Small Business Computing Staff

Laurie McCabe’s Blog: SMB Tech Trends For 2011 Laurie McCabe’s list of top ten SMB tech trends for 2011 includes some you may have already spotted – mobile commerce lift-off, cloud computing going mainstream – and some others you may not have, such as “the insight economy.” “Presented by Laurie McCabe on January 18, 2011 […]

Engadget: Preview – New HP EliteBook & ProBook Laptops There’s a notebook model for every small business user among the ten new products from HP. Screen sizes range from 13.3 to 17 inches, and the selection of processors available from i3 to i7. “Two weeks ago “consumers” got totally redesigned HP Pavilion dv and g-series […]

Small Business Trends: Is A Facebook Brand Page Right For Your Small Business? Lisa Barone lists four reasons small businesses might want to think twice about creating a Facebook brand page, including the time and effort required to maintain it and the possibility that your audience isn’t actually on Facebook. “Last week on SmallBizTrends we […]

PCWorld: Review – Xerox Phaser 6500DN Color Laser Printer We’re not quite sure why this $500 color laser printer with two-sided printing merited even three stars since PC World says print speed is below average and there are some issues with print quality as well. “Xerox’s Phaser 6500DN color laser printer for small and medium-size […]

Small Business Trends: How To Shop For Small Business Technology Some of the questions Jamillah Warner suggests you ask about small business technology purchases: what are the long term costs, what are the benefits of paying by the month for a service versus buying a system, how good is the customer support? “Whether a technology […]

ITBusinessEdge: It’s Time To Re-evaluate Your SMB Backup Strategy There are more backup options today for SMBs besides tape, such as online and network attached storage. What should your SMB do? “Advancements in technology mean that new deployment options might become available or that previously impractical strategies become viable over time. As such, it only […]

Open Forum: Small Business SEO: Beyond Google Recent research from Experian Hitwise shows that Bing searches resulted in a significantly higher click-through rate than Google. What does this mean to small business marketers. Susan Kuchinskas explains. “Experian Hitwise issued a report on the new alliance between Bing and Yahoo that caught our attention. Here’s what […]

Small Business Trends: iPhone & iPad Apps For Small Businesses Shara Karasic organizes her choices for best small business iPhone & iPad apps into categories such as travel for business, communications and collaboration, mobile payment processing and expense tracking. “Since I listed 10 great small business apps in 2010, the use of iPhones and iPads […]

Open Forum: Small Business Apps For BlackBerry Lovers There may be fewer apps available for BlackBerry compared to iPhone, but BlackBerry is still the first choice in smartphones for business users. Mashable’s Zachary Sniderman rounds up five excellent free business apps. “BlackBerry is the workhorse of the mobile family, which is a blessing and a […]

Open Forum: How To Create A Successful eBay Storefront Mashable’s Sarah Kessler includes tips such as starting by asking yourself if eBay is right for your business, starting slowly, paying careful attention to customer service and creating effective product listings. “If the Internet has a quaint pastime, selling things on eBay is probably it. Before […]

PCWorld: Review – HP Compaq 6000 Pro All-In-One PC With a 21.5-inch display, a 3GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, this all-in-one scored at the top of the Budget All-in-One category on performance. “All-in-One desktops generally have a tough time fitting into the Business realm. While convenient space-savers, they’re generally pricier […]

Online Accounting Degree: The 50 Top Blogs For Small Businesses The top 50 includes most of the blogs we follow in this space, plus many others. Conspicuous by its absence: Small Business Computing (this publication). But we’ll try to forgive the list’s compilers. “Opening a small business in any place and any time can be […]