Small Business Tech

Plugging iPhones into small businesses
Jul. 24, 2008
Apple's iPhone drew criticism when first released because of tepid enterprise business support. Small businesses felt the pain of iPhone envy more sharply than their enterprise counterparts because of the high upfront ...

Focus on restore, not backup
Jul. 17, 2008
Everyone always worries about backup, backup, backup. Guess what? None of your users, or managers for that matter, care one bit about backup. All the want is restore, and they want it immediately. So shift your focus ...

Remembering longer passwords easily
Jul. 10, 2008
One of the members of the Master Mind Security Panel during the ITEC show in Charlotte, Dan Colby, made a great point. Basically, he said "quit using passwords."

Roundup from the Charlotte ITEC show
Jul. 03, 2008
I had the pleasure of providing the keynote speech for the ITEC regional IT conference in Charlotte, N.C. this week and had a great time visiting the area for the first time. Even better, I had the chance to sit down ...

Will the death of XP really hurt you?
Jun. 26, 2008
Microsoft warned us well over a year ago that XP will Die Die Die, at least on new computers, by the end of June, 2008. Petitions and prayers notwithstanding, XP has a firm date with Boot Hill. RIP, XP.

Consumerization of small business IT
Jun. 19, 2008
During the Altiris user conference in April, I watched a lunch panel discuss the "consumerization of IT" and whether that's a good thing. My initial thought was that it was probably bad for enterprises that want to ...

Laptop safety questions
Jun. 12, 2008
Let me say thanks to the Women's Business Council of the Southwest for inviting me to teach them about laptop safety. The business backgrounds of the members ranged from huge company manager to sole proprietor to ...

Summer slowdown strategies
Jun. 05, 2008
Gershwin is wrong about this particular summer. The livin' ain't easy. Besides the normal slowdown many companies feel during the summer months, when you consider the widening recession and skyrocketing gasoline prices, ...

A new All-in-One server
May. 29, 2008
Almost exactly seven years ago, I reviewed four different "All-in-One" Internet appliances that included file, e-mail and Web servers and some other workgroup type utilities. A purple cube, eight inches on each side, ...

Better network printing
May. 22, 2008
That "paperless office" idea was nice, but it may be time to give it up. Quit wishing and hoping you will no longer buy paper by the case load. Quit dreaming of the day when an easy to use and inexpensive electronic ...

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