Small Business Computing Staff

Small Business Trends: The Virtual Entrepreneur – Tools Of The Trade A weekly roundup focusing on tools for virtual entreprenurs and ‘webpreneurs’, including items about domain names, Twitter, e-mail marketing, social media, automating business operations in the the cloud, etc. “Nowadays there are many things a successful small business owner or entrepreneur needs but a […]

Engadget: Preview – Acer Aspire One D260 Netbook The gadget hounds at Engadget attended the Computex show in Taiwan last week and came back with this report of a brief hands-on with the Aspire One D260. It features an Intel Atom N450 or N455 processor, up to 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive. […]

Entrepreneur: SMB Marketing – Growing Your Website Beyond Online Brochure Technology Therapist Jennifer Shaheen provides guidance on how to develop a mature website that continues to grow and grow more sophisticated as your business expands. “Are you considering building a website for your small business–or having one built for you? Before you dive in and […]

Smallbiztechnology.com: The Week In SMB Technology The site’s weekly roundup of news and blog posts also includes items on Producteev Two task management software, a new hosted phone system service from M5 Networks and Symantec’s Hosted Endpoint Protection services. “- Cisco Introduces Smart Storage to Help Small Businesses Address Growing Storage Needs – 12HoursOfTech: 12 […]

IT-Director.com: Windows 7 Migration Without The Pain This prescription for a pain-free migration to Windows 7 comes from a developer of application management software used by big companies, but most of the advice on how to plan for and manage your migration apply to any size company. “Microsoft estimates that 65,000 organisations plan to migrate […]

Engadget: Preview – HD Webcams From Logitech A chatty, comprehensive examination of new webcams from Logitech designed to support high-quality video chatting and desktop videoconferencing applications. Note: these products do not support Skype HD, from the popular voice-and-video-over-Internet provider. “It seems like only yesterday webcams were struggling to shed their VGA roots; that megapixel cams […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Review – Salesforce.com Professional Edition A comprehensive review of the company’s current offerings, including details on pricing and editions and assessments user interface and fatures for each. “Salesforce.com has always been a cloud-computing company. It’s now a veteran of the on-demand CRM space, having entered the market at a time when client-server […]

Entrepreneur: Location-based Marketing – An SMB Primer Arnold explains how SMBs can use location-based marketing – to send a coupon to a cell phone, for example, or display a local ad to a website visitor – and how to do it. “Directing customers to a nearby physical location is getting more sophisticated, thanks to mobile […]

InformationWeek: iPhone 4 Seduces But May Disappoint The bandwidth hungry videoconferencing features in the new iPhone 4 only work over Wi-Fi, because AT&T’s 3G network is already overloaded with data users, and doesn’t even work with Apple Macs at the other end. “Before people hand over their hard-earned cash for Apple’s new iPhone 4, they […]

PCWorld: Web App Showdown: Word vs. Google Docs Reviewer Ian Paul complains that the new stripped-down Web version of Word crashed while testing, misbehaved in other ways and could lose your work. “Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications […]

Small Business Trends: Review – Iomega ioSafe Solo HD: Indestructible? This reviewer wimped out when it came to trying to wreck the supposedly indestructible hard drive from Iomega, but he does review its other features and provides links to funny videos of attempted destruction. “Indestructible is a powerful word. More accurate is “waterproof,” “fireproof,” and […]

PCmag@Work (Small Business): Preview – SMB Videoconferencing Solution From Radvision The new SCOPIA XT1000 SMB solution provides an all inclusive HD videoconferencing room system, with integrated desktop conferencing and multi-party MCU. “RADVISION today announced its new videoconferencing solution, the SCOPIA XT1000 SMB solution. It’s geared toward small and medium-size businesses and provides an all-inclusive HD […]