Small Business Computing Staff

Entrepreneur: How To Ensure Customers Love Your Web Site It’s all to easy to go wrong when developing a Web site. Author Nicholas Chilenko takes small business through the basics of sound design and conceptual development. “The Internet offers a wealth of new opportunity for small businesses, but web surfers are a sensitive bunch. One […]

PCWorld: Contract-free iPhones Still Locked To AT&T You can now buy an 8GB iPhone from your local Apple Store for $499 but you’ll have to get it unlocked if you want to use it with any cellular provider other than AT&T. “Early Monday, 9to5Mac reported that Apple was going to start selling iPhones at list […]

PC World: iPad Has Competitors The iPad begins shipping next month, but alternatives from a clutch of competitors shouldn’t be far behind. PCWorld previews some of the options. “Apple’s iPad will be available on April 3 and reports suggest that the product is off to a good start, with hundreds and thousands being ordered from […]

The New York Times: Simplified NAS Server Could Work For SMBs Too Dane-Elec’s myDitto is not the first prouduct that claims to remove the complexity from networked attached storage and backup, but this one was designed for use in the home, so it stands to reason it’s pretty simple. “Some people think NAS is a […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Cloud Computing For Small Biz – Best Of The Best PC Magazine explains cloud computing for newbies and looks at a baker’s dozen of services, including storage, productivity, finance/accounting, CRM and communications solutions. “For better or for worse, cloud-computing is the technology of the future. Just ask Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, who recently […]

PCWorld: TreePad Lite – Free Organizer Ideal For Netbooks A return to one of the original computer interfaces for personal information management – a collapsible logic tree of topics and subjects. Good for lower-powered PCs or to squeeze data onto a flash drive. “TreePad Lite is a free personal information management tool. Its feature set, […]

InformationWeek SMB: Mobile Advertising – Not Just For Big Business Shooger connects local businesses with customers in real time via the mobile web, text messaging or iPhone application. “As newspapers decline and TV audiences erode, more advertisers are turning to mobile phones as a marketing medium. According to Nielsen, there are now 63 million mobile […]

InformationWeek SMB: Microsoft Makes It Easier To Run XP Mode In Win7 With initial versions of Windows 7, the XP compatibility mode would only work with more advanced PCs. Now it no longer requires the virtualization capability. “Microsoft has introduced a patch for Windows 7 that lets users run the operating system’s XP Mode without […]

PCWorld: Review – Hewlett-Packard Mini 5102 The great features, including ruggedized body and touchscreen, make it a good netbook for business, but for the price, you could buy a pretty decent laptop. The Mini 5102 is the latest in HP’s line of business-optimized netbooks, featuring a ruggedized metal chassis and design elements tailored for the […]

Small Business Trends: Pro Video For SMBs – You Shoot, They Edit The service, from a group of film makers at MIT, costs $595 for a finished video you can use on your Web site. They’ll send you the camera or you can use your own. “Video is one of the hottest marketing tactics online […]

RES Software: How To Reduce Total Cost Of Ownership For PCs TCO for PCs is $5,867 a year per unmanaged desktop, $9,224 per notebook. This white paper looks at using “automated workspace management” products to reduce TCO. “Today the total cost of ownership (TCO) for PCs on an annual basis is $5,867 per unmanaged desktop1 […]

ITBusinessEdge: 10 Ways SMBs Can Save Money On IT SMB Tech columnist Paul Mah reviews simple ways SMBs can save money on IT: from reducing energy consumption, to limiting e-mail storage, to using software as a service offerings. “If there is ever an evergreen discussion theme at conferences or other gatherings of IT managers and […]