Small Business Computing Staff

The New York Times: E-Mail Saves Time, but Being There Says More “Emoticons are ‘intended to represent a facial expression and to convey the sort of emotion that plain text does not,’ it says in the Webster’s online entry about those typographical symbols that turn up in e-mail messages. Emoticons may work in personal communications. […]

PCWorld: Google Updates Chrome with Extensions, APIs “Google’s release Monday of a “stable channel” update of the Google Chrome browser for Windows features HTML and JavaScript APIs as well as browser extensions, according to company blogs. The company defines its stable channel as one that offers features and fixes that have been thoroughly tested in […]

CIO.com: 5 Real-Time Options to Google and Bing “When search engine giants Microsoft Bing and Google announced their moves into the real-time search arena late last year, they joined a number of small startups racing to position themselves ahead of their competitors. Unlike traditional search engines, real-time search sites index updates from social communities such […]

PCWorld: Lenovo ThinkPad Edge If you’re a fan of Lenovo’s ThinkPad line, you’re used to a boring industrial design that looks like it’s stuck in 2002, but are willing to put up with it because ThinkPads are so rugged and just plain usable. The new ThinkPad Edge marks the first really significant change to the […]

Entrepreneur: Harness the Benefits of the Real-Time Web There has been much written about real-time web startups to highlight the multitude of companies and energy that have entered the space. In addition, there has been much talk in regards to the real-time web tools that are available for web developers. Here’s an overview of the […]

Socialmediatoday: Five Ways Social Media Will Generate More Leads First, I dislike the kind of headlines like the one above. It’s called the Reason Why Headline and it is one of the most effective at getting the reader’s attention. I dislike it because it proliferates across the web making thousands of websites look the same, […]

InformationWeek: How 802.11n Will Revolutionize Connectivity If you aren’t replacing wired Ethernet with WLAN access for at least some employees, now is the time. The 11n protocol brings better performance, and we’re seeing security and management advances too. Don’t believe us? Nearly 800 survey respondents can’t be wrong. Eleven drafts and 73 months. That’s what […]

PCWorld: Windows 7 Security: What You Need to Know, Part Three Malicious Trojans continue to plague end-users’ desktops, yet most machines aren’t exploited due to missing patches (although this is the second biggest cause), unpatched zero days (almost never a factor), drive-by downloads, or misconfigurations. Nope, most systems are infected because users are duped into […]

PCWorld: Apple Tablet an Ideal Business Tool The clock is winding down to the big reveal on Wednesday at Apple’s major press event. It could be an iSlate, or an iSlab, or an iTablet, or perhaps even an iPod Tablet Edition. There are almost as many potential names for the mythic device that may not […]

SMB news from Network World: Group test – what’s the best smartphone? There are many variables you might consider when comparing smartphones. How it looks, its price, the operator it’s available from, whether there’s a touchscreen or qwerty keyboard, the quality of the camera, the web browser it uses and how good it is for […]

Smallbiztechnology: 10 Awesome Tips (with Tech) From SCORE For Business Growth SCORE, America’s premier organization providing FREE counselors to growing businesses offered 10 practical tips to help you grow your business. All 10 points can get a boost by using technology. I’ve added the technology dimension, resource to each tech tip. 1. Grow your customer base. […]

InformationWeek SMB: Microsoft Releases Critical Internet Explorer Patch Microsoft on Thursday released an out-of-band patch, MS10-002, to address eight vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, a move prompted by the revelation last week that a series of cyber attacks from China on Google and some 33 other companies relied on a flaw in Microsoft’s browser. The eight […]