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============================================================ ********** Sponsored by Interland ********** Interland, Premium-Class Managed Hosting at Middle-Class Rates! Get the business essentials once reserved for large companies. -- from managed security to guaranteed Web traffic. It's all tailored to your requirements, powered by best-of-breed technology, and skillfully managed to assure 100% uptime for your business. Visit http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1240-16-19-22817-118475-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ 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: * Buying Guide--Essentials for Business Travel * First Looks Review--eMachines M5405 * First Looks Mini-Roundup: Intel Bumps Up P4 Extreme Edition * Security--Too Many Google Results * Head-to-Head Review: File Compression Beyond ZIP * First Looks Review: LogMeIn Basic ============================================================ Buying Guide--Essentials for Business Travel We know that PC Magazine Buying Guides can be invaluable resources, so we're always working on new ones. Our latest-- just out--will help smooth the road when you have to hit it for business. Few people have the combination of frequent- flyer miles and tech expertise possessed by contributing editor Bill Machrone, so who better to advise you about the essentials for business travel? Get the benefit of his experience with our latest buying guide. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1240-16-19-22817-118478-1 Plus: Find links to all our buying guides. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1240-16-19-22817-118481-1 ============================================================ First Looks Review--eMachines M5405 There's a time for games and a time for business. When the latter is your concern, you want a laptop that works as hard as you do, and you don't want to pay for a lot of frivolous extras. The eMachines M5405 is serious about your work--and your budget, too--it lists for $974. You'll find a 1.6-GHz AMD Sempron, 512MB of RAM, a 60GB hard drive, 802.11g wireless, and more. This may be a value machine, but it was powerful enough to earn an Editors' Choice. Find out why. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1240-16-19-22817-118484-1 ============================================================ First Looks Mini-Roundup: Intel Bumps Up P4 Extreme Edition Intel has pushed the high end again, this time kicking up the speed of the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition from 3.4 GHz to 3.466. There's more, though. Front-side bus speed took a jump from 800 MHz to 1,066 MHz. But wait--there's also less. Take a look at our report before you spend the premium for a system based on this CPU. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1240-16-19-22817-118487-1 ============================================================ Security--Too Many Google Results We all love Google, right? And Google Desktop, the Windows app that will let us apply the incredible search engine's power to our locally stored info, has us almost bursting with anticipation. Well, if you're in the Google gaggle grabbing for the prerelease Desktop, you might want to hang back from the flock. We have some news about consequences that could ruffle your feathers. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1240-16-19-22817-118490-1 Also: Need info about past threats? Try our Security Watch Newsletter archive. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1240-16-19-22817-118493-1 And: Keep your guard up the easy way: Subscribe to our Security Watch Newsletter. http://eletters.pcmag.com/zd1/cts?d=81-1240-16-19-22817-118496-1 ============================================================ Head-to-Head Review: File Compression Beyond ZIP Large files can cause trouble. E-mail systems often restrict message size, enormous files take too long to transfer, and not only do huge blocks of data eat up drive space--but even worse--they strain the limited capacity of removable media. To help alleviate the problem, developers have created many compression formats, with ZIP being the most popular. These days, though, packing files into a ZIP isn't good enough. 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