Small Business Computing Staff

IDC: Global PC Market Leaps Back To Double-Digit Growth in the Fourth Quarter, Led by a Record Quarter in the U.S. Led by a holiday season featuring price cuts of unprecedented duration, the U.S. PC market established a new record of nearly 20.7 million units shipped in the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q09), resulting in […]

Wall Street Journal Personal Technology: Digital File Cabinet You Can Bring With You Anywhere What if you could collect, in one well-organized, searchable, private digital repository, all the notes you create, clips from Web pages and emails you want to recall, dictated audio memos, photos, key documents, and more? And what if that repository was […]

ITBusinessEdge SMB Tech: Evaluate Technologies with Remote Access in Mind New research from collaboration firm oneDrum says that many workers find themselves unable to work from home despite the fact that they are willing to do so. The survey quizzed 606 employees and 610 employers in November 2009 and was conducted in the United Kingdom […]

ZDNet – Smartphones and Cell phones: Truphone Local Anywhere SIM and services makes every call local On previous trips to Europe I have used Truphone to make calls on my Nokia devices. Over the last couple of years Truphone has rolled out mobile VoIP clients for various smartphone operating systems and today they announced (PDF […]

PCWorld: How to Keep Your Browser from Hogging Resources I’ve finally had it! I’ve lived with this problem for so long now that I started to believe it always existed and nothing could be done. My system, a dual-core, 4GB monster of a machine, slows down to a crawl. I bring up the Windows Task […]

SocialMediaToday: Integrate Social Media with Traditional Advertising for higher returns I don’t know about you, but I don’t know anyone that lives their life entirely online. Each day we’re all exposed to a variety of media and marketing messages. So why do some marketers feel that they have to choose between online and traditional advertising? […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Tech Tid Bits – Desktop Postage, Cloud Plus Local Storage, Attracting New Customers, 5 Ways to Use Twitter Avery Dennison Office Products and Stamps.com unveiled the Desktop Postal Center as part of Avery’s Mailing Center service, a comprehensive set of tools and services for mailing and shipping needs. Together the Avery Dennison and Stamps.com […]

InformationWeek SMB: The 17 Essential iPhone Apps For SMBs “There’s an app for that.” As a marketing phrase, it hasn’t quite reached the saturation (or annoyance) level yet of “Think Different” or “I’m a Mac.” But even though it might sound like an empty slogan, the fact is that when it comes to many common […]

ITBusinessEdge: SMB Tech – Google Hack: Security a Reality SMBs Can No Longer Ignore You’ve read the news that saw search giant Google making the highly unusual move of announcing that it was a victim of an attack against its corporate network, and that intellectual property has allegedly been stolen. Of particular note is how […]

PCWorld: Apple Tablet Won’t Mean Business Attention Apple fan-boys and -girls: Read no further. But if you run a small business and want to avoid wasting money and brain cells on superfluous technology, forget about the iSlate or whatever Apple is going to call its tablet computing device. It’s going to be too expensive, it […]

PCMag@Work (Small Business): Asus Eee PC Netbooks Bundle Boingo Software for Wi-Fi If you’re on the market for a netbook you probably want two things: portability and extensive connectivity. Rather than pay for an overpriced 3G package, even if it’s built in, you can stick with Wi-Fi. The hard part can be finding it. So […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Google’s Lack of Support and How it Affects Your Business Google’s Nexus One has been launched with a LOT of interest by just about everyone. Many people have been using Google’s operating system for months, on Motorola Droid (Verizon Wireless) and T-Mobile (HTC) phones, however, this is the first Google offered phone and one […]