Small Business Computing Staff

PCWorld: What You’ll Pay For A Samsung Galaxy Tab If the Galaxy Tab is the tablet computer for your small business, how much will you have to pay? It depends on which wireless carrier you buy from and what kind of data plan, if any, you buy. PC World lays it all out in this […]

Wired: The Case For 4G – Broadband Internet Everywhere Wired magazine reviews the Clear 4G+ Mobile USB (Series S) dongle ($115 plus service plan) and makes the case for dropping conventional ISP service. By making broadband access available everywhere, 4G will change Internet access the way cell phones changed telephony, the author argues. “The concept […]

PCWorld: New Virtual Desktops & Video Collaboration Gear From Cisco Desktop virtualization and thin client computers like the new Cisco desktops give small businesses greater control over data and security by centralizing computing functions. The virtual desktops are priced under $500. “Cisco today announced two new virtual desktop devices, more efficient virtualization software and more […]

ITBusinessEdge: Hackers Get Easy Access To New Unpatched Zero-Day Exploit CVE-2010-3962 is a known Zero-Day exploit that hackers can use to take over your computer for various criminal purposes. What’s changed is that it’s now showing up in the Eleonore hacker toolkit, which means it’s much more readily available. “A new zero-day Internet Explorer (IE) […]

Small Business Trends: A Guide To Cloud Computing For Small Business Small Business Trends magazine offers a 16-point process for making decisions about whether, when and how to implement a cloud computing strategy. “Let’s start with defining cloud computing. Cloud computing can simply be defined as a computing model in which services (e.g. web based […]

PCWorld: Beware A New Trojan Threat This spying malware is difficult to stop once it infects a computer because it uses encrypted files. It can take data from your computer and automatically send it to a hacker. “Internet security specialist BitDefender has warned about the dangers of a new spying Trojan it describes as “a […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Location-based Services Added To Sprout Social Location-based services such as FourSquare and Gowalla have become a hot new part of the social media marketing trend so it makes sense that Sprout Social SRM (social relationship management) would add support for them to help small business users better time and tailor messages to […]

PCWorld: Understanding Your Tech Support Provider The article advises tech support providers on how to manage the customer and end user relationship, but also provides insight into what good tech support looks like. “There are two types of tech support professionals. There’s the one who, responding to a call for help, brusquely shoves the individual […]

PCWorld: Fabulous Free Software Tools For Small Businesses The tools are: Google Apps, DropBox, Microsoft Security Essentials, Ubuntu Linux and the Go-OO (Open Office) productivity suite. You may not want or need them all, but all are worth exploring. “These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Keep Your Software Up To Date Or You Will Be Hacked A discussion of the virus threat from PDF files and how you can protect your small business – with links to other articles and a video on the subject. “I recently opened a link that someone sent me from Facebook. Guess what? It […]

Entrepreneur: Choosing The Right Web Server For Your Small Business Site What do you need in a web host, how many sites will you maintain, what other web-related services do you need? These are some of the questions to ask when deciding which web host to choose. “Running a business online means that your business […]

Small Business Trends: How Small Businesses Can Cash In On The Social Deals Trend There are a number of types of social deal sites, some general, some product specific, some regional, some national or international. The author notes that most don’t require any upfront cost. “Doesn’t it seem like every week, a new social coupon […]