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Boston-Area Startups, Get Your 15 Minutes

Posted by Naomi Grossman 09:50 AM ET | Jul 16, 2008

For smaller businesses, it's all about getting noticed. Well, if you're a Boston-area tech startup, here's your chance to get your 15 minutes in the spotlight. InformationWeek's Startup City TV crew is coming to the Bay State and they've got more spots to fill.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev

Small Businesses Hate Government, Like McCain

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:11 PM ET | Jul 14, 2008

A whopping 86% of small businesses believe that the government is doing "little" or "nothing" to help them, according to a new survey. So what else is new? Well, the survey also reveals that small business owners lean significantly farther to the right than does the general public.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Economics | Entrepreneurs | Government

Stability Is The New Growth For IT Economic Outlook

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

"If you're not growing, you're dying." This adage of the dot com boom has given way to business leaders scaling back budgets and feeling bullish about holding the line on spending and flat growth projections. Yet in the face of stasis, midsize business IT decision makers are cockeyed optimists with growing budgets, but small businesses are having none of it.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Economics

Microsoft Dangles Carrot To Lure Smaller Businesses To Vista

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:58 AM ET | Jul 9, 2008

Though support for Windows XP will continue until 2014, Microsoft stopped shipping the OS last month. Redmond is wielding that stick in hopes of prodding users toward Vista, but there's also a carrot: free user support -- though it's a limited time offer.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software

Small Biz Hiring Up, Midsize Biz Down

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:50 AM ET | Jul 3, 2008

One study says small business confidence is sagging. Another says smaller businesses are frantically cutting costs. So why are small businesses hiring?

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Economics | Entrepreneurs

Bad Economy Triggers Belt Tightening Or Record Spending

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:46 AM ET | Jul 1, 2008

Right now, the economic outlook is bleak -- gas prices are up, the stock market is down, and on it goes. But how are smaller businesses responding in the face of discouraging forecasts and tightening resources? On the one hand, cost cutting is the mantra, telecommuting is up, travel is down, but then again, IT spending is at record levels.

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Gauging The ROI For Online Video

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 06:43 PM ET | Jun 17, 2008

Just because online video is new or cool or sexy or hot, doesn't mean it's a good use of scarce time and resources to promote your business, expand your client base, sell products and services, or instill customer loyalty. But that doesn't mean it's not either.

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

D-Day For Firefox 3 - Is Today!

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:01 AM ET | Jun 17, 2008

Download the Firefox 3 Web browser now. Right now. You'll be glad you did.

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Online Advertising Outlook: Revenue Up, Revenue Down -- You Choose

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:28 AM ET | Jun 12, 2008

The revenue figures for first quarter online advertising are in and depending upon your perspective, the glass is half full, half empty, or has a big crack in it. But that doesn't mean there's not money to be made.

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

Don't Just Sell Your Company With Video, Sells Ads Too

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 01:02 PM ET | Jun 10, 2008

Smart business leaders are always on the hunt for new ways to monetize assets. Now, there's an easy way to capture revenue from company-produced video -- that can be your advertising spots, your training sessions, heck even your elevator pitch.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Entrepreneurs | Sales/Marketing

How To Get Funders To Watch Your Elevator Pitch

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:01 AM ET | Jun 6, 2008

Online video is hardly new -- if you're not posting videos to YouTube by now, odds are you've at least watched one. The evolution from intriguing novelty to valuable business tool is still underway, but startups and entrepreneurs now have more another outlet to connecting with the funding community without hitting the road.

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

What Do SMBs Want?

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:31 PM ET | Jun 5, 2008

What do small and midsize companies want from their suppliers? And which vendors are giving it to them and which aren't?

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49

Does IBM Think Smaller Businesses Are Lotus Eaters?

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 04:06 PM ET | Jun 3, 2008

It has all the buzzwords that smaller businesses love: plug-and-play, turnkey, 30-minute installation, self-healing, built-in management, downloadable, $149 per user. And then there's that other magic word: free! But is that enough to lure smaller business to Lotus?

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Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

Small Businesses Look To The Web For Recession Relief

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:57 PM ET | May 23, 2008

When the going gets tough, small businesses get on the Web. At least, that's the impression you get from Register.com's new Small Business Web Survey.

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

LIVE TODAY: bMighty bConnected Virtual Expo for Smaller Business

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:45 AM ET | May 22, 2008

Being connected is everything for smaller businesses -- without connections to customers, to partners, to suppliers, to employees, and to the market, business grinds to a halt. Today (May 22), bMighty presents bMighty bConnected, an interactive online event all about being connected and communicating. You can join the virtual expo right from your desktop.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Mobile | Networking & Communications | bMighty

MOLI's Multitasking Approach to Social Networking for Smaller Business

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:00 PM ET | May 20, 2008

With today's launch of a small business center, MOLI has set its sights on some the people least likely have a distinction between work and personal life: those in smaller businesses.

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Who Says You Can't Make Money Blogging?

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:15 PM ET | May 19, 2008

Some people will tell you that you can't make money blogging. Don't tell that to Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes. They just sold their Ars Technica blog to Conde Nast for a reported $25 million.

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

10G Ethernet Moving from Fiber to Copper

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 11:20 AM ET | May 5, 2008

Faster speeds are something that IT departments constantly desire. 10G bps transmissions have been relegated to backbone switch connections but are starting to make their way into servers and storage systems because of less expensive cabling.

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Interop Insight: Why Users Hate IT

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:27 PM ET | May 1, 2008

In case you haven't noticed, today's consumer products and applications routinely outperform -- and out "cool" -- their business counterparts. So no wonder users bristle when forced to make do with second-rate business solutions. But IT folks often make the situation worse.

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Apple | Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Internet/Web

Interop: Fixed/Mobile Convergence Coming to Your Company?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:39 AM ET | Apr 30, 2008

Employees no longer sit in their cubicles all day. Instead, executives move from place to place, visiting customers and clients. Figuring out how to reach these individuals has been a problem: Do you try their office number or their cell?

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Another Low Priced Video Conferencing System Arrives

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 01:56 PM ET | Apr 28, 2008

Many small and medium businesses have been interested in video conferencing but not able to justify purchasing these systems. In addition, picture quality has been an issue with many systems, so vendors are now trying to address those issues.

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Family Feud Underscores Maturing WAN Optimization Market

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:43 AM ET | Apr 24, 2008

Unions between start-ups and their financial backers are often quite tenuous. This week, the partnership between one vendor and a hedge fund with 10% of its stock illustrated that as well changes occurring in the WAN optimization market.

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Recession Update: Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:33 PM ET | Apr 21, 2008

Today's economic climate is all about uncertainty. On the one hand, outside of the housing/finance sector, many businesses seem to be doing just fine. On the other hand, everyone seems petrified that an unavoidable economic meltdown is hurtling toward us at warp speed.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Economics

Wireless LANs Gain Backbone Flexibility

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:29 AM ET | Apr 21, 2008

Has your business been bitten by the wireless bug? Would you like to swap out your wired backbone connections for wireless ones? Well, the time has come when such choices are possible.

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What Are Your Employees Doing on the Road?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 08:56 AM ET | Apr 17, 2008

Trust can be a trait that takes long time to develop but can be quickly broken. If your company trusts its employees to use the Internet judiciously on the road, then it may be time to rethink that position.

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