Archive: April 2006

April 29, 2006

Microsoft Mappoint: 2006: More REVENUE with local customers.

For those businesses who need to know or should know where their customers are physically located, being able to see...

April 29, 2006

The Battle for Your Computer's Microprocessor: Innovation and Lower Prices

Intel's market share of computer processor's has dipped below 80% writes a recent CNN Fortune report. The report reads...

April 28, 2006

Aetna Insurance Data STOLEN - REMINDER

Aetna announced Aetna has notified approximately 38,000 members that an Aetna employee's laptop computer containing certain personal member information...

April 27, 2006

Yellow Machine For Your Data

Cnet/NY Times writes about a network storage device that stores 1,000 gigabytes. It's $999 and lets you access your...

April 27, 2006

Windows Vista: Kim Komando Speaks Out

Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows Vista, will be out in January of next year. I've written about it a bit...

April 26, 2006

ThinkFree's MSFT Office Competition. But Microsoft is NOT Scared nor should be.

PC World wrote a review of ThinkFree's newest hosted suite of software (spreadsheet, wordprocessor, etc) and writes However, even with...

April 26, 2006

750MB Hard Disk - Plenty of Storage for Just About Anything

I thought my 70GB hard drive was REALLY BIG (on my Gateway notebook computer) but when I read that...

April 26, 2006

First QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions User Conference

User conferences are opportunities for users, vendors and partners to get together and blend their needs. Users get up close...

April 26, 2006

IBM - Helping You Keep Track of Your Technology Investments

Those of you who have 25, 50 or so computers including several staff on the road MUST keep an inventory...

April 26, 2006

Cabinet NG Unveils CNG-BATCH at Annual User Conference

Cabinet NG announced CNG-BATCH, the latest software enhancement to its CNG-SAFE document management solution. CNG-BATCH enables users of CNG-SAFE to...

April 25, 2006

Xpaper - If You Love Paper You'll Love Xpaper

I got an email earlier today from Talario, a South Dakota company telling me about a technology they distribute...

April 25, 2006

Intel's New PC Platform - Keep Your Eye On It. It Could Save Your Money

Today Intel launched it's new platform for business computers, Intel vPro. This new initiative is more than a simple...

April 24, 2006

Technical Chasm - Generational Mindsets

As you go about introducing new technology in your business, do not RAM technological change down people's throats. As best...

April 24, 2006

Saving Money on Software: Hosted or Open Source

Open Source software, unlike proprietary software, costs nothing (or very little) for the software itself. You usually end of paying...

April 24, 2006

Next Year, Daylight Savings Time Will Be Different. Do Your Computers Know?

Next Year daylight savings time will be extended by 4 weeks. 3 weeks earlier and 1 week later. Unfortunately...

April 23, 2006

WiFi Security Mandated in NY County

Well the first bill to mandate that businesses secure their WiFi networks has become law in Westchester County New York....

April 23, 2006

Wireless Networking Tip Sheet

I'm sure by now you have either installed or are about to install a wireless network in your home or...

April 21, 2006

Remotely Disable Access to Files

In October 2005 I covered Essential Security Software's Taceo email security solution to control how files you email to someone...

April 21, 2006

Google's Search Appliance - More Features Economical Price

Having 2 documents on a computer or your web site makes searching for one of the two documents pretty...

April 21, 2006

Book Review: Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who...

April 21, 2006

Yahoo's Updated Email Service - What About YOUR Email?

Yahoo! has rolled out an updated email service, but unfortunately it's only available to those who use the Yahoo/AT&T...

April 21, 2006

Getting Buzz For Your Product Online Line

When you are creating a new business how in the world do you get people to know about it? Even...

April 21, 2006

Buying from a Retailer or Your Solution Provider?

Lenovo recently started selling computers (Lenovo and Think branded) via BestBuy retail stores. This move is great for both companies...

April 20, 2006

SMBNation East - Where Consultants (in the North East) Learn How to GROW Their Business

On 5 and 6 May 2006, SMB Nation East, a mini version of SMBNation, will take place in New...

April 19, 2006

Those Days When Technology Brings Out the Worst

Computers, technology, electronics (for that matter humans) are all prone to mistakes. The BIGGEST problems can come from humans. If...

April 19, 2006

Beyond RSS feeds, blogging and web sites:
Web 2.0 and what it means to you

There's a growing number of "Web 2.0" services that are all about two way, user powered, interaction. While web sites,...

April 18, 2006

David Strom - How to Hack a Web Site and How to Secure It

Your web site might be the love of your life or business and it also could be the love of...

April 18, 2006

LogMeIn's Remote and Local Backup Options

LogMeIn, Gotomypc, PCNow and others all provide ways to access files on a remote computer. Today LogMeIn announces a...

April 18, 2006

Do You Send a Lot of Marketing Email? Make Sure Your Server is Authenticated

If sending a lot of outbound marketing email is VERY important to your business it is VERY important that you...

April 18, 2006

2.2-pound Q2010 - Fujitsu Notebook

As one who uses a notebook pretty much all the time, a very light weight notebook, that's functional is important....

April 17, 2006

Internet Access - No DSL. No Cable. No Fixed Wireless. Satellite

For 15 million hones, about 15% of the United States, cable, DSL nor fixed wireless services can provide them with...

April 13, 2006

Integrating Your Information Silos is Not Impossible Nor Painful Completely Maddening

As your business grows you will find that you have one or more databases of information to keep track of...

April 12, 2006

Electronicpayments.org - learn all about electronic payments

More and more consumers and businesses are using some form of electronic payment. But many people don't know enough about...

April 12, 2006

Mobile Device Printing and Conferencing

Premiere Global Services today launches two new mobile solutions for the road warrior: PrintAnywhere enables printing of e-mails and attachments...

April 11, 2006

When Your PC is Toast..What Do You Do?

If you get a REAL BAD virus attack sometimes the only thing you can do is completely clean (format!) the...

April 11, 2006

Use Microsoft Exchange - Let AppRiver Host It

Setting up and managing a Microsoft Exchange server is not something to be done lightly. Microsoft Exchange is a powerful...

April 11, 2006

Human Error - 60% of Security Breaches

Computers are NOT perfect, we all know that. They break down often. However, HUMANS, not computers are the biggest cause...

April 11, 2006

Buy Lenovo @ Best Buy

There's dozens of marketing deals that happen all the time and many I don't cover. However, I think it's...

April 11, 2006

Case Study: Cost Per Click Works

I've recently posted an interview with Emily White, Google's Ad Words director where she shares with us about doing cost...

April 11, 2006

Google's Advertising Diva on Small Business Cost Per Click Advertising

Most things in life have been built upon things before it. Electricity, for example, has brought us all sorts...

April 10, 2006

New Security Options to Consider: Microsoft or McAfee, Trend Micro, Symantec...?

McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, Computer Associates are well known security vendors offering an array of hosted and software based online...

April 10, 2006

Is It Worth It to Use RSS & Podcasting Since the Audiences are Relatively Small?

Podcasting and RSS feeds are growing in use, especially by early adopters to technology. However, where does the line...

April 10, 2006

Encryption of PC Data Right on the PC Chip

Encrypting your data is the best way to ensure that if it is lost or stolen or hacked that it...

April 10, 2006

Will You Start Using a Mac Now? I Might?

Cnet's Charles Cooper, executive editor of commentary at CNET News.com wrote an VERY insightful piece about Apple's new software, Bootcamp,...

April 10, 2006

Cost Per Click Advertising is Good - But Be Careful of Click Fraud

Later on today I'll share with you an interview with Emily White, Director of Google's Ad Sales Program, the biggest...

April 7, 2006

Slowly Move to Software As A Service for Critical Applications

While software as a service is fine and dandy and sounds oh so sweet, I do caution you to...

April 7, 2006

Cellular Voice calls get cheap - but features get $

I remember my first cell phone - a plastic, grey, Motorolla with a huge LED dsiplay. Now I have a...

April 6, 2006

Old Computers - Get New Ones If You Can. But If You Can't...

Not every business can afford to get a brand new computer every 3 years like many Fortune 1000 and 500...

April 6, 2006

Is Battery Life Important to You? Read This...

If you are a true mobile warrior, hardly ever near an electric wall socket then battery life and I mean...

April 5, 2006

Verizon Business Instant Messaging

Instant Messaging is a serious business tool that can make it faster and more efficient to communicate internally or with...

April 5, 2006

Small Business Challenge - Integrating Applications

There's many problems smaller businesses have and one is ensuring that the many different applications they have work together,...

April 5, 2006

Small Business Success Stories: Insights and Secrets from New York's Leading Entrepreneurs

Every other month, I look through my mail to find the latest issue of the New York Enterprise Report to...

April 5, 2006

FireFox or Internet Explorer- Which One Do You Use

Microsoft Internet Explorer's browser still holds about 90% of the market and it's expected to as all Windows based computers...

April 4, 2006

Corel's US IPO - Will It Bring in the CA$H

Corelis going to launch an IPO in the US and Canada. What does this mean? It means that the...

April 4, 2006

The NY Times Site Redesign And What You can Learn From It

Earlier this week the NY Times redesigned it's web site adding new features and tools for its readers. Well...

April 4, 2006

About Linux, "Ramon is wrong", a reader says

About two weeks ago, I posted an article about WHY Linux is NOT for small businesses. This was based on...

April 4, 2006

Watch360 - Get online updates PUSHED to you. If you need it.

I've been trying out an alert service, Watch360, for the past 2 weeks. This service pushes custom alerts to you...

April 3, 2006

Should you start using SMS for communication?

Short Message Service (SMS) from cell phone to cell phone is a powerful way of communicating for many friends and...

April 3, 2006

IP Telephony - More Then Low Price but Convergence

Having your phone calls routed over the Internet brings many possibilities to business communication. Of course low price is ONE...

April 3, 2006

Using Low-Tech To Stop Hi-Tech Crime

To deter ID theft it is important for small businesses (especially) to be vigilant about who you sell to and/or...

April 3, 2006

Laplink: Entire Suite of Software Reviewed

Laplink makes an entire suite of software that helps you manage files (remote access, transfer, etc) from one PC to...