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Kensington case warns when you leave your iPhone 4 behind
Wireless transmitter senses if there is too much distance between you and your smartphone, sends an audible alert and locks the screen so data is secured.
Internet site design made easy with Goodsie
For $15 per month, small businesses can set up and run branded e-commerce sites with clean designs optimized for multimedia integration.
3 ways SMBs can avoid being ambushed as cloud pioneers
When it comes to cloud adoption, midsize companies are ahead of big businesses. That means they will take some chances as they migrate to this technology delivery model.
Dell unfurls $50K SMB virtualization solution
vStart 50 combines Dell servers, storage and switches and comes bundled with either VMware or Microsoft virtualization software.
Watch out, Google. Facebook courts small businesses.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg tells USAToday that the social network plans to make Facebook a much friendly place for small businesses to promote their brand.
Conferencing service integrates PayPal transactions
Feature allows SMBs to collect fees for online events as part of the registration process.
Intuit, Salesforce combine forces in small-business CRM play
Application shares data between venerable accounting and CRM applications, helping small-business owners identify sales prospects, speed order processing and more closely follow sales pipeline.
Pano pre-configures virtual desktop solution for SMBs
Turnkey solution for up to 30 users includes lower-power client hardware, an HP server to run things, and virtualization software from VMware.
ShareFile extends file-sharing to mobile devices
Subscribers can now view their files securely from a wide ranging of smartphones or tablets.
Small-business social media adoption lags, and that's a shame
if at least one-quarter of your customer prospects are spending their time using social media or social networks, SMBs owe it to themselves to be experimenting with these platforms.
Cisco, Plantronics team on SMB communications bundle
First joint solution in a new program from Plantronics pairs a Cisco IP phone with a unified communications-capable headset.
IBM offers up $1B in SMB technology financing
The credit offerings are focused on IBM's technologies in data analytics and cloud services, but they could also cover the hardware and IT services needed to get everything in place.
The holy grail of SMB marketing technology? Location, location, location.
Most small businesses think of mobile platforms strictly from the productivity perspective, but location features will make this technology a valuable marketing tool.
Don't underestimate work productivity credentials of consumer tablets
Tablets are almost always a supplemental device for SMBs, helping employees stay more closely connected to work issues. The downside is that few companies protect tablets adequately.
