Here is this week’s round-up of technology news small business owners may find informative, useful or entertaining:
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Small business tech uncertainty moves to mid-size companies – The economic slowdown is leading to a delay in SME tech spending
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SMEs, emerging markets get full attention of IBM – The tech giant IBM is changing its strategy to focus more on small business
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A must-have for the head honchos – A look at some of the best notebooks for the corporate market
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Review of HTC’s X7510 Advantage – A new smartphone / laptop hybrid from HTC
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UK rural broadband penetration overtakes urban – Fears in 2000 of a divide between rural and urban broadband access were misplaced
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Viewers take to iPlayer in their millions – The BBC iPlayer continues to go from strength to strength
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Shape-shifting malware hits the web – New malware has the ability to adapt to evade anti-virus software
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Antivirus is ‘completely wasted money’- The CSO of Cisco believes that malware developers move too quickly for antivirus software to keep up
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20% of U.S. has never sent e-mail – A fifth of all American’s are still not on the Internet
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U.S. corporations massively read employee e-mail – Nearly a quarter of them employ staff tasked with reading colleague’s e-mail
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China ’s All-Seeing Eye – With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state
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‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails – Anti-terror legislation proposed this week in the UK would allow the Government to store details of every phone call, e-mail and use of the Internet
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Shops track customers via mobile phone – A device is being installed into shopping centres in the UK which tracks the movements of customers via the frequencies of their mobile phones
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Most Business-Launched Virtual Worlds Fail, Gartner Says – Around 90% of corporate virtual worlds are abandoned within 18 months
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Microsoft puts new Yahoo deal on the table – The never-ending saga between Microsoft and Yahoo resumed this week with a new proposal
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Microsoft offers cashback search – The tech giant is giving up to 30% cashback on select products purchased through the ‘Live Search’ engine in attempt to compete with Google
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Google Health goes public – The latest Google app allows you to manage your medical conditions online
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Macs Defy Windows Gravity – Two-thirds of PC retail sales over $1,000 are Apple products
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Annoying Software : a rogue’s gallery – An amusing look at the software that irritates us all
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Boffins take gigapixel photos using ordinary camera – A robotic gadget takes multiple pictures of the same scene and overlaps them
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Internet Brings Simplicity to Small-Business Telecom – A look at the benefits of VoIP for SMEs
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Powerful Enterprise Software Small Biz Can Afford – A good explanation of software-as-a-service (SaaS) for small business. If you want to find out more about what SaaS can do for your business, take a look at OnlineOffice
