Small and midsize businesses that upgrade their PCs to Windows 7 can cut their support costs by 50% or more and save up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process, according to a newly released study by IDC. Windows 7 screen shot (Cl...

Bloggers have uncovered what are claimed to be internal Microsoft slides detailing some of the features planned for the company's next computer operating system—Windows 8. Windows 7 screen shot (Click for larger image and for full phot...

Image Gallery: Apple iPhone 4, A True Teardown (click for larger image and for full photo gallery) I have been able to independently confirm that, when held in your bare left hand, the iPhone 4's signal will drop by several bars after about one...

Peter Shankman, is the founder and CEO of The Geek Factory, a New York-based boutique marketing and PR Strategy firm and the author of "Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work and Why Your Company Needs Them." But what catapulted him to stardom wa...

Google on Tuesday said that Google Voice, its online voicemail and telecommunications service, is now open to everyone in the U.S. Launched in March 2009, Google Voice was previously available through invitation only. Google Voice product manager Vincent...

Having previously referred to its search technology as a "command-line interface to the world," Google has decided to implement an actual command-line tool for several of its services. On Friday, Google announced the availability of GoogleCL, open-source...

The mobile content applications sector presents entrepreneurs with an ever-widening target for fresh ideas. They need only to overcome the fragmented technology nature of the mobile industry itself. Devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have redefin...

I just received a bill from my lawyer today in which he itemized his time spent on my file last month. He spent four-tenths of an hour on an email to a colleague and one-tenth of an hour leaving me a voice mail. John Warrillow I have found billing by th...

Online retailer Amazon has cut the price on Microsoft's new Office 2010 productivity suite by up to 13%. (click image to view gallery)Microsoft Office 2010 In Pictures The Home & Student version of the software is currently selling on Amazon for $129...

Download the entire Jun. 14, 2010 issue of SMB, distributed in an all-digital format as part of our Green Initiative (Registration required.) We will plant a treefor each of the first 5,000 downloads. Every year for the past 13, InformationW...

Microsoft on Tuesday formally released the latest version of its popular business productivity suite. (click image to view gallery)Microsoft Office 2010 In Pictures Office 2010 features updates to the familiar Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications,...

Download the entire Jun. 14, 2010 issue of SMB, distributed in an all-digital format as part of our Green Initiative (Registration required.) We will plant a treefor each of the first 5,000 downloads. If Bonnie and Clyde were alive today,...

Download the entire Jun. 14, 2010 issue of SMB, distributed in an all-digital format as part of our Green Initiative (Registration required.) We will plant a treefor each of the first 5,000 downloads. Too many small and midsize businesses...

Download the entire June 14, 2010 issue, distributed in an all-digital format (registration required). Server technology is at a crossroads, as x86 performance enhancements threaten the high-end dominance of RISC/Itanium systems. Commodity s...

Yes, I Blog At The Office And why not text and tweet, too? An employee at a California high-tech startup says he's entitled. iPhone? Check. Calls? Sure. Text messages? Yes. IM? Of course. Blogging? Tryin'. Facebook. Certainly. Twitter? Some. Why wouldn...

Hackers broke into AT&T's servers and stole e-mail account information on more than 100,000 Apple iPad users, the network carrier disclosed Wednesday. (click image to view gallery)Inside Apple's iPad: FCC Teardown Photos The company said it discovered...

Image Gallery: The Top 16 Google Services (click for larger image and for full photo gallery) Google has switched to a new search indexing system that the company claims is faster than the previous technology and provides 50% fresher results. Go...

Steve Hilton On a recent flight to Las Vegas for a trade show, I began musing about the SMB communication market. According to Analysys Mason forecasts, the voice and data market in the U.S. for SMBs is $32.2 billion in 2010 (see chart of U.S. SMB V...

(click image for larger view) HP e-All-in-One Printer Hewlett-Packard announced Monday its ePrint platform and a line of printers that will print documents or files directly from the cloud. Users simply send a Web page or a document to an e-mail...

Microsoft will release a beta version of the first major update to its Windows 7 operating system by the end of July, according to a company official. Windows 7 screen shot (Click for larger image and for full photo gallery) Windows 7 SP...

In these rough and recessionary times, it's important to escape the commodity pricing wars and to find ways to strengthen the marketing backbone of your company. The most reliable and affordable way to achieve both these goals is by building a strong pers...

IT pros may be getting sick of cloud computing terminology, but make no mistake: The private cloud is a new and powerful data center strategy. What IT leaders are sorting out today is just how much of the concept they want to embrace. Consider Indiana Un...

Ever since Tom Peters introduced the word excellence into the business world, companies have been madly scrambling after it. His 1982 book, "In Search of Excellence," spawned a whole industry of excellence--management gurus and cultural consultants invadi...

Broadening its commitment to personalization and one-upping Microsoft's Bing, Google on Wednesday began allowing users to replace its famously white search page background with an image of their choosing. Bing features a different background image every...

(click image to view gallery)Inside Apple's iPad: FCC Teardown Photos With AT&T's wireless network bursting at the seams in parts of the country and Apple poised to add to the congestion with new iPhones next week, AT&T has introduced new data plans...

Cloud computing is still a relatively new technology for many businesses. However, the benefits that it provides to small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are vast and should not be overlooked. In particular, cloud computing can help SMBs in six different ar...

After its office in China was hacked as a result of social engineering trickery and a flaw in Internet Explorer 6 last year, Google has decided to dump Windows. The Financial Times on Monday reported that, according to several Google employees, Windows i...

Last weekend my wife and I were browsing the shelves of our local Blockbuster and couldn't find anything to watch. We have seen Avatar and Sherlock Holmes looks a little too Hollywood for us. As we scanned the rest of the titles, nothing jumped out at us....

The story behind the startup that grew to become the biggest mobile technology acquisition in Google's history begins five years ago in a small dorm room on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. At the time, Omar Hamoui was pursuing an MBA degree...

Court Cunningham is CEO of local online advertising vendor Yodle. He came to Yodle in 2007 after serving as COO of social networking provider Community Connect and, prior to that, SVP of DoubleClick. In his new book, "Local Online Advertising for Dummies,...

Many SMBs want to utilize Wi-Fi, but they distrust it. Spotty coverage, erratic performance and dropped connections are driving this distrust - and RF interference is the culprit. A first come, first served technology, 802.11 is a shared medium that us...