============================================================ ------ PCMag.com Small Business Update ------ ------ for the week of September 23, 2004 ------ ------ www.pcmag.com/smallbusiness ------ ============================================================
============================================================ ********** Sponsored by Dell Home Systems ********** Up to $300 off instantly on select new Dell Home systems. Offer ends 9/29. Click for details. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104327-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ Welcome to this week's Small Business Update newsletter, dedicated to bringing you the latest information on technology that can help you manage, grow, and protect your business. IN THIS ISSUE: * Product Tutorial--The Essential Buying Guide: Photo Printers * Review Mini-Roundup--Norton Versus McAfee: Top Antiviruses Square Off * First Looks Review Roundup--Servers: More Power 2U * First Looks Review--Norton Ghost 9.0 Modernizes Backups * Security--Bots March In * Solutions--Using Digital Video in PowerPoint * PC Magazine Online Gets Even Better! ============================================================ Product Tutorial--The Essential Buying Guide: Photo Printers Nothing makes a more powerful statement than a picture, and many businesses depend on images to generate sales and more. That's why choosing the proper model is especially critical. Contributing editor and top printer expert M. David Stone has made the latest addition to our continuing series of buying guides, with the most in-depth tutorial you'll find anywhere. Make sure you get the best for your business. Read our complete photo printer buying guide. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104330-1 ============================================================ Review Mini-Roundup--Norton Versus McAfee: Top Antiviruses Square Off If your systems are online, they're fighting a multitude of invaders every single day. You want the warriors you rely on to be battle-hardened. We took two of the staunchest defenders--McAfee VirusScan 9.0 and Norton AntiVirus 2005--and pitted the latest versions against each other. Both turned out to be valiant warriors, but one came out on top. Find out which in our labs review. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104333-1 ============================================================ First Looks Review Roundup--Servers: More Power 2U The 64-bit Intel Xeon is out and so are the first 2U rack-mount servers built around it. Businesses of all sizes consider these double-height servers to reside in the sweet spot of this market, partly because of the flexibility they offer over the 1U units. We bolted four systems--the Aberdeen Stirling 208S, the Dell PowerEdge 2850, HP ProLiant DL380 G4, IBM eServer xSeries 346--into our lab racks and started pounding. Find out what the new technology means to you today, and see which server took the top prize. Read our hard-hitting labs review. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104336-1 ============================================================ First Looks Review--Norton Ghost 9.0 Modernizes Backups Norton Ghost has long been a lifesaver to businesses with Windows systems, but the technology lagged in areas affecting convenience. Well, to say the least, the latest version removes that objection. The new release gives you a variety of ways to back up and restore hard drives and lets you use any storage medium for manual backups. After rigorous testing by our top-notch labs team, we found a utility worthy of an Editors' Choice. Read the review of the software that could save your business skin. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104339-1 ============================================================ Security--Bots March In Malicious bots--Trojan Horse programs that open a victim's machine to remote access--most often act as a recruitment tool for zombie armies that perform Denial of Service attacks or spam forwarding. Bot worms are prolific, and the Symantec Threat Report notes an increase of 600 percent in variations over the past six months. Our Security Watch Letter fills you in on this and other security threats. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104342-1 Plus: Keep your guard up the easy way: Subscribe to our Security Watch Newsletter. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104345-1 ============================================================ Solutions--Using Digital Video in PowerPoint Endless slide shows laden with bullet points aren't the best way to get information across. The human mind responds to movement, but canned transition effects often distract more than emphasize. Why not supplement your PowerPoint presentations with video? Our Solutions section shows you how. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104348-1 ============================================================ PC Magazine Online Gets Even Better! We're always working to improve your PCMag.com experience, so we're excited to announce our latest version--PCMag.com 3.0! On Tuesday, September 28, you'll see the results of months spent in intense research and development with the goal of giving the site a fresh, pleasing look, making navigation a snap, and letting you quickly find exactly the information you want. Although the change is enormous on our end, you'll experience only minimal disruption to your access in the late hours on Monday, September 27 and into early Tuesday morning. We think you'll love the result, though! ============================================================ The PCMag.com Bookstore PC Magazine's Windows XP Solutions Ever wish they'd consulted you before they designed Windows XP? Sure, it's a great system, but there's this one feature that makes you crazy. Or that annoying problem that keeps occurring. Well, you can rely on Neil Randall and your friends at PC Magazine to correct that oversight. 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Download the White Paper now! http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104369-1 ============================================================ Upcoming Events ============================================================ Test Drive the Latest Personal Technology! Come to DigitalLife, Oct. 14-17, Javits Convention Center, NYC. Test drive and compare today's hottest cell phones, digital cameras, flat screen TVs, PDAs, video games, PCs and laptops, MP3s, home networking solutions and more. Get coupons and win prizes. For 50% off tickets go to www.digitallife.com. Enter promo code ZDM2004 at checkout. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1120-16-19-22817-104372-1 ============================================================ 9/27 On-Demand/Utility Computing FREE eSeminar! As enterprises keep growing, the provisioning of hardware, software and network resources becomes more complex and thus more difficult and time consuming for IT staff. 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