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Safe in Cyberspace

Malevolent hackers. Psychotic e-mailers. Vengeful ex-employees. What do these folks have in common? Your computers. Day and night they're relentlessly pro...  Read more

Acer Eyes Small Business

The new Extensa 4620 notebook is designed and priced for small businesses and home offices.  Read more

Look Ma...No Cubes!

Look Ma...No Cubes! Do you know the perfect person for your company's key job opening but they live in another state and can't pick up and move...  Read more

Special Report: Mobile Computing for Executives

All too often, key personnel are forced to accept a lower quality of computing when away from the office, due to the lack of proper hardware, software, an...  Read more

How to Wipe Your Hard Drive before Junking Your PC

A step-by-step process to help make sure those critical files aren't available to anyone else.  Read more

Safe in Cyberspace

Malevolent hackers. Psychotic e-mailers. Vengeful ex-employees. What do these folks have in common? Your computers. Day and night they're relentlessly pro...  Read more

How to Wipe Your Hard Drive before Junking Your PC

A step-by-step process to help make sure those critical files aren't available to anyone else.  Read more

What Exactly Is A Netbook, Anyway?

If you think that's a dumb question, then you are in a minority according to a new survey p...  Read more

The Long Era of Windows XP

Tell me again how long we've been using Windows XP, now? I had to look it up again the other day for another posting. Windows XP was launched to ...  Read more

4 Netbooks for CEOs on the Go

Ideal for anytime, anywhere Web access, netbooks—inexpensive miniature laptops—are all the rage with on-the-go CEOs. Granted, the engines that power thes...  View slideshow

Eight Years of Windows XP

Once upon a time, computer users lived on a rhythm of upgrading their operating systems every three years or so (five years on the long side). Then along ...  Read more

Top 10 Free Apps and Services for Business

Especially with the economy down in the dumps, there's never been a better time for businesses to look for free applications and services. And the fact that ...  Read more

How to Leapfrog from XP to Windows 7

Most small companies will be upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 this year – basically bypassing Vista. Here's what that entails, between reinstalling s...  Read more

New Business Computers from Toshiba

Yesterday, Toshiba unveiled two new business laptops with touch capabilities: The Satellit...  Read more

Is Microsoft Patch Crashing Windows XP?

If the user forums on Microsoft are any indication, there's something rotten in the State of Denmark re: this month's "Patch Tuesday (Microsoft's monthly ...  Read more

Operating Systems: You Do Have Choice

In the wake of negative feedback about Microsoft Vista, we look at alternatives. Is this an opening for desktop Windows-like versions of Linux, such as Xandr...  Read more

Prophetic Words From Mini-Microsoft

Mini-Microsoft, perhaps one of the most famous or infamous blogs among techies, has been around since 2004. The author, who remains anonymous, is believed...  Read more

The Weekly Deal: Netbooks and More

In times like these, who isn't interested in buying a netbook? Not only are they cheap, but they're ultra-portable and pretty darn cute. Since ch...  Read more

Panasonic Launches Laptops for Clumsy CEOs

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help your business.  Read more

Windows XP to Windows 7: Fuhgedaboudit

Even Microsoft is recommending that XP users just scrap their PC's and start over with a new one pre-loaded with Windows 7 when it comes out this Fall.Read more

Forget the Environment, Save Windows XP

If Microsoft's chairman, Steve Ballmer, had hair; it would definitely be rubbed backwards right now. While the 'softies continue to spin their Vis...  Read more

The Portability Revolution

Four netbooks for business users  Read more

In Search of Tax Breaks? Try Funding a Start-Up Idea

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Red Hat Releases Linux 5.1 With In-The-Cloud Option

Red Hat has released a new platform for customers and software developers that covers cloud computing environments.  Read more

Digital Lifestyle: Media Spaces for Work and Play

Technologies designed to enrich our lives are pouring forth from the minds of engineers and entrepreneurs from Texas to Taiwan, and include such disparate...  Read more

Windows 7: Should You Upgrade?

Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, debuts in October. Given the debacle that greeted Windows Vista and the changes in the marketplace, your busine...  Read more

Remote Control

Working from wherever.  Read more

Virtually There

Be at the office without being there: remote workplace access solutions are becoming easy to implement, affordable, and offer the flexibility entrepreneurs n...  Read more

Ways to Make Your Laptop Battery Last Longer

Yes, you can take that transcontinental -- or transoceanic -- flight, without lugging along a spare battery.  Read more

XP Users Warned To Update Adobe Flash NOW

It's a slow month for Microsoft, in terms of "Patch Tuesday". It came and went this week with only minor security patches and software fixes to download. ...  Read more

Microsoft is Losing Me

This is how ridiculous Microsoft products have become. I made the mistake of upgrading (I use the term loosely) my Internet Explorer browser recently. Boy...  Read more

BitDefender 2008 Available Through OfficeMax

BitDefender Internet Security 2008 and BitDefender Antivirus 2008 software solutions for residential and small business use are now available in OfficeMax...  Read more

I Love My Netbook

I stand corrected. Months ago, I scratched my head in a posting back ...  Read more

The Crashless PC

To dream the impossible dream , as the song goes. The high tech industry should be ashamed of itself, es...  Read more

Two New Netbook Models Reviewed

Big news on the netbook front today. The reviews are finally in on the latest Eee PC, the 1000HE. The main difference between this model and the 1000H is ...  Read more

Small Businesses Plan to Increase IT Spending

April 2004 --Small and medium size businesses plan to increase their IT spending this year by 6.6% over 2003, according to a recent study ...  Read more

Tech Talk: Cloud Computing Lifts Acting School

A Hollywood acting school outsourced the hosting and management of its software and computer systems, ending a string of computer woes for employees.  Read more

Windows Vista and the NeoTechs

I would just like to follow up on yesterday's posting on the petition to save Windows XP - due to be retired in June of this year. Windows Vista i...  Read more

The Case for Tablet PCs

There is a growing field of tablet PCs – those laptops that let you write during meetings instead of type. Swivel screens now let you show what you wrote t...  Read more