Technology


How to Lower Your Company's Energy Bills

How to use less energy and lower your business's utility bills  Read story

Cheap Alternatives to PowerPoint

These three presentation tools, SlideRocket, Zoho Show, and Impress are like PowerPoint, only free  Read story

How to Start a Software Company

You don't always have to be a tech geek. Like any industry, you just have to identify an unmet need.  Read story

The Best New E-Book Readers

From the Kindle to Plastic Logic, the latest e-Book readers  Read story

The Palm Pre Takes On the iPhone 3G S

How does the new Palm Pre Smartphone stack up to the iPhone 3G S?  Read story

Four of the Best Cameras on the Market

Choosing a camera that suits your needs  Read story

A Laptop Bag for Every Purpose

Even speeding through security  Read story

A New Way to Access Files Remotely

GoToMYPC and LogMeIn are tools that let you access your files from anywhere  Read story

Finding Part-Time and Independent Sales Reps

Tips for filling part-time sales jobs  Read story

Managing: How to Work More Like a Start-Up

Rekindle that startup spirit with agile development  Read story

Reader Product Reviews

Inc. readers review products we've featured in The Goods  Read story

Security: Free Antivirus Software

AVG This easy-to-use program kills viruses and spyware and stops users from going to webpages that have been infected with hostile softw...  Read story

How Fast Should My Inventory Turn?

The quicker inventory turns, the less cash you tie up.  Read story

A New Crop of Portable Camcorders

When the first Flip camcorder was released in 2007, it wowed gadget geeks with its small size, affordability, and high-quality footage. N...  Read story

Staying Connected: WiFi Hot Spots to Go

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

Free!

Why pay for recruiting software? Build a career website, accept applications online, and track all your interactions with job candidates using a ...  Read story

Office on the Go: Print Anywhere

With these tools, it's easy to print documents and photos while you are traveling  Read story

One Company's Budget: Getting Back Into Shape

An exercise equipment retailer overhauls the IT department budget, swapping old programs for hosted applications.  Read story

The Portability Revolution

Four netbooks for business users  Read story

The Transformer

Most aspiring college entrepreneurs usually write business plans for new companies. Aaron Hall wanted to breathe life into an old one. Today, he's running Bo...  Read story

The Number-Cruncher

America is drowning in a sea of debt. Aaron Patzer created a program to simplify people's finances -- and help them make smarter spending decisions.  Read story

Second Opinion

Twitter I thought Twitter would be a waste of time, and many executives in my industry still don't get it. But I've been able to use it as a qui...  Read story

MIT Springboard Sends Internet Company Aloft

University's business-plan contest catapults two students into entrepreneurship. For the CEO they hired, it's deja vu The old saw...  Read story

Software That Cuts Legal Fees

When Munchkin, a $15 million designer and marketer of baby bottles and other products for infants, needed a secondinternational-distribution agreement, Ch...  Read story

Speed Leader

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

Net " Spam Patrol" to Police Junk E-Mail Solicitation

Junk e-mail solicitations -- called "spam" -- aren't just the bane of Internet users; they're also the target of criticism from Internet marketing profess...  Read story

Groupware Reality Check

Warren Puyarena, the information technology manager of Porter Keadle Moore, says the price of installing and maintaining a groupware system can be conside...  Read story

How Motley Fools Talk Back

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

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

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

Why Hackers Love Small-Business Networks

Most Internet users know by now that hackers can target any account. But the conventional wisdom is that hackers are only looking for "interesting" target...  Read story

" Talk Is Cheap, Literally"

There are codes your phone company would prefer you didn't know--codes that would give you access to cheaper long-distance carriers that bypass your prima...  Read story

Block that Megabyte

With increasing numbers of dancing babies, holiday greeting cards, and space games whizzing through cyberspace as E-mail attachments, servers across the c...  Read story

Just Looking

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

Is The Economy Strangled By Our Laws?

One of the greatest barriers to productivity is our tendency to sue one another.  Read story

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

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

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

$500 Start-up Becomes Software Market Leader

When they first hit the market personal computers seemed to produce more problems than they solved. Executives in particular were put off by the necessit...  Read story

Tap Space Technology

Many new products and developments with promising commercial applications have grown out of space research. Over 3,400 National Aeronautics and Space Adm...  Read story

The Little Engines That Could

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