Small Business Technology News Round-Up - 09/05/2008

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

• Starting a High-Technology Startup – An account written by a successful young entrepreneur
• Windows XP SP3 sends PCs into endless reboot - The automatic Windows XP update to Service Pack 3 began a few hours ago and has caused havoc by breaking a lot of computers
• Tech’s top 10 workspaces – See if you are inspired by these photographs taken inside some of the biggest companies in technology
• 100 e-mail bouncebacks? You’ve been backscattered - Spammers are using ‘bouncebacked’ e-mails to fool filters
• Malware vs. anti-malware, 20 years into the fray - An article examining how both sides in this eternal war have adapted to try and triumph
• Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser - FontStruct is a fun tool that allows you to design your own font
• Apple’s games strategy looks beyond consoles and the iMac – Apple can do no wrong at the moment, so will their next move be an entry into the lucrative gaming market?
• O2 confirms iPhone is no longer available in UK - The recent price slash has meant they are now all gone and there will be no more available until the 3G model debuts
• BT launches iPhone-style mobile device - The new gadget is an attempt to combat both the iPhone and 3G dongles
• The future of social networking: mobile phones - The transfer of social networking to mobile devices will have many useful business applications
• CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police – The proliferation of cameras throughout the UK is having very little impact on stopping crime
• Web firm sounds alert on criminal data trove - A huge cache of stolen personal data has been discovered by a Web security firm
• US court orders online advertiser to use ‘negative keywords’ - In a landmark US ruling, a company is instructed to direct certain web traffic away
• ‘Quickies’: Intelligent Sticky Notes - A look at a new technology that could make ‘Post-It’ notes a lot more useful
• Lastminute prepared to sue Google - A proposed change to the way Google displays search results could result in lawsuits
• Amazon Sues New York State to Void Sales Tax Rules - In response to last weeks tax ruling Amazon have quickly sued the law-makers
• Bournemouth broadband goes down the drain – Bournemouth is to be the first town in the UK to receive 100Mbps broadband - and it is via sewer-based cables
• Microsoft walks away from Yahoo - The saga of the merger between the two tech giants finally ended this week as Microsoft gave up. The post-mortem suggests Google was largely responsible for scuppering the deal, whilst rumour and speculation has grown amongst bloggers that the failure of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to complete the merger will cost him his job. Microsoft also apparently politely asked Facebook this week how much they would sell for
• Tech tools bring big success for small businesses - An article show-casing how SMEs have been successful through the use of tech tools. Don’t forget that OnlineOffice is the perfect tech tool for any small business

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