ANTenna Blog -- March 15, 2009 - March 21, 2009 Archive

Panda: If You're Not In The Security Business Should You Be Handling Your Own Security?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:27 PM ET | Mar 20, 2009

Panda Security's Managed Office Protection Security-as-a-Service outreach to small and midsized businesses includes lower cost of ownership and increased functionality. In a recent conversation, a Panda threat researcher posed a provocative question: If security isn't your core business,why are you managing your own security?

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Business & E-Business | Cloud Computing | IT | Security | Software-as-a-Service

Crisis Survival Kit: How To Get Your Business Noticed

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:48 AM ET | Mar 20, 2009

You may have the greatest product or service offering in the world, but that won't mean jack for your revenue stream if you don't let customers know about it. Here's how.

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

Cenzic: Top 10 Security Threats. Web Apps And Browser Lead The List.

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:43 PM ET | Mar 19, 2009

80% of security vulnerabilities related to the Web are applications, according to a new report from Cenzic, Inc. Chief among the vulnerable? Browsers, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox leading the list b a long shot.

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Business & E-Business | Cloud Computing | IT | Internet/Web | Security

Meet The Nettop: The Netbook's Thrifty Desktop Cousin

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 11:56 AM ET | Mar 19, 2009

You can't swing a dead iPod without hitting a netbook these days. But you don't hear nearly as much about its low-key cousin: the "nettop."

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Green Business | Hardware & Software | Linux

Crisis Survival Kit: 18 IT Mistakes To Avoid + 15 IT Best Practices

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:46 AM ET | Mar 19, 2009

Slashing costs is important for business survival and IT is often a ripe target, but making the wrong choices about when, where, and what to cut can spawn new problems and even increase costs. Don't make these mistakes -- and consider these tips for the "right" way to do it.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Tips

Marketing Your Company: Advertising vs. The Web

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:09 AM ET | Mar 19, 2009

What's the best way for your small or midsize comapny to spend its marketing dollars: advertising or building out your company Web site? According to a new report, SMBs are voting with their balance sheets, as "non-advertising" efforts by SMBs is expected to triple in the next few years, while remaining a fraction of overall ad spending.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Social Networking

Welcome To The bMighty News Flash!

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:30 AM ET | Mar 19, 2009

As you may or may not have noticed, over the past couple weeks, bMighty.com has debuted a new daily news feature designed to keep small and midsize companies up to date on the latest developments that affect their business decisions and their technology choices.

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bMighty

Printing Gets Cut First

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:23 AM ET | Mar 19, 2009

When the going gets tough, the tough... print less. Oh, and they cut back on office supplies, too.

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Printers/Printing

Tax Tips: How To Deduct Your Home Office, And Why You Want To Avoid Penalties

Posted by Jennifer Moline 01:58 PM ET | Mar 18, 2009

The deadline to file taxes is exactly a month away, so if you're still scrambling to gather your paperwork, here are some tips for claiming you home office as a deduction as well as why you want to avoid any penalties.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Finance/Accounting | Government

How Private Is Google's Cloud? And Is It Any Of The FTC's Business?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:36 PM ET | Mar 18, 2009

Privacy advocacy group The Electronic Privacy Information Center has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's security procedures and practices. Should you be more concerned about Google's lapses than you are (or should be) about any other cloud-based service?

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Backup | Business & E-Business | Cloud Computing | Government | Internet/Web | Security | Services

Comcast Jumping on WiMAX Bandwagon?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 12:05 PM ET | Mar 18, 2009

WiMAX, a next generation, broadband, wireless networking option, has struggled getting out of the gate. The technology has been hampered by fluctuating standards and roll out problems by key supporters, such as Sprint. Comcast, which has emerged as a leading small and medium business telecom service provider, could provide the wireless networking option with a needed boost.

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Mobile

Crisis Survival Kit: Always Be Closing Sales

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:52 AM ET | Mar 18, 2009

Sell now. That's the mantra and businesses are scrambling to book every last cent of revenue from any source. Sales are scarce right now, but there's no shortage of sales and marketing advice from tips to tech, right now to how to sell your business outright.

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

Technology Tainting Trials? Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!

Posted by The rANT 04:06 AM ET | Mar 18, 2009

The New York Times is wringing its hands over jurors checking the Web during trials, leading to a rash of mistrials. But the Times' story gets the point almost completely backwards. The fault isn't with the technology, or with the jurors. It's with an arrogant, controlling legal system living in a dream world that ignores fundamental changes in the way people access information.

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Government | Internet/Web | Professional/Creative Services | The rANT

Recession Or Not, Some Businesses Invest In Marketing

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 07:29 PM ET | Mar 17, 2009

A new study indicates that many are actually increasing their marketing spend.

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

How Will March Madness Affect Your Business?

Posted by Jennifer Moline 05:26 PM ET | Mar 17, 2009

As March Madness starts this week, a lot of people will be online at work, filling in and checking brackets as well as watching the games -- and this goes on for weeks. Should you be concerned about how your company could be affected?

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Internet/Web | Networking & Communications | Retail

Got 15 Minutes? Get Secure: McAfee

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:05 PM ET | Mar 17, 2009

An hour a week is what the typical small and midsized business is able to devote to security, according to McAfee. The company's latest outreach aims to show you how 15 minutes can heighten your 24/7 security profile.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Security | bMighty

10G Ethernet Deployments Continue to Become Easier to Justify

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 10:29 AM ET | Mar 17, 2009

The need for higher speed networks is evident in many small and medium businesses. Companies are moving larger, more complex files, such as video and voice, from end station to end station and need more bandwidth to support those transactions. In response, one of the industry’s leading networking vendors has tried to make it simpler for them to deploy 10G Ethernet connections.

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Networking & Communications

Do Hard Times Make Linux A Smarter OS Choice?

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 02:56 AM ET | Mar 17, 2009

Plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests that the economic downturn has actually been good for Linux. A recent study backs up that suggestion with some hard numbers.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Linux | Open Source

Small Business Innovation: Don't Forget The Technology

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:44 PM ET | Mar 16, 2009

Defining Small Business Innovation -- a research brief released today -- once again drives home the point that small businesses must innovate to survive. I couldn't agree more, but would place more emphasis on technology as the key to making innovation happen.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | Entrepreneurs | Government | IT | Internet/Web | Mobile | Social Networking | Web 2.0 | bMighty

Continuity Software Releases Latest Version of RecoverGuard: High Availability As Vital As Data Recovery

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:40 PM ET | Mar 16, 2009

In terms of business continuity, high availability of resources is as important as the ability to recover resources in the event of a disaster. Availability monitoring -- searching for gaps and inconsistencies in networks -- is at the heart of Continuity Software's latest release of RecoverGuard.

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Business Continuity | Company Size: 250-999 | Hardware & Software | Security | Storage

$20 Billion In New Aid For Small Businesses

Posted by Fredric Paul 02:08 PM ET | Mar 15, 2009

The Obama Administration plans to funnel up to $20 billion from the stimulus plan into efforts to aid small businesses in a broad package of initiatives to be announced on Monday.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | Government

Big Is No Longer Best

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:30 AM ET | Mar 15, 2009

At bMighty, we like to say that Small Is The New Large. It seems that liberal mouthpiece The Huffington Post got the message, with business writer Lynda Resnick proclaiming that Big Is No Longer Best.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | Entrepreneurs | bMighty