Small Business Computing Staff

Entrepreneur: Creating Your Own Online Marketing Forms Formstack helps small businesses create their own online forms for signing up customers, holding a contest, distributing a questionnaire. There are free and $30-a-month versions. “Selling online is a great way for your small businesses to boost sales — provided you don’t poison the relationship with all the […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Choosing The Right Tech Consultant For Your Small Business What to look for in a small business tech consultant? Do they have a service focus? What’s their technology expertise – beware jacks of all trades? Do they know your industry? And which products do they know? “Finding an IT consultant is not hard, there […]

PCWorld: How iOS 4.2 Makes iPad A Better Business Tool iOS 4.2 will let users organize apps into folders. Its unified email box will let them get messages from all their mail accounts in one place. And multitasking will let them work on more than one thing at a time. “Apple has released the final […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Small Biz Marketing Tools – Group Buying Vs. Local SE Advertising Smallbiztechnology.com quotes from and comments on a blog item from online coupon company 8Coupons, arguing that group buying is a better bet for small businesses than Google’s local search engine advertising service powered by Boost. “Google is adding more features to it’s Google […]

Engadget: Review – Dell XPS 14 Laptop Engadget’s reviewer was unimpressed by the “chunkiness” of the new Dell XPS design and complained about poor battery life, but still gave this high-performance (Intel i5 processor) 14-inch-screen laptop seven out of ten stars. “When Dell told us of its plans to revive its tried and true XPS […]

ITBusinessEdge: What Wi-Fi Direct Will Mean To SMBs Paul Mah raises the specter of security concerns and congestion in the Wi-Fi airwaves as a result of a new extension to the Wi-Fi standard that will enable eaiser on-the-fly wireless networking and direcet connection of perhipherals using Wi-Fi. “The first Wi-Fi Direct-certified products were unveiled recently […]

PCWorld: Review – Pogoplug Biz Private Cloud Storage Pogoplug was originally introduced as a home networking device for media sharing, but this new Biz model, priced at $299 (plus the cost of USB drive) provides a simple, inexpensive private cloud storage for small businesses. PC World gives it 4.5 out of 5 stars. “The standard […]

Laurie McCabe’s Blog: Top Tech Trends That Can Help Your Small Business Laurie McCabe’s top trends for small businesses to embrace include social media management, mobile commerce, SMB application marketplaces and on-demand business intelligence and analytics. “A couple of weeks ago, I was a presenter at Ramon Ray’s Small Business Technology Tour in Cambridge, MA. […]

PCWorld: How To Use Google Gmail Like A Pro Author Mitch Wagner highlights new features such as priority inbox and toggling conversation view, and reviews (and links to) add-in tools such as Rapportive which displays profile information about senders. “A long time ago, most people who used webmail were cybercafe-frequenting, patchouli-scented trustafarians backpacking through Europe. […]

Small Business Trends: Online Advertising 101 For Small Businesses Author Tyler Garns downplays the importanace of SEO, pay-per-click and social media and argues instead for advertising with online publications. Then he shows you how to go about it. “Most small businesses get stuck with their online lead generation in three areas: SEO – They understand […]

PCWorld: PowerPoint Add-in For GoldMail Slideshow Presenter GoldMail lets you publish narrated slide presentations online and invite customers to come and view them. This free plugin for PowerPoint simplifies and speeds the process. “If you’re looking for a simple way to import Microsoft PowerPoint slides into the GoldMail multimedia presentation package, you’ll find the GoldMail […]

Wall Street Journal: How To Buy A Computer 101 Walter S. Mossberg explains the differences between and pros and cons of different types of computers – notebook, netbook, desktop, tablet – and explains what to look for in a processor, memory, video, hard drive, etc. “If you’re shopping for a new computer this fall, you […]