Hardware & Software
March 2008 Archive

Government, Bain Put Kibosh on 3Com's Reorganization Plans

March 31, 2008 | The sinking ship known as 3Com Corp. took on more water recently. The company's ballyhooed plans to take itself private and emerge as a lean, mean software supplier were quashed by the U.S. Government and losses continue to mount, casting the vendor's future in doubt
By Paul Korzeniowski

It's a (Web) Hit

March 27, 2008 | Get customers psyched about your smaller business by using all the Web has to offer
By John Jantsch

SLIDESHOW: The Top 5 All-in-One Desktops

March 26, 2008 | Why should a smaller business consider an all-in-one? They're space savers, they've got lots of cool features built right in, and the most recent entries to the market are sleeker and more powerful than ever. It's time to give these overlooked machines their due.
By Naomi Grossman

Green IT: The 5 Essential Questions Smaller Businesses Need to Ask

March 25, 2008 | Greening data centers isn't a top priority for smaller businesses, but it should be. Even companies with just a few servers in a closet can realize gains in energy efficiency, reliability, and business continuity. Asking the right questions will help your businesses reap the benefits of green IT
By Jennifer Zaino

Automate Your Online Business

March 20, 2008 | These 4 easy steps will save you time, make you money, and free you up to run your business from anywhere in the world
By Mitch Meyerson

Open Source VoIP: What Your Smaller Business Needs

March 17, 2008 | With its ability to lower the cost of voice applications and spur additional deployments, open source VoIP could be the solution smaller businesses have been looking for
By Paul Korzeniowski

Generation Collaboration

March 14, 2008 | Employees are looking for more than a paycheck these days -- the good ones want an interesting, innovative environment. Today's collaboration tools can help you do that, if you use them in the right spirit
By Roger Farnsworth

SLIDESHOW: Building the Mac Office

March 12, 2008 | From needing to outfit an office with minimal IT assistance to realizing that your network problems aren't inevitable to just wanting a nicer décor, there are lots of reasons to Go Mac. But now you need to know how to get your Mac office up and running. We've filtered through Apple's, and other Mac vendors', products to take you on a visual tour of your future infrastructure.
By Jake Widman

I Thought Wiki Was a Don Ho Song

March 7, 2008 | Wikis can help your smaller business do things like share best practices, show development, and mitigate information overload. At least that's what Jimmy Ray Purser wanted his to do. Find out what he learned about wikis and building an online community
By Jimmy Ray Purser

Q&A With Dan Sarel and Slavik Markovich: Database Security for Smaller Businesses -- Now More Than Ever

March 5, 2008 | Your database -- and its privacy -- is crucial to your company's survival and success, but the bad guys are figuring out new ways to break into it. We talked with database security experts about how to protect and monitor a database and mitigate the damages should disaster strike
By Naomi Grossman