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How to build a B2B start-up

Building a successful start-up is always a challenging experience. And building one in the business to business (B2B) space brings its own special challenges, according to Glen Coates.

By Rohan Pearce | 06 February, 2012 11:39

Tags: apple ipad, apple iphone, iPad, iPhone, iphone apps, startups

BSA targets Perth with Software Compliance Check

Small to medium businesses in Perth are being asked to check if their software is legit during a new campaign by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) Australia.

By Hamish Barwick | 21 September, 2011 10:35

Tags: Business Software Alliance (BSA), software piracy

Reckon pushes CashBook into the Cloud

Accounting software vendor Reckon has launched a new Cloud service, CashBook Online which allows small businesses to manage their accounts online or without and Internet connection.

By Rodney Gedda | 06 July, 2011 15:07

Tags: accounting software, CashBook Online, cloud computing, quickbooks, Reckon, SaaS

Suncorp Bank offers online budgeting app

Suncorp Bank’s Internet banking suite now has an integrated online financial management application that allows people to set budgets and monitor spending patterns.

By Rodney Gedda | 13 December, 2010 10:06

Tags: banks, Jeff Smith, online banking, Sandstone Technology, Suncorp

5 awesome free tools for small businesses

These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money to spend on IT. Even if you're part of an established business, you're probably feeling the pinch.

By Keir Thomas | 13 November, 2010 11:16

Tags: antivirus, freeware, Freeware / shareware, Google, internet, Microsoft, open source, productivity, research, search, search engines, security, software, staroffice/openoffice.org

Software patents hurt everyone, but especially SMBs

Software patents have figured prominently in the news in recent weeks, thanks not just to Oracle's attack on Google but also--more recently--to Paul Allen's breathtaking multi-victim onslaught.

By Katherine Noyes | 01 September, 2010 08:02

Tags: Linux, non-Windows, operating systems, patents, SMBs, software, unix

New guide pushes IT governance to SMEs

Accounting and ERP software vendor, Attache Software, has released a guide for small to medium businesses aimed at improving the use of IT within their organisations.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 July, 2010 14:56

Tags: attache software, governance, Infonomics, IT Governance and Compliance, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

SBR gets open source tool, AUSkey coming to Linux

National Linux advocacy body Linux Australia has added its support for the federal government's Standard Business Reporting initiative by planning an open source SBR integration project, meanwhile work begins at the ATO on AUSkey for Linux.

By Rodney Gedda | 09 July, 2010 10:18

Tags: ATO, Auskey, Department of Treasury, government, Linux, linux.conf.au. Linux Australia, open source, pki, SBR

Open-Xchange adds push e-mail for mobile phones

Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange is launching OXtender for Business Mobility, which adds support for push e-mail to mobile phones that use Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol, it said on Wednesday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 October, 2009 07:19

Tags: ActiveSync, groupware, mobile e-mail, Open-Xchange, push e-mail

Why Microsoft's Elop isn't afraid of Google

Microsoft's Business Division oversees one of its most successful products, the Office productivity suite, as well as the company's lucrative server and enterprise software businesses. However, like the rest of the company, the division has not been immune to the pressure of the recession, and revenue fell 13 per cent in the quarter ending in June.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 24 September, 2009 06:20

Tags: Google, Microsoft, SaaS, SME, software, Stephen Elop

Zoho adds discussion forums to hosted collaboration suite

Zoho has added a discussion forum application to its Web-hosted software suite, the company announced Tuesday.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 23 September, 2009 06:43

Tags: collaboration, SaaS, zoho

IBM takes aim at midmarket with new BI tools

IBM on Monday will announce a BI (business intelligence) and planning suite aimed at midsized companies that need more insight into their business than a spreadsheet can provide, but not the complexity of an enterprise-level product.

By Chris Kanaracus | 15 September, 2009 05:32

Tags: business intelligence, cognos, Cognos Express, IBM, mid-market

NetBooks pushes revamped small-business app suite

Startup NetBooks is making a second run at the nation's millions of small-business users with a new company name and revamped on-demand suite.

By Chris Kanaracus | 17 June, 2009 06:16

Tags: accounting, netbooks, small business, WorkingPoint

Dell bundling open source applications for SMBs

Dell is planning to offer small and medium businesses (SMBs) globally pre-configured bundles of hardware and open source software to run their businesses, according to an executive at the company.

By John Ribeiro | 10 June, 2009 04:23

Tags: dell, opensource, small business, SMB

Intuit buys online payroll provider for $170 million

Intuit has agreed to buy online payroll provider PayCycle for US$170 million in a move to expand its software-as-a-service offerings for smaller businesses, Intuit said Tuesday.

By James Niccolai | 03 June, 2009 06:26

Tags: accounting, Intuit, mergers & acquistions, payroll

Google's Wave consolidates core online features in one tool

Google released to developers an early version of a collaboration and communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia management and document sharing.

By Juan Carlos Perez | 29 May, 2009 04:38

Tags: collaboration, google wave, Google

Office 2010 preview leaks to Web

Pirated copies labeled as the Technical Preview of Microsoft's Office 2010 have leaked to the Internet, according to searches on popular file-sharing sites.

By Gregg Keizer | 19 May, 2009 07:45

Tags: bittorrent, Microsoft, Office 2010

Google suffers major failure

The Internet has been abuzz about widespread trouble with Google Inc.'s Google Apps service this morning.

By Sharon Gaudin | 15 May, 2009 03:35

Tags: Google, google apps, outage

IBM, Microsoft quibble over Office 2007's new ODF support

In the latest sniping in the long-running feud over document format standards, IBM this week claimed that Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 corrupted formulas and data in spreadsheets created in the OpenDocument Format.

By Eric Lai | 07 May, 2009 07:47

Tags: excel, IBM, Microsoft, microsoft office, odf, openoffice

Microsoft to update Office 2007 this month

Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday that it will start pushing Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) to customers this month.

By Gregg Keizer | 11 April, 2009 07:13

Tags: Microsoft, office national

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