Ryan Naraine, Author at Small Business Computing

Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for Small Businesses

In most industries, job recruiting is conducted entirely online. This makes it easier to screen applicants and move the top candidates through your interview process. However, online job applications also mean stiffer competition—the average job posting gets a couple hundred applicants, if not more.

How MSPs Can Help Small Businesses

As the resources available to small businesses are often limited, the teams behind these businesses often wear many hats to make the most of the available resources. This may lead to stunted productivity and sluggish business growth.

What the Metaverse Means for Your Business

The metaverse can be described as an interconnection of virtual worlds that employs artificial intelligence (AR), virtual reality (VR), and other immersive technologies and provides users with a digital second life.

Marketing Strategy vs Tactics

Marketing is one of the most important aspects of running a small business—you must get your company name and product or service information in front of potential customers, or else risk losing them to your competitors.

MSP Security: Top Products & Services Guide

In this era of rapidly advancing technologies and continuously evolving cybersecurity risks, managed service providers (MSPs) and other IT providers are constantly facing the challenges of effectively protecting the sensitive data of their customers.

Best Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Software

If you are trying to manage relationships with many outside vendors through emails and phone calls, eventually an important file is going to go astray or something else critical is going to fall through the cracks. If you're a small business looking to manage vendors, sales partners, and other third-party collaborations more efficiently, partner relationship management (PRM) software could be the answer you've been looking for.

Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for Small Businesses

How MSPs Can Help Small Businesses

What the Metaverse Means for Your Business

Marketing Strategy vs Tactics

MSP Security: Top Products & Services Guide

Best Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Software

Security

PayPal Phishers Turn to E-mail Viruses

The PayPal ‘phishing’ scourge is wearing a new mask. Security experts warn that a new variant of the MiMail e-mail virus is fast spreading through inboxes worldwide, trying to dupe PayPal users into giving up credit card numbers and other sensitive information. Internet scammers have been using the high-tech ‘phishing’ tactic to swipe credit card […]

Nov 17, 2003

Networking

No More Weekly Microsoft Patches

Microsoft announced it would no longer issue weekly software patches for security vulnerabilities as part of a major plan to avoid issuing updates on a “very unpredictable schedule.” Instead of software patches issued every Wednesday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the company would release monthly security patches except for emergency situations. “We have been […]

Oct 13, 2003

Networking

Report: Linux Most Attacked Server OS

Microsoft Windows may be dominating the headlines for security-related breaches but the open-source Linux server operating system remains the biggest target of overt intruder attacks, according to a study by U.K.-based Mi2g. Mi2g, which provides digital risk management research, said 67 percent of all successful overt digital attacks was done against the Linux OS, which […]

Sep 15, 2003

Marketing

Is RSS the Answer to the Spam Crisis?

With scam artists, spammers and virus writers all using the e-mail inbox as the main target, it has become a daily nightmare for legitimate online publishers and marketers to cope with e-mail filters, blacklists and irate subscribers. Enter rich site summaries (RSS), the extensible markup language (XML) syndication format that allows publishers to shuttle content […]

Sep 2, 2003

Networking

Roxio to Bundle Napster with CD-Burning Tools

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Roxio plans to bundle the reborn Napster 2.0 service with its popular CD/DVD burning software and roll out what it calls the first online music play offering unlimited a la carte downloads alongside a subscription option. Roxio is the software maker behind one of the best selling digital media software programs in […]

Jul 29, 2003

Networking

Microsoft Patches IE, Outlook Express Holes

Four security holes have been detected and patched in the world’s most popular Web browser, Microsoft said this week, warning that the vulnerabilities carry a “critical” rating. The security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s flagship Internet Explorer (IE) browser could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a user’s system if the user either browsed to […]

Apr 25, 2003

Software

Putting Small Businesses In The ‘Groove’

Microsoft-backed Groove Networks this week made a play for the small business market, announcing it would begin selling a trimmed-down version of the Groove Workspace desktop collaboration software for less than the price of a PC. The Beverly, Mass.-based firm, which just banked $38 million in funding from a group of investors led by Microsoft […]

Apr 4, 2003

Software

Microsoft Strengthens HelpDesk Features In CRM Offering

Looking to add key security features to its new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product, Microsoft has inked a deal with Network Associates to marry a customer help-desk system with its CRM software. Microsoft CRM, which targets midmarket enterprise customers, will now be integrated with Network Associates’ Magic Solutions HelpDesk IQ, a single-software system gives help-desk […]

Mar 21, 2003

IT Management

Microsoft Launches Desktop Center for XP

More than a year after the release of

Feb 26, 2003

Networking

Roxio Adds DVD Burning To Easy CD Creator

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Roxio has lifted the wraps off the latest iteration of its flagship digital media software, adding DVD burning tools that push the envelope for multimedia creation on PCs. The new Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 Platinum, billed as the first PC-based integrated software with CD and DVD burning capabilities, lets users […]

Feb 19, 2003

Guides

Fear, Uncertainty And Doubt Factor Into Internet Insecurity

Looking to ride the publicity wave generated by the SQL Slammer worm that wreaked havoc on networks worldwide, some of the biggest names in the software security industry are rushing to hawk early detection and warning systems for Internet attacks. Dueling announcements from Symantec, NetworkAssociates and Sygate Technologies outlined the importance of detecting and warning […]

Feb 13, 2003

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