Technology Trends
Learn To Be Digital from the Digitally Fluent
People under age 30 are better at absorbing information and making decisions quickly than any previous generation says Marc Prensky in the article Capturing the Value of Generation Tech Employees. He goes on to identify these young people as digital natives because they are the first generation to … Read More
To Go Wireless Or Not
A recent In-Stat/MDR survey on wireless phone use found that most American consumers are not ready to go completely wireless with their phone service. The reason: they want lower cost wireless service and better coverage first.Many one-person and micro businesses are facing the same decision. We … Read More
Software Consolidation Is on Horizon
Last year Oracle launched a hostile takeover attempt of PeopleSoft. Last week both Microsoft and Sap announced that preliminary talks about a potential merger had been discontinued. Microsoft had approached Germany's SAP, which has a reported 54%-share of the global enterprise-software market. … Read More
Self-Checkout Goes Mass Market
Self-service shopping has gone mainstream in supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchants and home improvement centers. Self-checkout systems will generate transactions worth $70 billion in 2004, according to a new study from IHL Consulting Group. The 2004 North American Self-Checkout Systems Market … Read More
Reagan and Small Business
Here at Small Business Trends we avoid taking political positions. So you won't find us debating John Kerry's position on small business policy, for instance.
But, as a matter of business insight, I think it is fair game to include the following quotes of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan as … Read More
Microsoft’s SMB Push
Microsoft is serious about the small and midsize business (SMB) market. It is so serious that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, will be directly overseeing the Business Solutions unit that makes software for the SMB market, following a shake-up there.It seems that the unit has disappointed … Read More
SMBs Rely on Web for Tech Purchases
Spending more than $75 billion a year on technology, small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) remain hard to reach for tech vendors says a research study commissioned by Yahoo, Inc. and the marketing agency Grey San Francisco, a part of Grey Global Group. Conducted by the market research firm IDC, … Read More
Agritourism Discovers the Web
Small farmers in the agritourism industry have discovered the benefits of the Web to attract new business.USA Today has an interesting article outlining how small, family-run farms are using the Web for marketing purposes. Gannett News reporter Maureen Groppe, quoting a representative of a … Read More
Software to Detect Phone Rage
You're lost deep in a tree of alternatives on an automated phone answering system and not happy about it. Your breathing tightens. You begin to mutter. Perhaps you even spew a few epitaphs. Suddenly, as you are about to take out your frustrations on the phone set, someone comes on the line offering … Read More
Hybrid Digital/Print Versions May Be Future of Newspapers
Newspapers have had a hard time trying to figure out what to do about the Internet. They've seen the new medium cut into classified ad revenues and fear what new developments like local search may do to traditional display advertising. And as if that weren't enough, they are losing readership to … Read More
Wireless Home Networks Are Wave of the Future
In-Stat/MDR states in its report "Digital Domicile 2004: Home Networking Hits the Big Time" that large numbers of broadband users installed home networks in the past year. The $3,495 report also forecasts a doubling in value of the equipment that will be connected to home networks in the next four … Read More
Truckers Among Wi-Fi’s Early Adopters
Truck drivers in the US and Canada are increasingly using Wi-Fi to stay connected while on the road. According to the Associated Press (AP), 70% of truck drivers own computers and two-thirds have broadband access at home. At truck stops, truckers pay for Wi-Fi by the hour or on a yearly basis for … Read More
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