Small Business Computing Staff

InformationWeek: Salesforce Puts Process Development In Cloud If your small biz relies on Salesforce.com’s software as a service CRM system, you can use new wizard-based tools online to build custom business processes. ”Salesforce technologists have put Salesforce.com applications in the cloud. Now they think it should be possible to build business processes based on that […]

PCWorld: MacSpeech Scribe Transcribes Your Voice Recordings New speech recognition software for the Mac can transcribe your spoken words with amazingly high accuracy – if you can believe the maker. ”If you love talking to yourself, hate typing, or both, I have some good news: the new MacSpeech Scribe software can now transcribe your recorded […]

ZDNet All About Microsoft: Microsoft halts Windows Update distribution of security fix after blue-screen reports Some users are reporting problems with one of the updates in Microsoft’s Tuesday patch – automatically uploaded to many people’s computers. If you’re one, now you know what’s going on. “Microsoft has removed one group of patches it released as […]

Small Business Trends: Business Twitterers I Admire & Learn From Small Business Trends blogger Lisa Barone reviews a clutch of business tweeters on whom, she says, SMB wannabes should model themselves. “A few weeks ago I was struggling for a blog post and Anita suggested that I share some of my favorite business Twitter people. […]

PCMag@Work (Small Business): ThinkPad T410 – Best User Experience in the Business PCMag’s laptop guru likes almost everything about this powerful addition to the Lenovo ThinkPad line-up. But, oops, price is a steep $1,484. (Includes link to full hands-on review.) “Cisco Cheng, PCMag laptop analyst, put the new Lenovo ThinkPad T410 through our battery of […]

InformationWeek SMB: Mac Office 2011 Unveiled The new version, available ‘later this year’ and seen by some as a sign Microsoft is burying the hatchet with Apple, also provides a direct link to Microsoft’s cloud-based edition of the productivity suite. “Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off its forthcoming Office for Mac 2011 desktop suite. […]

Small Business Labs: What I Learned From the Using Facebook to Grow Your Business Webinar Blog post about a recent webinar on SMBs using Facebook suggests among other things that many small businesses are using a Facebook page as their only Web site. Is this a viable option for your small biz. (Includes link to […]

PCWorld: iPhone and Android Market Share on the Rise With Google Android and iPhone both making significant inroads on the smartphone leaders – BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm – SMBs face a trickier decision if they want to back a winner. “New statistics from comScore show that Apple and Google are both gaining ground in […]

Thanks to falling prices, you don’t have to be black and white when it comes to small business printers. Color laser printers are more affordable than ever, and HardwareCentral.com‘s guide has everything you need to know to make a smart buy. If you’ve decided to buy a color laser printer, you’ve probably already weighed the […]

Macworld.com: How to Unclutter Your Hard Drive Useful tips for getting rid of all the no-longer-needed files clogging your hard drive (‘cruft’) – where to find them, how to identify them, how to zap them. As you use your Mac, it tends to accumulate lots of files–not just the ones you create and interact with, […]

AllBusiness: Keeping In Touch On The Road – LinkedIn Goes Mobile Social networking sites are all very well, but SMBs are more likely to rely on LinkedIn to find and keep in touch with business colleagues. Now they can use it on a mobile phone. “While all the focus has been on social networking sites […]

CNet: Google Chrome Browser Gets Fixed A more stable and secure version of Chrome (downloadable from the linked article) gives SMBs another reason to check out Google’s up-and-coming and very fast browser. “The stable version of Google Chrome for Windows has been updated with three critical security fixes and an announcement that the first payouts […]