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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

Management Vendor Broadens Reach

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:51 AM ET | May 7, 2008

Systems and network management have been coalescing, so dividing lines between the two have become hard to discern. Consequently, it is not too surprising to see vendors in one of these areas moving more squarely into a new niche.

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IT | Management | Networking & Communications | Storage

10G Ethernet Moving from Fiber to Copper

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 11:20 AM ET | May 5, 2008

Faster speeds are something that IT departments constantly desire. 10G bps transmissions have been relegated to backbone switch connections but are starting to make their way into servers and storage systems because of less expensive cabling.

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Interop: Smaller Businesses Get Some Attention

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:26 AM ET | May 2, 2008

There was lots and lots of focus on larger enterprises at Interop, but, if you looked for it, you could find that many tech companies are thinking more and more about the smaller business.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | Networking & Communications

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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Another Low Priced Video Conferencing System Arrives

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 01:56 PM ET | Apr 28, 2008

Many small and medium businesses have been interested in video conferencing but not able to justify purchasing these systems. In addition, picture quality has been an issue with many systems, so vendors are now trying to address those issues.

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Those Social Networking Apps? Not as Safe as Your Employees Think

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:54 AM ET | Apr 28, 2008

There's lots of talk about the time-wasting element inherent in social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. Along comes yet another reason for a smaller business to block these sites: Security, or lack thereof.

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Hardware & Software | Networking & Communications | Security

HP Says Virtualization Will Change The World

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:53 PM ET | Apr 25, 2008

Over coffee and bizarre breakfast sandwiches this morning, John McHugh, HP ProCurve VP and Worlwide GM told a few of us media types that virtualization is the big "disruptor" and "change agent" about to shake up the networking world.

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Networking & Communications

McAfee And PlumChoice DoubleTeam For Remote Business Tech Services

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:44 AM ET | Apr 24, 2008

The latest alliance targeting small and midsize business tech-needs is McAfee's just-announced linkup with PlumChoice to provide on-demand tech services to, well, to you.

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Family Feud Underscores Maturing WAN Optimization Market

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:43 AM ET | Apr 24, 2008

Unions between start-ups and their financial backers are often quite tenuous. This week, the partnership between one vendor and a hedge fund with 10% of its stock illustrated that as well changes occurring in the WAN optimization market.

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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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PBX For Small Business: Asterisk Comes A-Callin'

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:51 PM ET | Apr 15, 2008

The market for open-source business software today is growing so quickly that it can be hard to single out the really exceptional success stories. If I had to pick just one, however, I think I know which one it would be.

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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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Bots Gone Wild: Handful Of Botnets Run A Million Machines

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:34 AM ET | Apr 10, 2008

How many botnets does it take to grab a million computers and use them to send out billions (and billions and billions) of spams a day? Less than a dozen, according to one security expert.

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Symantec Report: Malware Makers Setting Sights Via Trusted Sites

Posted by Keith Ferrell 08:59 AM ET | Apr 9, 2008

Symantec's latest Internet threat report makes clear that the bad guys have shifted the focus of their approach from luring users to malicious sites to placing their malware on legit sites that users know and trust.

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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

GroundWork Enhances Enterprise Management Tool

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:03 AM ET | Apr 1, 2008

GroundWork became the latest open source supplier to deliver a more powerful system. The GroundWork Monitor manages thousands of devices and is designed to help network operations center staff, systems administrators, and network engineers.

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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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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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IT | Internet/Web | Networking & Communications | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev

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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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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Business & E-Business | IT | Networking & Communications | Security | Technology/Telecom

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

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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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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