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Tool Cuts Vista Down to Size For those tired of Windows Vista's hoggish ways, a European developer has created a free – albeit technical – tool to eliminate the bloat. - 1/31/08
January Wireless Newsbits FreeFi partners with Disney-ABC to provide video-on-demand at DIA; Boingo will serve up JiWire ads at 28 airport locations; iBox2Go releases its new "hotspot in a box"; a new flash drive allows for wireless presentations; and more.
- 1/29/08
Map of the World IGPS devices are hot items, but could Wi-Fi be the real future of navigation? Skyhook Wireless, which powers iPhone Maps, is leading the way.- 1/24/08
2008 Awards: The Absolute Best in Small Business
Who do you turn to for business advice most often? No doubt it's other experienced small business owners. Well, your entrepreneurial compatriots made the call and picked the best software, hardware and services. Take a look at the results.
-1/22/08
Drobo Goes The NAS Route Storage robot device gets a companion that makes sharing stored data easy in the small office environment. - 1/17/08
A Particularly Nasty Week For Malware From Excel to the revitalized Storm worm to a severe banking Trojan, it's enough to make you nostalgic for the days of BBSes. - 1/17/08
Got Vista? Get the Latest SP1 Candidate
Microsoft's long-awaited Vista service pack inches closer to the door, with a public test-drive now available. - 1/16/08
Google Revamps iPhone Push
The search leader's mobile ambitions aren't limited to devices running its Android software. - 1/14/08
Spammers Hijack Microsoft's SkyDrive Service The online storage service for sharing files and links became a repository for spammers to host links to their electronic junk mail. - 1/10/08
Latest Wi-Fi Newsbits It's still just an early-stage project, but a Mozilla effort to save user information online could be a game-changer. - 1/9/08
Microsoft to Office 2003 Users – 'Our Bad'
Microsoft apologizes and provides automated tools to let users restore access to older files blocked by Office 2003 Service Pack 3. -1/07/08
Wisair Intros Wireless USB Dongle Set The company’s new Wireless USB dongle-to-dongle solution is expected on the market by the end of the quarter.
- 1/07/08
Tech Trends and Products to Watch in 2008 In terms of technology, 2007 will inevitably be remembered as the year the iPhone debuted. But which tech products and trends for 2008 might capture small business owners' imagination? We look at three contenders. - 1/3/08
Adobe Phones Home And Irks Customers BitDefender says ads placed by Google in Web pages are being hijacked by Trojan software that replaces the intended text with links to a malicious server. - 1/2/08
The RIAA's Uphill Battle
Recent research on the state of the music industry signals continued obstacles ahead for the much-maligned trade association's strategy. - 1/02/08
