Small Business Computing Staff

InformationWeek SMB: First-Look Review – Revised Google Docs With Realtime Collaboration The new version mirrors changes made by each participant in a collaboration session to other screens more quickly – not in the microsecond needed for true realtime collaboration, IW says, but fast enough to make it much more viable to work together online. “When […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Vidyo Offers Touchscreen Video Conferencing Solution The new product from Vidyo allows it to keep pace with enterprise-class competitor Tandberg, which introduced a similar product earlier this year – which costs about ten times the $1,000 price of the Vidyo offering. “Vidyo, a provider of videoconferencing solutions, today announced the new VidyoDesktop […]

PCWorld: Typing On An iPad? There Are Keyboards (Plural) For That Apple’s iPad may not be quite the locked-down, closed system it appears. As this article explains, there are options for adding a physical keyboard for volume text input on the iPad, including non-Apple Bluetooth keyboards. “Compared to the iPhone’s tiny onscreen keyboard, the version […]

Avaya: Avoiding Pitfalls When Implementing Unified Communications Why do unified communications system projects fail? Avaya has seen enough to know. Here are the top ten errors that companies make when selecting and installing UC systems. “Unified communications (UC) is increasingly viewed as a valuable platform that can offer numerous benefits across the entire enterprise. The […]

The New York Times: Twitter Comes Of Age – And Improves New geolocation features, among others, will make Twitter a more useful tool for businesses and consumers, says tech reporter Clair Cain Miller. “Chirp is Twitter’s first developer conference. It is also a coming out party, as Twitter the start-up turns into Twitter the big […]

PCWorld: Google For iPad? There’s A Mobile App For That The new version of Google Mobile App isn’t iPad-specific – it works on iPhone and iPod – and it doesn’t add any new iPad-specific features, but it has been tweaked to take advantage of the iPad’s larger screen. “An updated version of the Google Mobile […]

Small Business Trends: Using The Foursquare Geolocation Service In Your Business Foursquare, the latest hot item in the social media world, is not just hype, Lisa Barone says. She offers four quick, inexpensive ways small businesses can get onboard. “Trying to ignore FourSquare in 2010 feels a bit like trying to ignore Twitter in 2009 […]

InformationWeek SMB: New Network Gear For SMBs From Cisco Most small businesses lack IT skills and personnel, yet they have come to depend on their networks. Cisco is trying to address the market with easy to maintain and set up products. “Cisco introduced a new family of switches, a wireless VPN firewall, on-premises equipment for […]

ITBusinessEdge: Simple Tips For Improving Desktop Productivity SMB Tech columnist Paul Mah introduces and comments on a four-step productivity action plan developed by Nuance’s Strammiello. The ideas are no less valid for the fact that one of the suggestions is to use speech recognition technology – which Nuance sells. “Chris Strammiello of Nuance is an […]

Entrepreneur: Build Your Own Social Media Site ‘Technology therapist’ Jennifer Shaheen shows you how to plan and begin developing a custom-built social media site for your small business. “Building a social website isn’t the same as adding social elements to a website. You’re not just plugging in a widget to your website to show the […]

PCWorld: Giving Your Facebook Profile A Professional Edge PC World staffer Kristin Burnham looks at four top applications for adding a more professional look and feel to a Facebook profile, including tools for adding your Twitter and blog feeds. “Sure, trivial and time-guzzling Facebook Apps abound ( Farmville, anyone?), but-believe it or not- other applications […]

PCWorld: Facebook Moves To Block Spammers And Hackers The company is getting aggressive about shutting out hackers who try to spam the site’s millions of users. It claims that as many as 10% of its 1,200 employees are now focused on security. “Facebook is employing aggressive legal means in combination with technical measures in order […]