Small Business Computing Staff

PCWorld: 2Do for IPhone I think I’m in love. 2Do for iPhone is an incredible to-do list app for iPhone. With its jam-packed but cleverly-designed offering, 2Do is the most feature-rich task management software I’ve encountered on the iPhone, and I’ve tried quite a few. Offered by Guided Ways Technologies, 2Do’s main interface is broken […]

Social Media Today: Why Businesses Should Think Twice Before Investing Money or Time in a Facebook Page “Not to be all “what if”–but the more integral to companies’ social media efforts Facebook becomes, the more leery I am about the idea of putting business eggs in a basket over which one has no control. Twitter […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Cloud Computing, Wireless Makes Now Right Time for iPad in Business “Apple may have energized the tablet market at the right time. Tablets have always had marginal success. Two hot technology trends make now the time for tablet success especially in business: ubiquitous Wi-Fi and cloud computing. Advances in Wi-Fi have made […]

SMB News from Network World: Top Tech Support Survival Tips “Your PC, Internet connection, and cell phone may save you tremendous amounts of time, but it’s easy to forget that when you’re spending hours on the line with tech support. Here’s how you can streamline the tech support process and make sure you get the […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): New AccountEdge Software Shipping for Windows, Mac “Last month, Acclivity Software announced the release of the Macintosh version of its AccountEdge 201 software for SMB accounting; this month the Windows version is available. It comes not only with a redesign of the old MYOB software it replaces, it can be customized for […]

ITBusinessEdge: The Anatomy of a Cyber Attack, Part 1 “Earlier this week, I wrote about a Forrester study that found that SMBs intend to increase spending on network security. I took it as a positive sign that small and medium businesses are becoming aware of the need to protect their business against cyber attacks. As […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Google Apps Admins Can Control Policy Enforcement on Phones “Policy enforcement lets big businesses make sure systems that connect to the corporate network are allowed and behaving themselves. But what happens when that data is all in the cloud, like for companies that are using Google Apps? Google began to address this […]

ZDNet White Papers: Mainsoft – Driving SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Enterprises “Many organizations are investing strategically in Microsoft SharePoint to deliver more efficient documentation collaboration and project management capabilities. However, less than sixty percent of end-users with access to SharePoint are active users, according to an InfoTrends study1. Mainstream users are hesitant to adopt […]

PCWorld: Fake Microsoft Outlook Update Installs Trojan “A malicious spam campaign caught by Panda Labs is using a fake Microsoft Update notice to trick victims into installing a Trojan. While well crafted, the attack still provides dead giveaways. The e-mail, which Panda posts with a screen shot, is spoofed to look as if it comes […]

PCmag.com: Why Chrome Will be Your Next Browser “Google Chrome’s market share numbers are skyrocketing, blowing past Safari and Opera to become the number three most-widely-used Web browser. That’s pretty impressive, and I don’t think it’s going to stop there. I fully expect it to overtake Firefox and challenge, if not beat, Microsoft Internet Explorer […]

Inc. – Business Bytes: Batteries On The Bum And Windows 7 “Microsoft announced this week that it is formerly launching an investigation into complaints that Windows 7 is adversely affecting laptop batteries in a variety of ways. Oy! So let me count the ways (i.e. types of complaints): – Some batteries are dying sooner than […]

Wall Street Journal: Two Little Laptops With a Lot to Offer Their Core Users “For all the talk about new tablet computers like Apple’s iPad, laptops remain the computer industry’s bread and butter, and smaller laptops are especially popular with consumers. So, I’ve been testing two diminutive laptops, both with 11-inch screens, that show how […]