Small Business Computing Staff

Wall Street Journal: Cloud Computing For Beginners What’s all this about ‘cloud computing.’ Veteran tech journalist Walter S. Mossberg offers a primer to explain to regular folks why cloud computing is important and how it can help you. “The digital world loves to revel in its own jargon, and one of its most popular phrases […]

PCWorld: Skype Drops International Long Distance Rates To Call Phones Details on the new plans haven’t been released yet, but the rate for a month of unlimited calling to the U.S. and Canada for U.S. customers will drop from $2.95 to $1.09 a month. “Skype this week will start offering plans to let users call […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Award-winning Dropbox Now On iPad And Android Now you can access files stored in the cloud with Dropbox from almost anywhere. “There’s a reason why we recommend the Editors’ Choice award winning Dropbox as one of 13 Terrific Cloud Services for Small Business: it’s a superbly implemented cloud-based automatic file-synchronization service that […]

Entrepreneur: Building Your First (Or A Better) Online Store Jennifer Shaheen, a small business e-marketing consultant, provides guidelines on choosing the right technology and building in a social component. “From jewelry designers to musicians, from shop owners to authors, everyone is looking for a way to sell products or services online. How do you begin, […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: 12 Tech Tools To Help Small Businesses Be More Productive The list includes some less well known services such as Spokeo, which lets you check up on prospective employees’ or suppliers’ social networking activity, and Knowem, which simultaneously checks on availability of a username on 200 social networking sites. Also more familiar tools such […]

PCWorld: Review – Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t Convertible Netbook/Tablet It’s not the greatest netbook (heavy, expensive) or the best tablet (no onscreen keyboard), but hey, it gives you both in one package. “If you love the idea of a portable tablet PC, but can’t really come to grips with the lack of a physical keyboard on […]

PCWorld: New Product – Epson WorkForce 520 Inkjet Multifunction Printer The new printer, which has five ink cartridges, can print up to 15 pages per minute in black only and 5.4 pages per minute in color. The integrated flatbed scanner has an optical resolution of 1200 dots per inch (dpi). “Epson on Tuesday announced the […]

PCWorld: Microsoft Spindex Helps You Harness The Social Network Introduced at the Web 2.0 Expo this week, Spindex is another innovation from FUSE Labs, which also produced Microsoft’s search engine Bing. “Microsoft’s FUSE Labs–the cutting edge, innovative research group behind the recent Docs.com announcement–unveiled yet another new project today at the Web 2.0 Expo in […]

PCWorld: New Laptops From HP Feature AMD Processors AMD gets a boost in its battle with arch-rival Intel as HP introduces three ProBook S-series and two ProBook B-series models that use AMD’s Phenom II, Turion II and Athlon II and V-series processors. The company says they’re significantly faster and with longer battery life than previous […]

InformationWeek SMB: Android Apps For SMBs Android, the Google-backed smartphone operating system, is emerging as a worthy competitor for the iPhone, with dozens of clever business applications now available. InformationWeek picks the the 12 best for SMBs. “Users are flocking the the Android platform, making it a legitimate competitor to the dominant iPhone. But Android […]

Entrepreneur: The Next Wave of Digital Marketing Solutions For SMBs A roundup of four trends in enterprise marketing that are coming down market to small businesses, including some that don’t sound all that new: online display advertising, online retail promotions, social media advertising and mobile marketing. “Sometimes the most important small business marketing tools and […]

PCWorld: Free Web-based Voice Mail Services Let You See, Hear Mail PCWorld reviewed Google Voice, Phonebooth, Ribbit Mobile and YouMail, testing the ability of each to transcribe voice messages to text. The accuracy of the transcription was “middling at best.” “Over the past few years, Web-based voice mail services have been adding features that go […]