Business & E-Business
May 2009 Archive
bMighty News Flash: Friday May 29, 2009
May 29, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: The most dangerous search terms, HP, IBM top server vendors, mobile payment users will double by 2012, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Thursday May 28, 2009
May 28, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: More than half of SMBs own a laptop and prefer Dell, SortPrice offers merchants free application for building virtual stores on Facebook platform, and more. . .
bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 27, 2009
May 27, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA report finds small business loans of $1 million or less fell 4% from 2007 rates, Windows 7 RC has an impressive enterprise ecosystem, but misses opportunities, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 26, 2009
May 26, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Monthly small business confidence index slides 10 points, Microsoft rumored to be renaming Kumo search engine "Bing," and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
Today's Business Leaders Talk IT For SMBs
May 26, 2009 | Leading executives, managers, and experts from small and midsize businesses and large enterprises share their insights and perspectives with bMighty on a host of IT issues, challenges, and opportunities that SMBs face.
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Friday May 22, 2009
May 22, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Bill Gates says tech will lift U.S. out of recession, Google accelerates Chrome 2 for Windows, Facebook users hit with another phishing attack, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
How To Make Sure Search Engines Find Your Business Web Site
May 22, 2009 | You may have spent big bucks designing and building a sleek, cutting-edge business Web site, but if search engines can't find you neither will your customers. Build your site right and the search engines will find you regardless of how fancy or simple your site is.
By Amanda C. Kooser
bMighty News Flash: Thursday May 21, 2009
May 21, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA announces emergency bridge-lending program, SMB credit-card usage increases, SMB credit demand increasing, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 20, 2009
May 20, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Synology launches new storage solutions for SMBs, managed services model helps companies weather recession, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 19, 2009
May 19, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: IBM launches Smart Cube appliance preloaded with Intuit QuickBooks, Verizon Business introduces bundles for SMBs, eazybusiness launches suite of cloud apps for SMBs, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
National Small Business Week
May 19, 2009 | From coping with the recession to government stimulus to how technology can give your businesses an edge, bMighty brings you the important stories from National Small Business Week.
By bMighty Staff
Why Startups Get A Free Pass During A Recession: Q&A With Attorney Andrew Sherman
May 19, 2009 | Hesitant to start a new business while the economy is still in the dumps? On the contrary, now might actually be the perfect time to turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality.
By Gayle Kesten
bMighty News Flash: Monday May 18, 2009
May 18, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Study finds SMBs want more support from government, but one in four expect turnaround to begin in late 2009, more than 60% of Web sites contain serious vulnerabilities, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
Marketing Strategies During A Recession: Q&A With IBM's Matt Friedman
May 18, 2009 | If it takes one to know one, than who better than a former small-business owner to oversee IBM's initiative to make it easier for growing businesses to acquire technology.
By Gayle Kesten
bMighty News Flash: Friday May 15, 2009
May 15, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Gartner predicts Windows 7 will kill Vista, Verio launches online community site to help SMBs expand online presence, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Thursday May 14, 2009
May 14, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: New vendor-neutral alliance to provide support for MySQL users, some Google users unable to use Internet search, Gmail, other Google Apps, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
Why SMBs Need A Web Presence: Q&A With Andy Leff Of 7Mainstreet
May 14, 2009 | Without a Web site, small and midsize businesses pass up valuable opportunities to generate new business and reach new markets. Too many SMBs don't launch a Web site or an e-commerce site because they think it will be expensive -- think again.
By
Benjamin Tomkins
bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 13, 2009
May 13, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Microsoft promises 10,000 Windows 7-friendly products vowing OS won't repeat Vista's compatibility glitches, Aruba introduces Virtual Branch Network for connecting remote workers to applications and resources, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
Plan B: An SMB's Guide To Making Do During The Recession
May 13, 2009 | bMighty's Fredric Paul presents his unique guide to affordable alternatives to the technology you really want.
By
Fredric Paul
bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 12, 2009
May 12, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Mozilla puts Web apps on the desktop, Microsoft aligning Windows 7, SQL Server, Office Optimization, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Monday May 11, 2009
May 11, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: 65% of smb leaders stay awake worrying about their business according to Small Business Opinion Poll, Dell extends SMB Solutions Centre to 10 countries, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
Mid-Market Hero: SAFE Credit Union Introduces Online Features To Compete With Big Banks
May 11, 2009 | Faced with growing demand from customers for online banking services, SAFE Credit Union turned to a familiar provider of consumer accounting applications to introduce big bank functionality without spending big bank bucks.
By
Scott Koegler
bMighty News Flash
May 10, 2009 | A daily dose of the day's top tech news for small and midsize businesses.
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Friday May 8, 2009
May 8, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: PlumChoice VAR can now create custom Web sites to offering support services, Almost 50% of small business owners don't back up data according to study from SOS Online Backup, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
5 Tips For Taking Business Video Viral
May 8, 2009 | Putting up an online video can snare millions of viewers for your business and the cost for you can be almost nothing. It's time to take another look at the business potential of online video.
By David Carnoy
bMighty News Flash: Thursday May 7, 2009
May 7, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SMBs will buy 1.1 million netbooks increasing global shipments 5.4%, new Xerox ColorQube multifunction printer uses solid ink technology to cut cost and reduce waste, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 6, 2009
May 6, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Businesses spend less on energy efficiency due to bad economy, Windows 7 XP mode doesn't work on all processors only Intel VT or AMD-V, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 5, 2009
May 5, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Fed survey finds 10 consecutive quarters of tightening credit for SMBs, BlackBerry gets Google Apps support for Google e-mail and calendar services, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
Ask Steve: Five Ways To Succeed In Tough Times
May 5, 2009 | The leaders of four channel partners join Yankee Group's Steve Hilton to discuss what it takes to be successful in today's dour economic and emotional times.
By Steve Hilton, Courtesy of Yankee Group
bMighty News Flash: Monday May 4, 2009
May 4, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA temporarily eases lending standards increasing loan access for approximately 70,000 small businesses, Google and 47 other companies sued for trademark infringement of Android name, BlackBerry increases market share taking smartphone lead from iPhone, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
bMighty News Flash: Friday May 1, 2009
May 1, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Study finds increases in creation rate for new businesses, research indicates people will turn away from low cost netbooks as economy improves, Apple considers prices reductions on some Macs, and more. . .
By bMighty Staff
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ANTenna Blog
News, Views, Insight, And Advice
| Cyber Monday Security Risks Are All Business |
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 |
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? |
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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