Small Business Computing Staff

Small Busienss Trends: How SMBs Can Make Profitable Use Of Video Digital camcorders are relatively inexpensive and posting videos to the Internet is easy. The six ways SBT suggests small businesses can use video include creating product tutorials, recording presentations and making customer testimonial clips. “Here’s a stat for you: YouTube is the second largest […]

PCWorld: More Fire Hazard Batteries Recalled By HP Fewer than 3% of batteries are actually likely to have the flaw. They’re found in Hewlett-Packard laptops sold between 2007 and 2008. The good news: if you bought a laptop then, the battery is probably almost worn out by now anyway. “Hewlett-Packard has extended a worldwide recall […]

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ITBusinessEdge: Why Small Businesses Should Be Using Desktop Virtualization The reasons include cost savaings, data security and to help cope with very fast business growth or situations in which a company has a high proportion of temporary contractors working in the business. “SMBs generally have been slower than enterprise companies when it comes to adopting […]

CNet: Square For Android – Credit Card Payment Anywhere The Square hardware is a small cube that sticks out of the top of an Android smartphone, with a slot for swiping credit cards. The software processes and tracks payments. “A white plastic “cube”* that is slightly bigger than a thumb tip protrudes from the top […]

PCWorld: Review – HP All-in-One 200-5020 Desktop PC For $780, you get a very good 21-inch monitor integrated with a PC powered by dual-core 2.7GHz Intel Pentium processor and 4GB of memory. It performed impressively on PC World lab tests. Downside: no touchscreen. “Touchscreens are a fairly big deal in the all-in-one desktop category, and […]

PCWorld: Google Wave Finally Here – Should SMBs Care? Google’s Wave collaboration tool is It’s part e-mail, part instant messaging. It enables collaboration so real-time that you see what colleagues type one character at a time. And it can be embedded in blogs and other sites. Could this be useful in your small business? “At […]

Small Business Trends: How To Attract Links To Your SMB Website Web marketing expert Lisa Barone of Outspoken Media, Inc. offers 14 ways that small businesses can build links to their websites from others’ sites. “Many business people on the Web are obsessed with links. Actually, most of them are. And it makes sense. It’s […]

InformationWeek SMB: Constant Email Interruptions Sapping Productivity Small business employees inundated with electronic messages produce less and are less creative, according to a new study from Basex. And with email volumes growing at 66% a year, the problem isn’t going to go away on its own anytime soon. “The research is overwhelming. Constant e-ail interruptions […]

PCWorld: The Next Big Thing In Smartphones – Mobile Video Conferencing? Vendors are putting video conferencing software and services on 3G-connected smartphones. Forrester Research says high-priced mobile execs want it. But how well does it work? “CIOs can score points by bringing mobile Web conferencing to traveling executives, says Ted Schadler, a Forrester Research analyst. […]

Wired: The Tablet Rumor Mill Churns If you’d like a little choice before you make a commitment to tablet computing, stand by. According to Wired, the likes of HP, Google, Dell, Research In Motion and others are all close to launching new tablet products. “It may have taken a long time for the competition to […]

SMEs From ComputerWeekly: How SMBs Can Cut IT Costs Using Hosted Services The head of SMB marketing for Microsoft in the UK makes the case for subscription software and IT management services, backing it up with data from recent Microsoft-sponsored surveys of small and medium businesses. “Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) have reason to feel […]