Recent surveys indicate how ardently small business owners look to deploy web sites. Porting daily chores to web based applications, besides simple presentations, advertising, or even e-commerce. But first a blink at the results (some of):
The survey sought to understand the challenges that small business owners face marketing their businesses online. Revealing highlights of the […]
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Yes, you can have your own biz web site
Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things Web Applications
Firewalls, Anti-virus or Just IPtables?
Personal hygiene defends from bugs, or better said proper, complete and sustained hygiene as a practice gives best results in keeping bugs away. From our body to the house habitat, then out on the streets, and so on and so forth. It’s a chore that runs from combating dust mites to clearing airports. And it […]
Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things
Before Blaming the Server
Users are most often misled by proprietary software false security claims —actually marketing stunts— to believe that they’re having some ‘levels’ of security on their Windows desktop computers. From this error on, users begin to assume that who else than servers should get the blame for malware and junk.
It would be hard for a professional […]
Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things Web Applications
Google down Malware, Find out Infected Sites - or Just Think about Security
Numerous web sites allow their users to upload and store binary files — that’s pictures, movies, executables, anything not text.
Word is out that Websense took advantage of Google’s binary search capability to indentify malware (trojans, worms, virii). Couple thousand sites already found hosting pest — most of them unsuspecting. The virus finder application is not […]
Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz The Google Bot Things
Help Optimize your eBiz: Ditch Bloatware
So far as I can remember, it was around 1998 when I last time wrote and edited text in a .doc file using MS Office for an application. I mean an original file, created by myself. Because it happens all the time to have a client —and even a partner or colleague— hit at me […]
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Small Shops Growing Demand for Web Services
Gas prices, general inflation, other inconveniencies —and hype— are slowly —but certainly— pushing your small business activities more and more in the realm of the Internet. Imagine how nice and clean and swift is to sell thru your web site. Just think of managing your projects and teams (on the field, in the building, or […]
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Open Source Is Freedom, Business, even Capitalism (if you want)
I live in Europe and work in the States for the last four years. Aside the blank looks people here are giving me when hearing this, there’s another kind of blank “looks” that sometimes I sensing coming from across the Atlantic. It’s about using Open Source Software (OSS) in business. Often times, people associate OSS […]
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Exploding Laptops: Don’t Keep Them on Your Lap
As usually, I was just laying on the sofa with my laptop on my lap.
Thinking and typing and reading. Waiting for a chap to come, thus not likely in the mood to start really working on some project.
Then here it came: Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference. As there were not enough threats out […]
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Two English-to-IT e-Business Translators
Are you angry on your IT people for not doing what you’ve been telling them? Do you think that they can’t (or won’t) understand your words, ideas, thoughts? Have such tensions became a daily matter challenging your e-business? If so, then it looks like you have to take a human relations approach to solve these […]
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Ubuntu Linux Powering Your Small Biz
Today I played a lil bit with Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. That’s a Debian based Linux distro. Oh yeah, in plain English: that’s the desktop OS you want for the PCs sitting in your small shop. Don’t wait for expensive vaporware. Don’t believe in corporate marketing blah. Just be smart and give Ubuntu a try. […]
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