Small Business Computing Staff

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com ViewSonic Corporation announced that it will expand its current mobile and wireless product portfolio to include a Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC device that may be the first to break the $300 price barrier. The Pocket PC V35 will operate on the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 software platform and […]

By Rebecca Lieb Once a novelty, it’s become a convention that offline ads nearly always include the advertiser’s Web address. This is as true for primetime TV as it is for down-market podiatrists trolling for patients in the subway. Although the ubiquity of URLs in offline advertising demonstrates we’re making progress, the sophistication of the […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team), a division of Network Associates, assigned a medium risk assessment to the recently discovered W32/Bugbear@MM, also known as Bugbear. According to the organization, Bugbear is a destructive mass-mailing worm that spreads via network shares and by emailing itself to the user’s local address book. […]

By Eric Grevstad Sure, some Mac fans act like snobs who’d rather die of thirst waiting for Evian than drink domestic Poland Spring, but you have to give Apple credit: It knows style, and it’s willing to sacrifice for style. On first seeing Apple’s iMac, everyone marvels at its smoothly swiveling, tilting, height-adjustable LCD. We […]

By Seana Mulcahy Did you know the average consumer sees about 130 advertising messages a day? The consumer’s online time is typically about an hour per day. You do the math. Think of a Web site… any Web site. What do you see? Describe it. Although many of you are bound to offer different descriptions, […]

By Sharon Gaudin Giga Information Group is warning the millions of corporate users still running Microsoft Corp.’s Office 97 to upgrade before they get sidelined with security and technical flaws. “You’re putting yourself at risk by staying on Office 97,” says Ken Smiley, director of research at Giga, an industry analyst firm based in Cambridge, […]

By Jim Geier In the absence of adequate 802.11 security, quality of service, and roaming mechanisms, companies such as ReefEdge, Bluesocket, and Nomadix offer access control solutions to strengthen wireless LAN systems. The key component to these solutions is an access controller: hardware that resides on the wired portion of the network between the 802.11 […]

By Eric Grevstad What’s up with the blue products, anyway? Lately we’ve seen Blue from American Express, Pepsi Blue, and now Microsoft has introduced a new line of desktop fall fashions anchored by an Optical Mouse Blue and keyboards with what it calls “astral blue” accents. There’s also a wireless version of the mouse, although […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com CenDyne announced that it is shipping two new external DVD burners to major retailers in North America. According to the company, its new DVD burners give consumers a single product for recording any type of video, photography, music or data onto DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R and CD-RW media. The first […]

By Barry Stamos What’s stopping you from sending personalized, direct email communications to your entire universe of constituents today: prospects, customers, resellers, distributors, suppliers, investors, and employees? Worried about hitting bumps in the road? That road may not be as bumpy as you think. Debunking Email Marketing Misperceptions Misperception No. 1: The people we talk […]

By Steve Andriole Every once and while it’s therapeutic to step back and look at the forest. Then after you feel a little better, it’s fun to target some trees. Here are 10 things you can do to improve the relationship between business and technology. Some of them are a little draconian, some pretty obvious, […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com Nemx Software, a provider of anti-virus and secure content management products, announced a new version of Power Tools for Microsoft Exchange, and the launch of SecurExchange – Small Business Server (SBS) edition. Both products are geared to meet the growing need for email security protection at the server level […]