ANTenna Blog -- May 03, 2009 - May 09, 2009 Archive

Small Business Owners Buying Millions Of Netbooks - For Themselves!

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:02 PM ET | May 8, 2009

Techaisle reported yesterday that SMBs will buy 1.1 million Netbook this year, and another 3.5 million in 2010. I wanted to know what small businesses were doing with all those new machines, so I called up Abhijeet Rane, Partner and Senior Vice President at the research firm.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Mobile

Byte And Switch - bMighty's Sister Site On Storage - Relaunches

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:12 PM ET | May 8, 2009

Storage is one of the keystone technology issues for small and midsize businesses, and no one knows more about storage than our sister site, Byte and Switch. And the new Byte and Switch is even more useful to SMBs.

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Storage | bMighty

How To Keep Tabs On Sneaky "Flash Cookies"

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 02:33 PM ET | May 8, 2009

Maybe it's true that what you don't know won't always hurt you. But that doesn't mean you have to trust it.

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Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Open Source | Security | Tips | Web 2.0

SMBs In Cyber Criminals' Crosshairs

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 08:02 PM ET | May 7, 2009

When it comes to IT security, small and midsize businesses are in the unenviable position of being not only more attractive to criminals, but also having fewer resources to defend themselves.

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Security

OpenOffice.org 3.1: Looking Sharp

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 05:56 PM ET | May 7, 2009

OpenOffice.org 3.1 is now available, and one of the suite's most important changes involves big improvements to its handling of on-screen graphics.

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Hardware & Software | Open Source

4 Words You Don't Want To Hear About Your Business

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:10 AM ET | May 7, 2009

Differentiation is what makes your business more appealing to customers. You can differentiate your business with the quality of your products and services, your pricing, customer support, and myriad other ways, but keep your ears perked up for four words that mean you're not standing out from your competitors.

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

Comcast A Finalist for "Worst Company In America"

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:19 PM ET | May 6, 2009

It seems that cable-TV and Internet giant Comcast can't win for losing. After being named one of bMighty's top four Technology Evil Empires last fall, it's now in the Final Deathmatch for The Consumerist's Worst Company In America.

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Business & E-Business | Finance/Accounting | Internet/Web | Management

Inflight Insecurity Update: Gogo Responds

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:16 PM ET | May 6, 2009

Inflight Internet Access provider Gogo took some issue with today's earlier post, and it's worth taking a look at the issues the company raises.

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Internet/Web | Messaging | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Security | Transportation | Travel | bMighty

Inflight Insecurity? Netragard Says Airborne Web Service Easily Hacked

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:57 AM ET | May 6, 2009

According to anti-hacking company Netragard, Gogo, the unencrypted inflight Internet access service, puts user data at risk.

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Internet/Web | Messaging | Networking & Communications | Security | Transportation | Travel

Citrix Embraces Apple’s iPhone

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 08:14 AM ET | May 6, 2009

Many small and medium businesses do not have the staff, the expertise, or the desire to manage a wide range of different end user systems. Citrix has been a popular choice in this market segment because its products centrally control a wide variety of desktops. The vendor tried to solidify its position by making application downloading simpler and adding support for Apple’s iPhone.

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IT

10 Top Tech Trends and 7 Cost Cutting Tips For Midsize CIOs

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:50 PM ET | May 5, 2009

Moving beyond the usual suspect like virtualization and cloud computing into data density and cost-cutting teams, a pair of Gartner analysts offer up insight and advice.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | IT

Mozilla Vows "No Surprises" For Firefox Add-On Users

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 12:34 PM ET | May 5, 2009

One of the most important features Firefox offers is its wealth of add-on tools. Lately, however, more users are discovering this sort of flexibility can be a mixed blessing.

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Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Open Source | Web 2.0

HP and RIM Take BlackBerry to the Clouds

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 10:56 AM ET | May 5, 2009

Mobility has become a watchword in small and medium businesses as executives now spend much of their day away from the corporate office. Cloud computing has become a popular way of delivering various types of IT services. Consequently, one of the industry’s leading smartphone vendors has teamed up with one of the market’s top service providers to deliver cloud based, mobility services.

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Mobile

Pirated Windows 7 Holds Trojan: P2Pers Beware!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:25 AM ET | May 5, 2009

A copy of Windows 7 leaked before today's Release Candidate code availability from Microsoft contains a trojan. Yet even with Windows 7 available from Microsoft's site, odds are that malware-bearing torrent copies will continue to circulate. Make sure your employees steer clear.

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Security | Windows

10 Ways To Improve Your Online Advertising In A Recession

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:46 AM ET | May 5, 2009

Cutting back on advertising in a recession is tempting, but if you slash your marketing spend, your competition may seize the opportunity to grow their market share. What you can do is make your marketing more effective. Here's 10 ways to get more from your online advertising.

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

i365 Launches EVault "Plug-n-Protect" Appliance

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:37 AM ET | May 5, 2009

These days, SMBs are increasingly demanding that all their technology solutions to be easy to buy, install, and use. Increasingly, that means hardware and software combinations delivered as an appliance. According to Valerie Fawzi, senior director of product marketing for i365, A Seagate Company, that was the genesis behind the new EVault Plug-n-Protect appliance for data recovery and full system restore.

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Backup | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | Disaster Recovery | IT | Storage

Adobe Update of InContext Editing Helps SMBs Update Their Web Sites

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:20 PM ET | May 4, 2009

Adobe has updated the InContext Editing feature of its Dreamweaver CS4 suite. The new version should make it easier for small businesses to make changes to their Web sites without requiring assistance from their Web designers.

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Apple | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Internet/Web | Professional/Creative Services

Pandemic Security: Is Your Business Ready For Swine Flu And Other Real Viruses?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:25 PM ET | May 4, 2009

Whether or not the H1N1 swine flu reaches pandemic proportions, its presence should remind everyone that in addition to health issues, influenza and other sources of largescale personnel outages raise some serious business security concerns.

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Business & E-Business | Business Continuity | Cloud Computing | Disaster Recovery | IT | Security | Software-as-a-Service | bMighty

Is Microsoft Headed For A Netbook Train Wreck?

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 12:27 PM ET | May 4, 2009

Want to see a company snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Just watch Microsoft execute its netbook game plan against Linux.

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source | Windows