A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“Apple and Pixar are the same in that… they both deliver a product that has immense technology underpinnings and yet they both strive to say you don’t need to know anything about this technology in order to use it.”

Steve Jobs (b. 1955) US entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Apple & former CEO of Pixar 

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“Everyone basically told us, ‘Software is a stupid thing to invest in because the assets walk out of the door at night’.”

Ann Winblad (b. 1950) US venture capitalist, one of ‘The 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business’, Fortune (1999) 

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A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“It is important to step back from an industry that is full of people announcing new widgets every day – faster widgets, smaller widgets, more widgets.”

Lou Gerstner (b. 1942) US chairman & CEO of IBM, Fortune (November 1993) 

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“It’s like if you want to buy a car. Would you want to get an engine from BMW, a chassis from Jaguar, windscreen wipers from Ford?”

Larry D. Ellison (b. 1945) US CEO of Oracle Corporation. Referring to integrated software suites, Forbes (October 2000) 

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A small business quote a day keeps you thinking, inspired and entertained 

“The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.”

David Hockney (b. 1937) British artist, Observer (July 1994) 

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“If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.”

Robert X. Cringely, US journalist & author, Infoworld (6 March 1969) 

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“Technology will move so fast that unfortunately, or fortunately for me, you will be required to buy a new phone quite often.”

Charles Dunstone (b. 1964) British founder of Carphone Warehouse, Management Today (August 1999) 

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“Technology is our word for something that doesn’t work yet.”

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) British author, Sunday Times (June 2000) 

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“If we hadn’t put a man on the moon, there wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley today.”

John Sculley (b. 1939) former Apple CEO, US News & World Report (1992) 

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Here is this week’s round-up of technology news small business owners may find informative, useful or entertaining:

• What happens when you patch the Internet? – A Windows security fix this week has stopped ZoneAlarm users from accessing the Internet. If you are having problems, download the latest version from the ZoneAlarm website
• Consumer tech a blessing for small business IT – SMEs are often early business adopters of tech tools designed for consumers
• Gartner says firms must be more social – Enterprise is not waking up to the benefits of social networking
• iPhone 3G review – How does the next-generation iPhone fare?
• Seagate’s Latest Desktop HDD Has 1.5TB Capacity – Useful for those people who need massive hard drives
• Spammers announce World War III – Beware of an alarming malicious e-mail
• Swedes Massively Protest Wiretap Law - Google have also removed their servers from Sweden. It was suggested this week that one of the hidden agendas of the legislation is to enable the Swedish government to spy on Russia.
• Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows – Microsoft products are used to power many unusual things
• What Microsoft wants from Yahoo – An in-depth analysis of the entire saga to date
• Google Lively Review – Google’s answer to ‘Second Life’ has launched
• One Month is Enough – Do Google really need to keep a record of every query you have made for the past 18 months?
• As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll – An hour’s downtime last month cost Amazon a million dollars in lost sales
• NTT to Impose Broadband Upload Limits – Japanese ISPs will soon take the drastic step of blocking users who upload more than 30GB per day(!)
• Internet cable-laying boom - Undersea cables may be the answer to the bandwidth capacity problem
• Web could get you killed – Blogging may become punishable by death in Iran
• U.S. teen arrested for offering vote on eBay – He could face five years imprisonment for a ‘joke’ listing
• Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits – Be careful that your employee’s do not sue for overtime
• Small Business a Big Target For Cyber Attacks – SMEs are never as well protected as a large company
• Microsoft Offers Free Windows Vista Support To Small Businesses – Will this be enough to convince you to upgrade?