Small Business Computing Staff

PCWorld: Apple iPad Falls Short of Netbooks, Critics Say “Despite the introduction of the iPad and the harsh words of Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, netbooks will continue to thrive, say analysts and commentators, who cite the tablet’s missing features and relatively high price. During the launch today, Jobs called netbooks to create a third […]

Small Business Labs: What is Foursquare & Why is it Getting So Much Hype? “Foursquare is the leader in a new generation of ‘find a friend’ applications. According to their website, Foursquare ‘s a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things.’ To use Foursquare you […]

PCWorld: It’s Official: Jobs Announces Apple’s iPad “Apple on Wednesday launched its much-awaited iPad tablet device, a handheld that will allow users to view movies, surf the Internet and play high-definition games. ‘We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical and revolutionary product,’ Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, after taking the stage […]

ABI Research: e-Waste Recovery and Recycling “Discarded electronic products and components – or e-waste, as they are collectively known – can represent either a major environmental dilemma or a massive potential economic windfall. If treated properly, much e-waste may be reclaimed or recycled for future use and converted into a significant new revenue stream. Improperly […]

Forrester Research: IT Security Spending To Increase In 2010 “Cambridge, Mass., January 25, 2010 . . . According to a pair of new reports by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR), approximately 40 percent of businesses will significantly increase their spending on new IT security technologies in 2010. Forty-two percent of enterprises expect to increase IT […]

Spiceworks Voice of IT: New Survey Finds Smaller Businesses Accelerating Windows 7 Adoption Plans “AUSTIN, Texas – January 20, 2010 – Small and medium businesses are accelerating plans to migrate to Windows 7 following the operating system’s October 22, 2009 launch, according to a new report by Spiceworks[TM], Inc. This and other findings were uncovered […]

SwitchFast Blog – The Future of IT: IT Spending to Increase in 2010 “According to several research firms, such as Forrester and CompTIA, IT spending is expected to rebound over the course of 2010. Although exact figures vary from source to source, most estimates predict U.S. spending to rise about 6%, and global spending to […]

PCWorld: Search Engine Usage Soared in 2009 “More than 131 billion searches were made by people age 15 or older in December 2009, marking a 46 percent increase from 2008, according to a report from Web analytics firm Comscore. That breaks down into 4 billion searches per day, 175 million per hour, and 29 million […]

Network World: Google’s Android will surge in mobile OS wars, IDC says “Google Inc.’s Android software will be the fastest growing operating system betweeen now and 2013, when it will become the second most popular mobile OS, according to IDC. The IDC projection nearly mirrors recent findings by Gartner Inc., which predicted that the Android […]

PCWorld: Laptop Prize Fight “Portability is crucial to a netbook. Small and light with super battery life, netbooks are meant to get you online when you’re on the go. Most have one of Intel’s Atom CPUs, which are more energy-efficient but far less powerful than the processors that larger laptops use. This is fine for […]

Switchfast Blog – The Future of IT: Will 2010 Bring “Hybrid Clouds”? “With the battle between on-premise and off-premise infrastructures raging on, many companies have chosen a side and dug in. However, as cloud computing becomes the more popular trend, traditional private resources may have to give in to some sort of off-premise framework. Given […]

PCWorld: Google Voice Arrives on the iPhone “Apple may still officially be “pondering” whether it should approve Google’s Google Voice app for iPhone, but there’s finally good news: Google has released an entirely Web-based version of the service (at m .google.com/voice). It works on the iPhone as well as Palm’s Pre and Pixi handsets, and […]