Tech Links

Useful Tech Links

 

Technology changes constantly. As part of our mission to simplify information technology for small businesses, Loop Networks has compiled a list of links to resources that can help you understand and utilize the best IT solutions for your business.

 

 

Microsoft

 

The mission and values of Microsoft are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

 

LifeHacker

 

Lifehacker, an award-winning daily blog that features tips, shortcuts, and downloads that help you get things done smarter and more efficiently. Lifehacker launched in January 2005, and now ranks as one of the top-linked blogs on the Internet according to Technorati. Since its inception, Lifehacker has been named Best Blog by Wired, won several Bloggies, and found its way onto many best-of lists by the likes of TIME, Slate, and many more. Lifehacker's also been mentioned in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, O, The Oprah Magazine, and PC Magazine as well as other mainstream press outlets. 

 

Cnet

 

CNET shows you the exciting possibilities of how technology can enhance and enrich your life. They provide you with information, tools, and advice that help you decide what to buy and how to get the most out of your tech.

 

Wired

 

Wired.com is your essential daily guide to what is next, delivering the most original and complete take you will find anywhere on innovation's impact on technology, science, business, and culture. Wired.com's award-winning news reporting, unique commentary, authoritative reviews, and practical hands-on tutorials make it the go-to site for thoughtful and comprehensive coverage of innovation's impact on all aspects of our lives. Join 14 million of the smartest readers on the planet. Wired.com is part of the Condé Nast Digital Business Group, comprised of Wired.com, Arstechnica.com, Portfolio.com, Newyorker.com, Golfdigest.com, and Reddit.com

 

Inc.

 

Inc.com, the website for Inc. magazine, delivers advice, tools, and services, to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. You will find information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people, and much, much more.

 

Fortune Brainstorm Tech

 

Brainstorm: TECH gathered the world's top technology and media leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries gathered to explore the trends that are changing the future of business.

 

The Wall Street Journal

 

WSJ online coverage of breaking news and current headlines from the US and around the world. Top stories, photos, videos, detailed analysis, and in-depth reporting. 

 

Technorati

 

The leading blog search engine, Technorati.com indexes millions of blog posts in real time and surfaces them in seconds. The site has become the definitive source for the top stories, opinions, photos, and videos emerging across news, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, sports, politics, and business. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the Blogosphere.

 

Business Management

 

The combination of the editorial impact of the printed publications with the real-time benefits of the Internet to produce superb online b2b magazines for selected industries.


Fast Company

 

Fast Company sets the agenda, charting the evolution of business through a unique focus on the most creative individuals sparking change in the marketplace. By uncovering best and "next" practices, the magazine and website helps a new breed of leader work smarter and more effectively.

 

Fast Company empowers innovators to challenge convention and create the future of business.

 

Engadget

 

Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics. Engadget was launched in March of 2004 in partnership with the Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN).


Tom's Hardware

 

Providing audiences of both B2B and B2C readers unbiased reviews, news, articles, price comparisons, and related information on high technology products, consumer electronics, and gaming.

 

SmallNetBuilder

 

SmallNetBuilder is the Internet's best source of home, SOHO and small business networking news, reviews, and technology analysis.

 

They deliver the most in-depth, unbiased and authoritative coverage available of networking products, trends, and issues covering wireless, VoIP, network attached storage (NAS), general networking, routers, networked multimedia, and security.

 

Their readership includes IT professionals, CTO's, VARs, network installers, industry analysts, "prosumers" and early adopters.

 

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