Unfortunately for lovers of dust and beautifully over-engineered gear, the room-sized recording console is dying out fast, replaced by software and small, neat, racks of pre-amps and analog summing mixers.
Using a combination of diligence, data restrictions, staff training and education, regular technology updates and targeted software, small and medium-sized businesses can take matters into their own hands to stop cyberthreats from bringing down the business.
FORBES: Why Investing In Online Security Makes Sense For Small To Medium-Size Businesses
We sell primarily customer relationship management software and technologies to small, medium and a few large sized customers.
Software companies large and small make these kinds of judgments on a daily basis during both the development process and the life span of a deployed product.
My company sells software to small and medium sized businesses.
Moskovitz left Facebook in 2008 and started Asana, a software company that allows individuals and small companies to better collaborate.
FORBES: Facebook Billionaire Gives Money to Legalize Pot in Calif.
Imagine that a portfolio manager in 1999 told clients he thinks this small outfit called Microsoft could have a real growth spurt from core software sales as households and many small businesses were increasing their PC purchasing into the 1990s.
The allegations relate to deals done between AOL and small software provider PurchasePro before the former's merger with Time Warner in 2000.
To rev up growth, the company has tried shifting its business into new areas including discounted online goods, software for small businesses and electronic payments.
For example, C3 Energy, a "big data" analytics specialist, provides software and monitoring systems that can show large and small businesses how much energy they are using and on what processes, then compare these with buildings and businesses in the same area.
"Nothing could be less content-neutral than doing self-help law, " says Stephen Elias, associate publisher at Nolo Press, a privately held Berkeley, Calif. book and software company that publishes WillMaker, Small Business Legal Pro and other self-help guides.
He is founder and CEO of PeopleLinx, a small company that provides software and training for organizations wanting to get their employees using LinkedIn as effectively as possible.
FORBES: Spooked by LinkedIn? This Guy Hails Goal-Scoring Machine
But the EDI system requires proprietary software and private networks which most small Asian manufacturers can't afford, says Joe Sweeney, research director in Hong Kong for the Gartner Group.
Imagine that a portfolio manager in 1999 told clients he thinks this small outfit called Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) could have a real growth spurt from core software sales as households and many small businesses were increasing their PC purchasing into the 1990s.
Software developers have capitalized that on that and released some really fun, simple software for small kids.
Gigabit networks can enable genetic sequencing to treat cancer patients, immersive and creative software to support lifelong learning from home, and ways for small businesses to take advantage of Big Data.
FORBES: Faster, Sooner: Why The U.S. Needs 'Gigabit Communities'
Smartphones can be used to store addresses and phone numbers, download small pieces of software (such as games), browse the internet while on the move, store and play music, and jot down brief messages.
The idea is to foster a combination of Linux (for large-scale software projects) and Wind River (for small, quick devices).
Yet still people and small businesses that purchase software nowadays run into bugs, down services, connection errors, poor quality and other productivity killers.
FORBES: Here's Why I'm Grateful Microsoft Doesn't Build Airplanes
We played around with it a bit, and while the 800 x 600 E Ink screen resolution is a little disappointing, and the resistive touchscreen layer impacts readability in a small but noticeable way, the software is certainly pleasant, and iriver is up to its usual standard in hardware design.
In October the software giant agreed to link the 2.8 million small-business users of its QuickBooks management and accounting software to Intelisys' network of 600 suppliers.
It helps American workers by letting them keep more money, and it helps small businesses so that family-owned restaurants and start-up software companies can hire more workers and provide more jobs for Americans.
Blinkx Chief Executive Suranga Chandratillake says the software can also recognize written words and even a small library of faces.
He quit in 2008 to start his own software outfit, Asana, which allows individuals and small companies to better collaborate.
But late in 2001 the company hired Robin Curle, a consultant who had founded and run a series of small software outfits.
He sold off a financial services arm and began acquiring small school-software companies, piecing together what is now a soup-to-nuts school-automation-software package.
According to Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. officials, Wednesday's halt was caused by a software problem in its Small Order Executive System and its quote update system by Carlsbad, Calif.
Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
Founded in 2006 by Radu Georgescu, a serial entrepreneur who sold a previous anti-virus software company to Microsoft (MSFT), Avangate helps 2, 800 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe and Asia to sell their software without hiring a big sales force.
应用推荐