Manufacturing & Mining

Fujitsu To Offer Cloud Services

December 8, 2009 | The company enters the ranks of cloud competitors, supplying computing infrastructure as a service through its expanded data centers. The new service is targeting the retail, financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare markets.
By Charles Babcock, Courtesy of InformationWeek

How HP Plans To Rule The SMB World

November 11, 2009 | Vowing to overcome past problems, HP unveils its latest not-so-secret plan for worldwide SMB domination. There's lots to like, but low prices don't seem to be the company's top priority.
By Fredric Paul

8 Tips for SMBs Doing Business in China

September 7, 2009 | The fast-growing Chinese market offers a huge opportunity -- even for small and midsize companies. These invaluable suggestions can help your company take advantage of the potential, without getting burned.
By Hal Josephson

Mid-Market Hero: Vetrazzo Marries Recycled Glass With New Information Technology

April 13, 2009 | Former software exec James Sheppard relies on cloud-based technology to power a vibrant, eco-friendly countertop business that's thriving in an industrial-age automotive plant.
By Fredric Paul

Make Presentations Go Virtual With Webinars

March 20, 2009 | Fight the high cost of gas and air travel with your own Webinars. They're great marketing tools for communicating with customers and can help fight customer attrition while earning your business repeat sales.
By Kim T. Gordon

Q&A With Chas Roy-Chowdhury: How The Stimulus Bill Will Affect Smaller Businesses

February 17, 2009 | Now that the stimulus bill is starting to seem like a reality, it's time to figure out what's in it for small and midsize businesses. bMighty talked with Chas Roy-Chowdhury of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, and you might not like what he has to say.
By Jennifer Moline

How To Take Your Business Green

February 12, 2009 | So your company wants to go green, but it doesn't know where to start? bMighty's Green IT Toolbox has the tools you need, including which aspects of your business can go green, what resources you can refer to, and how to get started. After all, green IT can be good for the planet AND your wallet.
By Jennifer Moline

Ask Steve: How To Get Rid Of Old IT Assets

October 20, 2008 | Are there old PCs, servers, printers, or network cables lying around your office? You don't use them anymore, yet there they sit gathering dust. Yankee Group's Steve Hilton discusses what to do with your outdated technology and how asset recovery programs can save your business money and ensure you comply with government regulations.
By Steve Hilton, Courtesy of Yankee Group

Ask Steve: The Outlook for Ultra Mobile PCs

June 16, 2008 | Fully featured mobile computing lingers on the horizon like a mirage despite burgeoning bandwidth and connectivity creeping toward every corner. So when will Ulta Mobile PCs take off? Yankee Group's Steve Hilton looks to Star Trek for answers in this month's Ask Steve.
By Steve Hilton, Courtesy of Yankee Group

Building a Better RFID Reader

October 18, 2007 | ThingMagic's Yael Maguire figured out how to get RFID tags to be read more easily and accurately. Now he believes there is nothing this technology can't do
By Naomi Grossman

Can Solar Power Cut Business Costs?

August 14, 2007  | Can solar power a manufacturing plant? Can it solve your business energy needs if you are leasing? Find out what's new for business in solar power.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems

What is the Double Bottom Line?

August 14, 2007  | In this European accounting process, profits and sustainability are of equal weight. Find out what it will mean to you when it hits the U.S.
Courtesy of Cisco Systems


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News, Views, Insight, And Advice

Remote Assistance Thriller: Dial "S" For "Scam"

Matthew McKenzie, 12.16.2009

A new scam involving remote support software recently surfaced in the United Kingdom. Before you snicker at just how gullible the victims appear to be, ask yourself whether your company's PCs are vulnerable to precisely this sort of attack. Read Post

Project Honey Pot: Over One Billion Spammers Served

Matthew McKenzie, 12.16.2009

This week, Project Honey Pot identified its one billionth spam message. Find out what it has learned from that torrent of junk email -- and what you can do to make its efforts to stop spam even more successful. Read Post

HP Software To Boost Cloud Computing For SMBs

Fredric Paul, 12.16.2009

HP Operations Orchestration and HP Cloud Assure for cost control are designed to help companies take better advantage of cloud computing's inherent flexibility and elasticity, while mitigating potential risks. Read Post

2010 Cybercrime Goals: Symantec

Keith Ferrell, 12.16.2009

What do cybercrooks want next year? According to Symantec Hosted Services, they want bigger and badder botnets, pathways through CAPTCHA traps, local language spam and plenty of hooks as good as Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods.  Read Post

Laptop? Smartphone? Netbook? How about a Tablet?

Paul Korzeniowski, 12.15.2009

Small is the new Large! Given users newfound proclivity to bound from place rather than sit at their desks, suppliers have been developing a bevy of mobile devices. Broadcom is the latest supplier to jump into this space with silicon that can be used for a portable computing tablet, a market that soon could receive a big boost from industry game changer, Apple Inc. Read Post

iMac Shipments Delayed: Multiple Problems Reported

Jake Widman, 12.14.2009

The 27-inch iMacs, introduced in October, are now showing a two-week ship time. Apple has not said why, but an independent website has been documenting issues with the new machines ranging from flickering screens to whistling displays. Read Post

ADTRAN Jumps Into Unified Communications Market

Fredric Paul, 12.14.2009

Aimed at companies with 5 to 2,000 users, the networking vendor's NetVanta Unified Communications (UC) Solution Suite includes voice mail, unified messaging, fax server, presence, and auto attendant features. Read Post

Egnyte Extends Cloud-Based Hybrid Storage To NAS Devices

Fredric Paul, 12.08.2009

The company is announcing Egnyte Local Cloud on Network Attached Storage (NAS), which expands the hybrid concept from Direct Attached Storage (DAS). The combination is designed to let SMBs combine local and cloud-based storage to maximize security, backup, and performance.  Read Post

"Favorite Places On Google" Takes On Zagat, Yelp

Fredric Paul, 12.07.2009

In addition to its announcement of Real Time Search today, Google also rolled out a program to put stickers in the windows of 100,000 local businesses in 9,000 cities across the country. Read Post

Comcast-NBC Deal Highlights Net Neutrality Issue

Fredric Paul, 12.03.2009

What does it mean when the nation's largest Internet Service Provider, like Comcast, buys one of the biggest content creators in the world, like NBC? For one thing, it means the already contentious issue of Net Neutrality is about to get even more heated. Hopefully, it will galvanize the FCC to create and implement Net Neutrality rules that protect the interests of small and midsize businesses.  Read Post

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