Small Business Computing Staff

PCWorld: Canon CanoScan LiDE200 “Canon’s CanoScan LiDE 200 scanner from is a compact, USB bus-powered flatbed scanner. About the size, shape and color of a 15-inch MacBook Pro, the silver and black LiDE features rounded edges and measures just under 10 inches wide, 14.4 inches deep and 1.6-inches thick. Offering 4800 dpi optical resolution and […]

PCMag@Work (Small Business): Cloudkick Rolls Out Server Management System “Cloudkick, a San Francisco-based business server management company, has exited beta status and is launching free and paid versions of its main service, according to GigaOM. The new service helps SMBs manage multiple servers from different providers, and runs in the cloud as opposed to being […]

PCWorld Business Center: Merging iPhone and Business? There is an App for That “A new app is available for the iPhone which could enable the popular smartphone to integrate smoothly with business networks. Array Networks has developed an iPhone app that enables business users to connect with its Desktop Direct appliance. While the iPhone has […]

Socialmediatoday (Rich’s Blog): Website analytics: most marketers still clueless? “To most marketers website analytics are the abyss and who can blame them. Too often website metric reports are a jumble of data that could mean most anything. In order to truly leverage website metrics the website dashboard should tell a story and clearly identify areas […]

InformationWeek SMB: Which One Of These SMB Personas Do You Most Resemble? “Meet Chris Green and Colin Wilcox. They’re typical IT folks working in small and midsize businesses. In fact, there’s only one thing that distinguishes them from any other IT worker: they don’t exist. Rather than actual people. Chris and Colin are “personas” created […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): What Does the Apple Tablet Mean for Business? “The short answer is, “Who knows?” But like all things Apple iSlatey, there are some clues to be had in what has come before as the iPhone went mainstream, as well as in what people want from their future iPad (or whatever it’ll be […]

PCWorld: How to Save on Microsoft Business Software “Many small businesses pay too much for Windows, Office, and other Microsoft products. They buy software off retail shelves or online, one-at-a-time, and miss significant discounts that are available to almost every company. If your company uses more than four Microsoft products, such as Project or Visio, […]

PCWorld: 10 Great Google Chrome Extensions “With Google releasing a stable version of Chrome that supports extensions, it’s a great time to install some of these enhancements for the Web browser. Google says there are now 1500 extensions to choose from, which you can find can find and install here. To get you started, here […]

IT-Director.com: Where are you? Geolocation adds excitement to e-tail “The key elements of the recent holiday season—food and presents—and much else can be bought over the internet and, if physical goods are involved, be delivered to the door a few days later. This is taken for granted by more and more of us. It’s so […]

InformationWeek SMB: How To “Facebook” Your SMB “While networking sites for businesses exist, such as Linked In and Ideamarketers, the biggest available free market still belong to consumer social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. MySpace has launched numerous small music companies into the mainstream by offering free samples, and hundreds of start-up Web companies […]

ITBuisinessEdge: The Scourge of Rogue Security Software “In a recent guest post on ITBusinessEdge.com, Marc Fossi, who is the Manager for Research and Development at Symantec, warned of the dangers of rogue security software. Rogue security software is a name given to a class of fake security software that masquerades the real deal. It typically […]

PC Magazine: Vidyo Unveils Core i7 Video Conferencing System “Vidyo has unveiled the VidyoRoom HD-220, a telepresence room system based on Intel’s new Core i7 platform. The $6,995 HD-220 supports two 1080p video streams at 30 frames per second with dual monitor support, or dual-screen 720p at 60 frames per second. The company said its […]