Archive: July 2006

July 31, 2006

I dropped my Gateway notebook and need a cell phone

Well it finally happened - I dropped my trust Gateway notebook (wide screen, 80GB, Intel Centrino 2.0Ghz processes and 500MB...

July 31, 2006

Microsoft recalls small-business product

Microsoft Small Business Server is an excellent network product (software) for small businesses, supported by an army of local solution...

July 28, 2006

YOUR IT Guy - Girl - The MOST important asset in your business (updated with comments - 27 July 2006)

(updated with comments....scroll down) Last week I visited a small business and was introduced to their "IT guy". Like many...

July 27, 2006

SCORE Launches Web Site With New Resources for Entrepreneurs

SCORE's press release reads: SCORE "Counselors to America's Small Business" announces a fresh, new look for the SCORE Small Business...

July 27, 2006

Network Enable Your Label Printer with Sieko and Silex Technology America

Seiko Instruments makes a line of label printers ideal for those times when you don'it need a full sheet...

July 27, 2006

Have Lotus Notes? Make it Mobile on the Motorola Q and Treo 700p

Lotus notes is used by a good number (I'm not sure of the exact number) of larger businesses, but...

July 27, 2006

How The Internet Is Changing Indepdent Hotels (Small Businesses)

There's two main reasons why there are so many franchise hotels (Best Western, Holiday Inn, etc) instead of independent...

July 27, 2006

New Processors from Intel: Core 2 Duo No More Pentium

For years the reigning champ of the processor world has been the line of Intel Processes - these have been...

July 27, 2006

Online ToDo Lists: Feature Rich and Flexible

Keeping a ToDO list is the ONLY way thet you can ensure you don't forget things you have to do...

July 27, 2006

Windows Live - An Update. Give it a try.

Windows Live is Microsoft's push into serving an array of hosted services - no software (well little software) to...

July 26, 2006

Free Email Protection + Outlook email hosting from SingleFin

I have not quite figured out what the catch is, but SingleFin is offering what appears to be a pretty...

July 26, 2006

Peachtree Premium Accounting 2007

Accounting software is so critical to the growth of a small business and day to day management of their...

July 25, 2006

IT Departments Don't Have to Be Fire Fighters

It is so easy to sit back and only repair technology problems. When a server fails - you replace...

July 24, 2006

Putting Data Online? eUnifyDB Provides A Feature Rich & Economical Solution

Do you remember when your local network was the center of the universe? Everything you did was placed on the...

July 24, 2006

Allworx - Voip and Telephone Answering System

Allworx provides VOIP telephony for small businesses and their newest offering is a PC based answering solution. I know...

July 24, 2006

EmpressR - Create Presentations Online. Now PPT needed

You've probably grown up playing with PowerPoint. I bet it was a part of the first meeting you were in...

July 24, 2006

xynoMedia's Technology Diet...8 Weeks to better technology

There's progams for EVERYTHING - weight loss; stop drinking; stop smoking; and so many other things. Have I mentioned driving?...

July 23, 2006

National Landscaper - Virtual Telephone Service

When a company does landscaping work in all 50 states, like DesignScape.com does, it is important that customers can...

July 23, 2006

Nitix: Looking for a Server. Nitix is simple, feature rich and cost effective

There's several choices you have to manage your business network. Microsoft's Small Business Server, Novell's Linux Small Business Suite, Nitix...

July 23, 2006

Helio. Nice Toy But Not for Businesses

Helio is a joint venture between SK Telecom Co. a South Korean wireless carrier and Earthlink. The phones it...

July 23, 2006

The Peril's of Purchasing The Latest Technology

I've got a friend, who always has the latest and greatest technology. If he was a journalist, I could understand...

July 21, 2006

Data Protection Software from IBM

I was telling a PR colleague how it's difficult to get people excited about backup. We all know we need...

July 21, 2006

Money from Microsoft

Microsoft is releasing a new update to Money its financial management program for home use and small businesses. I...

July 20, 2006

GreenBorder - Virtual Fence for Your Web Browsing

The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg reviewed a new security tool, GreenBorder. GreenBorder runs your web browser (Internet Explorer)...

July 20, 2006

Keeping Updates, Updated Automatically

Since "bad people" are always thinking of the best ways to do the most damage to your technology YOU MUST...

July 20, 2006

Email is so "last millennium". WRONG!

Email is one of the most powerful communication vehicles for businesses - especially small businesses. However, the Associated Press feels...

July 19, 2006

AMI Partners Insight on the CompUSA - NetSuite Deal

I covered the CompUSA / NetSuite deal here and here. If you want to get more insight on this deal,...

July 18, 2006

San Francisco Greets Ramon...Lessons on Email and more...

I arrived in San Francisco yesterday and will be here until Thursday. The Hotel Vitale, my home for now...

July 18, 2006

IBM's Enterprise Search and Content Integration

IBM introduced two new entry-level versions of enterprise search and content integration software. These new additions to IBM's broad portfolio...

July 18, 2006

Liferro - More Applications For Business Management

Liferro offers a nice suite of online applications for sales, contacts, marketing and so much more. For $30 per...

July 18, 2006

SunGards' Email Suite - Protection and More

Sungard has launched a full range of services to bolster email in your small businesses. The services help customers...

July 18, 2006

The Calendar Planner - Keep on Schedule

Calendars are a must for smaller businesses - as we need to ensure we know what we are doing...

July 18, 2006

WebMarshal 2006: Control Internet Access

WebMarshal 2006 helps companies to control threats inside the Web gateway though granular, easy-to-use tools and Acceptable Use Policies (AUP)...

July 18, 2006

4 simple, low cost tools for email marketing, event registration, surveys and sweepstakes

Ennect has a suite of online software, competitively priced and feature rich to help you do email marketing, online...

July 18, 2006

New Scanners from Epson

Epson America, Inc. recently announced two fast, affordable document imaging scanners designed for small business workgroups with the Epson...

July 17, 2006

IBM's Express Service - Just Perfect for Small Businesses

Creating software for small businesses is not hard to do. Creating online applications is also not that hard to do....

July 17, 2006

The Case for Basic Web Sites for Local Retailers

With so many people having fancy web sites that can jump, dance, skip and holler - you might wonder if...

July 14, 2006

NFIB: Eleven Ways You Can Engage Visitors

I was speaking to an executive of a major web host yesterday and speaking with them about why web sites...

July 14, 2006

Cool New Tech Tools & Toys: New York Enterprise Report

I put together a list of REALLY cool but REALLY useful tech toys for your business. It's published in the...

July 14, 2006

Microsoft Small Business Server - It Just Gets Better

I remember installing my first copy of Microsoft Small Business Server (many years ago). What was so neat about SBS...

July 14, 2006

7,000 Partners Party with Microsoft in Boston

The growth that Microsoft has had over the years has been because of its partners. From solution providers who install...

July 14, 2006

Microsoft CRM: Now Software Soon Hosted Application

I told you - the drum roll for the march toward software as a service is getting louder and louder....

July 13, 2006

OpenDoc File Format: My Microsoft Office's Lock Could Be Broken

Business Week tech writer Steve Hamm writes about OpenDoc, a new file format adopted by an international standards group. Steve...

July 13, 2006

FREE Internet Access in NYC Parks

In NYC there's a lot of WiFi networks, but many of these networks are pay for use - such as...

July 13, 2006

Getting Technologists to Communicate with End Users

Technology is WONDERFUL, but the reason it often does not work "as advertised" is that those USING the technology (those...

July 12, 2006

Motorola Q? Treo? BlackBerry?

Now that I've used the Motorola Q for about 2 weeks now, I'm really falling in love with it....

July 12, 2006

IBM's New Server for J.D. Edwards Customers

Larger small businesses, need stable and powerful servers to power their enterprise resource applications (ERP). 5,000 customers use J.D. Edwards...

July 10, 2006

SAP to Introduce New E-Commerce and Web-Based CRM Capabilities to Business Management Solution for SMEs

NetSuite, SAP and Microsoft are going head to head in serving the needs of small to medium sized businesses. SAP...

July 10, 2006

FileMaker Pro 8.5 - The POWER of the 'Net In Your Database

Databases have been around for a long time, helping small businesses keep track of their data and aiding their...

July 10, 2006

David Strom on Tagging Content

I have had two very different reactions to tagging, or labeling my online content. On the plus side, I...

July 10, 2006

Verizon Wireless - Virginia, North Carolina, NJ....

Last week, I took a 9 hour trip from New Jersey to a local university in Lynchburg, Virginia. I of...

July 10, 2006

Microsoft Will Work With Competing File Formats

For years Microsoft has refused to allow its applications to work with open source file formats, however, Reuters writes Responding...

July 10, 2006

Google's New Payment Option - Not Really A PayPal Killer

Google continues to innovate, or in this case, do something that's already done, but in the vein of simplicity,...

July 10, 2006

Rafe's Cnet likes Mozy's backup options

There's many backup solutions around and one is Mozy which offers 2GB of storage for FREE. Cnet likes it, especially...

July 7, 2006

A Primer About Intel's New Chips

Pentium is now....old school....Intel has introduced a new line of processors Core 2 Duo. There's three different classes of processors...

July 6, 2006

HP's Lisa Baker On Mobile Computing and Technology Overall

Lisa Baker, HP's Director of Small and Medium Business Marketing recently gave me an overview of how HP sees the...

July 6, 2006

Why Aren't You Using IT More

As a technologist, I sometimes forget that not every small business uses technology to the full use that they can....

July 5, 2006

AUDIO Interview: NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson

Hear Zach Nelson, NetSuite CEO, interview with Ramon Ray, Smallbiztechnology.com. Interview summary: NetSuite reliability - Zach speaks about the...

July 5, 2006

Audio Interview: CompUSA's Technology Consultants

At C3 Expo, on 27 June 2006, CompUSA and NetSuite announced a joint sales relationship, which I covered here....

July 2, 2006

If Contract Writing and Signing Is Your Bread and Butter - Here's Some Honey from IBM

IBM announced new technology that enables small and medium-sized businesses to execute and manage contracts entirely online, eliminating the need...

July 2, 2006

RedRoller - Shipping Packages Does not have to be a price guessing game

If you peak into the thousands of small businesses across the fruited plan, pull back the shades and open...

July 2, 2006

What If You Build A Web Site And Were Guaranteed Customers?

Web hosts are great at helping you host and build your web site, but when it comes to helping...

July 1, 2006

IBM's Lotus Same Time Brings Integrated Instant Messaging

Instant Messaging is wonderful - it's like having ice cream on a hot day. However, basic IM services are...

July 1, 2006

Resource: Systems Management Essentials for SMBs Info Center

TechTarget is full of great information for those who manage the IT for their businesses. One of the sections of...

July 1, 2006

Yahoo 360 - The Difference Between a Web Site and a Blog

Creating a web site is something we've talked about for quite some time and if you've been following this...

July 1, 2006

Roboform - Password Management and Much More

At Marian Banker's Brain Exchange last week one of the issue that the techies shared with the non-techies was the...

July 1, 2006

Five Steps to a Great Small Business Website

SmartBiz.com's Salim Lakhani writes 5 Steps to Building a small business web site. I've got my own 10 steps...

July 1, 2006

File Engine - Complete Backup, Recovery and Remote Support

There are a LOT of data protection solutions on the market including software solutions you can install yourself on each...

July 1, 2006

Your Virtual Assistant, "EVA" - Let me introduce you

As you go through your busy day, one of the things that keep you busy is entering the many things...

July 1, 2006

Are You Clueless about a File Extension?

From time to time you might get an email from someone that includes a file with an extension that you...

July 1, 2006

Moving Files From One PC To Another - Many Options to Make this Process Easier

About two weeks ago I migrated 5 computers - 3 were brand new computers and I had to migrate settings...

July 1, 2006

Faces of Small Business....Now You See Them

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