Ad-Supported Software Proves Popular With Small Businesses
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TechWeb - Spiceworks is adding more IT management features to its free, ad-supported software, for which over 5,000 customers have signed up in about a month's time.
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While Microsoft and Google dominate many computer activities like search and Internet browsing, programs and utilities from smaller companies offer worthy alternatives.
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InfoWorld reviewer says Version 10 a good fit for smaller businesses looking for a strong CRM app, and especially those in need of integrated financial and inventory management.
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Yuval Kossovsky writes for Computerworld, âLeopard server promises to be an exciting release with many new features for both the enterprise and small-business environments.â
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Ads and adware have a new way to get on your computer--through files that appear to be music and video.
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Like thousands of other merchants, Tammy Harrison thought she had struck gold when hordes visited her Web site by clicking on the small Internet ads she purchased from the world's most popular online search engines. It cost Harrison as much as &#36;20 for each click, but the potential new business seemed to justify the expense. Harrison's delight dimmed, though, when she realized the people clicking on her ads weren't really interested in her products.
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Small businesses have joined huge players like Google and AT&T in submitting applications to bid in the FCC's wireless spectrum auction.
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Whereas most of todayâs software tools follow the âbigger is betterâ philosophy, Savvysoftâs (Profile, Products, Articles) TurboExcel proves the adage that great things really do come in small packages.
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New service offers spam, virus filtering for small and mid-sized businesses.
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Businesses don&#39;t have to dump Windows to test drive free or low-price applications whose use may improve the bottom line. Sometimes the big software vendors act like their customers are locked into the proprietary products they sell.
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Adobe's AIR allows applications to bridge the Web and desktop.
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Software entrepreneur Rick Carlson thinks consumers will welcome free software for purging their computers of annoying &quot;spyware&quot; advertisements -- even if the free software includes ads of its own.
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Tens of thousands of web publishers are too small to show up on industry-standard traffic reports, so they can't attract advertisers. But I/Pro, a small traffic-auditing firm, says it can change all that. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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A study on software licensing shows that companies are getting ahead of their customers on subscription-based billing.
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A small Oregon-based company on Wednesday released a set of integrated add-on tools for Microsoft&#39;s Outlook e-mail client.
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Mozilla took out an ostensibly dual-purpose ad in the New York Times yesterday. One reason was to thank everyone who contributed to the open source browser project and, as such, the ad included some 10,000 names, in small print of course.
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A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying ads on the callers' computer screens based on what's being talked about.