A daily dose of the day's top tech news for small and midsize businesses.

InformationWeek Staff, Contributor

March 17, 2009

19 Min Read

bMighty News Flash: Friday June 12, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: What every SMB should know about working with security service providers, interest in prepaid wireless booming, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday June 11, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: iPhone 3G S sports faster, more powerful chip, flaw in virtualization app causes data loss on thousands of Web sites, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday June 10, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Google wants to buy small firms, Clearfly offers SMBs managed mobile UC, free SMB Web sites, domains from Outright.com and Network Solutions, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday June 9, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Entrepreneur will give away $3.74 million in advertising to SMBs, Dell bundles open source apps for SMBs, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday June 8, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SMB optimism up, SMB bankruptcy filings increased in March, new SMB disk backup from Dell, Kyocera Mita launches SMB printer, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday June 5, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Dell pushes SMBs to go green, smartphones seen edging netbooks for mobile surfers, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday June 4, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: iolo launches new edition of System Mechanic for SMBs, Opera's mobile browser surpasses iPhone's Safari, Verizon, Intuit, Boomi jump into cloud services, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday June 3, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: BakBone offers SMB's continuous data protection, AT&T launches "All for Less" bundle for SMBs, SMBs not fully equipped for disasters, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday June 2, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Google search analysis dashboard targets local businesses, StrataScale reports SMBs embrace IronScale, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday June 1, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SMB notebooks owners shun brand, channel loyalty, 30% SMBs depend upon it, communications technologies, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday May 29, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: The most dangerous search terms, HP, IBM top server vendors, mobile payment users will double by 2012, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday May 28, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: More than half of SMBs own a laptop and prefer Dell, SortPrice offers merchants free application for building virtual stores on Facebook platform, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 27, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA report finds small business loans of $1 million or less fell 4% from 2007 rates, Windows 7 RC has an impressive enterprise ecosystem, but misses opportunities, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 26, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Monthly small business confidence index slides 10 points, Microsoft rumored to be renaming Kumo search engine "Bing," and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday May 22, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Bill Gates says tech will lift U.S. out of recession, Google accelerates Chrome 2 for Windows, Facebook users hit with another phishing attack, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday May 21, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA announces emergency bridge-lending program, SMB credit-card usage increases, SMB credit demand increasing, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 20, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Synology launches new storage solutions for SMBs, managed services model helps companies weather recession, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 19, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: IBM launches Smart Cube appliance preloaded with Intuit QuickBooks, Verizon Business introduces bundles for SMBs, eazybusiness launches suite of cloud apps for SMBs, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday May 18, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Study finds SMBs want more support from government, but one in four expect turnaround to begin in late 2009, more than 60% of Web sites contain serious vulnerabilities, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday May 15, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Gartner predicts Windows 7 will kill Vista, Verio launches online community site to help SMBs expand online presence, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday May 14, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: New vendor-neutral alliance to provide support for MySQL users, some Google users unable to use Internet search, Gmail, other Google Apps, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 13, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Microsoft promises 10,000 Windows 7-friendly products vowing OS won't repeat Vista's compatibility glitches, Aruba introduces Virtual Branch Network for connecting remote workers to applications and resources, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 12, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Mozilla puts Web apps on the desktop, Microsoft aligning Windows 7, SQL Server, Office Optimization, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday May 11, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: 65% of smb leaders stay awake worrying about their business according to Small Business Opinion Poll, Dell extends SMB Solutions Centre to 10 countries, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday May 8, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: PlumChoice VAR can now create custom Web sites to offering support services, Almost 50% of small business owners don't back up data according to study from SOS Online Backup, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday May 7, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SMBs will buy 1.1 million netbooks increasing global shipments 5.4%, new Xerox ColorQube multifunction printer uses solid ink technology to cut cost and reduce waste, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday May 6, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Businesses spend less on energy efficiency due to bad economy, Windows 7 XP mode doesn't work on all processors only Intel VT or AMD-V, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday May 5, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Fed survey finds 10 consecutive quarters of tightening credit for SMBs, BlackBerry gets Google Apps support for Google e-mail and calendar services, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday May 4, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA temporarily eases lending standards increasing loan access for approximately 70,000 small businesses, Google and 47 other companies sued for trademark infringement of Android name, BlackBerry increases market share taking smartphone lead from iPhone, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday May 1, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Study finds increases in creation rate for new businesses, research indicates people will turn away from low cost netbooks as economy improves, Apple considers prices reductions on some Macs, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday April 30, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SMBs are looking to increase IT spending and create new jobs in the next six months, Acer on track to surpass Dell as the world's second-largest PC maker, IBM adds social networking to DeveloperWorks Portal for IT professionals, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday April 29, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Open source start-up gets funding from Benchmark for hybrid approach to cloud computing, Acer jumps on android bandwagon, survey finds iPhones targeted to consumers, other smartphones targeted to business users, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday April 28, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Google CEO appointed to President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Media Spending Leads Other Interactive Channels, Ubuntu Linux isn't just an operating system -- it's an ecosystem, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday April 27, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Small business confidence on the rise, $250 Android netbook due within 80 days, Facebook opens stream to developers, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday April 24, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Google introduces product search for iPhone and Android, 1 Billion iPhone apps and 1 Million T-Mobile G1s, Yahoo says adios to GeoCities, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday April 23, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Free Venture Financing Term Sheet, EMC Predicts IT Spending Rebound, Microsoft's First Loss, Yahoo Small Business Referral Program, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday April 22, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SaaS For Customer Feedback, ROI For Green IT, What Oracle Sun Deal Means, What vSphere Means, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday April 21, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Digg Disses Microsoft, Disaster Recovery Brings New Business, CompTIA Security Report, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday April 20, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: What Oracle Buy Means, Obama Names Tech Execs, Cloud Computing Security Questions, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday April 17, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: New SBA Management Team, Best States For SMB Taxes, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday April 16, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: NASA Picks 16 SMBs, VMWare Reorganizes Partner Channel, PacketTrap Adds Partner, HP Extends SMB Financing, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday April 15, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Small Business Optimism Sags, Customers Reviews Influence Purchases, Open Source Partnership, NetGear Midmarket Program, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday April 14, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: VC Funding Slump, EMC Storage Upgrade, , and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday April 13, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Referrals Key To SMB IT Purchasing, Skype Buyback, Google Update Source Code, No Windows 7 For Most Businesses, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday April 10, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Microsoft-Yahoo Talks, CompUSA Returns, HP Automation, Linux Staging, Google Data Center Tours, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday April 9, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Internet Surpassing TV, Yahoo Loses Toolbar, SMB App & Service Market Growth, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday April 8, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Google Voice For iPhone, Power Grid Compromised, Rogue Security Software Threats, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday April 7, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Windows dominates netbooks, Windows XP zombie, Nehalem Apple xServe, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday April 6, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Sun doomed without IBM? YouTube losing big, Federal Stimulus for IT, online ad rates decline, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday April 3, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Karen Gordon Mills confirmed to for SBA, Google buying Twitter? No-contract 3G modem, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday April 2, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA appointee talks SMB credit, small business tax burden, $50 netbooks, Netsuite connects to Salesforce.com, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday April 1, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: April Fools' day pranks, SBA confirmation hearings, small business employment, broadband usage metering, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday March 31, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Google launches Google Ventures VC arm, small business job loss, Intel's Nehalem, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday March 30, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Google still hiring despite poor economy, fraud at the SBA fraud, Fujitsu targets midmarket, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday March 27, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Small businesses want less stimulus, more tax cuts, free small businesses resources, Amazon, Google, IBM layoffs, Facebook needs $ to keep pace with growth, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday March 26, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Small business optimism, Voice-powered Google search for BlackBerry, ContactsCalendarSync for G1 Android, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday March 25, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Google invests in Pixazza, economy crimps pay-for-performance outsourcing, Firefox architecture instability and memory leaks, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday March 24, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: software developers expectations for stimulus package, Power Pack 2 for Windows Home Server, Concur comes to BlackBerry and Windows Mobile, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday March 23, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SMBs spent $6.9B on local online advertising, social media marketing budgets increase, SMBs can save big with cloud, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday March 20, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SMBs see competitors as harder hit by downturn, Cybercriminals target SMBs, TomTom countersues Microsoft, HP's fault-tolerant server for SMBs, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday March 19, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Cisco buys consumer video cam maker Flip, Google woos SMBs, Microsoft still wants Yahoo, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday March 18, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems, Criticism and praise for Obama's small business plan, Via Technologies design for mini-laptops, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday March 17, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: SBA loan scans and U.S. Treasury buys SBA securities, Dell introduces the luxury Adamo, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday March 16, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Obama announces SMB lending aid, Explosive mobile commerce growth, Reality Digital launches Harmony on-demand social media platform, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday March 13, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: FBI probes of newly named national CTO Vivek Kundra, Dell all-in-one tackles the iMac, Facebook outpaces Yahoo traffic, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Thursday March 12, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: GrandCentral morphs into Google Voice, SMBs will emerge from the recession first, Facebook launches a new homepage, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Wednesday March 11, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Apple places huge order for touchscreens, Google moving to personalized ads, Freshbooks integrates with Outright, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Tuesday March 10, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Rumors swirl about Mac netbook, Clearwire sacks its CEO, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Monday March 9, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: iPhone Apps top Win Mobile, online payroll for Mac, recession threatens green IT, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash: Friday March 6, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: HP introduces SMB products, BlackBerry announces app store, Google AdSense will take, and more. . .

bMighty News Flash Thursday March 5, 2009
Today's top tech news for small and midsize businesses: Obama names Vivek Kundra Federal CIO, Google Launches Tip Jar, Dell Bets On Managed Services, and more. . .

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