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PCWorld: Review – Samsung Epic 4G The reviewer could find little to fault in this smartphone, which sells for $250 with a two-year contract. But it still faces stiff competition from the HTC EVO, a similar device that sells for slightly less. “The Samsung Epic 4G ($250 with a two-year contract from Sprint, as of […]

Wired: Virgin Turns Cellular Industry On Ear With $40 Unlimited Data Virgin also announced a 10-day, 100MB plan for $10 that gives five hours of browsing and unlimited e-mails (without attachments). “Virgin Mobile has just upended the entire US mobile internet market. While other carriers continue to limit data and charge per Gigabyte, Virgin has […]

PCMagazine: Patch Your Copy Of Adobe Reader Now Adobe has classified the bugs fixed by this patch, which was issued outside the company’s regular schedule for security patches, as critical. They also effect Acrobat, the full PDF-creation application from Adobe. “Adobe last week patched two vulnerabilities in its popular Reader PDF viewing software, including one […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): New SMB Version Of DimDim Web Conferencing Product The new DimDim Business offering ($33/mo) features customizable meeting rooms and e-mail templates and open APIs (application programming interfaces). Dimdim has launched a new version of its Web conferencing software that targets SMBs: DimDim Business. Dimdim Business is a Web conferencing solution that lets […]

ITBusinessEdge: Analysis – New Microsoft Aurora And Vail Servers Paul Mah examines the new features in and significance of the new versions of Microsoft’s small business server products. “Microsoft earlier this week released preview versions of the Vail Windows Home Server, and also the Aurora Windows Small Business Server. To summarize, Vail is targeted at […]

Wired: A Solar-Powered Charging Dock For Your iPhone The $90 Dexim product can also hold your iPhone upright, in either portrait or landscape orientation, for viewing videos. “The very concept of keeping an iPhone fully charged? Laughable. But using the sun as a power source? That’s positively preposterous. Apparently crazy is on the menu over […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Cloud Storage That Looks Inhouse With Egnyte Small businesses can use their logo and other branding at their Egnyte site and map it to their internal domain. “Egnyte recently introduced a Branding Kit, allowing its cloud file server and online storage services to be integrated seamlessly with a company’s existing brand assets […]

PC World: Roundup – HD Webcams For Videoconferencing Priced from $45 to $120, these webcams from Logitech, Microsoft, Genius, FreeTalk and FaceVision rate anywhere from 2.5 to 4.5 stars (the Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910 won the derby) from PC World reviewers. (With links to individual reviews.) “Heavily pixelated videos with distorted colors were once […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Review – Xobni Microsoft Outlook Plugin The only cons for this feature-extending Outlook plugin are the possibility of information overload and a slight performance hit. Price: $29 (free version available.) “If you’re like most professionals working in Microsoft Office, you spend hours a day in Outlook, the touchstone of the modern professional […]

Small Business Trends: Blogging Fine Points – Comments On Or Off? The reasons to allow comments on your small business’s blog entries are several, but if you allow them, it means having to manage them and possibly putting up with spam and flamers. “It’s a timeless debate: When you start a blog do you turn […]

PCWorld: Review: Netgear Dual WAN ProSafe Firewall A review of Netgear’s ProSafe Dual WAN Gigabit Firewall (FVS336G), which PC World says is “an excellent option for small businesses with fewer than 50 users that don’t need a large number of VPN connections.” Netgear, despite its consumer roots, has been making network equipment for small and […]

Forbes: How To Create Your Facebook Business Page A simple step-by-step guide to creating a Facebook page for your business, including registering your page, inviting friends and customers and securing a unique page username. “After writing a couple of columns about the advantages of creating a Facebook business page, I thought I should tell you […]