http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index Find information to help grow your online business with business plans, Thomas Register, news articles and more http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-114256-m-7-sc-33-10_reasons_to_upgrade_to_windows_7-i Small-business owners frustrated with Windows Vista's assorted hardware incompatibilities, ceaseless battery of pop-up alerts and puttering ... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800 114256 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-114003-m-7-sc-30-stay_connected_abroad-i A cell phone or smartphone has become as essential to a business trip as a briefcase. But what should you do if you're traveling internationally? ... Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0800 114003 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113940-m-7-sc-33-mac_or_pc-i Leblon Cachaça I've had my Mac since:2003, when a friend first introduced him; "I bought one immediately," says Luttmann, 43, ... Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 113940 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113935-m-7-sc-33-a_service_to_simplify_signons-i If you have more user names and passwords than you can possibly remember, you will appreciate the appeal of the  OpenID  initiative. OpenID ... Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 113935 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113908-m-7-sc-30-collaborate_virtually-i Interactive web conferences with desktop sharing have gotten us used to the idea of online collaboration. A newer crop of visual collaboration sites ... Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 113908 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113941-m-7-sc-31-a_sedan_for_showing_off-i Acura's RL with the Technology and CMBS/ACC Packages may be a serious luxury business sedan, but gear-shifting paddles on the steering wheel are ... Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 113941 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113860-m-7-sc-30-virtual_office_management_means_effective_communication-i Bob Dylan had it right when he penned his lyrics "The times, they are a-changing." In today's highly competitive world, if ... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 113860 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113846-m-7-sc-32-not_so_techsavvy-i Some entrepreneurs are naturally tech-savvy. For the rest of us, technology seems like just one more daunting task to master. Even choosing the right ... Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:00:00 -0800 113846 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113834-m-7-sc-31-care_to_barter-i When Paul Fitzsimmons has a leaky roof or a problem with plumbing, he doesn't pay for the repairs with cold, hard cash. He pays with business ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:00:00 -0800 113834 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113823-m-7-sc-30-meet_via_video-i Location was almost a deal-breaker when technology entrepreneur Ofer Shapiro tried to hire a senior marketing executive to join his startup team at ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:00:00 -0800 113823 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113746-m-7-sc-29-is_a_mac_right_for_you-i Not long ago, if you were to ask PC users what they thought about Apple Macs, you'd probably get one of two responses: Either they'd say, ... Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113746 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113805-m-7-sc-32-whats_in_storage-i All those business bits and bytes add up, and finding ways to store them can be a constant challenge. Most entrepreneurs will turn to a combination ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113805 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113806-m-7-sc-31-cyber_agents-i Arranging to get from point A to point B has become a whole lot easier with the help of widely used travel-planning websites such as Expedia, ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113806 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113711-m-7-sc-32-frugal_choices_for_ondemand_tech-i A handful of tech firms are stepping up to help business owners make lemonade out of the financial lemons harvested on Wall Street this fall. Updated ... Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113711 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113748-m-7-sc-29-got_video-i Derek and Justin Thomas Ostensen, 27 and 31, respectively, have long been videographers, from their film backgrounds to their DVDs-as-artwork ... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113748 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113640-m-7-sc-29-computer_problems_got_you_stranded-i You look at things differently after your first time. There I was, the dreaded blue screen of death staring back at me from my well-used Apple ... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113640 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113641-m-7-sc-32-creating_a_green_office-i The sustainable or green action item with the highest potential for gaining CFO acceptance is conservation. Why? Because conservation is about ... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113641 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113740-m-7-sc-29-surf_new_browsers-i Most PCs dance with the browser they came with: Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But any of the new releases of Firefox, Opera or Safari is a ... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113740 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113758-m-7-sc-29-laptop_quick_fixes-i After nearly 20 years of using some sort of portable computer without incident, I recently found myself in a hotel room far from home with a notebook ... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113758 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113593-m-7-sc-29-why_your_business_needs_a_true_database-i When it came to household duties, I was brought up on Pine-Sol.If the floor needed to be mopped, it was water and Pine-Sol. If the room was a bit ... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113593 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113570-m-7-sc-33-before_there_was_web_2.0-i Tucker: I did buy a nice bottle of champagne when we closed the funding round with Sequoia. I'm not a huge toy person. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113570 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113553-m-7-sc-32-crash_test-i It's dinnertime and you face that age-old question: order in or make something yourself? Likewise, do you outsource IT for your business, or is ... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113553 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113504-m-7-sc-32-little_boxes_big_40-i 1968: It seemed like a good idea at the time, and it was. Robert Propst, head of research at home furnishings manufacturer Herman Miller, set out to ... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113504 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113565-m-7-sc-32-green_tech_grows_up-i If peak-oil theorists are right, the decades ahead will see steadily rising crude oil prices and a mad rush toward alternative sources of energy. And ... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113565 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113416-m-7-sc-33-cutting_the_cord-i For a long time now, software-as-a-service companies have been championing the benefits of no-software and minimal computing infrastructure on the ... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113416 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113382-m-7-sc-33-get_in_the_drivers_seat-i When you think about it, driving a car is pretty complicated. It requires coordinating several extremities while keeping your eyes on the road and ... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113382 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113419-m-7-sc-31-good_customer_service_alone_doesnt_win_referrals-i Many entrepreneurs are under the impression that if they provide good customer service, people will refer business to them. Just like that. However, ... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113419 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113380-m-7-sc-31-printing_2.0-i When people hand you a Moo MiniCard, they don't surreptitiously slip the business card into your hand; they splay out their set of cards and let ... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113380 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113155-m-7-sc-32-what_your_keyboard_says_about_you-i Sitting at a corner table in a pub crowded with social media fiends who come together for a weekly networking event, Justin Peer pulled out his Nokia ... Wed, 14 May 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113155 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-113151-m-7-sc-29-small_wonders-i Brian Ruby calls himself the paparazzo of the nano world. His Seattle company, Carbon Nanoprobes Inc., takes photographs of very tiny things. It has ... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:00 -0700 113151