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September 2007 Archive

When Employees Leave, Make Sure They're Gone

September 25, 2007 | Employee resignations and layoffs raise questions about network security and data security. Here are 7 ways to protect your small or midsize business
By Keith Ferrell

Move Over, Mick. IT Workers Want Satisfaction, Too

September 18, 2007 | The IT job market is more stable than it's been in a long while. Stability engenders navel-gazing, and IT workers are noticing how they're being treated, how interesting their work is, and whether their salaries are fair
By Naomi Grossman

Bad Idea: Putting Hackers on Vendors' Payrolls

September 14, 2007 | IT vendors are rewarding the industry's bad boys -- hackers -- and the practice is fraught with potential problems for small and midsize businesses
By Paul Korzeniowski

Municipal Wi-Fi Networks Hit a Few Bumps

September 12, 2007 | Cities offering Wi-Fi services seemed like such a good idea. But in many areas, the projects are falling apart. Who loses? Small and midsized businesses
By Paul Korzeniowski

Putting IT Management in Its Place

September 11, 2007 | If IT plays a role in enabling the competitive advantages of your small or midsize business, then IT management needs to be at the same level as the CFO, COO, and other CxO titles
By Mike Bohlmann

Time to Get Tough on Spammers

September 7, 2007 | The top 10 of the world's top spammers account for 80% of the Internet's bogus traffic. About 90% of the e-mail making its way to your network is spam. The IT industry needs to push law enforcement to get rid of spam as soon as possible.
By Paul Korzeniowski

While You Were Sleeping

September 5, 2007 | Eighty percent of system failures are caused by failed changes that disrupt systems, or by unauthorized or unplanned changes. Having an enforceable change control policy in place can curb such failures -- so you can sleep at night
By Thomas Lesica

Your Business Is Ready For Viruses. Now, How About The Flu?

September 4, 2007 | The Big Flu is coming. Many of your employees will be working from home, or not at all. How prepared is your company for this?
By Keith Ferrell


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Cyber Monday Security Risks Are All Business

Keith Ferrell, 11.25.2009

Why Cyber Monday for the online shopping surge? Because for many, Monday's the first working day after Thanksgiving. Which means they can do their online shopping on business time, on the business dime, using business machines over business connections. You may not be able -- or want -- to do anything about the productivity drop, but at least you can tell your people to shop safely. Read Post

Fusion-io: This Ain't Your Father's SSD Hardware

Matthew McKenzie, 11.25.2009

Think your new SATA solid-state hard drive is hot stuff? There's a new kid on the block that will make it look like a relic from the storage Stone Age. Read Post

Black Friday FOR SMBs, Not Just BY SMBs?

Fredric Paul, 11.24.2009

Typically, Black Friday is a sales event where companies offer big discounts to consumers to spur sales the day after Thanksgiving. But in today's economy (ITE) companies are also pushing Black Friday to their SMB customers.  Read Post

Holiday Internet Marketing Grows, A QuickBooks Marketing App Gets Upgraded, And A New Entry-Level Shopping Cart

Fredric Paul, 11.24.2009

A new Constant Contact survey says SMBs are boosting their Internet marketing for the Holidays, ClickFuel has upgraded its FuelStation online marketing dashboard to work with QuickBooks 2010 and QuickBooks Pro, and ProPay's CartLite is an entry-level shopping cart.  Read Post

Unified Communications Looks to the Sky

Paul Korzeniowski, 11.23.2009

To date, cloud computing has had little impact on the Unified Communications (UC) market. The underlying technology has been slow to fall into place, the cost of these services has been high, the benefits have been hard to pinpoint, and the distribution channel has been weak. Infrastructure providers, such Broadsoft, Cisco, and Microsoft, have been pushing to overcome those barriers and may be close to providing small and medium businesses with more UC cloud options. Read Post

Storage, Storage, Storage: New Storage Devices In 3 Sizes

Fredric Paul, 11.23.2009

Data storage choices for SMBs just keep on coming as Data Robotics and Synology debut new storage solutions for prosumers, small businesses, and the midmarket.  Read Post

Yes, Virginia -- There IS A Google Phone

Matthew McKenzie, 11.18.2009

So -- you stay in touch with Google Mail, edit Google Docs, and surf the Web with Google Chrome. You're curious about Google Voice and intrigued over Google Music. Is it just a matter of time before you're carrying a Google Phone? Read Post

Handy Tool Makes Updating Mac Apps Easy

Jake Widman, 11.16.2009

MacUpdate Desktop simplifies the process of keeping your applications, preference panes, and widgets up to date by automatically downloading and installing what you need.  Read Post

Firefox Gets A Bad Rap From Shoddy Security Research

Matthew McKenzie, 11.11.2009

Is Firefox currently the Web browser most likely to stick your PC with a dangerous security vulnerability? Only if you believe headlines written by people who really should know better. Read Post

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