Tag: smb

Security

Banks find 40,000 small businesses at risk of fraud

By Darren Pauli | Sep 26, 2011 | Comment Now

Visa, banks spearhead three-year security crackdown.

Security

Small business privacy laws in parliamentary crosshairs

By Liz Tay | Jun 21, 2011 | Comment Now

Parliamentary Committee calls for abolition of Privacy Act exemptions.

Networking

Melbourne IT gives up on SMB cloud

By Brett Winterford | Jun 2, 2011 | 2 Comments

Not worth the investment.

Telco/ISP

Telstra pumps millions into access network

By Ry Crozier | May 2, 2011 | Comment Now

Alcatel-Lucent takes the lion's share of spending in support of small business.

Networking

Conroy: Cherry-picking laws won't hurt small business

By Brett Winterford | Mar 31, 2011 | 11 Comments

Claims no service providers are offering SMB's services over 24Mbps.

Strategy

Aussie SMBs overlook disaster recovery: Symantec

By Liz Tay | Feb 11, 2011 | Comment Now

Insuring against data loss is a "mathematical game".

Storage

Cisco adds EMC's Mozy cloud to SMB storage

By Liam Tung | Jan 27, 2011 | Comment Now

Online backup integrated with local storage device.

Software

Aussie SMBs split on cloud

By Liz Tay | Jul 7, 2010 | 1 Comment

Survey highlights low adoption rates.

Strategy

Dell hires those who tweet for their supper

By Nate Cochrane | Aug 18, 2009 | 5 Comments

Only those with social media chops need apply.

Training & Development

IT trainers get $10m funding boost

Aug 17, 2009 | Comment Now

Teach small businesses to use the internet.

Software

Full-timers envy SMB's remote working bliss

May 22, 2009 | Comment Now

Small businesses are flocking to remote working with at least 60 per cent doing it “regularly” and 35 per cent “at least three times a week”, according to two local surveys.

Telco/ISP

Optus unveils single bill broadband data pool

By Ry Crozier | Apr 25, 2009 | Comment Now

Optus has expanded its total business caps to enable users to pull fixed or mobile broadband from a single data allowance – meaning they are billed only once regardless of how ...

Hardware

Powerbuy baits SMB community with cashbacks

By Ry Crozier | Feb 3, 2009 | Comment Now

A Sydney entrepreneur has built a small-business buyers' group that provides them additional cash back on computers, networking equipment and printer purchases.

Hardware

Blade slowdown put to the sword

By Ry Crozier | Aug 11, 2008 | Comment Now

Local blade vendors have slammed predictions by Gartner that the segment will experience the slowest growth in shipments and revenue globally until 2012.

Strategy

High petrol prices mean more mobility for business

Jul 31, 2008 | Comment Now

Over a third of Australian small businesses have been forced to invest heavily in mobility devices by skyrocketing petrol prices, claims a recent report from 3 Mobile.

Hardware

Google to team up with IBM again

By Sylvie Barak | May 5, 2008 | Comment Now

Not content with its plans to corner the Small and Medium Business market (SMB), IBM is now apparently looking to strike a deal with Google which would help it flog desktop ...

Strategy

Telstra and Austrade partner to bring local SMBs to China

By Liz Tay | May 2, 2008 | Comment Now

Telstra and Austrade have jointly launched a new program to support small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) looking to trade in China.

Telco/ISP

iiNet takes care of business with new SMB products

By Mitchell Bingemann | Mar 5, 2008 | Comment Now

iiNet plans to expand its product range over the next 12 months with a new portfolio of business-centric products, the first of which is a multi-line VoIP service for SMBs.

Telco/ISP

ISP Netspace ramps up SMB push with launch of BusinessOne

By Lilia Guan | Feb 15, 2008 | Comment Now

As part of its renewed focus on the SMB market, Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP), Netspace, has launched a business communications solution for SMBs called BusinessOne.