5 Tips For SMBs To Seize The Mobile Web Opportunity
With consumers flocking to mobile devices in droves, businesses need to meet customers where they are. These 5 tips will help your business navigate the mobile Web.
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Yelp Lauches Business Promotion Webinars
The online rating service Yelp has instituted a series of educational webinars called Yelp for your Business, aimed at helping businesses leverage Yelp to enhance their online reputations.
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SMB Confidence Up, Spending And Hiring Still Flat
A new survey of local merchants finds that most see the economy holding steady in the doldrums and widespread caution about hiring or spending.
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Meraki Enhances Wireless Cloud Service Security
Cloud services have been very popular among small and medium businesses because it enables them to take advantage of leading edge technology without adding a lot of management headaches. As a result, Meraki, which has been delivering wireless cloud services, beefed up the security features found with its Cloud Controller.
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Do As Security Pros Say, Not As They Do
Monitoring at the RSA Conference found plenty of security vulnerabilities on the wireless networks the security professionals were using.
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Polycom Adds Another Partner
The effects from Cisco's recent acquisition of video conferencing supplier Tandberg continue to ripple throughout the IT marketplace. Polycom added one more partner, Avaya, to a rapidly expanding list, and the move underscored how the video conferencing sector is evolving into a two horse race.
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Bye Bye Essential Business Server, Hello Cloud
Microsoft announces its betting big on cloud computing and discontinues its midmarket server offering.
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Twitter Attacks Get Automated
A security researcher has released an automated social network attack tool in an attempt to show just how vulnerable social nets are.
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10 Tax Prep Tips To Reduce Audit Risk
Tax day is almost here and business owners are diligently itemizing deductions and calculating depreciation - keep your chances your return being audited with these tips.
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Alfresco To Launch Content Management For SMBs
Enterprise content management and collaboration solution vendor Alfresco has announced its intention to launch a version of its service for SMBs and has opened its Early Access Program for a limited number of businesses to test.
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Intel Introduces Atom-Based Server Platform
The new low-power-consumption platform is intended for use in servers and network-attached storage systems for small offices and home businesses.
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Social Media, Video Become Email Marketing Staples For SMBs
SMB email marketers are seeing results from incorporating more video and social media into campaigns; 64% have boosted conversion rates using video email.
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SMB Confidence Continues To Flatline
More than 40% of business owners expect it will be a year or more before their business rebounds from the great recession.
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Leaving InformationWeek SMB, And Introducing Enterprise Efficiency!
As regular readers of InformationWeek SMB may have noticed, I haven't been around much lately. That's because for the past few weeks, I've been hard at work at a brand new TechWeb "skunkworks" project called Enterprise Efficiency, or E2, which launched last Friday.
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Small Business Employment On The Upswing
According to new data released by Intuit, U.S. small businesses employed more people in February than the month before, continuing an 8-month trend of rising SB employment.
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Akami Optimization Boosts AppRiver Mobile Email Performance
Test results indicate up to 50% boost in mobile email performance from Akamai-optimization of AppRiver Secure Hosted Exchange solution.
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App Insecurity: More Than Half Fail Security Tests First Time
Applications are where the action is, both for business productivity and, not at all coincidentally, for exploits. A new report from Veracode charges that 58% of reviewed apps flunked security tests the first time.
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The 10 Most Strategic IT Vendors For SMBs
The most strategic vendors for SMBs may be the same as for large enterprises. Or, the local and regional vendors that keep serve the IT needs of smaller businesses may just fly under the radar of national and global vendor rankings.
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Survey Reveals Reasons SMBs Choose Managed Services
A survey conducted by Hurwitz & Associates of Dell Managed Services customers elicits some of the reasons SMBs are drawn to managed services and some of the benefits the participants have realized.
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SMBs Using Social Media More. . . Reluctantly
Recent reports indicate the SMB use of social media is increasing at a steady clip, but other research finds that the commitment may be lackluster.
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Do SMBs Need More Fiber Connections?
Good news/bad news. The good news is a growing number of companies now are able to connect to telecommunications service provider via fiber optic lines. However, the bad news is the carriers have focused on meeting the needs of large enterprises at the expense of small and medium businesses.
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TextFlow + Box.net = Easy Revision Management
Businesses that need to manage input from multiple collaborators on shared text documents will benefit from the new TextFlow application for Box.net, which makes it simple to see changes side by side and choose which one to accept.
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SMBs More Optimistic, But Still Scared To Borrow
Small business owners are more optimistic about the economic outlook than a year ago, but lack of customer demand and anxiety about solvency keeps a majority from pursuing additional credit.
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Customers, Not Stimulus, Spur SMB Hiring
Despite efforts in Washington to incent job creation among smaller businesses, customer demand remains the leading driver for hiring.
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SMBs More Optimistic, But Still Scared To Borrow
Small business owners are more optimistic about the economic outlook than a year ago, but lack of customer demand and anxiety about solvency keeps a majority from pursuing additional credit.
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