Small Business Computing Staff

Entrepreneur: iPad Will Change The Way You Do Business Allen Moon, director of mMarketing for the Internet Marketing Center, argues that the iPad will change the way a significant demographic consumes content online – and that will impact the way you do business, or should. “On April 3, Apple’s long-awaited tablet computer, iPad, hits the […]

PCWorld: Will Location-based Ads Become A Mobile Scourge? PCWorld’s “tech inciter” David Coursey looks at location-based mobile apps such as Foursquare and wonders what kind of impact they might have once they become ubiquitous. “Foursquare and other location-based applications are a great idea, but commercializing them may be a challenge. Key will be making them […]

PCWorld: Big Surprise – SMBs Migrate In Droves To Windows 7 A survey from Spiceworks’ “Voice of IT” says small business confidence in migrating to Windows 7 increased after the product’s launch. Is that a green light for Win7 in small businesses? “After Microsoft officially released Windows 7, interest in rapidly adopting the operating system […]

PCWorld: Google Adroid Gaining Ground On iPhone PCWorld quotes Quantcast numbers showing that while iPhone is way ahead, Android and BlackBerry have both made gains on Apple’s palmtop platform. “Apple, if they needed a reason to go after HTC, and by proxy Google, may have had it in marketshare numbers. Android’s growth has been pretty […]

SMB News From Network World: $125 Solid State Drive No Great Price Break-through Preview of a new $125 40GB solid state drive that Intel claims is more ‘affordable’ than earlier SSD products. But the author notes that the price per gigabyte is no lower and performance not as good. “On the heels of OCZ Technology […]

PCWorld: Beware Scareware – Promising Security, Delivering The Opposite According to McAfee, scareware is a multi-million-dollar business and more and more users are falling prey to purveyors of fake antivirus software that can actually steal information from buyers’ computers. “Fake antivirus programs that encourage Web users to part with their hard-earned cash and download hoax […]

PCWorld: Microsoft Patches – Making The Problem Worse? If you’ve recently installed patches and updates for Microsoft’s Office programs, you may now be experiencing new problems that will require you to uninstall the original patches and install new ones. “Microsoft confirmed today that a security update for its Excel spreadsheet had turned English text in […]

PCWorld: Government Helps Measure Broadband ISP Performance The new online service from the FCC measures download and upload speeds for desktop, laptop and some smartphone connections. The idea: test actual performance against ISP claims. “The Federal Communications Commission has begun to benchmark Internet service speeds across the United States to allow consumer to compare the […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Building Customer Loyalty Without Social Media A contrarian post suggesting that you don’t need Twitter and Facebook or even a Web site to build customer loyalty using the Internet. “With the noise of Facebook and Twitter constantly in our faces, some business owners might think that the only way to market to their customers […]

ITBusinessEdge: Tandberg Launches SMB Network Attached Storage Solution Tandberg DPS2000 NAS comes in either storage box or rack mount form factors and holds up to 8TB of storage. Disks and power supply hot swappable. Price (4TB): $2,290. “Tandberg Data recently launched the DPS2000 NAS series of disk-based storage appliance for small to medium-sized businesses. Though […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Online Expense Reporting For SMBs Available as a 30-day free trial and easy to set up, Breeze is priced at $8 per user per month. It’s available immediately in the U.S., later in other places. “Concur has launched Concur Breeze, an expense reporting service for SMBs available now in Google Apps Marketplace. […]

ABI Research: WiMAX Mobile Broadband Set For Growth Emergence of WiMAX add-on products for laptops from major vendors such as Sierra Wireless is a sure sign the technology is about to take off, an ABI blogger says. “Cellular modem vendors are typically the first companies to produce WWAN products based on the latest technologies. The […]