Small Business Computing Staff

When Shakespeare spoke of a “tangled Web,” he easily could have been talking about today’s Internet, an electronic jungle that’s filled with viruses, worms, hackers and Trojan horses. Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition (NIS AS) is a worthy product that identifies and catches such threats. Aside from its spyware and adware detection and […]

TRUSTe, a non-profit online privacy group, issued its first set of data security guidelines Monday to assist companies — small and large — evaluate new or existing policies for protecting consumer and employee personally identifiable information. These guidelines are available as a resource for companies that hold TRUSTe’s Web and other members of the public. […]

Yahoo recently announced a new feature on YahooLocal that provides free Web sites for small businesses — with some limitations. This service lets small businesses quickly and easily establish an online presence and connect with the increasing number of consumers using the Internet to find local products and services. The free package includes a customizable […]

We no longer wear bellbottoms and the front half’s fallen out of our mullet, but we still appreciate retro chic. Kudos, then, to Dell for making a real oldie-but-goodie fashion statement: a desktop PC that you can place under your monitor. Remember those? To be sure, you can position the new OptiPlex GX280 vertically as […]

After months of testing and tweaking Google formally launched its desktop search tool in order to help users find a variety of information on their PCs. The move opens a new front in the search wars, in which Google and deep-pocketed players like Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves have designs on users’ desktops. Google Desktop […]

It’s a busy time of year for small businesses. You’ve made it through the holiday craziness, it’s the beginning of a new year and new business plans, and you need to get ready for the looming tax season. That said, we still urge you to take a few minutes to think about the past year […]

Search engines are the key to finding specific information on the vast expanse of the World Wide Web. Without the use of sophisticated search engines, it would be virtually impossible to locate anything on the Web without knowing a specific URL, especially as the Internet grows exponentially every day. But do you know how search […]

Whether it’s to transact sales or generate leads, small businesses are relying on their Web sites more than ever, according to a survey of 530 small business owners conducted by hosting and e-commerce services provider Interland. The Fall 2004 Business Barometer of Online Activities was conducted during October and solicited opinions from a national sample […]

It’s a busy time of year for small businesses. You have the annual holiday craziness, the beginning of a new year and new businss plans, and you need to get ready for the looming tax season. That said, we still urge you to take a few minutes to think about the past year and what […]

Fraudsters may be licking their chops over nefarious plots to scam online holiday shoppers, but good old common sense can be an effective security shield against their ploys, researchers say. For starters, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, said Andrew H. Te, CEO of PowWeb, a hosting company for small […]

Cookies are messages that a Web server transmits to a Web browser so that the Web server can keep track of the user’s activity on a specific Web site. The message that the Web server conveys to the browser is in the form of an HTTP header that consists of a text-only string. The text […]