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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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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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Web 2.0 + Business = Enterprise 2.0 (Coming Soon, if the IT Guys Let it in)

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:52 AM ET | Apr 22, 2008

A new report by Forrester Research predicts that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. But before you IT guys get all a-"twitter," we're not talking about consumer Web 2.0 here: We're talking Enterprise 2.0, and it's not your teenager's Facebook.

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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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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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Sophos: One Million Viruses And Counting Fast(er)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:04 PM ET | Apr 7, 2008

How many viruses have been created over the past twenty years? Close to a million, according to security company Sophos. How many of those appeared in the last six months? More than a quarter of them!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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F-Secure Survey Shows Misplaced Security Confidence

Posted by Keith Ferrell 04:50 PM ET | Feb 29, 2008

A new computer-use survey from security firm F-Secure shows that the majority of more than 1,000 respondents understands the importance of updating virus definitions. Yet less than 20 percent understood the need for frequent definition updates.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Operations | Security | Technology/Telecom

Nortel's Downward Spiral Continues

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:35 AM ET | Feb 28, 2008

Nortel's fourth quarter revenue brought unwelcome news. In fact, the numbers were so bad that more than 2,000 employees will need to find new employers ASAP, as the vendor continues to struggle in the highly competitive network equipment market.

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Media Advice For Entrepreneurs And Others

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:49 AM ET | Feb 27, 2008

How to get your company noticed -- advice from a journalist, a professor, an analyst, and a flack.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Technology/Telecom

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

Riverbed Eases WAN Transmission Requirements

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:54 AM ET | Feb 26, 2008

Traffic flowing between remote locations can chew up bandwidth and raise a small and medium sized business’s telecommunications costs. WAN optimization tools have the potential to ease those burdens.

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Dismal Prospects for Tech? Blame the Pols

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:24 PM ET | Feb 25, 2008

As the field of presidential candidate gets smaller and smaller, the question among tech voters is who is their candidate. The answer, it seems is none of them.

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10G iSCSI Solutions Move Closer to the Mainstream

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:26 AM ET | Feb 21, 2008

Because of its IP based design and potential to lower storage costs, iSCSI has been gaining momentum recently. One reason why the technology may be worth a close look is it is now starting to support 10G bps transmission rates.

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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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Valentine's Virus-Mail-- Anything But Romantic

Posted by Keith Ferrell 07:47 AM ET | Feb 14, 2008

Won't you be my Valentine? Won't you be my VirusTime is more like it, as a storm of malicious e-cards and messages breaks across the Net. Don't click on any unexpected e-cards or messages, however Cupid-cute -- and warn your employees not to, either.

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