Archive: April 2007

April 30, 2007

Linksys and Cisco: The War for Your Network Begins Again

When you turn your water on to take a shower, do you consider, "hmmm...I wonder what brand of pipe...

April 30, 2007

Mobile Monday Event: It's All About Small Business

I was invited to participate in a panel discussion this evening, produced by Mobile Monday and sponsored by Samsung...

April 28, 2007

Intuit Developers Network: Why Programming for QuickBooks Is HOT

Creating an ecosystem of independent software programmers who can create add-on software to extend the features and usability for their...

April 28, 2007

Adding Snap To Your Web Site with a Snap Shot

From time to time I visit web sites and prior to clicking on the link get a pop-up that previews...

April 28, 2007

vFlyer: Classified Advertising For the Digital World

Classified advertising is a big, big market. Right now, the huge chunk of classified advertising appears to be consumer to...

April 27, 2007

Microsoft Share Point: Manage Content & Processes, Enhance Collaboration and More

I just finished watching a presentation about Microsoft Share Point. I've heard about Share Point for several years but really...

April 27, 2007

MozyPro - What GE Is Doing in Backup and What You can Learn

Ensuring all the information on your computer's is backed up is so important that General Electric is spending millions of...

April 27, 2007

Take Your Black Berry and Verizon Around the World

Verizon Wireless is a great company. Great phones and excellent customer service. However one problem they've had is that they...

April 27, 2007

An Overview of Blogging Services / Software

Building your web site is pretty easy. There's dozens of tools (online services and software) you can purchase to do...

April 26, 2007

Getting Leads Online. Not Just "Impressions"

When marketing your business online, what's most important to you. Seeing your cost per click advertisement on Google or some...

April 26, 2007

HP: Selling Logos and More

If you thought HP was simply a run of the mill computer and printer company. You're right....until Tuesday. Two days...

April 26, 2007

Kodak: Expensive Ink No More

If you're tired of buying cheap or low cost printers only to find your wallet and pockets emptied every time...

April 26, 2007

Is There a Reason to Not Have a Web Site?

I was recently reading about business who do not have web sites. I took a day to digest this and...

April 26, 2007

Let's Have a Look at Wikis Again

There's 2.5 levels of online adoptions by small business owners. There's those who have a basic web site, those who...

April 24, 2007

Ultra Mobile Computing - What Are Your Options

Earlier today I was walking in Manhattan and noticed someone using Verizon's LG enV phone. This is the clam shell...

April 23, 2007

Gateway's Latest ( E-155C) Thin, Light, Convertible

If you're looking for a notebook that has it all - you're going to have a difficult time not finding...

April 23, 2007

Working Remotely: Expert Advice from Lenovo's Wireless Guru

Working remotely can be a challenge for mobile warriors. Wireless is pretty ubiquitous but it has its challenges too. I...

April 23, 2007

Stun! Reach Your List of Customers through Email, Fax, Voice, SMS, Direct Mail...one interface

Recently someone from mobileStorm emailed me to pitch me on using their services. As I was looking through their web...

April 23, 2007

When Experts Are Wrong: Don't Make the Wrong Decision

Audience measurement firm, Nielsen/NetRatings was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying that measuring page views was no longer...

April 23, 2007

Finding Data On Your Computer and Network is "Easy". What about Removable Stroage Devices?

Storing information on servers and computers is what just about every business does. The challenge is finding the information once...

April 23, 2007

Web Site & Blogging 101....the evolution continues

USA Today wrote two articles, one on building web sites and one on blogging that you should take a look...

April 22, 2007

Google's Blossoming Offerings and What it Means to You.

How many of you are using Google's email hosting options and other services? I'm not using Google's email hosting...

April 20, 2007

Going Green: Saving OUR Home (planet earth), saving money, being more efficient

I'm in no way a card carrying member of my local environmental club. However, I know that I need to...

April 19, 2007

Cisco Smart Business Communication System

On 3 April, Cisco launched the Smart Business Communication System. According to Cisco, the simple, complete and highly secure Smart...

April 17, 2007

How Having A Safe Web Site Can Boost Your Online Sales (incl audio)

In 2003, I introduced you to Scan Alert which provides online security certification services to online retailers (and anyone else...

April 17, 2007

William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association (Search Engine Strategies Coverage)

By Stephanie Cockerl, nextSteph, for Smallbiztechnology.com At SES-NY, I had a chance to stop by the Web Marketing Association's booth....

April 17, 2007

SEO through Blogs and Feeds - Search Engine Strategies coverage

By Stephanie Cockerl, nextSTEPH for Smallbiztechnology.com If you are a small business and you don't have a blog a...

April 17, 2007

Writing for the Search Engines - Search Engine Strategies - Day 2

by Stephanie Cockerl, nextSteph, for Smallbiztechnology.com Whether you are producing a website for the first time, or are revamping...

April 17, 2007

Virtual PBX's Greg Brashier: Vonage and more

Virtual phone systems, such as Virtual PBX are for those businesses who are not ready (or don't want) to...

April 16, 2007

Best Buy for Business Wants Channel Partners

Every since Best Buy, bought Geek Squad and made it a part of Best Buy for Business, Best Buy has...

April 16, 2007

Which Server is for You? IBM or Microsoft's

For several years Microsoft's Small Business Server and Windows Server has been the leading server for businesses, especially smaller...

April 16, 2007

Remote Backup Services: Be Careful of Your Backup Plan

I was in the process of helping somebody select a backup system for their business and one solution I thought...

April 14, 2007

Preventing Crime in Your Business: Interview with Guy Pithie, senior vice president of the U.S. division of Swann Communications

Yeah, I'll admit sometimes my head gets stuck in the sand of technology and I think a bit too one...

April 14, 2007

1-800-GOOG-411 - just tested

I just called 1-800-GOOG-411 - it works and works well. I tested it to find a Lens Crafters in...

April 14, 2007

Electronic Invoicing; Why Aren't More Businesses Doing It?

Transcepta was founded in June 2005 with the mission of creating an easy-to-implement, on-demand, electronic invoice presentment and payment...

April 11, 2007

Technology Concierge for Office Buildings

ITelagen, a provider of flat-rate virtual IT services, announced the debut of Technology Concierge, a program that enables tenants in...

April 11, 2007

Storage: The Options are Limitless

HP recently announced the HP StorageWorks 1200 All-in-One Storage System (HP AiO1200). HP stats that "unlike competing offerings, this integrated...

April 11, 2007

Search Engine Strategies 2008: Day One (Ad Quality)

By Scott Wolpow, Public CTO, for Smallbiztechnology.com Time really flies! This is the third Search Engine Strategies I have attended....

April 11, 2007

Backup Solutions: There's So Many - Which One For You?

Yosemite Technologies released it's latest storage protection/backup product, File Keeper. Yosemite FileKeeper protects every document a user edits at...

April 11, 2007

Search Engine Strategies 2007: Day One (Search Advertising 101)

By Stephanie M. Cockerl, CEO of NextSteph for SmallBizTechnology.com Day One Recap: Search Advertising 101 It is day one...

April 10, 2007

Cool Tools 2007

I'm happy to point you to my 2nd "Cool Tools" in the New York Enterprise Report. These are tools that...

April 10, 2007

SitePal: Now In a Power Point Near You

I recently attended a presentation by my friend Marshal a partner at eSlide. eSlide specializes in making Power Point presentations...

April 10, 2007

Fabrik Storage - When Beauty is Not Just Skin Deep

Fabrik Inc announced a new line of external storage devices (with an online backup service), SimpleTech SimpleDrive. The design of...

April 9, 2007

FileWorks - Smooth and Efficient File Storage

As you can imagine, I read about A LOT of technology. Some of the technology is like bread and...

April 9, 2007

Smart Online's Online Tools: What Will You Choose.?

Smart Online bundles over 20 applications in its offering. It sells these services for $50 per month for up...

April 9, 2007

Office Interactive: CRM, Billing and Collaboration (plus - smart email and customization)

The barriers to entry for hosted applications providing services to small businesses is quite low. I read Inside Intuit and...

April 6, 2007

Norton 360 Slims Down

We need security software for our computers, but one of the side effects of this software is the system...

April 6, 2007

Web Marketing 101: The Fundamentals - Homestead.com CEO Speaks out

There's one thing about Justin Kitch, CEO of Homestead.com that I don't like. He doesn't blog enough! When he...

April 6, 2007

Do You Vonage? Are You Looking for An Alternative? (Update)

(update - Reuters is reporting that Vonage won a temporary reprieve from an appeals court on Friday, hours after a...

April 5, 2007

Using Simple Email Tactics to Generate Recurring Revenue

How many times have your walked into your local retailer and were never asked for an email address? I bet...

April 5, 2007

iTunes: First Class Customer Service

I've been using an iPod for about a year. I had a period of not using one for a...

April 4, 2007

Using Bar Codes In Your Business

Bar Codes are used by larger businesses all the time. Mainly they're used for retail operations to track inventory....

April 3, 2007

Programming Applications: When to Go Browser and When to go Software

As an end user we use what we're given. If the service is online, we use it through our browsers....

April 3, 2007

Book Review: QuickBase: The Missing Manual

QuickBase is Intuit's online database tool. It works quite well, I've used it myself a few times. It's simple...

April 3, 2007

Feedblitz and Twitter: Battle or Union

Feedblitz is a service that does one thing and one thing well. It let's you email your RSS feeds to...

April 2, 2007

Feature Rich VPN, Remote Desktop and Application Publishing. FREE and Simple

SecureIDA, by World Extend, is a relatively new service that offers businesses three things: VPN, application publishing and remote...

April 1, 2007

Business Intelligence: What I learned. It's not ERP

ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning is a term, I'm sure you've heard about over and over again. It's the...

April 1, 2007

M5 and SimulScribe: No More Voice Mail (as you know it)

Do you know what's the worst part of having a cell phone? Accessing the voice mail. With SMS you...

April 1, 2007

Free Software & Advertising: Would You Use It?

We already get free "software" such as free email and web sites (if you count them as software) in...

April 1, 2007

Maxtor Mini External Hard Disk - I love it's simplicity

If I tell you a secret, you promise you won't tell anyone? Promise? For years, I never had a...

April 1, 2007

Little League Baseball and the Hidden Costs of Technology

A few weeks ago I plunked down $55 each for my children to join the baseball team of my local...

April 1, 2007

Is Mobile Advertising Premature? Yes and No.

According to Media-Screen's Netpop | Pocket survey, users utilize their desktop and laptop computers more than twice as much for...