Archive: September 2004

September 30, 2004

Sony's Business Notebooks - what makes them different?

Sony is known for its great consumer notebooks and has recently launched a line of business notebooks. Mike Abary,...

September 30, 2004

Would you get FIRED for buying Microsoft Office?

In a hilarious parody of some of Microsoft Office's annoying features and usability issues Corel's Word Perfect team has...

September 30, 2004

The Broadband Boom

From the National Federation of Independent Business - The number of broadband Internet connections in the United States increases...

September 30, 2004

Blogging for Business
Weblogs are all the rage around the Internet. Can they help your business? Sure, with the right approach.

By now I'm sure most of you have heard about blogging, an easy way to publish content to a website....

September 30, 2004

Virtual Offices come in many shapes and sizes

Yesterday Groove hosted an online seminar about how to create a virtual office, of course touting its very good...

September 30, 2004

Are you satisfied with your DSL provider?

If you're not consider Verizon. In a Yankee Group study the telecom giant had top scores in in a broadband...

September 29, 2004

Sprint's Treo 600 - A real phone with real email

For about 30 days I had access to all my email from Treo's 600 smartphone. It's a wonderful feeling....

September 28, 2004

The Backup Diva: Data Backup is More than Data Backup

I recently sat down with Veritas' Backup Diva, Julie Parrish, Vice President, Americas Field and Channel Marketing Veritas backup...

September 28, 2004

lntuit makes things SIMPLER or MORE INTUITIVE for its smaller customers

Intuit's QuickBooks is used by millions of small businesses around the world to manage their finances. It's a program...

September 28, 2004

CISCO offers lower priced productd

Although Information Week had a headline that read, "Cisco Goes For The Small-Business Market", I'm not sure what this...

September 27, 2004

"If they like you, believe in you and trust, they may buy from you"

"If they like you, believe in you and trust, they may buy from you," Jeffrey Gitomer expressed one if...

September 27, 2004

All In One Document Management (Pst -it's all in the software)

Small businesses, especially those in SOHO environments want as little hardware as possible in order to give them as...

September 25, 2004

Low Cost Network Appliance for SMBs

Green Computer Innovation has launched a security appliance available under $2000. If your business is looking for an out-of-box...

September 24, 2004

NetSuite continues to launch a salvo of attacks directly at Intuit's QuickBooks customers, specifically targeting those customers who have "outgrown...

September 23, 2004

SERIOUS VIRUS WARNING

We have always known that as long as you don't "execute" or "click" on an attachment in an email you'll...

September 23, 2004

1&1 Internet - 9 months - 250,000 domains

1&1 Internet launched its US operations (it's a German owned company) in January 2004. Since then it's registered 250,000 domains....

September 23, 2004

Wireless Storage - Sometimes simple things are best

Imagine a small appliance that does one thing - stores files. Imagine that this appliance was wirelessly enabled. No physical...

September 23, 2004

Calling all document imaging VARs

Xerox and Visioneer - document imaging companies - join forces to target VARs Document imaging leaders Xerox and Visioneer have...

September 23, 2004

Fast (no Wi-Fi) internet access

Imagine being on the train, in the car, in the subway, bus or at a client's place and accessing the...

September 23, 2004

Documents to Go - being productive on your PDA

I've been using DataViz's Documents To Go Standard Edition for several months now, maybe more than a year and...

September 22, 2004

Want Voice over the Internet? CDW offers 5 pointers

According to Bryan Cohen,a senior sales engineer for CDW, there are 5 initial conditions companies need to have in place...

September 22, 2004

Wireless networks are still not catching on

Businesses have enough headaches to worry about using wired networks and thinking about viruses, phishing and etc. Adding a...

September 21, 2004

Cebit is now C3Expo

Well the suspense is finally over. Cebit is now C3 Expo. Here's a snip from today's press release: Responding to...

September 21, 2004

ConstantContact reaches Hypermart customers

Hypermart, my web host, is now offering email marketing services by Constant Contact the service I use to produce...

September 21, 2004

The Mobile Office is a Reality with the Right Solution

If you need to access your office data on the road there's many vendors who can help. Sprint, Verizon, AT&T...

September 21, 2004

SCORE NYC audience is enthused about web sites

Today, Ramon Ray, Technology Evangelist and Editor of Smallbiztechnology.com presented his third seminar of the year to the SBA's Service...

September 21, 2004

Online Backup Service: Lack of Support Gives it a D+

Backing up your data, is VERY important but at times it can be a challenge to set up. You can...

September 21, 2004

Yankee Group Predicts Linux on SMB desktops (not)

Less than 1% of businesses with fewer than 500 employees have Linux on their desktop PCs. The Yankee group's...

September 21, 2004

More than passwords - "James Bond" security

Most of us use passwords to access "secure" areas of our digital lives - web sites, email, ATM machines and...

September 20, 2004

Satisfied customers are not the same as loyal customers

Forbes writes These days, technology providers take nothing for granted, especially their customers: There are plenty of stories of providers...

September 20, 2004

Strategies for Succeeding in a Small Business

Join Smallbiztechnology.com's Ramon Ray on, Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at the Small Business Administration's "Strategies for Succeeding in Small Business"...

September 17, 2004

Save money using Windows

While I'm not for smaller businesses ditching their Windows operating system in favor of installing Linux, I am in...

September 17, 2004

Is Microsoft's Internet Explorer really in trouble?

There's a lot of the media yelling about how Microsoft is "losing" its share of the web browser market...

September 16, 2004

Building a Reseller Channel Takes Hard Work

It's one thing to get a team of resellers to sell so they can make a profit. But it's...

September 16, 2004

A new company aims to make home networking easier

As more people buy multiple computers for their homes, its best to create a network that can enable these...

September 15, 2004

Lexmark's Color Laser Printer - what a beauty

I've been using Lexmark's Color Laser Printer C510 and it continues to churn out good color prints at a...

September 15, 2004

Amazon.com's new search engine

I've been using Google as my main search engine for information. I turn to Yahoo when I want a nice...

September 15, 2004

Gateway Shifts Back to Personal Computers

Gateway has tried to grow by going beyond the personal computer market and selling consumer items such as digital...

September 15, 2004

Radio Frequency Identfication options expand

RFID enables businesses to keep better track of their products - inventory, theft reduction, shipment tracking and more. As...

September 15, 2004

Security - watch in and outside of your company

Remember security is not just about securing your business from outside threats. It's also about ensuring you hvae measures...

September 14, 2004

Home Networking Book from Cisco - it's all you need

Cisco's Home Networking A Visual Do It Yourself Guide is an excellent instruction manual in setting up a home...

September 14, 2004

Computer Infrared Ports Can Be Used to Hack Into Your Computer

Laptops have increased business productivity in countless ways. No longer does an employee sit on an airplane content to...

September 14, 2004

Laplink Helps You Move into Your New PC

Upgrading from one computer to another is not easy. With that in mind Laplink announced today the release of...

September 14, 2004

Learning from Schools

Universities have had major problems with their computers and networks being infected with viruses. Busineses might be able to...

September 14, 2004

India software boom predicted to grow

There's a whole political debate about this issue. Do you support America by keeping jobs here, or do you...

September 14, 2004

Circuit City Gets Online Makeover

AdWeek.com is reporting that This is the first significant revamp of CircuitCity.com since its launch in 1999. The site...

September 14, 2004

Firefox browser to hit 1.0 milestone

I've been using the FireFox browser and do like it - but it has some problems that make me go...

September 14, 2004

Linux Boosters Look To Keep The OS Together

Although Linux is growing in popularity, one of many things that holds it back is that there are so...

September 14, 2004

Does Online Banking Put Your Money at Risk?

Online banking is a nice convenience for many of us. However, PC World rightfully asks, "Does Online Banking Put...

September 14, 2004

McAfee - gives us your email, we'll keep it safe

If you are worried about getting a virus from incoming email, and get too much spam McAfee is launching...

September 14, 2004

All Windows E-Mail Clients Suck

Mitch Wagner of TechWeb.com writes As I write this column, I'm trying to send an important e-mail. I've got...

September 13, 2004

Keyspan - little products, huge efficiency from a great company.

Keyspan's one of those companies whose brand fills your desk at work, your travel bag and other nooks and crannies....

September 13, 2004

A Database in the Water

You know how important a database can be for your business. Allowing you to keep better records of customers,...

September 13, 2004

Squarespace Lets Users Manage Multi-Page Web Sites

There's so many web publishing tools on the market, that can do various things. I'm not sure how good this...

September 13, 2004

The TEC "Q" Report

Technology Evaluation Centers Inc.(TEC), is pleased to announce the launch of The TEC "Q" Report, a quarterly review of...

September 12, 2004

EarthLink Gets Smart(phones)

Forbes writes EarthLink has begun selling smartphones, a move that makes it the first Internet service provider to offer its...

September 12, 2004

New Microsoft Hardware

Microsoft Corp. unveiled nine mice and keyboards tailored to today's consumer-computing activities with innovations that set new standards for...

September 12, 2004

Databases are nothing by themselves

A database, the database program itself that is, is nothing if there's no applications to go with it and make...

September 12, 2004

Lexmark offers affordable wireless printing capabilities for small and medium businesses

Printing is something businesses often do with no thought. However the wires involved can at tims make printing not a...

September 10, 2004

Bloomba soon to support full IMAP email

Many rave about how good email program Bloomba is but what turned me away was its lack of support...

September 10, 2004

Enterprise Applications in the US Small, Medium and Large Business Markets- Market Segmentation Report

A new AMI-Partners study, "Enterprise Applications in the US Small, Medium and Large Business Markets- Market Segmentation Report" finds...

September 10, 2004

ACRONIS launches a (lame) online resource center

Acronis, maker of storage management solutions, announced a new online education center, but the resource center is not full of...

September 10, 2004

Centrepoint Technologies launches new telephone system with hybrid capability for VoIP and PSTN calling

CenterPoint makes simple, low cost and effective telecommunication systems perfectly designed for the small-medium sized business market and Centrepoint Technologies,...

September 10, 2004

Resellers make or break tech vendors

Very few technology companies sell their products ONLY direct. Many, wisely, build reseller channels. A network of local resellers can...

September 10, 2004

TrendMicro launches new online security tools

In its continued effort to improve products and fight its competition (Symantec, McAfee, CA and others) Trend Micro, Inc. announced...

September 10, 2004

MCPC.COM runs smallbiztechnology.com's news feed

Smallbiztechnology.com is pleased to announced that MCPC.COM is now carrying Smallbiztechnology.com's news feed...

September 9, 2004

Data (and a phone) in your pocket - BlackBerry or SideKick

RIM launches a new BlackBerry device. It has a better keyboard according to USA Today and it looks more like...

September 9, 2004

Windows XP's Service Pack 2 Update

Last night the automatic Windows Update utility downloaded the latest updated for Windows XP, Service Pack 2. I was...

September 8, 2004

ISYS Email rocks

I had downloaded ISYS Email a few weeks ago after reading about it in the NY Times. However it was...

September 8, 2004

Mozilla FireFox. I'm back to Internet Explorer for some things

I really like the web browswer Mozilla Firefox but it crashes too often. So for my 30 - 60 minute...

September 8, 2004

Smart Phone Market Growing More Crowded

While SmartPhones are nice and fancy most people just want a phone to do one thing - talk. For specific...

September 8, 2004

Microsoft turns attention to customer satisfaction

There's a lot of challanges to Microsoft's growth. One huge threat is open source software. The other threat is...

September 8, 2004

Online Advertising - we love it and hate it.

USA Today reporter Eric Sinrod writes that a recent study shows that while consumers show they dislike online advertising...

September 8, 2004

Verizon speeds up home DSL

If you are a home user of Verizon DSL services, the service you have is often slower than your...

September 8, 2004

Lexmark is recalling some printers

Lexmark is recalling almost 40,000 printers due to a potentail electric shock hazard. To read the full recall information...

September 7, 2004

Taiwanese PC Maker on Verge of Sales Push Into U.S. and China

I am in the market for a PC for my children. One option is to buy a Dell computer on...

September 7, 2004

Sony reportedly to revamp PC strategy for U.S.

I (and other media outlets) reported this back in July (search on Sony). Cnet writes Sony is revamping its strategy...

September 7, 2004

Review: Microsoft's OneNote Organizes Data

While I'm sure Microsoft's OneNote can do much more than my simple Palm and Palm Desktop I store all my...

September 7, 2004

Talking heads are catching on as Web meetings take off

I've written about Web meetings before. But here's more on it today from USA Today....

September 7, 2004

Floppy disk reaches old age, nearing death

I've used floppy disks less and less and less. In fact I don't even use USB hard disk key's that...

September 6, 2004

Marketing to your customer's cell phones

Direct mail, banner ads, Yellow Pages, and more are all marketing avenues available to businesses. More businesses are seeing that...

September 4, 2004

Why is my modem so slow and other things?

I've recently moved and after setting up one of my computers (there's three in my home office now) I could...

September 3, 2004

Hawaii Home Loans + Sprint = Success

Leonard Loventhal, Executive Vice President / Production Manager at Hawaii Home Loan's tells me that right from the beginning of...

September 3, 2004

The Long Arm of the Law Reaches Online

The Justice Department recently announced Operation Web Snare, a major crackdown on cyber-crime that will include arrests, subpoenas and...

September 3, 2004

Taking E-Commerce to the Next Level without Annoying Your Cusotmers

As you sit back and realize that now you've been successfully selling online for several months (or years), maybe it's...

September 3, 2004

Intuit's Online Software Addict

Inside Quick Books Online Paul Rosenfeld, is Intuit's Quick Books Online Edition General Manager and he's crazy about the world...

September 3, 2004

Need Technology? Have few $$$? See IBM.

When you need to buy new technology and/or refresh old technology what do you do? + Buying new computers, printers...

September 3, 2004

The Case of Backing up To Tape

I have backed up my data to tape but recently switched to backing up to a hard disk on another...

September 3, 2004

Protecting Your Files When a Password Isn't Enough

What happens if your notebook gets lost or stolen? What happens if you have important date in your files? What...

September 2, 2004

Big Solutions For Small Business

Forbes writes Is Microsoft's Business Solutions the next Windows? The next Office? Or just a small unit with outsized expectations?...

September 2, 2004

Is HP losing resellers to Dell

Having resllers is a key strategy to the vendors like HP and IBM in competing with Dell (which goes direct)...

September 2, 2004

Online businesses are succeeding

Growing an online business is NOT easy, but can be done. There's two types of online businesses however. 1. Those...

September 2, 2004

Windows XP update: Go Slow

Before you consider updating your computer's Windows XP to the latest version of Windows make sure your existing applications won't...

September 2, 2004

What Happens to "Hidden" Software

There's a lot of great software on the market available for businesses to purchase. But what happens if the software...

September 1, 2004

Your Web Site is Not Important

A web site is one of many possible assets in your box of marketing and customer service tools. I believe...