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Small Business Trends: Small Biz News Roundup – Your Social Media Brand Articles from various Web sites about Internet marketing, with a focus on using social media for branding. “If social media is a new generation of marketing/PR/(insert your own description here), than figuring out how to integrate the power of social media into your […]

PCWorld: Motorola Droid X – The Next Hot Smartphone? Droid X, which features a big 4.3-inch screen and powerful processor, likely won’t sell as well as the recently launched Apple iPhone 4, but recent negative stories about the new iPhone have fueled interest in Motorola’s product. “The immediate future looks bright for Motorola’s new Droid […]

PCWorld: Review – HP ProBook 4520s Business Laptop “A sturdy, stylish business laptop that performs well at work or on the go” is how PC World describes this laptop. Pros include the suite of HP security software and its ergonomic design. Cons include the shoddy webcam and mediocre battery life. “Weighing in at just under […]

PCmag@Work: Free Wi-Fi Planning Tool From Aerohive Aerohive has introduced a new version of its free online tool for Wi-Fi network planning. Upload a floor plan or dimensions and it will show you where to place access points. “One of the trickiest of tasks when building a wireless network for a business, is determining the […]

PCWorld: Print From iPhone And iPad With PrintBureau If you have an iPhone and an iPad, you can pay $13 for this app rather than $10 each for the company’s separate print utility apps for the two devices. “The most complicated thing about PrintBureau, a hybrid app optimized for both the iPhone and iPad, may […]

PCWorld: Review – Dell Studio 17 Desktop Replacement Laptop The Dell Studio 17 (Model 1747) rates 3.5 out of five stars. Pros: excellent performance, lots of screen real estate. Cons: lacks pizzaz, confusing port arrangement. (That doesn’t sound so bad.) “With the average laptop, one sticky issue is the relatively small size of the display […]

ITBusinessEdge: How To Keep Your Laptop Healthy – 7 Tips Tips include not working with your laptop unplugged unless necessary, responding immediately to any buzzing or rattling sounds and using a keyboard protector or external keyboard. “I recently had dinner with a friend who lamented about how her laptop was sent for repairs five times […]

Wall Street Journal: Solving The Indoor Cell Reception Problem If your small business facility is plagued with poor cell phone reception, the solution may be a femtocell, a $99 to $150 device that extends cell coverage indoors. Up until a few weeks ago, Mike Gillin was a tough man to get a hold of. His […]

PCWorld: CloudZap – Zap Scanned Docs To The Cloud The software also lets you use a print driver to send existing documents to cloud storage, but its real power is in simplifying the process of scanning documents and then moving them to safe archival storage in the cloud. “CloudZap ($60, 30-day free trial) allows for […]

Laurie McCabe’s Blog: Online Collaboration For SMBs Does you small business need online collaboration? It does if you have any of a host of problems McCabe identifies, including too much telephone tag, bottlenecks in finding information or resources needed to get a job done, email overload or version control issues. “What is an Online Collaboration […]

PCWorld: Search Secrets Of Google Engineers Revealed Think you know everything there is to know about using Google to find stuff? Check out the tips two Google engineers reveal to our author. For example, did you know you could search just for the most recent pages containing given search terms? “I like to think that […]

InformationWeek: LG Joins The Tablet Computing Derby It appears 2010 will be the year of the tablet, with LG’s just-announced Android-powered model joining an already crowded field that includes Apple (of course), Dell, Samsung and Cisco. The LG product is due out in late 2010. “Following in the footsteps of Apple, Dell, Samsung and most […]