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  • The new way to meet payroll
    Paychecks and payroll taxes are hardly the most exciting parts of running a business, so it's not surprising that most owners tend to think about their payroll service only when it fails.

  • The hidden cost of Google Apps
    What happens when a business throws out its scheduling and collaboration tools and replaces them with Google's low-cost, online business software? To find out, we at Blumsday migrated our entire shop of roughly a dozen employees and contractors to test out Google Apps.

  • Review: redesigned MacBook a winner
    With the new 13-inch MacBook looking and feeling more like the more expensive 15-inch MacBook Pro line than ever, it's harder to tell the difference between the two laptops.

  • Google's growth raises privacy concerns
    Perhaps the biggest threat to Google Inc.'s increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google's broadening reach is giving it unchecked power.

  • Late to the Game: Microsoft Office Online
    Microsoft has announced it will offer an online version of the Office suite, but you won't see it until 2010. In the meantime, try Zoho or Google Docs.

  • Fake YouTube Pages Used to Spread Viruses
    Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker

  • The rise and further fall of RealNetworks
    RealNetworks sure knows how to do a splashy product launch.

  • Review: Zune music player catching up to iPod
    Slowly but surely, Microsoft's Zune is staking its claim as a legitimate alternative to Apple's iPod line of MP3 players.

  • New Software Turns PC into TiVo TV Recorder
    TiVo Inc. and Nero AG of Germany were set to announce Monday that they will be launching a package that turns a Windows PC into a TV recorder, just like a TiVo set-top box

  • Nokia GPS device gives good directions but still lags behind
    First announced at SEMA 2007, the Nokia 500 Auto Navigation system is finally hitting the streets.

  • Canon vs. Lexmark printer showdown
    At work I have little need for budget desktop printers. We use high-end, high-resolution machines to proof photography and illustrations at Nesnadny & Schwartz, my graphic design studio in Cleveland. But I also keep an office at home, where my two middle-school daughters use my printer for assignments as liberally as Jackson Pollock used paint.

  • New HP printer an upgrade over last year's model
    The $150 HP Photosmart A636 is a slight upgrade to last year's A626, with a few minor software differences. The A636 retains the same body shape and design but adds additional photo customization and editing capabilities.

  • Searching for Palin's 'Hot Photos'
    The current Republican vice-presidential candidate is shaping up to be not only a celebrity, but a sex symbol, according to popular Internet searches

  • The Web's Word: Obama Is Not the Antichrist
    During the campaign, voters are looking into rumors about the candidates far more than their policy positions

  • Google's tough sell to Corporate America
    Steve Skinner, the head of information technology for a big Bay Area real estate agency, recently got his umpteenth call from Google. Would Skinner be interested in buying a package of e-mail, word processing and other software known as Google Apps for his company's 1,300 employees?

  • Get sales leads online
    When Black Line Group, a Minneapolis accounting firm, wanted to drum up business, it hired telemarketers - lots of them. The effort was a bust, says Black Line marketing chief Scott Schmidt, largely because "so many companies have gate-keepers between the decision-maker and you."

  • Prof in A's-for-sex scandal missing, may be dead
    After six hours of searching Hickory Hill Park Wednesday with an infrared-equipped plane, police were unable to find missing University of Iowa Professor Arthur Miller.

  • Seven online-security blunders to avoid
    By now most personal-computer users know not to post their Social Security numbers on the Internet or respond to Nigerian e-mails seeking help with suspicious bank-account transfers.

  • Court: Copyrights Apply for Free Software
    In a crucial win for the free software movement, a federal appeals court has ruled that even software developers who give away the programming code for their works can sue for copyright infringement if someone misappropriates that material

  • The best PC for Microsoft Office? A Mac
    How's this for the ultimate digital-age, small-business irony: Want the best possible environment for Microsoft Office? Try running it on a Mac.

  • Fighting the agents of organized cybercrime
    Back in the good old days of the Internet, the hacker was a teenager motivated by high-tech pranks and bragging rights. Today, the online thief could be anyone with 'Net access after a quick buck.

  • HR software saves time and cash
    At Nittany Embroidery & Screenprinting in State College, Pa., the employee-appraisal process was in tatters. To determine raises and bonuses for her 35 workers, CEO Erin O'Leary-Rallis relied on scribbled Post-it notes, hazy memories, and self-promoting testimonials from the employees.

  • Why Cuil Is No Threat to Google
    The much-hyped, heavily funded new search engine developed by a former Google whiz leaves users unexcited

  • Microsoft hit after earnings and forecast miss
    Shares of Microsoft Corp. dropped more than 6% in after-hours trading after the software giant posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that fell short of Wall Street's estimates as it forecast lower-than-expected revenue for the following quarter.

  • Software saves trees, cash and headaches, says creator
    It's happened to all of us: You print something from the Web, and all you get is a sheet of paper with nothing but a URL or something equally useless.