Small Business Tech

More power yet more green
Sep. 04, 2008
Modern digital technology is catching up with the telephone system from the 1950s. How? Ma Bell used to send voltage down the phone wires to ring the bell on your phone. Today, PoE (Power over Ethernet) sends voltage ...

Explaining Geeks to Humans and the Inverse
Aug. 28, 2008
It's that time of year again: summer's cooling down, school's starting, and I've set my schedule of ITEC conference appearances for the fall. If you read this column and want to come say hello, I'd love to meet you.

Outside help, inside connections
Aug. 21, 2008
As companies grow, problems never disappear but they do change. Very small companies need help in many areas during a time they can least afford regular onsite help. Larger companies have onsite help, but also have ...

New twists on Wi-Fi
Aug. 14, 2008
It's a wireless world, some say, conveniently overlooking the giant balls of cables behind every personal computer and every server, router and printer. But many want to expand the wireless world, so let's look at two ...

Online project management tricks
Aug. 07, 2008
The term "Project Management" usually brings pained looks to business people because they associate it with Microsoft Project. The tool may make their lives easier, but the software costs hundreds of dollars per user, ...

Your technology tent pole
Jul. 31, 2008
One of my favorite questions for analysts and consultants is what small businesses should learn from big businesses. Let me quote Michael Dortch, long time IT analyst now with the Aberdeen Group, from an interview I did ...

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."

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 ...

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 ...

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