Online Marketing Tips & Updates for Small & Start Up Businesses in Bournemouth, Poole Dorset » computers http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:44:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bing improves its search engine through WolframAlfa http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/blog/bing-and-wolframalfa/ http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/blog/bing-and-wolframalfa/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:44:38 +0000 admin http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/?p=1646

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Microsoft’s browser signs a new partnership to deliver direct answers and links, providing an additional service that allows them to extend their offer and compete with Google.

The supremacy of Google in the field of online search seems not to be questioned, but its competitors are slowly bringing new applications in pursue of least grabbing some market share.

This is what Microsoft has just made, by signing an alliance with WolframAlfa to offer direct answers in addition to links on their search results .

Bing will be using WolframAlpha’s API, to have access to thousands of different algorithms and calculations processes that will improve significantly the search results.

Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ at Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

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Facebook Delicious Digg StumbleUpon Twitter Follow Mfsb]]> http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/blog/bing-and-wolframalfa/feed/ 0 Which Antivirus software is the best? http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/blog/which-antivirus-software-is-the-best/ http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/blog/which-antivirus-software-is-the-best/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:47:09 +0000 admin http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/?p=1638
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The independent testing of software, AV Comparatives has done an exhaustive comparative study of 16 antivirus software for the consumer market.

Results are available in a 27-page report published on the website of the organization.

(http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/removal/avc_removal_2009.pdf)

The programs included in the comparison were:

- Avast Professional Edition 4.8
- AVG Anti-Virus 8.5
- AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9.0
- BitDefender Anti-Virus 2010
- EScan Anti-Virus 10.0
- Eset NOD32 Antivirus 4.0
- F-Secure AntiVirus 2010
- G DATA AntiVirus 2010
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010
- Kingsoft AntiVirus 9
- McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009
- Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0
- Norman Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.10
- Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6
- Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2010
- TrustPort Antivirus 2009.

A summary of results is presented in the table below

Removal of malware Removal of Levtovers
Avast average average
AVG average average
AVIRA average average
BitDefender Good average
eScan Good Good
ESET average average
F-Secure Good average
G Data average poor
Kapersky Good average
Kingsoft Poor poor
McAfee average average
Microsoft Good Good
Norman average poor
Sophos average average
Symantec Good Good
Trustport average average

This study focused on the ability of programs to remove viruses from infected PCs, not just detection. The study also sought to establish how far the cleaning process removes all traces of the virus, or if it leaves residues of damage to the system. For more details view or download the complete study at http://www.av-comparatives.org/

Michael Gomez

‘The Techy Guy’ Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

Facebook Delicious Digg StumbleUpon Twitter Follow Mfsb]]> http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/blog/which-antivirus-software-is-the-best/feed/ 0 Windows 7 arrives in pendrives for netbooks users http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/blog/only-2-out-of-3-parents-know-their-kids-use-social-networks/ http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/blog/only-2-out-of-3-parents-know-their-kids-use-social-networks/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:52:00 +0000 admin http://marketing-for-smallbusinesses.co.uk/?p=1389 windows_7The new Microsoft operating system, Windows 7, not only will be sold in packages to complete the installation via a disk, but you can download from online store to removable storage units or burn it to DVD.

The idea is that even users who do not have optical drives on their computers, especially those who have a netbook, can upgrade to the new platform, running the installation directly from your USB flash drives.

“For users who do not have a DVD optical drive on their netbook, the download tool in Windows 7 for USB / DVD will get an ISO image and create an auto-run USB device, which may be used to install Windows 7,” explained Brandon Leblanc, a company spokesman.
As indicated by eWEEK magazine, this choice (only available for downloads within the U.S. for the moment), is based on the WUDT tool, which also burn the ISO to a DVD for a traditional installation.

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Michael Gomez

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