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RSS smesBT offers free fibre to Glasgow businesses
News A survey of SMEs conducted by Vanson Bourne for BT Business found more than half (61 per cent) believe fibre is having a positive impact on their businesses. The survey was based on the responses of more than 7,200... [05 Nov 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Retraining costs also figure into SMEs' thinking around open source adoption. Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to... [23 Oct 2009]
Windows 7 will be business standard by next year
News The research, which surveyed North American and European SMEs and enterprises, found that the majority of businesses using Windows XP plan to migrate straight to Windows 7 and without migrating to Vista first. [20 Oct 2009]
iPhone coming to Orange as Apple ends its mobile monogamy
News I don't see a tidal wave going into the enterprise but it could be used for various types of [SMEs]," McQueen added. The iPhone is coming to Orange in the UK - ending two years of exclusivity with O2. [28 Sep 2009]
Dell buys Perot Systems in $3.9bn deal
News It has clients in health care, government and other commercial segments, from SMEs to large global institutions; it also has a large and growing base of customers and service-delivery capabilities in North America,... [22 Sep 2009]
Want to boost your pay packet? Get yourself a bigger employer
News The research is based on IT pros working at SMEs with between one and 99 employees; enterprises with 100 to 999 employees; and corporates with 1,000 or more staff. Project managers at the largest companies get an average... [11 Sep 2009]
Top 10 Threats to SME Data Security
White Paper When it spotted an issue that could impact SMEs negatively, it alerted subscribers with email broadcasts. The result: this paper lists the top 10 most common vectors of data compromise in experience as security analysts... [02 Sep 2009]
Salesforce.com courts SMEs with reseller cloud package
News The software-as-a-service company's VAR (value-added reseller) programme, announced on Wednesday, is aimed at vendors who provide SMEs with hardware, software and infrastructure backup.Salesforce claims... [28 Aug 2009]
Looking for a safe IT job? SMEs could be the answer
News With the recession causing thousands of redundancies in the IT industry, it seems SMEs could prove a safe port in the economic storm for tech workers. Some 29 per cent of SMEs in the US and Europe said... [19 Aug 2009]
Microsoft: 'Cloud shift not doom and gloom for Exchange'
News The fact that many customers are shifting from running their own email servers to getting mail as a hosted service doesn't have to spell doom for Microsoft, according to the head of the company's Exchange business. [18 Aug 2009]
Ubuntu-using small businesses get a helping hand with helpdesk support
News Canonical has launched support services for individual and small-business users of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. The company, which sponsors Ubuntu, already sold helpdesk services for enterprise users. [04 Aug 2009]
E-mail and Web Security SaaS
White Paper The service suite is aimed at SMEs with between 100 and 5,000 users, and offers the benefit of Web and e-mail security without dedicated qualified in-house personnel and appliance and/or software installations. [31 Jul 2009]
Microsoft gives software licensing a makeover for SMEs
News Microsoft has announced two new software licensing packages intended to simplify buying and provide discounts at a time when many of the company's customers are looking to reduce costs. The packages, covering business applications and... [17 Jul 2009]
O2 to hook up SMEs with landline digits
News O2 is to launch a fixed-mobile convergence service for small businesses, the company has said. The service, called Fixed Number Anywhere, will give users a landline-style number that channels calls straight through to their mobile phone,... [10 Jul 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News Viviane Reding, speaking at the unveiling of the Commission's Digital Europe strategy on Thursday, said 99 per cent of EU firms are small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but only nine per cent of them use electronic... [09 Jul 2009]
