The bMighty Blog -- March 2008 Archive

HP Unveils Products with Muscle for Midsize Businesses

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 06:01 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Today, HP announced several products targeted for smaller businesses. Regardless of how these products play with the so called SMB market, the announcement indicates just how serious HP is about competing for midsize business IT dollars.

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Company Size: 250-999 | Hardware & Software

McAfee Volunteers Go For All The Spam They Can Stand (And Then Some!)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 05:03 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Y'know those e-mails and offers and come-ons you're never never supposed to open or reply to? Well, McAfee is putting fifty, count 'em, fifty volunteers from across the world on an all-the-spam-you-can-answer diet. You get it, you answer it; you see it you click it -- every one of them for a month Seriously.

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Business & E-Business | International | Messaging | Security

Manage Your Risk Before It Mangles Your Business

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:58 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Informationweek has a good long piece on risk management that will more than repay your attention -- if only in calling your attention to the rapidly evolving nature of risk management -- and the risks we all need, or at least seek, to manage.

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So, Lady, You Want to Grow Your Smaller Business? Here's Some Advice

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:18 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Apparently, women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men. That statistic has caught the eye of none other than Microsoft which is teaming up with a bunch of small business experts in a series of conferences kicking off this week in five cities across the country just for women to network and learn. Men, go watch some basketball.

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Business & E-Business | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev | Women in Business

Another Good Reason To Quit Feeding Microsoft's Favorite Cash Cow

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:01 PM ET | Mar 28, 2008

If you put just one open-source software package to work in your small or medium-sized business, I can tell you exactly where to begin. And as much as I like Linux, I actually have something else in mind for you.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

Hacker Contest: And The Loser Is... MacBook Air

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:53 AM ET | Mar 28, 2008

The hacker contest at this year's CanSecWest Conference in Vancouver has produced a winner... er, a loser. The hack--ee? Pricey, trendy and oh so desirable MacBook Air.

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Apple | Hardware & Software | Linux | Security | Windows

John Jantsch Snowballs To Small Business Success

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:45 AM ET | Mar 28, 2008

Sometimes when you notice a name or concept that's new to you, it starts popping up everywhere. The last two weeks, the clustering I couldn't avoid was contests for smaller businesses. This week, it's John Jantsch, the Duct Tape Marketing maven himself.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Sales/Marketing

Desk Phones Are Toast - Right?

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:20 PM ET | Mar 27, 2008

I just saw a UK "green" study that warns that desk phones are headed for the scrap heap as we begin to rely exclusively on our mobile handsets. Are we ready for that brave new world?

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Green Business | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

802.11n Price Points Drop, Features Rise

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:14 AM ET | Mar 27, 2008

The inexorable push to higher speed wireless LANs recently took a significant step forward. Wireless access points that support PoE (Power over Ethernet) and cost less than $1,000 are now in the product delivery pipeline.

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Apple's Smallest Wi-Fi Base Station Just Got Faster

Posted by Alan Zeichick 08:01 PM ET | Mar 26, 2008

I have two of the little Apple's Airport Express wireless Ethernet base stations. One of them is hooked up to my living room stereo, so we can play iTunes music from a Mac desktop without running cables. The other one lives in my briefcase, and I use it to set up portable WiFi LANs. This week, Apple launched its first significant update of the nearly four-year-old product, making it as much as five times faster — and with twice the operating range.

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bMighty Bolsters Its RSS Feeds

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:42 PM ET | Mar 26, 2008

bMighty.com has upgraded its RSS page with new and easier ways to subscribe to our feeds.

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"New" Word Vulnerability: What Did Microsoft Know And When Did They Know It?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:48 PM ET | Mar 26, 2008

It turns out that Microsoft engineers knew about a vulnerability that could expose Word users to attacks, and knew about it for awhile before letting the rest of us in on the problem. A long while.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Security | Windows

Even the Government is Getting Into Social Networking

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:51 AM ET | Mar 26, 2008

A social networking site has been launched that is targeting the tech employees of the federal government to help them communicate on how they can use technology to improve their agencies. Did you hear that? The government -- not known for its nimbleness or flexibility -- is jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. Smaller businesses, it's time.

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Linux By The (Version) Numbers

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 05:03 PM ET | Mar 25, 2008

What's in a version number? More than you might think, if the number in question is attached to your favorite desktop Linux distro.

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source

Small Business Winner Takes Home $100k In IT

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 01:33 PM ET | Mar 25, 2008

With all my rambling about the outbreak of contests for smaller businesses (and I'm not the only one), I can't not mention the winner announced at this week's Small Business Summit. The contest, sponsored by Microsoft and Dell, was decided by an online vote and that's why a Microsoft rep was standing outside the Parkwoods Shopping Center in Stockton, CA holding a gynormous check for $100,000 made out to...

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49

IT Skills Shortage? Keep the Ones You Got Trained

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:10 PM ET | Mar 25, 2008

There are fewer computer science graduates than there used to be and, because they cannot afford high turnover rates or IT guys who aren't that into their jobs, smaller businesses need to get the best of that shrinking lot and they need to keep them there. One way to do that is, surprisingly, employee training.

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Tool Emerges to Automate Companies' Battle Against Identity Theft

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 11:26 AM ET | Mar 25, 2008

The problems associated with identity theft have become so great that the federal government is forcing corporations to put checks in place to prevent it. Now, help has arrived for businesses that have to comply with these new regulations.

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9 IT Tips To Weather A Recession

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:07 PM ET | Mar 24, 2008

A recent InformationWeek survey shows that almost 60% of business and IT pros see the economy as in a recession or headed toward one. Yikes! But they share some tips on how to cope.

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Business & E-Business

802.11n: Myth vs. Reality

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:40 PM ET | Mar 21, 2008

Most people think of the upcoming 802.11n Wi-Fi standard as the best thing since wireless bread -- who doesn't want more speed and longer range? But even wireless vendors acknowledge that the hype may have overtaken the reality.

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Mobile

Passport Privacy Problem Offers Business Lessons

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:58 AM ET | Mar 21, 2008

The current news cycle hot-button -- State Department contractors poking into Barack Obama's passport files -- will give the pundits plenty to spout and sputter about from all sides. It should give small and midsize businesses pause to consider some of their own security procedures, policies and potential vulnerabilities.

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Government | Hardware & Software | Security | Storage

Wine 1.0 On The Menu For Desktop Linux Users

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 05:58 PM ET | Mar 20, 2008

It looks like Wine's time has finally come: Version 1.0 of the Windows emulation software is now slated for a June release. And Linux users almost certainly have Google -- or, at least, Google's money -- to thank for moving things along.

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Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source | Windows

A great Mac transition book for Windows refugees

Posted by Alan Zeichick 12:53 PM ET | Mar 20, 2008

Many Windows users have trouble making the transition to the Macintosh, and often, it's for superficial GUI reasons. For example, one Windows XP user I know was very frustrated because the way you resize windows on the Mac (pull the lower-right corner) is more "limited" than the way you do it on Windows (move any side or corner). This was enough to make him lobby to go back to Windows, believe it or not.

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Smaller Business as Spectator Sport

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:45 PM ET | Mar 20, 2008

Paraphrasing Warhol, "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," but what's the value of fleeting moments in the spotlight for smaller businesses? A bevy of business contests promise prizes, publicity, and cash. Such contests may sap valuable resources from smaller businesses with little to spare yet they may also be the catalyst for some much-needed fine tuning of business plans.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49

The Mac's market share continues to climb

Posted by Alan Zeichick 12:31 PM ET | Mar 20, 2008

Stop feeling like a rebel by suggesting or promoting Mac usage within your organization. As the latest statistics show, Mac adoption is growing rapidly. While there still are more new Windows machines being sold, the gap is closing.

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For Smaller Businesses, It's About the Technology (Even an iPhone Can Make Sense -- Really)

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:01 PM ET | Mar 20, 2008

Anyone who ever said one person can't really make a mark on the business world on their own has never met a true entrepreneur. A recent article profiling a bunch of solo entrepreneurs who deliberately choose to keep their businesses small, demonstrates the power of the individual in the corporate world. But the real point of the article is what makes each of their businesses tick: It's all about the technology.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | Technology/Telecom

Hacker Contest Next Week: The Real March Madness

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:37 AM ET | Mar 20, 2008

It's fierce comeptition time again, and not just for basketball fans. At next week's CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, the second annual hacker contest offers big bucks to the first person to hack a supposedly secure laptop.

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Unified Communications Vendor Tries to Tackle Deployments Challenges

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 08:51 AM ET | Mar 20, 2008

Unified communications promise to deliver substantial productivity improvements, but their acceptance has been hampered by the significant integration work that they usually require. Recently, vendors have begun delivering more plug-and-play systems, which should appeal to small and medium businesses.

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New Secure Mail Release Pushes Price/Performance Leap

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:33 AM ET | Mar 19, 2008

Secure Computing's announcement of the latest version of its Secure Mail appliance puts the emphasis on volume, promising to process up to "7 million mails a day on a single appliance."

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Biosphere 2 Proves Money Isn't Everything

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:34 AM ET | Mar 19, 2008

Many small and midsize company know what it's like to be crushed by a much larger outfit flush with huge amounts of cash. But history shows that sometimes, easy money causes more harm than good.

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Green Business | Management | Non-Profit

Ubuntu Eyes The Linux Server Landscape

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 06:45 PM ET | Mar 18, 2008

It took Ubuntu just four years to claim its crown as king of the Linux desktop. Now, Ubuntu's developers are plotting a similar coup in the Linux server market -- and smaller businesses have a lot to gain from the battle that is about to unfold.

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Have Blackberry, Will Travel

Posted by Naomi Grossman 10:23 AM ET | Mar 18, 2008

As if we needed yet another reason to be dependent upon our BlackBerries, along comes the airline industry demonstrating its commitment to the idea that handhelds and cellphones can be used as electronic boarding passes. Ok, ok -- it is much more convenient. Just make sure you detach the BlackBerry from your fingers, at least during the flight.

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Mobile | Networking & Communications

Dell's New Servers Join Rush To Smaller Business Offerings

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:09 AM ET | Mar 18, 2008

Positioning of new products and services for smaller businesses indicates growing awareness of the unique needs of smaller businesses, but may squeeze channel partners.

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Hardware & Software

Compliance Tools Filter Down to Small and Medium Sized Businesses

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:48 AM ET | Mar 18, 2008

As companies have automated more business processes, the government as well as industry market leaders have mandated that checks be put in place to ensure that those items are processed safely. Consequently, compliance tools have become a hot IT topic.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Security

P2P Points To Plenty Of Business Problems

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:17 PM ET | Mar 17, 2008

Turns out the problems with peer-to-peer file-sharing goes way beyond piracy. A new investigative piece indicates that there's plenty of business and personal data afloat on P2P networks.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Piracy | Security

Trend Micro Anti-Virus Site Hacked

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:45 AM ET | Mar 14, 2008

If the anti-virus makers can't keep their sites safe, how safe are the rest of us? That's one of the questions raised by a hack of Trend Micro earlier this week.

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IT | International | Security

The Open-Source Database Gets Its Due

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:51 AM ET | Mar 14, 2008

Are proprietary databases doomed? The short answer, according to one noted database engineering expert, is no. The long answer is that open-source competition is about to take the world's proprietary database vendors -- and their customers -- on a wild, and very interesting, ride.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | IT | Linux | Open Source

Use Apple’s .Mac service to keep multiple Macs in sync

Posted by Alan Zeichick 08:09 PM ET | Mar 13, 2008

Apple offers an online service, called .Mac (pronounced dot-mac), which is ostensibly designed for consumers. The $99/year service offers great things for home users, like a @mac.com e-mail address and the ability to share photos with friends. However, the service also has valuable services for business users, especially those who have more than one computer.

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Hackers Mass-Target Gamers

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:26 AM ET | Mar 13, 2008

A mass attack identified by McAfee tagged more than 10,000 Web pages. The target: gamers' passwords.

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Internet/Web | Security

Whither Iomega?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:36 AM ET | Mar 13, 2008

One problem with carving out a successful market niche is that sometimes you attract unwanted suitors. Iomega, which manufactures portable data storage solutions, now finds itself in such a position, so its future is unclear.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Storage

Fight The FUD: Lies, Damned Lies, And Linux

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:50 PM ET | Mar 12, 2008

When it comes to IT security, Linux generally scores outstanding marks. There is, however, one notable exception to this rule: A threat that Linux, and many other open-source apps, just can't seem to shake.

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IT Guys Can Do It All, Even Catch Governors Behaving Badly

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:54 AM ET | Mar 12, 2008

Never underestimate the power of a good IT department. Witness the role IT played in exposing New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's latest "wrongdoings." Imagine what your IT department can do for your smaller business.

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More Things I Didn't Know About Printing: Solid Ink!?

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:50 PM ET | Mar 11, 2008

Last week I wrote that inkjets are actually cheaper per page than lasers when printing color materials. Now I find that there's actually a third way -- no, I'm not talking about not dot-matrix -- solid ink technology.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | Green Business | Hardware & Software

Trend Micro Enters Email Archiving Market

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 10:09 AM ET | Mar 11, 2008

How many email messages were in your In Box this morning? 10? 20? 50? 100? 150? As the number continues to grow, enterprises are finding it more and more difficult to manage them effectively.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Messaging

Disaster Recovery: Practice = Protection

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:48 AM ET | Mar 11, 2008

How prepared can you be for a data disaster? Clearly the answer is never enough -- no matter how prepared you are, the recovery will undoubtedly reveal aspects of your preparation that can be improved upon. So why not start scouting out those improvable aspects before disaster strikes? Why not practice for problems and rehearse your recovery? Doing so now might eliminate post-disaster disasters later.

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Ruby on Rails might be the Mac’s killer development platform

Posted by Alan Zeichick 01:50 PM ET | Mar 10, 2008

Many software developers, especially those building advanced Web applications, have jumped onto the Ruby on Rails train. Apple has declared its support for this powerful programming language and framework, and bundles tools for Ruby development with Leopard and Leopard Server.

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The Secret of Business Success: Great Employees (Duh!)

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:58 PM ET | Mar 10, 2008

Of course a great idea, a solid business plan, and careful spending are important ingredients in a successful company. But as an incendiary blog posting (unwittingly) revealed -- and what all smaller businesses need to always remember -- is that great employees are what make it all work. Make sure they want to stick around.

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iPhone Gets Closer To Being A Business Solution

Posted by Alan Zeichick 06:53 PM ET | Mar 8, 2008

When it comes to enterprise integration, nothing beats a BlackBerry. Heck, I’m an Apple fan myself, but my road warrior weapon of choice is the BlackBerry, not the iPhone. Between the “real” keyboard and tight integration with mail servers like Exchange, RIM (makers of the BlackBerry) have virtually owned this market. That is about to change.

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Ballmer's Remarks Inspire A TCO Trip Down Memory Lane

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 06:50 AM ET | Mar 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had a few things to say about the never-ending Windows vs. Linux total cost of ownership debate. It's an interesting interview -- but not quite as interesting as some internal Microsoft email on the same subject that turned up last year, as a result of the company's involvement in yet another antitrust lawsuit.

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A $1 Trillion Opportunity

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:50 AM ET | Mar 6, 2008

How pervasive is mobile computing? In 2008, the cellular market will generate $1 trillion in revenue. That is $200 million more than Australia, which happens to have the 19th largest economy in the world. Wow, those are impressive numbers.

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Microsoft's Big Give For Smaller Businesses

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 08:51 AM ET | Mar 6, 2008

Microsoft's entry in the makeover game offers one small business a technology facelift. The contest is down to three finalists -- cast your vote today.

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Open Source Without Tears

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 02:45 AM ET | Mar 6, 2008

Open-source software can save a small business loads of time, money and trouble. That's a good thing, because the process of finding the right open-source app to meet your business needs can be a royal pain in the butt -- unless, that is, you know where to begin your open-source software hunt.

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Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Linux | Open Source

Missing White House E-Mail -- Politics Or Bad Tech Policy?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:07 PM ET | Mar 5, 2008

The White House's assertion that as many as 5 million e-mails have gone missing has raised a lot of political hackles on both sides of the aisle and throughout the pundit-sphere over the last couple of years. Far less attention has been paid to a far more serious (and less politically secular) question: just what is the tech infrastructure underlying the White House's electronic communications?

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Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:52 PM ET | Mar 5, 2008

Frost & Sullivan calls recession talk a "self-fulfilling prophecy" but CDW IT Monitor says small businesses expect to cut spending even more than do their larger competitors. So, what's really happening out there?

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev

Blogging is Good For Your Social Life (Psst: It's Also Good For Business)

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:57 AM ET | Mar 5, 2008

A new study indicates that bloggers are better adjusted and have happier social lives. That's probably because their businesses are doing better. Smaller businesses, are you blogging yet?

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bMighty's Tech Look at the Candidates (Hint: It's Primary Day AGAIN)

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:55 AM ET | Mar 4, 2008

Who could have predicted that the primaries would still matter this late in the presidential game? Well they do -- at least for the Democrats. But the real question for us is: Do they matter in the tech sense? The answer, unfortunately, is not really.

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Government | Technology/Telecom

Things I Didn't Know About Printing

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:45 AM ET | Mar 4, 2008

HP introduces a bunch of new printers for small and midsize businesses, and I learn a bunch of new things about inkjets, LaserJets, and how businesses really use printers.

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Green Business | Hardware & Software | IT

Getting the most of Mac's new Time Machine backup system

Posted by Alan Zeichick 07:19 AM ET | Mar 4, 2008

Time Machine, the backup software included with Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard," is one of the highlights of the operating system. I've been using Time Machine for a while, and here are some of my usage tips. Share these with your support staff and employees.

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Time to Reap What IP Telephony has Sown

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:20 AM ET | Mar 4, 2008

IP telephony made its way into the small and medium business mainstream a few years ago, yet only during the past 12 months have companies started to use this communications foundation to improve productivity.

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Codeweavers, Google Brew Some Fine Wine For Desktop Linux Users

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 12:20 AM ET | Mar 4, 2008

Over the past few years, Linux-based desktop virtualization has improved by leaps and bounds. In some cases, however, it is already possible to run Windows software on Linux, while cutting Windows itself completely out of the picture -- and thanks to Google, some very high-profile Windows software is now bridging the Linux gap.

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Siemens Launches OpenScape Unified Communications Server Software

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:29 PM ET | Mar 3, 2008

Siemens hopes to jumpstart acceptance of Unified Communications with a vendor-agnostic open-standards-based OpenScape UC server software platform.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | IT | Messaging | Networking & Communications

A Dozen Thumb Drives With Security Features

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:03 PM ET | Mar 3, 2008

Thumb drives are convenient, cheap -- and all too easily lost, stolen, left behind or otherwise compromised... with potentially catastrophic consequences. Informationweek recently took a look at twelve drives that include security features.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Mobile | Security | Storage

Online Services are Cheaper and Easier to Use. Even Microsoft is Taking Notice

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:36 PM ET | Mar 3, 2008

There are so many reasons why Web-based services make sense for smaller businesses. They're cheaper, easy to use, and frequently level the playing field with their larger sized competitors. And now that Microsoft is starting to afford the trend the seriousness it deserves, we know it's here to stay.

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