Latest SMB Tech Articles
- 29 October 2013
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How-Tos: 10 Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Businesses
Consumers are increasingly using their mobile devices to connect to businesses of all shapes and sizes. From optimizing your website to capturing holiday sales on mobile devices, these tips will help improve your mobile marketing strategy.
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News: Splunk launches Hunk for Hadoop
Analytics software provider, Splunk, has released a new platform which allows anyone to explore, analyse and visualise data in Hadoop.
- 28 October 2013
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News: Microsoft's Big Data Service Available After a Year in Preview
After a year of in-the-field testing, the Windows Azure HDInsight Service, which allows customers to spin up Hadoop clusters in the cloud, gets the green light for release into general availability.
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News: Oracle moves aggressively to poach SAP Business ByDesign customers
Oracle has joined the ranks of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendors hoping to capitalize on uncertainty among customers of SAP's Business ByDesign software, offering to waive one year of subscription fees to those who migrate to Oracle's competing products.
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News: ERP Comes to the Cloud and (Finally) Smaller Businesses
Trek Global claims that its cloud-based ERP service can help midmarket and small businesses leverage ERP to create efficiencies.
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Buying Advice: New Mac Pro release date, specs and price
Here we have full Mac Pro release date and price information, plus specifications.
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News: Buffer encrypts access tokens after spammer hack
Buffer, a service for scheduling social media posts, said Sunday it has strengthened its security after spammers gained access to its network.
- 26 October 2013
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News: LinkedIn's Intro tool for iPhones could be a juicy target for attackers
Some people think a lot can go wrong if you have your emails pass through LinkedIn's servers with the company's new Intro technology.
- 25 October 2013
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News: Internet Archive, fearful of spying, boosts its encryption
The Internet Archive, the online repository of millions of digitized books, wants to shield its readers from other's prying eyes -- like the government's.
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News: Startup offers hefty storage with pay-per-use pricing
The model of buying cloud computing resources is different from that of buying traditional hardware and software. Instead of buying licenses and investing in equipment, in a cloud computing model, users pay for the resources they use – no more, no less. That model has been proven out extensively on the compute side, with services like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and a variety of other IaaS offerings on the market. But storage has been slow to catch up.
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News: Data protection essential to digital economy, say EU leaders
European Union leaders have given themselves room for manoeuvre in implementing new data protection laws, while pledging to introduce them in a “timely” fashion.
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News: Lukewarm Global IT Outsourcing Market Heats Up in Third Quarter
The first half of the year was relatively quiet for global IT outsourcing deals, but activity has picked up considerably in the third quarter. Outsourcing consultancy ISG examines why and predicts how the IT outsourcing market will finish out the year.
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News: Permanent employment model hampering business innovation: Entity
Companies need to be more flexible in the search for talent, as well as broaden the way they look for and engage people.
- 24 October 2013
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News: New Relic to mine performance data for business insights
Software provider New Relic is extending its system administrator tools for monitoring the performance of applications to help business managers as well.
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News: Oracle gears up to battle Salesforce.com, IBM with Eloqua update
Oracle is rolling out a series of new features for its Eloqua marketing automation suite, hoping to get a leg up on rivals such as Salesforce.com and IBM in the red-hot software segment.
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Opinion: Microsoft plunks a 17-foot-tall Surface tablet down in London's Trafalgar Square
Who says tablet marketing isn't any fun?
- 23 October 2013
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News: Jive sharpens social collaboration suite's expertise directory, task management
Jive revamped the employee directory of its enterprise social-networking suite to make it easier for users to find colleagues whose expertise they can tap.
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News: Teradata Turns to the Cloud, Offers Data Warehouse as a Service
Aiming to give customers the flexibility to store, process and leverage their data on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment, Teradata is making its portfolio of platforms and services available via the cloud, including Data Warehouse as a Service, Discovery as a Service and Data Management as a Service.
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News: Pivotal bulks up big data software portfolio
While EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal prepares to launch its While EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal prepares to launch its [business intelligence PaaS (platform-as-a-service), the new company has also been busy building its portfolio of data mining and analysis software.
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News: Hortonworks Makes Hadoop More Versatile in New Distro
Built on Apache Hadoop YARN architecture, HDP 2.0 changes Hadoop from a single-purpose Web-scale batch data processing platform into multi-use operating system for batch, interactive, online and stream processing.
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Microsoft Surface Pro 2 review: A compact Ultrabook laptop and tablet with compromises
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14 best smartphones: The best phone you can buy in 2013
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How to close running apps in iOS 7: iPhone now works like Android
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Argos MyTablet vs Tesco Hudl comparison review: The battle of the budget tablets
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LG G2 review: The best smartphone you can buy
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Nexus 10 2 (2013) release date, price and spec rumours
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Apple iPad mini with Retina display: release date and specifications in the UK
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Google Nexus 5 release date, price, photos, video and specs rumours
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iPhone 6 release date: When will the iPhone 6 be launched?
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New iPad Air 5th generation release date, specs and new features
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Microsoft Surface Pro 2 review: A compact Ultrabook laptop and tablet with compromises
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Argos MyTablet vs Tesco Hudl comparison review: The battle of the budget tablets
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LG G2 review: The best smartphone you can buy
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HTC One review: great high-end Android matches, but can't beat the best. A good deal
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Apple iPad mini 2 vs Google Nexus 7 comparison review: which lightweight tablet packs the biggest punch
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How to close running apps in iOS 7: iPhone now works like Android
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How to open Adobe CS Photoshop, InDesign in OS X Mavericks - quick fix
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How to set a song on your iPhone as a ringtone
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How to format a write-protected USB flash drive or memory card
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How to block a number on an iPhone in iOS 7, iOS 6
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