Small Business Computing Staff

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Canon Launches New LCD Multimedia Projectors The new products have high lumen (brightness) to accommodate well-lit meeting rooms, multiple inputs and eco-friendly features. They will ship in April. “Canon is expanding its line of LCD multimedia projectors with two new 1,280-by-800 widescreen models plus four new 1024-by-768 versions, geared to educational and […]

CNet: The New Smarter Way To Reschedule Google Calendar Appointments The new feature automates the process of finding a new time for a meeting by scanning grouped schedules. “Google is trying to solve a very difficult part of personal time management with a new experimental rescheduling feature for the free and paid versions of its […]

InformationWeek SMB: EMC Offers Disaster Recovery For Latest MS Exchange It’s an integrated set of technologies that uses Exchange Server 2010’s application programming interfaces (APIs), including the e-mail replication API to enable online replication and storage for disaster recovery. “EMC’s Replication Enabler utility supports the vendor’s RecoverPoint Continuous Replication and EMC MirrorView Remote Synch replication. […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): RIM Makes It Easy To Push Any Data To BlackBerry It’s not just e-mail and calendar data anymore. The new programmer tool will allow developers to create custom apps for pushing data from any kind of business application to BlackBerry smartphones. “Research in Motion has announced it is now offering its BlackBerry […]

Entrepreneur: Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Outsourcing Data Security The author, Dal Gemmell of Trend Micro, argues that by working in the cloud, you get faster, more responsive protection without overburdening and slowing down your computers. And the advantage increases as the volume of threats increases. “As a smart entrepreneur, the biggest problem to contend with […]

SAP AG: Small Biz Dashboarding Tool – Crystal Reports Server It works in Windows or Linux and provides a complete reporting and dashboard management solution that helps small businesses create, manage and deliver reports and visualizations. “Crystal Reports Server software offers user-friendly features and tools to simplify your work when you manage reports and dashboards. […]

Progent: IT Outsourcing For Small Businesses Progent, a company that has long been in the business of providing IT outsourcing services, makes the case that outsourcing saves small businesses money and gives them fast, sure access to needed expertise. “IT outsourcing makes sense for businesses of any size. Outsourcing saves money, provides fast access to […]

PCWorld: Review – Dell 5130cdn Color Laser Designed for offices that need a workhorse printer, the Dell 5130cdn has the speed and features to make it a winner. “Dell’s 5130cdn color laser printer aims high–and on nearly all counts, it succeeds. It has the speed and features that a high-volume office needs, and it’s also […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): New Lexmark All-In-One Inkjet Printer The $300 AIO printer offers fax, scanning, copying and color printing and takes an economical $5 black ink cartridge. “The Pinnacle Pro901, the latest addition to Lexmark’s professional All-in-One (AIO) inkjet printer line, was announced at the Fifth Annual Small Business Summit, where it was awarded the […]

PCWorld: Review – Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 Laptop The wireless display capability works well but this reviewer didn’t like the ergonomics of the keyboard and pointing device and describes the $900 Core i5 laptop as ‘average.’ “The Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 all-purpose laptop, currently a Best Buy exclusive priced at just under $900 (as of March 17, […]

ITBusinessEdge: Extend The Life Of Your Workstation: Upgrade It SMB Tech columnist Paul Mah offers some simple suggestions for upgrading and improving the performance of sluggish computers, from adding memory to installing Windows 7. “Are you frustrated by how sluggish your workstation have become? The obvious solution would be to perform a reformat to clear […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Simplifying The Switch From Exchange To Google Apps Google has provided synchronization between Outlook and Google Apps but its new Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange utility now makes it easy to switch once and for all to the cloud-based service. “If you’re sick of Microsoft controlling the backend of your business, […]