Small Business Computing Staff

Small Business Trends: How To Make Your Business Greener – Consult Web Kelly Spors of Engergy Smart, a Minnesota non-profit, offers links to and reviews of five Web sites that give small businesses useful information about how to go green. Access to information and resources that help small businesses become environmentally friendlier keeps getting easier. […]

PCWorld: New Spring Line-up Of Smartphones From AT&T Apple’s iPhone is clearly AT&T’s numero uno but here it introduces new smartphone models from Palm (two), Motorola and, perhaps most significantly, Dell. This is the first smartphone designed by Dell. “Although the iPhone has been a smash hit for AT&T, the carrier is out to show […]

PCWorld: Microsoft Bing Spruced Up For Spring The changes – including new quick tabs and an answer box displaying reference and most popular results along with relevant data culled from Web sites – are mainly designed to make the tool more intuitive. “Microsoft introduced new features to its Bing search engine Thursday including Quick Tabs, […]

PCWorld: Protect Your Company’s Data On The iPad Security experts at a conference recently had no trouble hacking data on an iPhone 3Gs. iPad uses the same operating system, so it will presumably be just as vulnerable. “The Apple iPad is coming, and–thanks primarily to the iPhone revolution–it is guaranteed to break out of its […]

Small Business Trends: How To Optimize Your Facebook Site So Customers Find You Ubiquitous Web marketing guru Lisa Barone of Outspoken Media offers five tips on how to search-engine-optimize your Facebook site. “With reports that Facebook sees more traffic than Google, it makes sense that many SMB owners are getting serious about setting up shop […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): New Consolidated Mailbox For Lotus Notes Users The new FewClix from Synaptris lets Lotus Notes users view and work with messages from multiple sources in one mailbox and also offers more sophisticated search capabilities. “Synaptris, the Lotus Notes info management provider, has unveiled FewClix Beta 2, an upgrade to its Lotus Notes […]

Gartner: Virtualized Servers Could Be A Security Risk Survey data shows that too often security experts aren’t involved in initial virtualization deployments and the result is that virtualized servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace. “Through 2012, 60 percent of virtualized servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace, […]

Smallbiztechnology: Microsoft SMB Honcho Speaks Out On Push To Hosted Software Microsoft VP Birger Steen makes the case for a “new improved” Microsoft intent on better serving small and growing businesses in part with online hosted services such as MS Business Productivity Online Suite. “If there’s one person at Microsoft whose job is to ENSURE […]

PCWorld: Review – Gateway EC14D07u Is…Average The $630 value laptop has a powerful enough processor for everyday computing and good battery life, but no features set it above competing products, PC World says. “Want the go-anywhere spirit of a netbook and the full keyboard (and features) of a typical laptop? The Gateway EC14D07u ($630 as […]

SMB News from Network World: Sprint Launches Its First 4G WiMAX Phone Sprint and Clearwire enable laptops and home/office computers to connect over their broadband wireless networks, but this first dual-mode 3G/4G HTC EVO 4G handset is an important breakthrough. “LAS VEGAS — Sprint Nextel on Tuesday launched its first WiMax-capable phone, the HTC EVO […]

InformationWeek SMB: Want To Build A Business To Sell? Exploit Technology Warrillow, who has written a book on building a business to sell, here outlines ideas for using technology – including using online billing platforms and tech-based lead generation tools. “Half of all small business owners want to sell their business yet only a tiny […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Video Blogging Tips From A Master A blog post with an embedded video in which social media guru Robert Scoble offers five tips for better video blogging. “I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Robert Scoble, two times. Once at a Business Development Institute event and once at a “Geek Get Together” that he and […]