A successful small and medium-sized business can grow and expand at a breakneck pace. This can prove especially challenging in terms of acquiring IT equipment and infrastructure design - what worked ... More >
A recent survey of small business attitudes by security vendor Trend Micro concluded that the threat of cybercrime is an increasing concern for IT decision makers. I personally view this as a good ... More >
In an earlier blog post , I mentioned how a new book from John Lamb titled "The Greening of IT" ( Safari Books Online ) prompted me to think more about the idea of green IT for SMBs. With more than ... More >
I was reading a book from IBM Press titled "The Greening of IT" ( Safari Books Online ) which arrived last week. Even as companies wake up to the idea of environmental responsibility, author John L... More >
Less than a year since OpenOffice 3.0 was released to rave reviews last October , the next iteration of the popular productivity suite is now available. According to various reports, OpenOffice 3.1 ... More >
Getting some new laptops for your small and medium businesses and at a loss where to begin? Perhaps knowing the top choices by large and small businesses will help you narrow down to some vend... More >
IT analyst firm Gartner has gone ahead and talked about an area that many IT managers or CIOs must have been pondering ever since the public availability of Microsoft's Windows 7 Release Candidate (... More >
Having worked in my fair share of small and medium-sized businesses, I am not at all unfamiliar with some of the practices that smaller organizations are often guilty of. For example, one common misd... More >
Have you ever been to an office and seen a staffer struggle with a small flickering CRT-era monitor? Well, chances are that this happened at a SMB that either does not have an IT budget or simply h... More >
I came across this interesting Q&A with an FBI agent who played a pivotal role in busting a transnational cybercrime outfit. Agent J. Keith Mularski spent two years infiltrating an underground ... More >
With the availability of the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) to the general public earlier this week, now is probably a good time as any to do a recap of the initial impressions from testers who hav... More >
I read with some fascination about how researchers from the University of California gained access to the command-and-control network of the Torpig botnet. The researchers monitored the botnet over... More >
The Release Candidate (RC) of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system was released to the subscribers of MSDN, TechNet and TechBeta yesterday. Come May 5, it will be made available to the general publ... More >

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