Small Business Computing Staff

Small Business Trends: Bug Labs 2.0 and the State of Open Source Hardware A post commenting on the latest release of modular open source hardware products from Bug Labs, a pioneer in a movement that got off to a slow start but still holds promise. “Bug Labs is an open source hardware company that produces […]

The New York Times: These Battle Lines Are Drawn in Yellow The NYT profiles small businesses using Google enhanced ads as an alternative to bidding high for ad words. “JASON COWIE, the owner of Kingpinz Skateboard and Snowboard Shop in Houston, has done a pretty good job of getting his business noticed on the Web. […]

PCWorld: Sony Ericsson Shrinks Android With Two New Smartphones Two more new touchscreen phones from Sony swell the ranks of smartphones running Google’s Android mobile operating system. “Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications expanded its line of smartphones based on Google’s Android software platform on Sunday, adding two new touchscreen models: the Xperia X10 mini and mini […]

Entrepreneur: Turn Your Car Into Your Computer Who needs an office when you can turn your car into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot? “Not that anyone needs more proof that we’ve left the 20th Century in the dust, but our cars are becoming indistinguishable from our laptops. Texting and driving still ranks as a stupid strategy, […]

PCWorld: Samsung Wave Makes a Splash at Mobile World Congress Samsung introduces the first phones using its own Bada mobile operating system. PCWorld is impressed, but is it just one choice too many for beleaguered small biz buyers? “When Samsung announced that it was developing its own mobile operating system, one question came to mind: […]

PCWorld: PDF Conversion For Mac Small Businesses Converting PDFs to proprietary formats such as Office can be tricky. A new product shown at MacWorld solves the problems. “PDF (Portable Document Format) files are used to maintain the look and layout of documents, regardless of the program, operating system, or machine that originally created them–a universal […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Kerio Connects Small Businesses Across Multiple Offices If you have multiple offices with stand-alone mail servers but want them to look and act like one big mail system, Kerio Connect7 is worth a look. “Earlier this week Kerio unveiled Kerio Connect 7. Previously known as Kerio MailServer, the new Connect 7 is […]

Entrepreneur: Get a Grasp on Google’s Content Network Using Google’s Content Network rather than just the keyword search engine can make it easier to ensure your ad gets seen, where you want it to be seen. “Google is now the largest advertising network in the world. Want to sell Frisbees in South Africa or upholstering […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Web Site Creation Tools: What New Businesses Should Use Facebook and Blogs are possibilities, but this post suggests more full-featured tools, including OfficeLive and Jimbo. “Creating web sites is NOT hard at all. When you hire a good web designer to make one for you. Of course many of you are simply using WordPress […]

ITBusinessEdge: Microsoft – SMBs Using Hosted Services Do Better SMB Tech blogger Paul Mah dissects new research commissioned by Microsoft showing that many – but not quite – most hosted services users see a revenue increase. “Research from a new study commissioned by Microsoft has found a link between companies that use hosted services and […]

ITBusinessEdge: Forrester – SMB IT Security Spending to Increase SMB Tech blogger Paul Mah hammers home the point that, despite this encouraging data, many SMBs still do not do enough about data and network security. “A new Forrester report released last week says that a large number of SMBs plan to increase their spending on […]

ZDNet: Lenovo’s new C315 all-in-one PC begs the question: Who’s buying these things? All-in-ones like this one often aren’t very powerful. Does anybody actually buy them, ZDNet blogger Sean Portnoy wonders. ”Other than iMacs, I’m not sure that all-in-one PC designs are actually big sellers. Nonetheless, companies like HP and Dell keep cranking them out. […]