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Should Smaller Businesses Twitter? Some Say Yes

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:13 AM ET | May 13, 2008

Social networking has met its match in Twitter, whose dedicated users are fixated on SMS-ing or IM-ing their "tweets" in the small space allotted by the messaging service. But what can a smaller business do with the 140 character limit to generate business? Apparently, a lot.

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Mobile | Networking & Communications | Sales/Marketing

Interop: Fixed/Mobile Convergence Coming to Your Company?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:39 AM ET | Apr 30, 2008

Employees no longer sit in their cubicles all day. Instead, executives move from place to place, visiting customers and clients. Figuring out how to reach these individuals has been a problem: Do you try their office number or their cell?

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Hard Drive Encryption Becomes Loaded-Laptop Hard Drive Feature

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:07 PM ET | Apr 23, 2008

With nearly three-quarters of a million laptop and notebook computers lost or stolen each year, there's a better than good argument for equipping yourself and your remote staff with encrypted disks on their portable gear.

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Security | bMighty

Wireless LANs Gain Backbone Flexibility

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:29 AM ET | Apr 21, 2008

Has your business been bitten by the wireless bug? Would you like to swap out your wired backbone connections for wireless ones? Well, the time has come when such choices are possible.

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What Are Your Employees Doing on the Road?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 08:56 AM ET | Apr 17, 2008

Trust can be a trait that takes long time to develop but can be quickly broken. If your company trusts its employees to use the Internet judiciously on the road, then it may be time to rethink that position.

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Remote Workers Take their Office Communications on the Road

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:24 AM ET | Apr 15, 2008

Chances are that more of your workers are mobile than those of your larger competitors. Consequently, it is important that your employees are able to access company resources in a seamless, easy-to-use manner as they travel.

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Lessons Learned From Protestors: Tech Tools Can Help

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:00 AM ET | Apr 11, 2008

The pro-Tibet demonstrators attempting to disrupt the Olympic torch's international publicity tour are impressive not only in their ability to garner attention for their cause but also in their effective use of tech tools to do that. Smaller businesses could learn something from these guys.

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Technology/Telecom

Telecommuting Is NOT A Panacea

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:21 PM ET | Apr 9, 2008

Even as telecommuting and teleworking gather steam in companies large and small, a growing backlash contends it's not always such a great idea, for companies or workers.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Management | Mobile

Bluetooth Headsets: The Good, The Bad, and The Geeky

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:31 AM ET | Apr 1, 2008

bMighty has just launched a cool new slide show laying out some of the top Bluetooth headset choices for folks in small and midsize companies. I wish I'd had that list when I was shopping for my own new headset.

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

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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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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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

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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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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Fight The Power: Greening Your Linux Systems

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:32 AM ET | Feb 29, 2008

Linux has a lot of advantages as a desktop operating system. Power management, unfortunately, still is not one of them. But there are plenty of ways to make a Linux system less power-hungry -- and some of the most effective fixes are also some of the easiest.

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Green Business | Hardware & Software | Linux | Mobile | Open Source

Sprint "Simply Everything" Changes Wireless Landscape

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:56 PM ET | Feb 28, 2008

$100 a month for all your mobile voice, data, and messaging needs? Heck yeah! But this is more than a good deal, it's a step toward a new way of using wireless - for your company and your customers.

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Cell Phone Device Detects Deleted Data

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:14 PM ET | Feb 26, 2008

Cell phone users whose phones use SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) strips need to know that a new device that reads those strips can also retrieve deleted text messages. It's called, appropriately enough, Cell Phone Spy.

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Hardware & Software | Messaging | Mobile | Security | Technology/Telecom

RIM Hauls Motorola Into Court

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:11 AM ET | Feb 19, 2008

Relations between the US and Canada grew frosty as Montreal, based Research In Motion pulled Schaumberg, Ill Motorola into court. The two sides are warring over wireless patents and payments, a quick resolution seems unlikely, and businesses could suffer.

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25 Laptops Priced For Smaller Companies

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:59 PM ET | Feb 12, 2008

Don't worry too much if your company won't shell out $3098 to buy you a MacBook Air. It turns out you can get a useful, portable, powerful notebook computer for a lot less.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Mobile | Technology/Telecom | Windows

Second Time's the Charm for Blackberry

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:38 PM ET | Feb 12, 2008

For the second time in a year, Blackberry addicts, I mean users, have had to deal with a disruption in their service. This time it was their wireless connection to email and the Web. Did all those idling thumbs mean increased traffic in Apple stores?

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Travel

Video and Location Based Services Poised to Arrive on Mobile Devices

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:38 AM ET | Feb 12, 2008

The future of mobile devices is on display this week at the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona. Handhelds that support high quality video and those that can be easily tracked will become more common in the coming months.

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SMB IT Spending To Grow Faster Than Enterprises'

Posted by Fredric Paul 02:10 PM ET | Feb 8, 2008

Despite fears of recession, small and midsize businesses will continue to boost IT spending in 2008, with special emphasis on software as a service (Saas).

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | IT | Mobile | Services

Good Tech/Bad Tech For Small Business?

Posted by Fredric Paul 02:53 PM ET | Feb 7, 2008

We all know that some technologies are great, while others end up costing you time and money. But which is which?

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Remote Worker Worries: On The Road With Their Guards Down

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:07 AM ET | Feb 6, 2008

A couple of items recently caught by the bMighty ANTenna ought to have your own security antennae twitching at full alert. The combination of remote workers and more powerful mobile devices could be setting up a perfect storm of security woes.

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