Small Business Computing Staff

ZDNet: SMBs Get Free Security Essentials From Microsoft Businesses with more than 10 computers under management will be pushed to use Microsoft’s paid Forefront security product/service. “In an about-face, Microsoft is now planning to offer its free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus/antimalware software to small businesses, and not just consumers. Starting in early October, Microsoft […]

CNet: BlackBerry Gets Dropbox Cloud Storage Client The cloud storage service is now offering a dedicated client that works on most BlackBerry models – with a few glitches, according to this reporter. “Dropbox continues to develop its cloud storage service for a trio of mobile platforms: Android, iPhone, and now BlackBerry. Dropbox for BlackBerry has […]

ITBusinessEdge: Data Security 101 For SMBs Do you have antivirus and malware software installed and working on all your computers? Do you have encryption activated on your Wi-Fi network? Paul Mah takes you through all the basic data/network security precautions. “Just started work at an SMB? Or perhaps you are heading out on your second […]

Small Business Trends: Digital Natives Are Coming – Are You Ready? Consultant Rieva Lesonsky blogs about the impact that young, digitally-reared employees might have on your small business. “Is your business ready for the influx of “digital natives”? Maybe you’re already experiencing it. I’m not talking about characters from a video game. “Digital natives” is […]

Small Business Trends: More Free Website Building Tools For SMBs Capsule reviews of eight tools for building simple web pages, many of them online software as a service offerings such as Yola.com, Webs.com and Jimdo.com. The listen also includes OfficeLive. “Building a website does not have to be difficult, as we learned earlier this month […]

PCWorld: Why Tablets Are No Good For Business Tony Bradley believes Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy will add some of the needed features lacking in iPad, but still won’t be ready for business prime time. “With the impending launch of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Android will finally have a tablet worthy of competing against the Apple iPad. […]

Small Business Trends: Free Check-In Devices For SMBs From Google? Lisa Barone questions the wisdom of Google trying to tackle the mobile online-to-online local business promotions market on its own rather than partnering with others already in this space. “If you thought the check-in craze was getting, well, crazy, Google’s gone ahead and taken it […]

ITBusinessEdge: New Dell PowerEdge Servers For SMBs The new models, the PowerEdge R415 and R515, are powered by dual-socket AMD processors and designed for SMB applications such as e-mail and virtualization. “Dell has announced the addition of two new PowerEdge servers to its SMB lineup, which comes on the back of HP’s recent launch of […]

PCWorld: Fire The Phone Company And Save Money This article looks at four free or cheap phone company alternatives including VoIP appliances such as YMax MagicJack, and Google’s new Google Voice service. “Though it is as much a fixture in American households as the television and the microwave oven, the home telephone has become superfluous. […]

Smallbiztechnology: Segment Your Email Marketing List For Better Results Links to a recorded webinar by Wendy Lowe on the importance of segmenting e-mail marketing lists, along with a link to download a PDF. “On September 16th we hosted a new webinar in our email marketing series with email marketing company Campaigner. Wendy Lowe, Regional Development […]

Engadget: Preview – HP Introduces New All-In-One PCs Both the new HP all-in-ones feature dual-core AMD processors – so they’re more powerful than most previous all-in-ones. Prices: from $499 for the non-touch Omni100, $699 for the TouchSmart 310. “It’s not just oddly random Android tablet-based printers for HP today — the company also announced two […]

ZDNet: Why You Should Move Your Computing To The Cloud Phil Wainwright does missionary work for cloud computing and provides links to webinars and announcements of upcoming cloud-related events. “Too much of the discussion around cloud computing and SaaS is focussed on the technology and not enough emphasis is placed on the business results that […]