Archive for February 2006

TechNewsWorld
The phones will integrate Google’s Blogger and Web search features on Sony Ericsson’s mobile phones. The blog application will be tightly integrated to the camera and provide automatic set-up for users who don’t already have a blog.
The first Sony Ericsson products to offer the new service are the recently announced K610 UMTS phone and two [...]

eHow:
You can make simple business cards or add fancy graphics, a logo or even a picture of yourself with the right software. There are application programs to choose from, but here are basic instructions for using Microsoft Word.

Open the File menu and choose New.
Open the Tools menu and choose Envelopes and Labels.
Click Options.
Confirm that Avery [...]

While GMail is obviously the best application for email, there are still plenty of people chained to Outlook through no fault of their own. However, if you’d like to add the conversation thread functionality to your Outlook email, here’s a tutorial that walks you through the steps.

Sarbanes-Oxley:
Verizon Is First National Carrier to Provide Monthly Service to Protect the Transmission of Electronic Mail
Echoworx announced that Verizon Online introduced a new e-mail security product for small businesses that encrypts e-mail messages to help protect the privacy of their contents as they travel over the Internet - Verizon Secure Mail, powered by Echoworx encrypted [...]

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of eleven niche business blogs. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network this week:

Best and Worst of Making Money Online: Part 1
Selling for Others on eBay
Brazil: Carnival in Your Living Room
Links for 2006-02-15
First Lenovo-Branded Products Debut Worldwide
Self Employed Tax Write Offs
Los Inicios [...]

Slashphone.com:
Bluetrek announces the launch of the X2, an innovative and stylish headset which can be used in extreme conditions. The Bluetrek X2 is a new water-resistant model ideal for active outdoor use. With its rugged design and its ability to function in extreme conditions, the X2 is equally at home in the great outdoors as [...]

Webwire.com:
Lenovo Takes Aim at Small Business Market With New Robust Portfolio of Self-Reliant PCs - Lenovo Care Productivity Tools to Make PCs Easy to Own, Use.
Lenovo today unveiled the first-ever Lenovo-branded PCs to be offered worldwide, the Lenovo 3000 product family, one of the first truly international PC brands. Researchers, scientists and product design teams [...]

A Luxury Travel Blog:
Are you a business traveller who needs portable data storage whilst on your travels? Then maybe Fujitsu’s latest offering is for you. They are getting ready to ship their newest 120GB HandyDrive (20GB more than its predecessor). At five inches long and half an inch thick, it’s thin enough to slip [...]

Although we are only two months into 2006, ZDNet has posted their Web Office Suite: best of breed products.
GMail is obviously the choice for email. Especially since you may have a chance of using it as your domain email.
I haven’t used any of the others extensively, however Writely seems very useful and it [...]

AllBusiness.com:
Computer consultants build entire careers around advising businesses when to upgrade their hardware. Should you go with the latest and greatest, or stick with tried and true? As with all business decisions, it comes down to a question of cost vs. benefit. But quantifying the costs and benefits of hardware can be difficult. Here are [...]