Small Business Computing Staff

PCWorld: Review – Epson B-510DN Inkjet Printer According to this review, the B-510DN, reviewed working with a Mac, delivers high speed and uses cheap ink. “Epson’s B-510DN color inkjet printer could be the first crossover success, besting its own cohort (as well as many lower-end color lasers) in speed and cost per page. All this […]

ITBusinessEdge: Monitoring Your Employees Electronically How do you control what your employees do with technology, especially online technology, while at work – block sites, maintain archives of sites visited, archive e-mails to prevent tampering? “Earlier this month, I spotted the article provocatively titled, “SMB Security: Do You Need Employee-Monitoring Software?” over at Small Business Computing. […]

PCWorld: RFID – Should This Be On Your Tech Roadmap? Attaching RFID ‘tags’ to items in a retail store or warehouse can simplify and streamline inventory-related applications and more. But is it ready for SMB prime time? “For the retailing industry, the adoption of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology this decade has been one long, strange […]

PCWorld: New Apple iMacs – More Powerful, Bigger Screens Models with 21.5-inch screens and i3 processors start between $1,199 and $1,499. Models with 27-inch screens start at $1,699. The top-of-the-line 27-inch 2.8GHz quad-core model goes for $1,999. “Apple on Tuesday beefed up its consumer desktop line by unveiling iMacs with a new processor architecture and […]

InformationWeek SMB: Geminare Cloud Storage Assurance Ideal For SMBs The new version of CSA adds indexing, auditing and discovery features, making it ideal for meeting regulatory compliance and e-discovery needs. “Backups are being asked to wear multiple hats these days — not just for archival storage, or as part of business continuity/disaster recovery solutions; for […]

Small Business Trends: Facebook Apps For SMBs That Actually Work Many small business owners may think of Facebook marketing as over hyped, but Lisa Barone finds six social media marketing applications that can actually pay dividends. “I know what you’re thinking. The phrase ‘Facebook applications’ makes you break out into a Farmville-induced sweat, but not […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: The Credit Card Industry Data Security Standard For SMBs Chris Mark, executive vice president of ProPay, explains demands of new credit card data security protocols. “For companies that store, transmit, or process payment card data (credit or debit cards), compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is mandatory. Some of […]

PCWorld: The Case For Ubuntu Linux In Your Small Business Ubuntu Linux is free – so quite a bit cheaper than Windows plus Office or Works – and it’s more secure. Case closed? “Chances are good that if someone walked into your office right now and peeked over your shoulder, they would see a Windows […]

AllBusiness: Why Your Small Biz Needs A Lenovo A70z McCue’s case for the A70z is that it delivers what it promises – it’s fast, elegant, easy-to-use, and it’s ‘powerful enough, out of the box, to handle most any small biz need.’ “For the past three months or so, I have had a chance to evaluate […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: Telework Savings – $32K+ Per Employee Results for your company may be different but the report is convincing enough that any small business should take a look at the possibilities of telecommuting, smallbiztechnology says. “Protus, owner of email marketing firm Campaigner, myFax and myVoice clued me in to a white paper from the Telework […]

PC World: New Entry-Level Servers From Lenovo Lenovo, maker of formerly IBM-branded ThinkPad laptops, entered the server market in 2008. The new products, the ThinkServer RD230, RD240 and TD230 are powered by six-core Intel processors. “Lenovo announced some new entry-level servers on Tuesday, continuing its effort to become a bigger player in the server market. […]

ITBusinessEdge: The Cure For E-mail Paul Mah reviews recent study on small business employee attitudes to e-mail and provides links to previous posts offering various solutions to managing the flood of messages. “A new survey commissioned by Intermedia has found that 94 percent of respondents feel that receiving 50 e-mails a day sets the limit […]