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Staying Connected: WiFi Hot Spots to Go

By Inc Staff | Apr 1, 2009

Two new tools can turn your mobile broadband connection into a Wi-Fi hot spot. Netgear's 3G Broadband Wireless Router ($130) plugs into a laptop or USB mo... Read story

Speed Leader

By Ilan Mochari | Mar 1, 1999

Peter Wagner, a general partner at Palo Alto venture-capital giant Accel Partners, has seen the future ofInternet hookups for small businesses. It's calle... Read story

How Motley Fools Talk Back

By Ilan Mochari | Jun 1, 1999

If you've ever wondered whether building an intranet is worthwhile, then consider the example of Motley Fool, an online investor-education company based i... Read story

E-tailers Losing E-Consumers with Poor Navigation

Aug 2, 1999

E-tailers need to shape up their Web sites and improve navigation if they're going to retain customers, according to a recent survey by NetSmart. A... Read story

Secrets to Wooing Your Online Customers

Aug 23, 1999

Wanna know how to keep customers loyal to your e-commerce Web site? Well, NFO Interactive might have the answers you're looking for. According to NFO, con... Read story

Just Looking

By Cheryl McManus | Oct 1, 1999

They don't call it a Web browser for nothing. According to a recent survey of 25 top E-commerce sites, conducted by Net Effect Systems, 67% of the merchan... Read story

Selling on the Internet: How to Get Started and How Much Does it Cost?

Oct 20, 1999

For many, the biggest barrier to getting started with doing business on the Internet may very well boil down to two basic questions. How, exactly, do you ... Read story

Naming Your Business in the Information Age

Oct 21, 1999

Even a year or two ago, naming your business was pretty much a local affair. Choose a snappy name, check to see that no one else is using it in your city,... Read story

The Little Engines That Could

Oct 13, 1999

When managers want business information, many now routinely look on the Internet. They use search engines like Alta Vis... Read story

New Ideas for Fighting Spam

Oct 11, 1999

An organization focused on controlling spam has come up with new proposals that give Internet service providers more effective weapons to fight unsolicite... Read story

Group Gripes -- and Kudos

Oct 21, 1999

At the Motley Fool, an online investor-education company based in Alexandria, Va., the company intranet offers a team forum for constructive criticism tha... Read story

Setting Up Shop in Cyberspace

By Carolyn Brackett | Nov 1, 1999

With research firms projecting e-commerce revenues totaling more than $100 billionin 2003, businesses large and small are considering jumping into theelec... Read story

Is E-Commerce Your Pot of Gold?

Nov 29, 1999

E-commerce is hot. More and more small businesses are selling online. Do you think your product or service has what it takes to meet the world market head... Read story

Test before You Launch

By Jim Romeo | Dec 20, 1999

The Internet and E-commerce are maturing at breakneck speed, and the days of getting an E-business started on a wing and a prayer are a diminishing speck ... Read story

ICANN vs. ICANNWatch: An Interview with Opponents in the Domain Space Playoffs

By Crystal Dreisbach | May 19, 2000

When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) was created in November 1998, the fledgling organ... Read story

Protect Your Domain Name from Cybertheft

By Crystal Dreisbach | May 19, 2000

You've finally registered that domain name for your business. Now nobody can take it away, right? Wrong. A wave of domain name hijacking is sweeping the W... Read story

Europeans Don't Buy " Dot-Com"

By Florian Huber | May 31, 2000

You think dot-com is king? That may be so in the Anglo-American world, but if you want to do e-business in Europe, you should really think of getting a Eu... Read story

What Web Site Builders Need to Know about Trademark Law

May 12, 2000

Doing business on the Web doesn't spare you from many of the same laws and customs that govern businesses in the physical world. You must pay especially c... Read story

Cybersquatting: What It Is and What Can Be Done about It

By Patricia Gima | May 12, 2000

If you own a trademark and find that someone is holding it hostage as a domain name until you pay a large sum for it, you may be the victim of cybersquatt... Read story

Attracting Search Engines: What Not to Do

By Fredrick Marckini | Jun 22, 2000

Intentionally launching a Web site that could not be found in any of the major search engines would be a lot like opening a mail-order business and not pu... Read story

Make Sure Your Web Site's Working for You

By Mark Bailey | Jun 16, 2000

At one time or another, you've no doubt found yourself stuck sitting in your car in a massive traffic jam, wondering what in the world could have made thi... Read story

Add Streaming Slides to Your Audio Presentation

By Ronni Rhodes | Jun 16, 2000

Just as surely as television followed radio, the rapid advancement of Internet technology now makes it possible to add high-resolution images to your audi... Read story

Deliver the Goods or Say Good-Bye

By Christi Frum | Sep 6, 2000

The days of reckless ad spending and haphazard investment are soon to be over as e-commerce pioneers such as CDNow struggle to stay alive and flashy plays... Read story

The Internet Mini-List: A Subset of the 2000 Inc. 500

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf | Oct 7, 2000

This is the year the Internet hit the Inc. 500, Inc. magazine's annual list of the fastest-growing privately held U.S. companies, big ti... Read story

Everything Old Is New Again

By Kate Neville | Oct 25, 2000

Has the e-commerce bubble burst? If recent reports are to be believed, online business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses are in a slump. Stock prices of many l... Read story

Get a Life, Buy a Domain Name

By Lee Hodgson | Jan 5, 2001

Web-hosting companies are beginning to offer free domain names, or, to put it more accurately, free Web addresses. By signing up for these services... Read story

Acquire an Expired Domain Name

By Kate Neville | Jun 7, 2001

You've set your sights set on a domain name registered to someone else. The owner's registration has expired, but the name still isn't available. What's t... Read story

Using the Trademarks of Others on Your Web Site

By Robert M. O'Connell Jr. | Jun 7, 2001

Use of trademarks on corporate Web sites can be fraught with pitfalls. The misuse of trademarks belonging to third parties can result in serious consequen... Read story

Searching Out Rank Practices

By Anthony Muller | Jun 14, 2001

Some companies and individuals employ unsavory techniques to increase search engine rankings. Search engines are hip to these tactics and are on a ... Read story

Cloaking: Search Engines Shift Gears

By Detlev Johnson | Jun 14, 2001

As recently as last year, search engine representatives were unclear or did not seem to care much about the search engine marketing application referred t... Read story

How Secure Is Your Domain Name?

By Lee Hodgson | Jun 29, 2001

Fancy playing Russian roulette with your online business? Of course not, but if you knew how insecure your domain name might be, you'd realize what... Read story

Web Designer as Business Owner

Aug 31, 2001

Melody Drew began designing Web pages in 1997 and officially started her Web design business, Melody's Pages , in... Read story

Niche for Success

Sep 10, 2001

Danny Sullivan has been dispelling the mysteries of search engines since 1995. He is editor of Search Engine Wa... Read story

Are the New Internet Names Right for You?

By Rhonda Abrams | Nov 8, 2001

Are you frustrated trying to find just the right name for your Web site? Is every .com name you' ve wanted already taken? You' ve now got two new options:... Read story

Make Your Intranet Click

By Jennifer A. Redmond | Mar 22, 2002

Should your business consider building an intranet? If so, where do you start? We've got recommendations from Web-design consultant Jakob Nielsen. Read story

Intranet Shortfalls

By Jennifer A. Redmond | Mar 20, 2002

Is your intranet the productivity and communications tool it should be? Read story

IM Product Sampler

By Anne Stuart | Jun 10, 2002

A list of free and commercial-grade IM products. Read story

Increasing Web-Site Traffic

By Rhonda Abrams | Mar 4, 2003

If you build it, will they come? Last year, Internet sales reached $79 billion, according to Forrester Research, or 3% of all retail sales. Can your busin... Read story

Book Review: Web Bloopers

Jul 1, 2003

Web Bloopers by Jeff Johnson Morgan Kaufmann 329 pages $49.95 How To Avoid Common Web Design Mi... Read story

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