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US-based SMobile Systems has released an antivirus called SMobile VirusGuard to protect Google Android phones. According to SMobile, its VirusGuard for Android will enable users to scan their devices and memory cards for over 400 known instances and variants of mobile Malware. New Malware can infect devices via the web-browser, memory card and the
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Small merchants have long chafed at the fees they must pay banks every time a customer swipes a debit or credit card. But now, with business slowing and every dollar important to their bottom line, some merchants are pushing for changes.
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Historically, the computer guy, like many other service professionals, has been undervalued and under appreciated. But beware, we computer folk hold a lot more of the cards then some may realize. For those people who tend to treat their computer guy like a second class citizen, here are the top 10 reasons why you may want to reconsider giving us
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The news of the fall of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers & Merrill Lynch was a shock to everyone. Then there was the news flash that AIG was next in line for collapse. It’s almost impossible to imagine that these are some of the massive giants from Fortune 500 that are amongst the biggest buyers for just about everything b2b businesses have to offer.
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There was a time when business visiting cards were the most valuable forms of contact information and having a rolodex with as many phone numbers and postal addresses meant you had all the data you need to do some serious selling. Times change. While contact address, contact phone number, contact name and contact title still make up most of the co
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Small business is becoming big business for credit-card issuers.
With the consumer market saturated, card issuers and banks are expanding their credit-card offerings for small businesses in a bid to get in on what they see as an untapped market. Estimates vary, but American Express says only about 14% of the more than $2 trillion small business
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As of June 2008, if your business processes credit card payments, you are required to comply with new security standards to prevent fraud, hacking, and various other security vulnerabilities and threats, or risk losing this ability and being audited or fined.
Any company or government agency that processes, stores, or transmits payment card da
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If you've ever gone to a business networking event and (a) wondered who to talk to, (b) wondered what to talk about, or (c) left the event with a handful of business cards but not solid leads, this is a great article to help you make those meetings more productive and focused.
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At a single trade show, you can expect to receive a stack of business cards in the double digits.
And while a good networker is enthusiastic about receiving them, no one looks forward to reviewing an indiscriminate pile of contacts. (Most probably don't bother.) Here are tips for a card worth keeping.
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The turbulent economy is exposing yet another type of credit where bankers let their guard down: small-business loans.
Missed payments and losses on small-business loans are surging at banks throughout the country that were so eager to pad their profits that they essentially threw typical underwriting methods out the window. Some lenders doled
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If a web site falls in the search engine forest, would anyone hear it? If the web site belonged to Victoria’s Secret, it wouldn’t be missed by a shopper like my young adult daughter. She doesn’t need search engines to find Victoria’s Secret products.
Why? Because the company sends her discount cards in the mail every month to lure her with 20%
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Welcome to the world of "credit card shaving." Like mathematicians searching for the right formula, thieves painstakingly try out combinations of 16 digits until they come up with a series that fits someone's card number. They grab gift cards found in most grocery stores and craft their own credit card or debit card -- shaving numbers off the g
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The meaning of the adjective radical is “not bound by traditional ways or beliefs.” Here are the “must dos” of a seasoned business unit’s radical salesperson and marketer.
No stone goes unturned in your search for new leads and clients; no sales idea is too silly or stupid to try; you sell to everyone, every day, no matter what their size; you
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Small business owners are sacrificing time with their family to ensure their businesses stay afloat, a report has found.
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When they are confronted with two merchants who offer the same product at the same price, consumers say the two factors that influence them most are payment security and payment choice. More than one-half of respondents said that the security of their financial information was the deciding factor when they made purchases. An additional two-thirds s
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