Archive: August 2007

August 31, 2007

Keeping Informed of Your Favorite IT Vendors via Blogs

If you wanted to get in touch with the CEO of a big company 10 years ago you had to...

August 30, 2007

Free Email Services: Now They're Ready for Business, Except for One Thing...

I was reading with much interest Walt Mossberg's review of the new Yahoo Mail. He likes it better than Gmail...

August 30, 2007

Tech Pundit Dvorak: Do Not Trust Hosted Applications (He's so wrong)

John Dvorak is a long time PC veteran and highly respected in the industry who writes in PC Magazine...

August 30, 2007

With So Many FREE Tech Education Opportunities You Have NO Excuse In Not Leveraging Technology

I'm sitting in a theater in Union Square in NYC attending a Microsoft Connections event, which is where Microsoft...

August 30, 2007

Norton Internet Security 2008

Symantec has released its latest version of Norton Internet Security 2008. You can check out a full line of Symantec's...

August 30, 2007

WiMax: Sprint Keeps the Ball Rolling. Announces NYC Partner

It's quite interesting to watch the march of WiMax. Think about it - only a few years ago Intel...

August 30, 2007

Going Green - In More Than One Way with Your Next PC Purchase

Some of you have been environmentally conscience way before Al Gore made it hip to be green. There's still...

August 30, 2007

Acer Buys Gateway: Benefit from the Price War

Gateway is the 3rd largest PC vendor after HP and Dell and right before Lenovo. Acer is now purchasing...

August 29, 2007

Don't Forget About Search Engine Optimization: It Does Work

Yesterday I was speaking with someone about web sites and they were sharing with me how so very important ones...

August 28, 2007

HP's Print 2.0: Changing the Way We All Print - Painless Online Printing

Get up and look in your trash can or recycle bin. What do you see? Reams and reams of...

August 28, 2007

Anti-Virus Protection is Not Enough. Small Businesses Don't Know It

Protecting your business from viruses is a good and important step in protecting your computer from online and offline attacks....

August 28, 2007

Bloglines Beta Launches New RSS Reader: When Companies Listen to their Customers

Bloglines is the most frequent tool I use. Period. In order to keep up with the stream of information...

August 28, 2007

Throwing Your Telephone Service To the Dogs: How Fetch! Boosted Customer Service

Let's face it - when the phone rings for a retail store - there's one of three main possible choices:...

August 28, 2007

Real Estate: The Changing Market of Buying and Selling for Buyers and Sellers

Buying and selling a home, used to be a very exclusive club. Restricted primarily to real estate agents who...

August 28, 2007

David's Dream: Making Your PC Work Smoothly

Yesterday was the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a dream speech". Four years ago, David...

August 27, 2007

Casio's G'zOne: I Threw It and Dunked It In Water - It Kept on Working

In June I attended the annual Digital Focus held in NYC - which is a gathering of a few...

August 24, 2007

Dell's Vostro Line: Walt Mossberg - "Nothing Special". Dell - "First Step of Better Things to Come"

In July, Dell launched a new line of computers for small businesses - Vostro. The Vostro line offers a...

August 24, 2007

bMighty Launches: IT Info for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

CMP launched bMighty yesterday a web site offering news, reviews and all sort of other things for small-medium sized...

August 24, 2007

An Insider's Perspective on Buying Software

Gene Marks is the owner of The Marks Group PC, a 10-person CRM consulting firm based outside of Philadelphia,...

August 23, 2007

Plantronics Understands Home Based Professionals: Land Line, Cell Phone, Voip Functionality

As a home based professional, sometimes your world of communication is not as simple as you want it to...

August 23, 2007

ACT! by Sage 2008: Dashboards & Online Hooks

Another year has gone by and there's two things happening. Thanksgiving is around the corner and Sage has released...

August 23, 2007

Lessons Learned from Mid-Size Businesses: CDW's Business Rearview Mirror

One of the important lessons small businesses can learn is what mid-size businesses have done to grow. Learning from...

August 22, 2007

New/Upgraded Tools 2 Know About: Go Daddy, Content Watch & NTRGlobal

Sometimes life is not all about what's NEW but often its about what's IMPROVED. Over the past few weeks Go...

August 22, 2007

Best Buy: Labeling Products To Make Sure You Know Which One is for Your Business

When you walk into your local computer retailer you don' always walk to the nearest sales rep and announce,...

August 22, 2007

RHUB Web Conferencing Appliance: Kick Monthly Fees Out the Door

Web conferencing is an important business tool for many businesses. In fact just about every business at one time or...

August 21, 2007

How to Manage Highly Mobile Employees. Boosting Profits with Cell Phone GPS.

Imagine a company like UPS, Federal Express or DHL. They take your package, pass it through dozens of hands,...

August 21, 2007

How to Be a Smart Buyer of Software As A Service

Buying software as a service for your business, instead of traditional software is the "in-thing". However, you shouldn't jut...

August 21, 2007

When Skype Goes Down Your Customers Don't Care. They Shouldn't Have To.

Ok, so you're a small business doing a sizable contract. You've been relying on "free" or low cost Skype...

August 21, 2007

Digital Threats to Your Business: Take This Seriously

Forbes keeps us focused on some dangers that are quite important for your business to be careful of. Digital...

August 21, 2007

HP Cloud Print: 100% and Absolutely Revolutionary

HP is the leading company (market share) for printers. However, it has a lot of competitors in its rear view...

August 21, 2007

Blogging is simply a must. If You Don't Have a Blog - Let Me Know.

I've been telling you over and over and over again that blogging is simply a must for your business. Blogging...

August 19, 2007

Movies On Demand: Amazon.com's UnBox Video Player

I was recently watching a video series and inadvertently sent back the last series of the video series...to Netflix -...

August 19, 2007

Learning From NetFlix: It's NOT All About Technology - Customers First

Netflix is like the ultimate technology etailer company - renting DVDs to customers. They're in the league of Amazon.com...

August 19, 2007

Considering Green Before You Buy Your Next Computer

The next time you buy a new computer ensure the vendor has a process by which you can RETURN an...

August 19, 2007

MagicJack - Get a Dial Tone from Your PC

MagicJack makes a simple and powerful device. Plug a USB gadget into your PC and get a dial tone to...

August 19, 2007

Safeselling.org - Free Legal Advice about Selling Online

Selling online is not that complicated. However, depending on what you are selling and your ecommerce venture's legal relationship to...

August 18, 2007

YOU MUST Upgrade Your Technology: Learning from A New Cordless Home Telephone System

For the past 5 years or so, I've used the same telephone system for my home: a digital answering...

August 17, 2007

WSJ: Getting Past Your IT Department - WRONG

I was reading with interest the Wall Street Journal's article of 30 July 2007 entitled, "Ten Things Your IT Department...

August 16, 2007

Update: OnlyBusiness.com Launches New Platform: Is the Model Still Viable?

OnlyBusiness.com is an online portal (or platform) that enables small businesses to grow their business online. You create a...

August 15, 2007

Online Training For Employees

You've told an employee over and over again how to do something and they finally get it right and...

August 15, 2007

IBM: Software Powerhouse for Medium Sized Businesses

One of the biggest challenges for a growing business is help with strategic implemention technology. IBM's Mike Gerentine, Vice...

August 15, 2007

Texan Xerox Reseller on Small Business Printing

Printing is a CORE function of business - especially small businesses. Churches, businesses, non-profits - just about every small business...

August 14, 2007

Voange Comes Back...

As you probably know, a few months ago, Vonage was apparently on the brink of extintion due to a law...

August 14, 2007

The Founder of ACT! and SalesLogix on CRM and Why ACT! Is Not CRM

CRM - customer relationship management - one of the tech industry's favorite buzz words (next to VOIP, SaaS and social...

August 14, 2007

The Small Business Awards and the New York Expo

There's two events occurring in NYC that you should know about. The New York Enterprise Report's Small Business Awards and...

August 14, 2007

From Dell Axim & LG Cell PHone to Motorola Q

For the past few months my trusty Dell Axim PDA has been giving me problems. The screen recognition is not...

August 14, 2007

Retailing Online: The Awesome Blend of the 'Net and the Brick

I love drinking Vitamin Water but I hate the fact that my neighborhood Pathmark and CVS stores often don't...

August 14, 2007

Make Sure Your Data is Not Held Hostage

Using the services of a 3rd party service provider is good - as I've written many times. But one thing...

August 13, 2007

Benefits of VOIP: Proven During Steam Disaster in NYC

If you think technology is "just" technology. You really need a reality check. 23 employee firm Kwittken & Co was...

August 13, 2007

Maybe Dell Doesn't Need IT Consultants. And why IT Does Matter.

For years, Dell's direct model has worked quite. From Dell to customer. Sure, many IT consultants have bought Dell products...

August 12, 2007

97% of Web Sites Suck. Is Yours One Of Them?

Last week I gave a presentation to about 50 business owners on "Using the Internet (for the clueless) to Grow...

August 12, 2007

Defending Yourself Online: Difficult But Possible

What do you do when you visit a review site (review of doctors, lawyers, accountants, airlines, florists, whatever) and find...

August 9, 2007

Bill Collector In A Box

The tools of technology never cease to amaze me. I recently was alerted to Marauder Corporation's Bill Collector in a...

August 9, 2007

Organize Group Answers and Boost Productivity with Circle Up

Asking questions of people is pretty easy. You dump their email addresses into your email program (Outlook, BlueTie, whatever)...

August 9, 2007

Oracle Accelerate: Partner Developed Applications

The hardware of technology is important, but it has its limits. The real power of the technology we use are...

August 8, 2007

Everest Software's Edwin Miller: Choice in ERP for Small Businesses

Everest Software was founded in 1994 (back then it was named iCode). Having been in business for over 10 years,...

August 8, 2007

Alpha Software's Richard Rabins: The "Hidden" Database. Head to Head to FileMaker and Access

Alpha Software is a powerful and feature rich database. It competes head to head with its larger competitors FileMaker...

August 8, 2007

Web Collaboration and Communcation: Try It You'll Like It

Last week I had occasion to remotely access the computer of someone else to help them with a technical support...

August 8, 2007

Trend Micro's SecureCloud: Hosted and Zero Hassle Security

I wrote on Monday how security vendors are offering their services as a service - not just as traditional...

August 7, 2007

Textual's Anagram - Time Saving Relief

For the past several years I've had to manually copy and past contact information in Microsoft Outlook emails into...

August 6, 2007

Intacct: When You OutGrow Your Current Small Business Accounting Programming (CEO Interview)

There's not many company's whose mission is to help their customers 'graduate' from a competitor. All companies have to...

August 6, 2007

Symantec Protection Network: Protection From the Cloud

If you have been safely using computers for over 5 or 10 years like I have, I'm sure you've...

August 3, 2007

Gateway's Convertible Notebook: Solid and Multi-Talented

The familiar cow spotted box arrived at my door step and I excitedly tore into things. Anytime technology arrives,...

August 3, 2007

Online database + bells and whistles for $9.99 / month!

Trackvia is an online database which provides a lot of features and tools for $9.99 a month. There's several...