Joseph Moran

Imagine the chaos in both your life and your small business should you lose your unsecured Android smartphone — whether through accident or theft. If you have employees outfitted with Android phones, you can multiply that pain accordingly. Doesn’t that sound like fun? There’s simply no good reason to walk around with an unsecured phone, […]

 I have a small business networking question. I recently disconnected my cable modem, PCs, and other devices to relocate the equipment, and while trying to put everything back together noticed my cable modem has both USB and Ethernet ports. I’m not really sure which one we were using — what’s the difference between them, and […]

Learn More About Wireless Networking for Small Business Download The SMB’s Guide to Wireless Networking — it’s free with registration. Story updated and re-posted on July 12, 2011.  I’ve got a mix of Windows XP, Vista, and 7 systems on my small business network, and recently noticed that some of the XP systems — but […]

In any contemporary discussion about small business storage technology, the term “cloud” is likely to come up often enough to make a meteorologist feel at home. Cloud storage has many benefits — notably easy access to your data from anywhere there’s an Internet connection — but it also comes with things your small business may […]

Whether you’re buying your first SOHO Wi-Fi router for your small business network or you need an upgrade for an existing wireless network, it pays to do a bit of research. You may not realize that routers offer a variety of features that can directly affect your wireless network’s performance quality, security, ease of use […]

Do you ever give much thought to smartphone security? The smartphone is quickly eclipsing the PC for many common small business tasks that need to be accomplished on the road, such as email, social networking, Web browsing, editing or creating documents. But smartphones’ growing popularity also increases their vulnerability; not only because smartphones are small […]

If you’re a do-it-yourself small business networking troubleshooter – either by choice or by necessity — take a look at these 20 networking utilities. Most of them are Windows only, but a few do cover Mac and Linux, where indicated. You’ll be able to handle just about any emergency with these networking tools in your […]

Despite Skype’s recent and highly-publicized outage, many small businesses rely on the service to help keep telecommunications costs in check, either by taking advantage of its low per-minute rates on long distance and international calls, and/or using it to communicate for free with other Skype users via IM, audio, or video. Skype’s long had the […]

Mobile smartphones now come in three main flavors: Apple, Android and Microsoft. If you’re in the Microsoft smartphone camp, you’re probably wondering how Dell’s Venue Pro stacks up against other Microsoft Windows Phone 7 smartphones. Our sister site, EnterpriseMobileToday.com, features a hands-on review that scopes out the new smartphones features and performance capabilities to see […]

The last time we looked at Spiceworks, we were impressed by the small business network management tool’s capabilities, especially given its cost—a big, fat nothing — provided you’re willing to deal with a few ads.  Our earlier impressions haven’t changed much with the latest offering, Spiceworks 5.0, which improves on its predecessor by delivering a […]

Small business professionals have no lack of options when it comes to choosing a mobile device. It was tough enough with just iPhone and Android-based options, but Windows Phone 7 adds yet another dimension of choice. The mobile operating system is still young, but we want to take the opportunity to jot down and make […]

Data storage is the lifeblood of any small business, and one of the most straightforward and cost-effective ways to make a large amount of it available to everyone on your network is via a network attached storage (NAS) device. A NAS device is essentially a storage server that provides centralized access to shared data. NAS […]