Small Business Computing Staff

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com Sony recently introduced its new X series of liquid-crystal displays, which includes the company’s first 20-inch SDM-X202 (20.1-inch viewable image size) flat panel. Sony also introduced a new Eco Mode for its X series displays that should allow users to reduce energy consumption up to 20 percent by adjusting […]

By Chris Maher A book entitled “The Ordinary Marketer” would be a tough sell. No one I know or you know wants to be ordinary. We live in an overstimulated age, one that borders on (and I borrow this word from medical research) excitotoxicity. Only the exceptional is enough and, even that, just barely. We […]

By Drew Robb Despite what Andre Agassi said in all those TV commercials, image isn’t everything. When it comes to running a Web site, performance and reliability are king. Without these two factors, your image never reaches the intended audience or, if it does, the image is at best one of incompetence and poor customer […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com EZQuest began shipping its 48x12x48 FireWire CD-RW drive for Macs and PCs. The newest addition to its line of fast, high-performance drives, the device has an MSRP of $219. According to the company, the new Boa drive can burn a 74-minute CD in 1.52 minutes (about 20% faster than […]

By Troy Dreier It’s almost a holiday for graphic and Web designers, the day a new version of Adobe Photoshop comes out. Long the default graphics-creation application, Photoshop has stayed ahead of competing apps by meeting the changing needs of designers and never settling for good enough. The new version, 7.0, provides some excellent tools […]

By Bryan Eisenberg You’re thinking of creating your email campaign. Of course you want to get that first email sent out. Hold on. You have some critical groundwork to tackle before you are ready to start speaking to your readers. With an understanding of the dynamics of conversion and the human dimension in hand, you […]

By Bob Woods When it comes to security issues in the enterprise, blame the messenger and not the communications channel – at least that’s what a majority of IT security pros say in a new study from Gartner Inc. for managed security-services provider Guardent Inc. Eighty percent of all network security managers who were surveyed […]

By Jim Geier When deploying wireless LANs, most people begin the project by jumping into technical matters, such as deciding upon which version of 802.11 to use, which vendor to select, and how to overcome the limitations of 802.11 security. These are important elements of implementing a wireless LAN; however prior to getting too far […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com The HP Digital Copier Printer 610 is a copier-printer solution that’ s designed for the small office/home office. The device promises to save work space with its compact desktop-size design and provide the same features and functionality of larger copier machines. According to the company, its HP Digital Copier […]

By Eric Grevstad Got new technology? Great; you can plug Micro Solutions Inc.’s new Backpack Triple Play CD-RW into a newfangled, high-speed USB 2.0 port. Prefer old school? No problem; you can plug the $229 drive into a laptop’s PC Card slot or a dusty Pentium desktop’s parallel printer port, even if you’re still running […]

By Mark Sakalosky Our company advises a variety of clients on email marketing matters. When we speak with prospects for the first time, we are often asked to enlighten them by revealing the “best” way to send email. The simple answer is: use personalization and customization as much and as frequently as possible to ensure […]

By Beth Cohen KLEZ_WORM, Denial of service, NIMDA, the web server system has been corrupted yet again. Will it ever end? The news is filled daily with horror stories about companies who have been crippled by virus attacks and network security breeches. Ever wonder why some are seemingly never affected by security attacks, while others […]