Small Business Computing Staff

SMB News from Network World: Apple patches critical flaws in iPhone, iPod Touch “Apple today patched five vulnerabilities in the iPhone’s operating system, including one in a password-locking feature that’s required attention before. iPhone OS 3.1.3 , the first update since September 2009, addressed five bugs, three of which were tagged with the phrase ‘arbitrary […]

Entrepreneur: “Bryan and I have personally consulted with hundreds of people about their marketing projects, and have been inside literally hundreds of Google AdWords accounts. The following questions are a few of the most important and the most common ones we get. Q: Why aren’t my ads showing? First, did you trust Google’s Traffic Estimator […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: CRM: Should You Host It Or Bring It In-House “Many sales teams use customer relationship management (CRM) software to keep track of all their customer information, create a consistent sales process, track goal progress and forecast sales for an allotted period of time. If you’re considering CRM software, one of the crucial decisions you […]

PCWorld Business Center: Netgear Announces ProSecure UTM For 5-User SMB Networks “Small businesses looking to beef up their network security will be glad to see that Netgear has announced the release of the ProSecure UTM5, a scaled-down version of its existing ProSecure UTM (Unified Threat Management) product lineup priced for 5-user networks. UTM appliances have […]

ZDNet All About Microsoft: Microsoft to target SMB users with new ‘BPOS Lite’ cloud service “As part of its next wave of cloud offerings, Microsoft is working on a ‘BPOS Lite’ productivity/collaboration suite that is aimed at small/mid-size businesses (SMBs). Even though Microsoft currently hawks its hosted services to customers of any size, different offerings […]

Today@PCWorld: Running Windows 7 RC? Prepare for Shutdowns “If you’re running Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), the end is near. Starting Feb. 15, people using Windows 7 RC, the free pre-release version of Microsoft’s latest PC operating system, will receive a notification that their trial software is about to expire, according to a post today […]

PCWorld: Report: Google to Open App Store for Business Software “Google may open as early as March an online store to sell third-party software that complements its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Google would let customers purchase the software from its store and charge the third-party […]

InformationWeek SMB: Should SMBs Upgrade To Office 2010? “A pair of Forrester Reports offer insight into what Microsoft Office 2010 offers for small and midsize companies, and whether companies should provide the same productivity tools to all their workers. For me, though, the operative question is whether everyone in your company needs the same productivity […]

SocialMediaToday: Optimizing Your Pay-per-Click (PPC) Campaign – Part 1 “If you run a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign then you need to constantly optimize it’s performance. You’re paying for clicks so you can’t afford to begin a campaign and let it run without keeping a very close eye on its performance. Just being satisfied with the traffic […]

PC Magazine: LTech Automates SharePoint-to-Google-Docs Migration “LTech, a cloud computing services company, has unveiled CloudMove, a tool that lets users migrate documents from Microsoft SharePoint to Google Docs. The app automates the transfer of large numbers of files via an easy-to-use, graphical interface. LTech CloudMove also offers detailed reporting and logging capabilities. It’s available immediately, […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Microsoft to Begin Charging for Azure Cloud Service “Microsoft will begin charging for its Windows Azure cloud service today, according to InformationWeek, after a month-long free public beta that let prospective customers get a feel for the service and an idea of what the charges would be. Microsoft is offering two basic […]

ITBusinessEdge: The State of Virtualization in SMBs “While the value proposition for virtualization in larger enterprises or data centers is clear and can be easily argued, the same is not necessarily true for small and medium businesses. In an earlier blog, I played the devil’s advocate to suggest that not all small and medium businesses […]