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State Of Spam: Illinois Tops Badmail Target List

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:35 PM ET | Jul 17, 2008

A new study claims that Illinois receives more spam traffic than any other state in the union. But a close look at the data shows that the other 49 aren't doing all that well either (with one interesting exception.)

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Internet/Web | Messaging | Security | Technology/Telecom

Vendor Speeds Up its WAN Accelerator

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:58 AM ET | Jul 16, 2008

The Wide Area Network accelerator market has picked up steam as small and medium businesses try to move information more quickly over those connections. One leading vendor recently pumped its product line to gain more market traction.

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Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Remote Offices, Remote Workers: Tech Tools to The Rescue

Posted by Naomi Grossman 10:05 AM ET | Jul 15, 2008

It's time for small and midsize businesses to accept that at least some of their workers will be working remotely ý whether in satellite offices or from their home offices. Between rising gas prices, costs of maintaining central offices, and the increasing need (and desire) for flexibility, it's a trend that is not going away. But before your IT department starts to panic, check out this list of technologies for remote office support.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Carriers Roll Out New TV Services

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:26 AM ET | Jul 14, 2008

So you wanna know what is on TV? Well, the nationýs largest carriers have begun making hundreds of channels (Is anything really on?) available to small and medium businesses as well as consumers.

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Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Windows XP Lives to Take Another Breath: XP SP3 Released Today

Posted by Naomi Grossman 05:16 PM ET | Jul 10, 2008

After delaying its distribution twice, Microsoft is releasing its third -- and final -- service pack for its Windows XP operating system to users today.

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Hardware & Software | Technology/Telecom

Certification Process Comes to Wi-Fi Voice Products

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:59 AM ET | Jul 7, 2008

Voice over IP (VoIP) and mobility are two of the growing applications in small and medium enterprises. Consequently, a growing number of users desire to mix and match different vendorsý products and that process just became a bit easier.

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Mobile | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Player Beware: PS3 Site Hacks Can Game Your Systems

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:15 PM ET | Jul 2, 2008

Whether or not you're a gamer, the detection of malware infestation on the Sony USA PlayStation Web site should give you pause. Compromises of popular commercial sites -- the sorts that employees and family members might visit, even if you don't -- are precisely the sort of thing that can have anything but a playful effect on your business.

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Mitel Retools Line Post Inter-Tel Acquisition

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 12:27 PM ET | Jun 30, 2008

Mitel, who has been quite successful in the small and medium sector, bolstered its IP PBX line. To ward off formidable competitors, the company added messaging, audio and web conferencing, and mobility applications and revamped its IP phones.

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Messaging | Technology/Telecom

Watch Those Wikis: Small Public Posts Can Cause Big Business Problems

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:02 PM ET | Jun 24, 2008

Inside knowledge, much less insider knowledge can be a dangerous business thing. Just ask the wiki-poster who got fired for leaking early news of Tim Russert's death.

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Carriers Poised to Deliver Unified Communications Solutions?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:52 AM ET | Jun 18, 2008

Two giants have partnered to make it simpler for carriers to deliver unified communications solutions. Consequently, small and medium businesses may soon find it easier to cost justify and deploy such products.

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Messaging | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Time to Get Ready for 100G bps Ethernet?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 11:13 AM ET | Jun 16, 2008

Faster speeds are an ongoing desire among small and medium businesses. While many companies are now settling in with 10G bps backbone Ethernet links, the movement to 100G bps Ethernet has begun to take shape.

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Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Telecoms: Should Content Carriers Become Content Cops?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:08 AM ET | Jun 16, 2008

The thing about the so-called Information Superhighway, as it used to be so-called, was that once the telecom companies deployed the wire and fiber and wireless roads, they pretty much left businesses and consumers alone in their travels along them. That may be changing.

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Get on That Social Media Bandwagon. But Take Your Employees With You

Posted by Naomi Grossman 10:51 AM ET | Jun 11, 2008

Social media is about a lot of things: It's wikis, blogs, forums, and lots more that can transform your smaller business, help you connect with your customers, and foster internal collaboration. But whether you decide to leap on the social media bandwagon or take some small steps in its direction, don't forget who you need to take with you on this journey: Your employees.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Technology/Telecom

Password Tips From Google Worth Passing Along

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:56 AM ET | Jun 6, 2008

Odds are that you -- and almost definitely some of your colleagues, friends and family -- have seen a list of good strong password-creation tips more recently than you've changed your passwords. And here's another list, this one from Google.

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Cellphones, Cancer, and a Simple Solution

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:25 PM ET | Jun 4, 2008

Survival in the business world without a cellphone is unthinkable in this day and age. Even the idea that having that microwave antenna right next to your brain could increase the risk of developing brain tumors does not get factored into how most businesspeople use their cellphones. Granted, the risk is unclear, but are you sure you want to take that kind of chance?

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Mobile | Technology/Telecom

Gartner Looks At Security's Long-Range Future And Finds It Coming At Us Fast

Posted by Keith Ferrell 04:43 PM ET | Jun 2, 2008

We spend so much time responding to -- or reacting to -- daily security threats and challenges that it's all too easy to overlook (or just plain avoid) taking a long-range look at the security future. Gartner points out that such denial is a mistake, a big one, with long-range consequences.

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Are Your Employee's Phones Secure? All Of Them? Really?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:41 AM ET | May 30, 2008

Can a single unsecured smartphone compromise your business's security? Looks that way -- and that should make you look hard at who's got phones in your company, and how they're using them.

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Exinda Tunes Up WAN Optimization Appliance Line

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 04:17 PM ET | May 27, 2008

WAN optimization was once solely under the aegis of large corporations. Recently, vendors dropped the prices points for these products from tens of thousands to a few thousand dollars, so interest among small and medium businesses is picking up.

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Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

Mob Making Cyber Moves: Organized Crime Versus Disorganized Defenses

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:58 PM ET | May 27, 2008

The news that organized crime is now a bigger cyber-havoc player than independent hackers isn't surprising: as Willie Sutton said of banks in the last century, the Net is now "where the money is."

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TVA 's Scary Security Lapses Have Big Lessons For Small And Midsize Businesses

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:09 AM ET | May 23, 2008

The news that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) -- the largest U.S. public electric utility -- is riddled with security lapses should give pause to cybersecurity watchers and worriers everywhere. And the nature of those lapses should be a reminder to every business in the country.

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Citrix Tries to Transition to The Virtual World

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 10:12 AM ET | May 21, 2008

Citrix has built a successful business by delivering solutions that minimize the amount of software that users run on their desktops. Because the industry is embracing virtualization, the company is in the process of dramatically retooling its lineup.

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Networking & Communications | Open Source | Technology/Telecom

Check Point Pushes Virtualized Browser Protection

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:58 AM ET | May 19, 2008

Browser vulnerabilities and threats -- malware, drive-by downloads, etc. -- is fast becoming the new security battleground. A new Check Point Technologies release promises that this will be a new security products battleground too.

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McAfee Spam Experiment Results: Spam Is Bad And There's Lots Of It

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:47 AM ET | May 14, 2008

All spam all the time -- that's what volunteers for McAfee's Global S.P.A.M (Spammed. Persistently. All. Month.) experiment looked for, and that's what they got when they turned in their brand-new, completely unprotected machines and opened themselves to the deluge.

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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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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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