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Info-Tech Research: Unified Communications TCO Showdown: Avaya vs. Cisco This 3-year TCO analysis evaluates whether the new Avaya SR 4134 with Software Communications System (SCS) is a competitive alternative to Cisco UC offerings for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs). This note compares the TCO of each solution in two scenarios: » Avaya SR 4134 SCS […]

PCWorld Latest Technology: How to Protect Yourself When Using Internet Explorer Worried about the security hole in Internet Explorer that was used to launch attacks by China against Google and others? There are ways to help close it and limit your exposure to similar threats — and it won’t take more than a few minutes. […]

PCWorld Latest Technology: Microsoft Promises Early Patch for IE Zero-Day Microsoft announced that it will release an out-of-band patch–meaning a patch that breaks the standard Patch Tuesday release cycle–to address the Internet Explorer flaw at the heart of the attacks in China against Google and other targets. The announcement was short on details, but Microsoft […]

PCMag@Work (Small Business): Spigit Launches SAAS Networking Tool for SMBs Spigit, the enterprise social networking startup, has launched a new version of its software that lets SMBs with 500 employees or less collaborate on company projects. WE by Spigit ranks each contributor’s reputation within a Spigit user community, and is delivered via the Web as […]

InformationWeek SMB: AT&T, Verizon Signal Start Of Price War Both carriers seek to keep revenues stable while attempting to deal with increasingly congested wireless networks. Now could be a good time for SMBs to re-evaluate their mobile service plans. With AT&T and Verizon Wireless debuting new lower-cost plans Monday, consumers were hoping a possible price […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Using Yahoo or Google Groups? Check Out Grouply. Easy Group Migration Many of you are using Yahoo or Google groups to manage communication with customers, church groups, local sports clubs and thousands of other “groups”. While these services are useful, and especially make it easy to communicate via email, they don’t let you leverage […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: IT Security Video: From The U.S. Govt To You The US Small Business Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have produced a 10 minute video to help make you aware of the security challenges your business faces. There’s not many solutions in this video, but it’s purpose is to make you […]

PCWorld: Windows 7 Security: What You Need to Know, Part Two Application compatibility is one of the most difficult obstacles users face when migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7. Fortunately, Microsoft offers some solutions, including XP Mode. This week, as part of my continuing series about major security changes in Windows 7, I’ll focus […]

Social Media Today: Why augmented reality will change the world as we know it? Augmented reality is clearly the buzz word of 2010. There were not too many bloggers who hadn’t identified augmented reality as a top subject in their trend lists of 2010 and there is a simple reason for it – it is […]

Yankee Group: Knight Rider – Now Streaming from a Connected Car Near You Now that CES is a week behind us and I’ve had some time to put my thoughts together and recover from the dreaded CES flu, I’ll be writing a few blog posts on three big CE products/trends that garnered considerable attention during […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: New Webinars and Events for Small Business The start of 2010 brings a bunch of great new events. Check out our latest list of webinars, conferences and events for growing companies, which is brought to you every other week by Small Business Trends and Smallbiztechnology.com. Small Business Seminar: Moving Your Business Forward in a […]

Small Business Trends: Hunting vs. Harvesting: Which Method Describes Your Customer Acquisition Strategy? I’ve written about this idea of hunting vs harvesting before for this site, but in conversations I have with small business owners, over and over this question of “what’s the difference?” comes up. So let’s dive deeper, because it’s a growing issue […]