Small Business Tech

Choosing Between Netbooks and Notebooks
Jul. 01, 2009
What goes up must come down, and lately what's coming down are netbooks, as more and more articles talk about the compact computers disappointing customers. However, we can't blame netbooks for that. We can only blame ...

Do Telephone Calls over the Internet Still Confuse You?
Jun. 24, 2009
VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) is a terrible acronym but a great technology. But the industry thinks many people still believe many “myths” about running telephone traffic over the Internet. If Internet telephones ...

Why Is the PC vs. Mac war still raging?
Jun. 17, 2009
Macs vs. PCs vs. Linux arguments are dominating two mailing lists I'm on. The vitriol may be slightly less than in the past, but many of the same attitudes exist with subjective arguments trumping logic on both sides.

Digital Literacy: Buzzword or Job Requirement?
Jun. 10, 2009
Graduation season just finished and the air still rings with bad advice given to bored students. Calls for “digital literacy” filled many auditoriums as speakers unclear on the concept tried to hype technologies such as ...

Project Manager Gets Social, Social App Gets Organized
Jun. 03, 2009
LiquidPlanner is adding more collaboration tools to its online project management application because people, not tasks, create most of the problems in project management. And PBworks is adding task management tools to ...

Transferring Files Without E-mail
May. 27, 2009
E-mail and the Mazda Miata are both great examples of successful products, but they share a similar weakness: neither can carry much baggage. If you want to carry two people in a Miata, you're good. But if each of those ...

Adventures in e-mail marketing
May. 20, 2009
A writer's group I belong to wants to put on a conference this summer. Since I've written about two of the leading e-mail marketing services, Constant Contact and VerticalResponse, I volunteered to manage the messaging ...

Full Disk Encryption Comes to Workgroups
May. 13, 2009
Losing your laptop can be expensive in three ways. First, you'll spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace the hardware. Second, you'll suffer the time and aggravation of restoring your data, all the while ...

More e-mail for less money
May. 07, 2009
There is no recession if you're a certified and experienced Microsoft Exchange administrator. Headhunters tell me these techs are earning up to the $100,000 in some parts of the country. So if you or your management ...

Solving problems graphically
Apr. 30, 2009
Businesses, especially white collar businesses, are all about "processes and information" (thank you Michael Dortch). But what do you do when you find yourself looking at the same processes and the same information and ...

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