Small Business Computing Staff

Entrepreneur: Search Engine Optimization 101 – The Basics Lesley Spencer Pyle’s four basic SEO (search engine optimization) tips: building links from other sites, using but not overusing keywords, adding title tags and using keyword-rich anchor text. She explains what each means and how in broad strokes to go about it. “To increase your visibility and […]

Wired: First Look – New Samsung 10-inch Tablet Charlie Sorrel says the new Samsung tablet looks like a toy, but has a great screen with higher resolution than iPad, and it’s the first product to run a new version of Android designed especially for tablets. “BARCELONA — The expected deluge of tablets has started with […]

Small Business Trends: How To Convert Virtual Relationships Into Useful Ones Deborah Shane explains how she met some of her strongest business connections online and then how she built the relationships into something beneficial for both parties. “In my debut post earlier this month on Small Business Trends, “Why Networking in Person Still Matters,” so […]

New York Times: Hackers Are Starting To Go After Smartphones The smartphones you and your small business employees carry may be the next target for hackers looking for ‘bots’ to use in spamming and denial of service attacks. It’s time to start taking mobile security more seriously. “SINGAPORE — In September, a virus began infecting […]

Open Forum: The Formula For Small Business Social Media Marketing Success The formula is simple to state – you have to have an opinion about issues in your business but also something singular to say about them – but is almost always present in successful social media marketing, Lena West says. “For years we’ve heard, […]

ITBusinessEdge: Setting Small Business IT Priorities Paul Mah’s suggestions for where SMBs should be expending their IT effort to ensure they’re making optimal use of the latest technology include reviewing backup processes, reviewing security precautions, figuring out how to exploit the cloud and developing an up-to-date business continuity plan. “The constantly evolving technological landscape means […]

PCWorld: Review – HP Pavilion p6720f Desktop PC The p6720f comes with a 2.9GHz quadcore processor from AMD but no graphics card, which means it doesn’t work well or at all for gaming. This may be a good thing in a business computer, though. “HP is rather generous with hard drive space and RAM in […]

Small Business Trends: Overcoming Google AdWords Complexity Google AdWords started off being simple enough for anyone to use, Robert Brady says, but steadily added new features until it’s very complicated. But it’s possible to keep it simple and still succeed, he says. “Remember when Google AdWords was easy? Remember when all you needed was five […]

PCWorld: Preview – Internet Explorer 9 ‘Release Candidate’ Nick Mediati says the release candidate, the final pre-shipping version, isn’t dramatically different from the last beta version, but he does note some small improvements. “The first release candidate for Internet Explorer 9 is here, five months after IE9 first went into public beta. IE9 is Microsoft’s […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Thinking About Switching Cell Phone Carriers? Smallbiztechnology.com offers a handful of tips on smoothly managing the process of switching cell phone companies, including hanging on to your old phone until you’ve ported your old number over to the new one and keeping the contacts on your old phone for easier transfer to the new. […]

Small Business Trends: Roundup – The Wired & Mobile Entrepreneur Articles range widely from how to set up a small business wireless office network to how to launch a product online to marketing to mobile consumers. “The future, even the present, of small business is wired and mobile. Online digital technology has transformed not just […]

Open Forum: When To Outsource Small Business Website Features Jacob Gube cites 5 website features – ecommerce management, analytics, forums, site search and forms – and discusses who should outsource them and when and lists likely service providers for each. “The term “offload” or “offloading” in information technology and computer science refers to the transfer […]