Small Business Computing Staff

ZDNet: Rapportive – New Gmail Plugin Adds Context To E-mails A brief report on test driving Rapportive, plus a video interview with its young makers. “The best collaboration technologies immediately fit into the flow of your work and improve or streamline it in some way. I’ve been running Rapportive, a Firefox or Chrome plugin that […]

PCWorld: Review – HP Mini 210 Netbook Only Average The reviewer liked the display and multitouch pad but found the fan noisy and judged performance average. “The HP Mini 210 consumer netbook is a basic netbook that does a decent job of providing what you’d expect from a typical product in this category, without any […]

Quest Software: Understanding How To Use New Features In MS Exchange 2010 This 40-page paper written by a consultant at Quest Software, maker of systems management products, analyzes new features and offers advice on how to build business processes around them. “With the release of Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft has expanded existing functionality and introduced […]

Gartner: Top Places To Look For Off-shore Service Providers If you’re shopping for off-shore services in Asia-Pacific, you can take your pick between ‘mature’ environments such as Australia that offer few cost benefits or more ‘challenging’ environments with cheaper services. “India and China remain the undisputed leaders for offshore IT and business process outsourcing services […]

InformationWeek SMB: New Laser Printers For SMBs From Dell Dell is trying to entrench itself in the business printer market and this offering of eight new laser models offering low printing costs, reliability and high productivity should help. “Dell announced 8 new black and white printers today, including 2 multifunction and 2 single function printers […]

PCWorld: Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Internet Explorer The patch is critical for almost all Internet Explorer users. The flaw it fixes allows hackers to take control of computers and run malicious code. “A growing number of attacks against an Internet Explorer security flaw prompted Microsoft to publish an early fix that wasn’t scheduled to […]

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InformationWeek SMB: The Swiss Army Knife People Offer Unhackable USB Stick Worried about privacy of data you carry on a USB stick? Worry no more. The Victorinox Secure Device uses fingerprint and thermal sensing to authenticate users. Any attempt to tamper with the device triggers a self-destruct mechanism. “Victorinox, best known as the maker of […]

The New York Times: New Line Of Cisco Wireless Routers Simplifies Set-up The new routers use a USB key that goes in an available port on computers to be added to the network. A software wizard pops up to guide users through the set-up process. Cisco has begun selling a new line of wireless routers […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): LinkedIn For BlackBerry Finally Arrives The new official LinkedIn app for BlackBerry offers the same basic functions as the Web site, but it doesn’t work with the BlackBerry Storm handset. “LinkedIn has launched their official LinkedIn application for the Blackberry. However, Storm users are out of luck; the app is only supported […]

ABI Research: The Dawning Of The Mobile Marketing Era An ABI survey shows that consumers are open to mobile marketing and that companies need to be considering this new medium in their advertising strategies. “Mobile marketing is still the new kid on the block. Some marketers have tried a variety of mobile tactics and found […]

PCWorld: How To Search Engine Optimize Your SMB Web Site Search engine optimization (SEO) sometimes seems more a black art than a science but there are some simple things you can do to ensure your customers find your Web site. “Writing a Web piece about search engine optimization is kind of like preparing dinner at […]