Archive: February 2007

February 28, 2007

Customer Service: When Technology Fails and When Technology Thrives

I was recently calling AT&T for a customer service issue. What bothered me was not the stream of buttons...

February 28, 2007

Get Rid of Localized Collaboration with Web Based Collaboration Tools

With interest I clicked over to Forbes list of web based collaboration tools, but was disappointed as their list...

February 28, 2007

Cell Phone Commerce Via RFID

I've heard of companies using the cell phone as a tool for ecommerce. Many of these solutions use the cell...

February 28, 2007

Caspio - Powerful Online Databases with Minimal Effort

I first heard about Caspio when they were first starting out in the early 2000's. I was impressed now...

February 23, 2007

The Durability of Hardware: Novatel Wireless PC Card, Lenovo, Panasonic Toughbook

Panasonic has been advertising heavily on television and print, it's Toughbook notebook computers. I was thinking recently why is...

February 23, 2007

Google Raise the Bar with Online Software

Many of you have been using Google's free applications, which include hosted email, word processing, spreadsheet and calendar services....

February 22, 2007

Constant Contact Gets an Upgrade

This is not the most earth shattering news you're going to read about. But Constant Contact, one of the leading...

February 22, 2007

Making RSS Come ALIVE!!

RSS - Really Simple Syndication - is an awesome technology. It's great for two main reasons. 1. You can...

February 22, 2007

The Hype of Second Life

Second Life is a virtual world where virtual people spend money, buy things, have houses, party and do just...

February 21, 2007

Jamcracker - Streamlining Hosting Applications

Hosted Applications are a wonderful way to streamline your business data and be more efficient. There's no software to install,...

February 21, 2007

AT and T's Small Business Resources. Good Start...But

Vendors producing small business web sites are not new. AT and T recently released it's own "small business web site"...

February 20, 2007

Learning from NetSuite Customers and Ecommerce Champions

One thing I really like about NetSuite is that they frequently showcase their customers' successes with ecommerce. In a...

February 20, 2007

The Beauty of Online Networking: Finding nextSTEPH

Since the end of January my RSS feeds have not been updating. I tried to figure this problem out...

February 20, 2007

Cheap Shaving Cream Technology

Last week, I was shopping in Pathmark, our local super market and saw that Barbasol Shaving cream was $.99!...

February 19, 2007

Marketing Software from bluevizia

Thanks to bluevizia Marketing Manager for supporting Smallbiztechnology.com. No matter what business you're running, you surely have stumbled upon...

February 18, 2007

Online Storage: Tape Backup is Like So Old Fashioned

Last week I was in California as part of a technology makeover for a small business selling home accessories. My...

February 16, 2007

Xerox Launches New Printers - High Speed and Low Price

On Monday Xerox launched a brand new line of printers and multi-function devices. Xerox's color lineup includes two new...

February 16, 2007

When Small Business Products Go Up

Often times, bigger companies, "dumb down" their products to reduce the price and sell it to small businesses. SAP,...

February 16, 2007

Win $100,000 from Microsoft at the Microsoft Small Business Summit

Microsoft is offering the chance for a small business to win a $100,000 Total Technology Makeover in conjunction with its...

February 16, 2007

Making VOIP Simple with Managed Telephone Service

Technology research company AMI Partners writes Small and medium businesses (SMBs) worldwide feel confused by the multiple and complex...

February 15, 2007

Small Business Summit 2007 - a blast!

Small Business Summit 2007 (from what I'm told) was absolutely amazing and even better than SBS 2006! Thanks to YOU,...

February 10, 2007

HP Continues to Innovate Inkjet Printing

HP continue to ensure your small business has the most feature rich and product printers available. If you bought...

February 10, 2007

Got an Ipod? Learn to use Word!

If you you have an Ipod, Word and little time - you might want to try Makau's Microsoft Word training...

February 10, 2007

How to Set Up a Secure Home Network

Where's your small business? MANY of you have your business empires in your homes - probably the perfect place to...

February 10, 2007

Inc 500 Companies Understand Social Media

The Inc 500 - if you're not on it - you jealously wish you could be on it. There's a...

February 8, 2007

Strengthening Weak Links: ERP Continues to Make Businesses More Efficient.

Since deploying ERP, with its suite of financial and distribution modules that automate their business management, SBI Distribution has...

February 8, 2007

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance: no longer "just" for big companies

Increasingly, smaller businesses are being held to higher and higher standards. These standards are NOT just for smaller businesses....

February 8, 2007

Kodak Enters the Printing Market: Price is the Key Point

Right now the printing industry is dominated by a handful of players, and played in by a few others. Either...

February 8, 2007

Using Your Search Engine for Explosive Sales

I've written about this for years and I was VERY excited to see the Wall Street Journal cover it...

February 7, 2007

I'm *Over* Under Construction

Guest Column - Lena West, xynoMedia Under Construction pages stink. You know the kind...the signs that people put up...

February 7, 2007

Using Your Search Engine for Explosive Sales

I've written about this for years and I was VERY excited to see the Wall Street Journal cover it...

February 7, 2007

RSA - Securing the Data, Not Just the Network

Securing your network is important. There are hackers and rogue employees just waiting to get their un-authorized hands on your...

February 4, 2007

Top Selling Small Business Printers

To help solution providers choose the winning products from the duds, CRN and data partner NPD Group present a weekly...

February 4, 2007

Got Inventory? Need qItem?

Recently I was introduced to qItem, an online inventory system. A question often asked by businesses is do we have...

February 4, 2007

Yugma: What Web Conferencing Should Be About

Yugma offers just about everything you need to conduct web conferences. A clean interface, plenty of features and a way...

February 4, 2007

Definitive Guide to Faxing Services

Hmmm...I know some of you really thought the fax machine was dead. But it's not. There are so many industries...

February 4, 2007

HOT: Notegram: Sending Personal Notes was Never more Digital

Talario makes a great system for writing on forms with a digital pen and having what your wrote appear on...

February 4, 2007

Small Business Technology Magazine - Best Products of the Year

Small Business Technology Magazine put together a great list of products for their 2006 awards. The products include many...

February 3, 2007

RemoBiz for Outlook from Remoba

You might think that everyone in the world is sipping their Starbucks' Coffee, while clicking on a BlackBerry. It...

February 3, 2007

Three Windows Vista Gems

There's three things that are going to be VERY interesting and worth while in Vista that might not have been...

February 3, 2007

RSS as a Corporate Asset with NewsGator On-Demand

Incoming information, into a company is often a haphazard experience. It's left up to individual employees to get their own...

February 3, 2007

Dayllight Savings and Windows

I received a support email from Microsoft (you might have received one too) and I thought to share it with...

February 3, 2007

Secure Payment and Financial Management Through Windows Vista

Denver based IP Commerce, Inc., a software company enabling open payments services between businesses, and the PASS (Payments as...

February 3, 2007

WebEx Mail. Feature Rich Email

Email is one of the most important applications for any business and yes especially small businesses. Webex, in case you...

February 1, 2007

Nitix: Beyond A Server. A Platform for Lotus Applications

If you thought Lotus was dead - you're wrong. Lotus is quite alive and well and many businesses want to...

February 1, 2007

Are You Ready for Potential Litigation?

Best Buy alerted me to the fact that, in December, a new motivation beyond business productivity and protection emerged....

February 1, 2007

Herding Cats: Harnessing Data Is More Difficult

As your business grows you'll find that you have data all over the place. Customer data, sales data, web site...

February 1, 2007

The Changing Face of Small Business: Your Future Customers

Sometimes we get a certain "image" of a small business owner - whatever that image may be. Clearly, it's not...

February 1, 2007

Is VOIP Too Much for Smaller Businesses

Computer Weekly writs Lisa Pierce, a vice president at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., said SMBs have very few...

February 1, 2007

Join Microsoft on Tour: Grow Your Business with Microsoft Software

Two weeks ago, Microsoft launched its 59 city tour, Microsoft Across America. This tour, provides seminars at no charge until...