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March 26, 2007 | Comments: (0)

SMB Tech News Today; 3/26

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* Music albums no longer the hot ticket. Seems the digital download phenom is having a tangible effect on the music industry after all. This story follows a new band signed by Universal--but not for an album, just for a couple of songs to test out the iTunes-dominated digital waters. (Source: New York Times)
* See, now the Web 2.0 office guys are thinking. I've dumped all over the Office 2.0 crowd (Zoho's the best, Google's the giggle). What's the point of offering Office 97 in a Web browser. Fortunately, that's not what the smartest of the Web 2.0 crowd is looking to build. The Under the Radar conference showcased a number of new productivity applications designed to make use of the newest Web technologies, including social networking, tagging, Web-based app sharing and other forms of smart data associations. An interesting new term out of all this is 'Cognitive Intelligence'. Nice summary of articles on this topic here. (Source: CNET)
* Watch out for the workplace bully. Trend story on a study showing that 44 percent of American workers say they've been bullied or abused in one way or another at work. Geez, whatever happened to the John Wayne approach? Just belt the guy and go get some beers. HA! (Source: ConnectIT)
* GRISoft show up new AV products for SMBs. They're coming out with a couple of server-based anti-virus tools and AV client management tools as well as full security clients, including firewalls and anti-malware. Pricing is certainly reasonable, tho the story glosses over the fact that the new clients aren't Vista-compatible yet. (Source: eChannelLine)

Posted by Oliver Rist on March 26, 2007 08:05 AM

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