Small Business Tech

If you are traveling beginning now through the holiday season then you could lucky enough to get free wifi. Google is buying travelers free wireless access at up to 47 U.S. airports. Just visit the site freeholidaywifi.com for more information.

Labels: Google, wifi

Good news for Google users. You can now access a dashboard that will list all of your data that is stored with Google. It is somewhat similar to the dashboard that has been available to Google Apps admins. Incidentally, I took a look and my dashboard is not enabled, yet. Hopefully your mileage will vary.

Labels: Google, Google Apps

AVG has released version 9 of their popular anti-virus software. AVG has been on my favorite anti-virus software list for a long time. It uses very little computer resources, and the free to private home users is a good marketing program.

Some of the improvements include up to 50% faster scans, and new additions including root kit and phishing scam detectors. My review of a installation on an Intel Atom 230 netbook with 1 gigabyte shows a usage of 10 megabytes while idle. A review of CPU usage during a scan ranged from 25% to 40%. Not bad for a gutless netbook.

AVG is free for home users, but they do charge for business users. The paid version does include extras such as more in depth scanning for malware.

One problem I had when I tried to download the free version is that CNet was hosting version 8.3. On the download page go to the Installation Files tab and choose avg_free_stf_en_90_698a1730.exe to download version 9.

Labels: anti-virus, AVG Free