Gizmos and Gadgets

• BlackBerry Applications for Business

  By adding new applications, such as GPS and location-based services, businesses can now distribute BlackBerrys to staff and locate and dispatch workers, manage work orders, process electronic time sheets, and monitor assets.
  Marc Saltzman

• Ready For the Next Computing Platform? It's Ringing Now.

  If you think the iPhone is all about listening to music and taking calls, think again. The device's ability to allow rich web-based business applications to run on your phone has raised the bar and is ushering in the cell phone as the next major computing device.
  Zach Nelson

• Three Hot iPhone Alternatives

  Despite the drop in price, the iPhone still isn't the only phone in town. The following models may be better smartphones for your business – and your bucks.
  Marc Saltzman

• Intelligent Devices Help Smart Businesses

  The use of 'smart' technologies -- such as sensors -- can help businesses keep better tabs on temperature, chemical composition, and other environmental factors by eliminating humans from the reporting process.
  Bill Pfleging

• Is the iPhone Worth It?

  The sexy new Apple smartphone may help an up-and-coming entrepreneur make a statement about style but does the new Web-enabled device with touch-screen navigation have the substance to help you run your business?
  Marc Saltzman

• Bluetooth Bonanza: Gadgets for the Mobile Exec

  You know about the Bluetooth headsets, but a whole new crop of Bluetooth accessories is coming to market to make business seamless when you travel from office to home to the road.
  Marc Saltzman

• The Daylight Savings Time Computer Glitch

  It may not impact as many of the world's computer systems as the Y2K bug, but don't let your business be caught off guard – or off by an hour -- by the earlier time change.
  Todd Wasserman

• Taskus Interruptus

  Why interruption, distraction, and multitasking are not such awful things after all.
  David H. Freedman

• Staying Connected

  A slew of new gadgets can help you compete.
  David H. Freedman

• Tech Tools You Can’t Live Without in 2007

  Each year, I pick five software or hardware tools that promise to recommend to small business owners -- this year I found 10.
  Anita Campbell

• An Entrepreneur's Holiday Wish List

  Technological gadgets may lead the list of presents a small business owner would like to receive this season.
  Ramon Ray

• Seeing the iPod as a Security Threat

  As the popularity, storage capacity and connectivity of gadgets like the iPod increase, experts say, so will the use of such devices to perpetrate data theft.
  Marc Saltzman