Small Business Computing Staff

Entrepreneur: How To Make Pay-Per-Click Pay SmartMoney magazine’s Diana Ransom offers seven fundamental tips for making the most of your pay-per-click marketing dollar – from how to choose keywords, to monitoring results and writing ad copy. “Among web marketers, it is the big debate: SEM versus SEO. Sound like just a bunch of letters to […]

ZDNet: HP’s 6-core HPE-180t – One Desktop To Rule Them All? Google may think the desktop PC is dead, but not HP and Intel. This new 6-core processor model will satisfy your most power-hungry power users. “Today was the day that Intel PC partners could officially announce their support for the new i7-980X Extreme Edition […]

PCWorld: Xobni Smartens Up BlackBerry Address Book Small business BlackBerry power users: this app is for you. Find contacts fast and save your scrolling thumb. “If you’re a power BlackBerry user, you’ve probably experienced the annoyance of scrolling through a long contact list to find who want. Xobni Mobile, a new app for BlackBerrys, is […]

Cnet: The Coming Importance Of Mobile Synchronization Google believes the desktop PC is dead and is putting most of its development eggs in the mobile basket. What does that mean for how people will use computing devices in the future? “Google has proclaimed that the conventional PC will become “irrelevant” within the next three years, […]

ZDNet: IE9 Unveiled – Is This Your Next Browser? The new Internet Explorer, shown to developers at a conference recently, incorporates advanced Web technologies, exploits dual core processor technology and may even be as fast as some of its rivals. “Today Microsoft allowed developers to take their first look at Internet Explorer 9 by releasing […]

Small Business Trends: Why Your Small Biz Needs A Web Presence – The Evidence Mounts New survey data suggests customers go online to find out about local businesses that can serve their needs. So even if you’re tightly focused on your town or city, you need to be there. “Still not sold on why your […]

InformationWeek SMB: Microsoft To Launch App Store For Windows Phone 7 Microsoft may be the forgotten man in the war of the mobiles, but don’t count it out just yet. Gates & Co. show signs they will fight their way back into contention – by mimicing more successful competitors, Google and Apple. “Taking a page […]

PCWorld: A Better Way To Copy And Move In Windows New TeraCopy Home adds useful features such as being able to pause a copy task to perform another disk-intensive process. “When last I visited TeraCopy (the Pro version) I loved its features, but I discovered that version was not 100% stable. For a task as […]

PCWorld: Free Security Software For SMBs The company, Wep Solutions, is giving away the open source software in hopes of attracting customers to its support services. “Wep Solutions, an Indian security software and services startup, is offering its unified threat management appliance software free to small businesses around the world. Taking a cue from India’s […]

ITBusinessEdge: The Key To Successful Password Management – Training Employees SMB Tech columnist Paul Mah reviews basics of password management and suggests ways to help employees understand why they’re important. “At IT Business Edge, we are always cognizant of how important proper training is for small and medium-sized businesses. This is especially true when it […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): New IT Management And Offline Backup Services For Google Apps The new LTech offerings provide enterprise-grade IT management and security features and offline backup of Google Docs to local drives or Amazon S3. “The first, LTech Power Panel, offers advanced IT management and end-user features for Google Apps. It’s a suite of […]

IDC: Pay-per-use Software Pricing – Pressure Is On SaaS Vendors IDC says SaaS vendors are going to have to introduce more flexible pay-per-use pricing to meet the needs of customers flocking to the cloud computing model. “While customer interest in pay-per-use (PPU) pricing is not a new phenomenon, the expansion of software as a service […]