Small Business Technology News Round-Up - 25/04/2008

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

• Small Web Businesses Crucial to Economy, Industry Leaders Say - Experts suggest they play a vital role in stimulating the economy of the US
• Small and Midsize Businesses’ IT Security Budgets ‘Recession-Proof’ - The majority of SME owners view IT security as vital and will not cut spending even during a recession
• Using computing and technology to grow your business - Some tips how you could improve productivity by introducing new technology
• The 10 Most Disruptive Technology Combinations - An interesting list of technological combinations that have changed entire industries
• Why Good Data Can Be Hard To Find - This article examines why Web statistics can be inaccurate and hard to collate
• 25 leading-edge IT research projects - These are the technological developments that universities are exploring
• Patent Boss Admits that the Patent Office Keeps Getting Flooded By More & More Bad Patents – The patent system in its current form appears to be fundamentally flawed
• AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 - Rich media content estimated to slow the Web unless significant investment made to upgrade capacity
• Ebay considers sale of Skype subsidiary - The auction giant likely to make at least a $1.42 billion loss on re-sale of VOIP company
• PayPal denies plan to block Safari - Earlier reports were false
• Bluetooth surveillance secretly tested in the city of Bath – Up to 10,000 Bath residents had their movements secretly tracked via Bluetooth technology over a six month period as part of a University research project
• Appeals court uphold search of laptop at LAX – The ruling means US airport security are able to search any laptop even without any level of suspicion
• Wi-Fi users to be monitored in Russia – A Russian law will require all devices that can use Wi-Fi to be registered
• Ballmer: Vista a ‘work in progress’ - Microsoft CEO admits a lot is still needed to be done with Vista
• Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out - Yahoo announced a huge change in direction this week, whilst Microsoft gave the first hint that their potential $44 billion merger may be off
• Live Mesh: First Look at Microsoft’s New Platform – A sneak peek at Microsoft’s new attempt to tie all our data together
• Microsoft plans Office subscription service - A new content subscription service from Microsoft could replace their yearly updated Office suite
• Microsoft quietly offering ad-funded Works - If you purchase a new computer in the UK it may unexpectedly come with a free copy of Microsoft Works funded on advertisements
• How Apple Is Preparing for an iPod Slump – Apple have been working hard on their other products as the iPod reaches market saturation
• iPhone sellers braced for hit on unsold handsets - UK retailers will soon be forced to sell the iPhone cheap to prepare for the new 3G model coming in the Summer
• Spambot cracks Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA - This will now require a move to more sophisticated image-based authentication methods of telling humans apart from machines such as this
• Wikipedia to be converted to a book in Germany - The online dictionary is ironically set to be released as a book

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