Here is this week’s round-up of technology news small business owners may find informative, useful or entertaining:
- Is Your Great Idea A Real Business? – Applying some realism to your business idea will help it get off the ground
- Making money while you sleep – An example of someone who was able to turn their idea into a success story
- Doing business in the 21st century – The importance of technology for SMEs
- Approval for mobiles on aircraft – Soon, people will even be able to get in touch with you in mid-air
- Entrepeneurs and Experts Reveal Big Ideas at Microsoft’s Small Business Summit 2008 – A run-down on Microsofts new services for SMEs
- Windows XP: Going, going … gone? – Even though Windows XP is Microsoft’s best OS to date, its days are numbered… but…
- Should Microsoft throw away Vista ? – The much-maligned Windows Vista received its first Service Pack last week amidst calls for an XP Second Edition
- Adobe puts free Photoshop online – Photoshop Express is completely web-based and can be used from any computer
- OpenOffice.org 2.4 released – The free open-source office software gets new update, read about the changes here
- Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? – Unless you are performing high-risk tasks, it still appears to be safe to run a Mac without virus protection
- Even Apple will be hated one day – Because Microsoft was once a fresh innovative company run by a young upstart
- Apple Software Update – On his blog, the CEO of Mozilla criticizes Apple’s recent iTunes update that forces the Safari browser on Windows users
- How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong – An examination of Apple’s strange approach to business which has paid off big for them
- What will life be like in the Year 2008? – A 40 year old Mechanix Illustrated article about what they expected life would be like today
- Web-based tools aid small business – Some very useful web-tools for SMEs, but they neglect to mention WinWeb!
