As far as tech gadgets are concerned, iPhones and BlackBerry's have "all" the popularity it seems. However, in the world of small business (and consumers) Netbooks, with prices below $500 are increasingly popular.
They're small, affordable and functional - once you get used to the small screens and keyboards.
As your company is looking into what technology to invest in, consider issuing every employee that travels locally or long distance a Netbook with wireless broadband.
Software As A Service (SaaS) is the technology wherein you use applications hosted on the Internet and accessed via a web browser.
Email host, Intermedia introduced me to a new concept, SaaS 2.0 which is the concept of being “integration ready,” where customers can easily integrate hosted apps with one another and with on-premise software.
There are many hosted application startups (and not so startup) with new services that on their own have varying degrees of functionality and overall ROI. Even some of the applications that are free (and many beta apps are free), such as Gmail, have limits to their return on the investment in the time you use them.
What makes individual applications powerful is when they can be combined with other applications to make them more powerful than they ever could be on their own.
