Small Business Computing Staff

By Joseph Moran 802.11planet.com With the proliferation of 802.11-based networking products over the past year or so, there is no question that the devices required to set up a wireless network are now generally plentiful and quite inexpensive. However, that’s not to say that all 802.11 products are created equal, because many products emerge from […]

By Martin Lindstrom Is co-branding hype, or can it forge a path to brand stardom? A McKinsey study saying co-branding ventures have grown over 40 percent indicates that co-branding is as much practice as it is theory. Do co-branded ventures really achieve the positive synergy participants seek? Or does only one brand end up the […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com NETGEAR announced the availability of its lowest price-per-port broadband VPN Firewall router. The FVS318 Cable/DSL ProSafe VPN Firewall router, which is priced at less than $150, promises eight 10/100 switch ports, 8 VPN tunnels, advanced security features and a smart wizard web utility that helps ease the configuration of […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com For budget-conscious customers, Dell expanded its value notebook family with the introduction of its Inspiron 2650. The new notebook features Intel’s Mobile Pentium 4-M processor combined with NVIDIA graphics and is priced starting at $1,299. According to the company, its Inspiron 2650 offers the performance needed for productivity applications, […]

By Seana Mulcahy The Internet is no longer a novelty and Americans are getting more serious about going online. The recent Pew Internet & American Life Project released the results of a survey it conducted of 1,501 people. “The Web is shifting from being the dazzling new thing to being a purposeful tool,” said Lee […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com ZyXEL announced its Prestige 652, which combines an ADSL modem/router with firewall and VPN capabilities, will be available for purchase in the U.S. market in mid May. According to the company, its Prestige 652 needs no additional firewall devices on the network or VPN software on the workstations to […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com Epson America unveiled its brightest portable/installable projector to date – the EPSON PowerLite 8200i. With a brightness rating of 3,500 ANSI lumens, XGA-native resolution (1,024 x 768) and a contrast ratio of 600:1, this projector promises to offer a level of image quality, flexibility and ease-of-use that meet the […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com U.S. Robotics, a provider of Internet access and connectivity products, announced its line of 22 megabits per second (Mbps) wireless access networking products, which promise to deliver a performance increase and backwards compatibility with popular 802.11b 11 Mbps products. The U.S. Robotics 22 Mbps Wireless Access PC Card, U.S. […]

By Jeffrey Graham In the last few weeks, an increasing number of video ads – often movie trailers – seem to be appearing on sites such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. They are almost impossible to ignore, usually appearing in big square boxes to the right of news articles. On […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com These days, CD burners are standard equipment on almost every new PC. But the immediate future lies in more powerful DVD burners that work with discs that can hold 4.7GB of data, and may be used for performing back-ups and storing movies that may be viewed through consumer DVD […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com Is there such a thing as the perfect hardware upgrade? The Maxtor Personal Storage 3000XT can add an impressive 160GB of storage space and it doesn’t ask you to open a computer, find and work with open bays, or even format a drive. The 3000XT isn’t perfect and will […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com Combining a compact, user controlled Pan/Tilt Zoom (PTZ) camera, with a network server, the all-in-one VB-C10 and the inverse-mounted version VB-C10R is designed to bring new capabilities to transmitting high-quality video over the Internet or LAN. Canon says that its new VB-C10 Network Camera will make it easy for […]