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April 2009 Archive

Why You Should Take Your Company Mobile

April 27, 2009 | Interested in starting up a business but concerned about infrastructure costs? Cut those down significantly with a mobile company. In this recession, it's more cost effective to invest in some laptops and smartphones rather than shell out a bunch of cash for a brick-and-mortar office.
By Jennifer Moline

Putting Public Social Networks To Work For Business

April 15, 2009 | Companies are exploiting public social networking sites for valid business purposes. However, a lack of enterprise-class controls makes management of users akin to herding cats. By adopting strong policies for business use of public social networks, small and midsize businesses can maximize value and safeguard against inappropriate connections between personal and business contacts.
By Courtesy of Info-Tech Research Group

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday April 14, 2009

April 14, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: VC Funding Slump, EMC Storage Upgrade, , and more. . .
By bMighty Staff

Q&A With Imprivata's David Ting: Protecting Your Company From Insider Threats

April 14, 2009 | As more businesses undergo layoffs, disgruntled employees -- including a lot of tech-savvy ones -- are looking for ways to exact revenge by sabotaging systems and stealing data. But there are ways to protect your company, and they involve a keen awareness of your IT.
By Jennifer Moline

bMighty News Flash: Thursday April 9, 2009

April 9, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA Lending, FCC Broadband, Ad Spending Increases, Internet Surpassing TV, Yahoo Loses Toolbar, SMB App & Service Market Growth, Linux Poised For Recovery, Paragon Partitioning Software, Social Networks & Software Developers, SMS Spam Ban, Virgin Mobile Pricing, iPhone Memory, 802.11n Routers, Bluetooth 3.0, SMB Security Survey, Conficker Redux. . .
By bMighty Staff

Do Netbooks Really Have A Role At SMBs?

April 8, 2009 | Insight from laptop vendors and other parties on whether small and midsize businesses really want netbooks -- and what SMBs actually do with them.
By Fredric Paul

bMighty News Flash: Monday April 6, 2009

April 6, 2009 | Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Sun doomed without IBM? YouTube losing big, Federal Stimulus for IT, online ad rates decline, AdWords trademark ruling, Ubuntu for Amazon cloud, Mac clones, XP incentive for Win7, Android tablet, Panasonic reorg, Microsemi PoE, Netgear ReadyNAS, Koobface fighters, fraud v. personal safety, Facebook's Haystack, Chrome EULA kerfuffle, RatePoint SMB reviews. . .
By bMighty Staff

Financial Crisis Survival Kit

April 2, 2009 | In the face of the current financial crisis, small- and midsize-business owners need strategies, tips, and tricks to help their companies weather the storm and emerge poised for the future.
By bMighty Staff


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ANTenna Blog
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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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