The New Small Delivers Big Technology Insights for Small Business

Big business used to have a monopoly on resources and tools that virtually kept customers hostage if they wanted a certain level or type of service.  This is no longer true, and Phil Simon’s The New Small: How a New Breed of Small Businesses Is Harnessing the Power of Emerging Technologies will show you exactly how small…

Virtualization and Health Care – The Cure-All for Partners?

No soothsaying required: Healthcare IT is the future and it’s growing. That’s why VMware is pushing desktop virtualization as a way healthcare professionals can access their EMR systems and patient records faster. Read on to learn how the company plans to push its virtualization solutions into this expanding vertical: Healthcare organizations are looking to increase…

Google Begins Soft Censorship Of Arbitrary Piracy-Related Queries

The efforts of media companies to quash online piracy are a bit like someone trying to put out a forest fire with a wet noodle. The latest pathetic flail comes in the form of coercing Google into censoring its results for some search terms. A number of words will no longer be autocompleted or trigger…

LinkedIn Buys Business Card Converter CardMunch, Will Offer Its Services For Free

In perhaps one of the most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions I’ve ever seen, career-driven social network LinkedIn has bought CardMunch, a Shoeboxed-like startup that scans your business cards and accurately converts them into phone contacts using Mechanical Turk. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. From the CardMunch blog: “Our long-term vision for CardMunch…

Can MSPs Work Closely With Corporate IT Departments?

Instead of competing with corporate IT departments, a healthy number of managed services providers (MSPs) cooperate with corporate IT managers — creating a virtual bridge between MSP and corporate IT. Tools like ConnectWise StreamlineIT and Autotask Taskfire can help the process. But the effort also takes serious commitment from MSPs. Here’s the update, including a…

Small Business News: Doing Business With the World

Small Business News: Doing Business With the World By Small Business News on January 25, 2011 Small Business News –> Small Business News January 25, 2011 By Small Business News Why settle for your local market when you could be doing business with the world. A survey shows small business owners are already moving in…

App turns desktop wallpaper into a changing photo collage

If variety is the spice of life, then most of us live a fairly bland existence on our desktop computers, whose background wallpaper we tend to leave the same, day after day. Enter Wallcast, a new application that transforms desktop wallpaper into a dynamic photo collage featuring a rotating selection of the user’s favorite pictures.…

Cloud printing on the go

This feature will be rolling out today and tomorrow for English speaking users in the US and will work on most phones that support HTML5, such as devices running Android 2.1+ and iOS 3+. To get started, you’ll need to connect your printer to Google Cloud Print. This step requires a Windows PC for now,…

German food store offers recipe kits for individual meals

Rather than stocking everything a consumer might need at any given time, German Kochhaus — or “Cooking House” — focuses on a set number of meals each day. The store displays a series of packages that include a recipe and just the right quantities of all the necessary ingredients. Launched in September 2010, Kochhaus —…

How to avoid being fooled by social engineering techniques

1. Remember that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. 2. Ask yourself—why would you be singled out for a windfall or other special treatment out of the millions of other Internet users. If you can’t find a good reason, it’s probably a scam. 3. Don’t believe everything you read. Just…