008

What does it take to cut spam volumes by half or more worldwide? A reporter whose research resulted in shutting down a single Web host, evidently. What does it take to keep volumes down? Depends on who you ask.

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Internet/Web | Security

Crisis Survival Kit: 5 Tips For Communicating With Employees

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:03 AM ET | Nov 13, 2008

People are the most valuable asset of your business. During tough economic times, business owners can't afford to lose this asset or let it wither as rumors fly about layoffs and RIFs. These 5 tips will help you talk to your valuable employees and keep them focused.

Microsoft Launches New Business Server Software

Posted by Jennifer Moline 06:03 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

Citing the needs of small and midsize companies to increase agility at a cost-effective price, Microsoft today launched its Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008.

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Company Size: 50-249 | Hardware & Software | Server How-To | Windows

Taking Mac Sync To A Level Beyond MobileMe

Posted by Alan Zeichick 04:52 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

The fastest and easiest way to keep multiple Macintosh computers synchronized is to use MobileMe, Apple's cloud-based service. However, MobileMe is focused 100% around the Mac's built-in apps, like Safari, Address Book, iCal and Mail. It's not going to do you much good if you prefer other applications, like Firefox or Microsoft Entourage. It also won't help you if you want to sync Mac data with Windows machines. Plus, it's not cheap, at $99/user/year for the service.

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Apple

Linux Desktop Migration Tips Keep On Ticking

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:35 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

Many online tech resources don't age very gracefully -- but some do. The winning entries in O'Reilly's "Great Linux Desktop Migration Contest" definitely fall into the second category.

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Hardware & Software | How-To | Linux | Open Source | Tips

A New Addition To bMighty

Posted by Jennifer Moline 03:21 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

Greetings to all, as I make my debut at bMighty. As the new associate editor, you'll see my name attached to plenty of blogs as well as feature stories. I'm excited to be part of an innovative team that is eager to bring to you tools and technologies that benefit small and midsize businesses.

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Company Size: 1-49 | bMighty

Citrix Improves Application Performance

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 01:52 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

Improved system throughput has been an ongoing desire for small and medium businesses. Many performance improving products were designed to maximize the use of devices housed in central locations and with set traffic patterns, so their efficiency is waning. One vendor is trying to deliver tools to enhance the performance of Internet based applications.

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Networking & Communications

Crisis Survival Kit: 10 Ways To Get More From Your Data Center

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:50 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

With budgets tightening by the day and forecasts for next year looking bleak, business owners and IT managers must do more with less. That includes the data center, but, fortunately, there are opportunities to improve performance without increasing spending.

Cutting IT Costs: Dos, Don'ts And Best Practices

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:01 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

These days, many companies are looking to slash their technology budgets any way they can. A new report from Info-Tech Research shows you how to do it the right way, without adversely affecting morale or operations. And bMighty has arranged to let you download this $2,000 report, FREE!

Business Intelligence: Your Next Step

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:58 AM ET | Nov 12, 2008

No huge revelation that more small and midsize companies are turning to BI to make better business decisions. And no huge surprise that SMBs are ahead of large enterprises in their deployment of SaaS-based BI vs. more expensive on-premises software.

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Hardware & Software

Cloudy Days: Trio Of Vendors Announce Pair Of Cloud-Computing Initiatives

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:59 AM ET | Nov 11, 2008

Two new cloud-computing deals show just how much the technology continues to gain traction among traditional IT players.

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Cloud Computing

HP, NetSuite Partner On SaaS Solutions For Growing Companies

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:32 AM ET | Nov 11, 2008

Through a partnership with on-demand software provider NetSuite, HP is moving to establish a larger presence in the cloud and provide its extensive VAR network a bridge from legacy on-premises solutions to the on-demand offerings gaining popularity with small and midsize businesses.

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

A Quarter Of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:42 AM ET | Nov 11, 2008

Maybe DNS should stand for Do Not Secure. Half a year after the announcement of of a Domain Name System flaw and about a quarter of the DNS servers that should have been patched haven't been.

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Internet/Web | Security

Crisis Survival Kit: 6 Ways To Do More With Less IT Spending

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:49 AM ET | Nov 11, 2008

The more productivity that business owners can wring from every dime they spend eases the pressure to cut costs, staff, and projects. Check out these 7 ways to boost your IT output without increasing spending -- and even reducing it.

HP Moves Quickly to Integrate Colubris

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 12:12 PM ET | Nov 10, 2008

Summer was a dramatic period in the network equipment market. While most folks were sitting at the beach getting a tan, vendors were up late at night trying to find a suitable merger or acquisition targets. The fruits of one such pairing have started to be seen.

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Networking & Communications

Fill-In-The-Blank Online Video Advertising

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:36 AM ET | Nov 10, 2008

So long, blue skies? A California start-up has rolled out a software-as-a-service platform that inserts ads smack-dab into the actionless portion of a Web video.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Software-as-a-Service | Web 2.0

Video: bMighty/Spiceworks Panels Show How To Keep Up With Technology & Justify IT

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:30 AM ET | Nov 10, 2008

There's nothing like talking technology with like-minded folks, and I recently got the chance when I moderated a couple of panels at Spiceworks' first annual user conference. And now you can watch video of both sessions!

Small Biz Wiggles Its Way Into Social Media Excellence

Posted by Gayle Kesten 02:43 PM ET | Nov 7, 2008

Emergency aside, many people know better than to crash into a group of people engrossed deep in an offline discussion. Many people know to approach quietly and listen in on the conversation for a little while before adding their two cents.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Sales/Marketing | Social Networking

Obama Wins Spam Race Too

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:15 PM ET | Nov 7, 2008

The spammers love a winner -- winners exploited in subject-lines make it easier for spammers to turn computer users into losers. Take a look at the still-growing volume of Obama-themed spam and spam-scams to see how the cybercrooks are handling the transition.

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Internet/Web | Messaging | Security

Heron Vs. Leopard: Which OS Is King Of The Jungle?

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 12:05 PM ET | Nov 7, 2008

Windows versus Linux performance benchmarks are nothing new. Linux versus Mac OS comparisons, however, are quite a bit more interesting.

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Apple | Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

Cisco Reorganizes To Target Small Businesses

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:00 PM ET | Nov 6, 2008

The networking giant has creates a new small business technology group (SBTG) to focus on the needs of companies with few than 100 employees.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Networking & Communications

What The Obama Presidency Means For Growing Businesses

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:45 AM ET | Nov 6, 2008

Advocates for smaller business hail Obama's election. Champions of smaller business condemn Obama's election. Now that the (endless) campaign is done, we can move on to how small and midsize businesses will fare under the coming Obama administration -- no surprise, there's not one answer.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Entrepreneurs | Government | Start-Ups

Trojan-Elect: Obama-Spam Inaugurates Malware Attack

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:51 AM ET | Nov 6, 2008

Even as the election results are still warm, a new Obama-related Trojan began running up a tally in the tens of millions of copies distributed -- and hundreds of thousands of newly infected computers.

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IT | Internet/Web | Security

Batten Down The Hatches -- Here Comes Google's OCRopus!

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 10:51 PM ET | Nov 5, 2008

Google's new open-source OCR software will transform online search technology. Almost certainly, it will also catch some companies with their virtual pants down.

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Internet/Web | Open Source | Security | Web 2.0

How To Not Be An SMB Anymore

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:55 PM ET | Nov 5, 2008

According to Tony Hsieh, CEO of no-longer-small-business Zappos, the answer is all about company culture.

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Business & E-Business

Election '08: The Internet Wins

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:41 AM ET | Nov 5, 2008

Two weeks ago I asked the question: 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 | Sales/Marketing | Social Networking

One More Broadband Wireless Network Option Emerging

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:56 AM ET | Nov 5, 2008

On Election Day, the Federal Communications Commission (let's hope all the employees had time to vote) was quite busy. After months of deliberation and having sparked a considerable amount of controversy, the federal agency opened up one more chunk of wireless spectrum for mobile communications.

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Networking & Communications

Asus' 2009 Eee PC Plans: More For Less?

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 01:26 AM ET | Nov 5, 2008

Shopping for a quality entry-level netbook? You might be interested to hear what Asus has planned for its Eee PC lineup in 2009.

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Linux

Election 2008: How The bMighty ANT Voted

Posted by The rANT 01:05 AM ET | Nov 5, 2008

As the nation watched, listened, and went online to learn the results of yesterday's election, we kept close tabs on our own electorate of bMighty readers and how they believed the bMighty ANT should vote.

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The rANT

Election 2008: How Should The bMighty ANT Vote?

Posted by The rANT 11:59 PM ET | Nov 4, 2008

In the midst of economic crisis, this election presents a historic opportunity to determine the leadership of our nation for the next 4 years. We want to know from you, bMighty readers, how you think the bMighty ANT should vote. And regardless of which candidate you think the ANT should back, don't forget to cast your own ballot.

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The rANT

Deluge Of New Management Tools Hints At What's Possible for Servers

Posted by Lamont Wood 12:47 PM ET | Nov 4, 2008

EMC, HP, and Lenovo all unveil management systems for tasks ranging from low to high end of the server arena.

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Server How-To

What The Election Teaches Us About Marketing

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:20 PM ET | Nov 4, 2008

Seth Godin isn't waiting for the election to close to begin dissecting its marketing takeaways. Whether you believe his assessment is politically slanted is your call, but I personally don't think that's what his analysis is about.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Government | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing

Small & Midsize Businesses Lead Mobile Broadband Adoption

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:15 PM ET | Nov 4, 2008

The sprawling operations of large enterprises make mobile broadband appealing and big organizations have the deep IT resources to support robust mobile services. Yet, it's small and midsize businesses that are the early adopters.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Mobile | Travel

Hackers May Be Able To Unlock Your Doors As Well As Your Data

Posted by Keith Ferrell 08:48 AM ET | Nov 4, 2008

Now we may have to protect our physical security -- keys and locks -- from hackers. A new experiment suggests that web cam or cell phone images of keys may give crooks all they need to crack your locks.

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Security

Salesforce Joins Forces With Amazon and Facebook

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:27 PM ET | Nov 3, 2008

Force.com Sites wasn't the only announcement Salesforce.com made today at its annual Dreamforce 2008 conference. The company also said it was partnering with Amazon Web Services and Facebook.

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Cloud Computing

One More Partnership in Smartphone Arena

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:47 PM ET | Nov 3, 2008

High end cell phones are attracting a lot of attention from business users and suppliers. Because the market is so small and its potential so large, a bevy of vendors have been trying to wedge their way into this space. Two leading players teamed up in an attempt to strengthen their market positions.

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Mobile

Apple's Numbers Show iPhone and MacBook Power

Posted by Alan Zeichick 01:12 PM ET | Nov 3, 2008

The word is "wow": Apple's fiscal quarterly results, announced about a week ago, showed revenue of $7.9 billion, and net quarterly profits of $1.14 billion. With a 34.7% profit margin, you can see why the company's making money hand over fist.

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Apple

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