The bMighty Blog -- Travel

Faster Laptop Check-Throughs May Be In The Bag

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:50 AM ET | Jul 3, 2008

Just in time for higher airline ticket prices, reduced numbers of flights and capacities, cutbacks in travel budgets and the rest of the annoyances and irritations of what are quickly becoming the unfriendly skies, a new approach to laptop/notebook cases promises to speed road warriors' transit through airport security checks.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | Mobile | Security | Transportation | Travel

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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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Economics | IT | Operations | Travel

Second Time's the Charm for Blackberry

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:38 PM ET | Feb 12, 2008

For the second time in a year, Blackberry addicts, I mean users, have had to deal with a disruption in their service. This time it was their wireless connection to email and the Web. Did all those idling thumbs mean increased traffic in Apple stores?

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Travel

Free Wi-Fi At The Airport = Things To Do In Denver When You're Broke

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:15 PM ET | Dec 10, 2007

Denver International Airport is one of the busiest in United States. And now that DIA has moved to free, ad-supported wireless service, its airwaves may be as bustling as its airspace.

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Business & E-Business | Mobile | Transportation | Travel

Google Maps at the Gas Pump

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:27 AM ET | Nov 8, 2007

Attention all small and midsize business road warriors: Stopping at the gas station for directions when you're lost somewhere will no longer be a humiliating experience involving convoluted instructions from an attendant. Google Maps is coming to your gas pump.

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Internet/Web | Mobile | Travel

BlackBerry Users are the Happiest Business People

Posted by Naomi Grossman 10:53 AM ET | Nov 5, 2007

A new survey indicates that business smartphone users are most satisfied with their BlackBerry handhelds. We don't call them CrackBerrys for nothing.

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Business & E-Business | Mobile | Travel

Mobile Security: The Data, Not The Notebook Is The Asset

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:44 PM ET | Oct 15, 2007

Stolen laptops and notebooks continue to get a lot of attention when a lot of confidential data gets stolen along with the device.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Sales/Marketing | Security | Travel

It's IT's Job ý Not Mine

Posted by Naomi Grossman 02:08 PM ET | Aug 23, 2007

The employees in your company are all over the place, on the road, working in coffee shops, from home, in the airport, at a client's site ý you name it. But you, Mr. IT manager, don't have to worry. They know what they're doing, right? They listen to you when you tell them how to be careful and how to keep their machines and devices secure and virus-free, correct?

Wrong!

And guess what? It's all your fault.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Security | Technology/Telecom | Travel

Steal This Notebook

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:00 AM ET | Aug 14, 2007

I was sitting in a Chinese buffet restaurant the other day, dividing my attention between the potsickers on my plate and the activities of the businessman at a table across the room. We were the only two customers, although he was far from alone. Bluetooth-budded and Wi-Fi connected, he was carrying on conversations and speedtyping data while I wielded my chopsticks.

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Mobile | Networking & Communications | Security | Travel