Computer Repair Locator is your one stop shop for finding a computer business to service your needs. If you are a consumer, you can discover new computer businesses in your area, research what other consumers are saying and leave reviews about your experiences, good or bad. This allows you and other consumers to save time and money by helping each other discover which businesses treat their customers well, and which ones need to improve. If you are a business owner, you can claim your listing, respond to reviews from your customers and increase your exposure by providing consumers with in-depth details about your business. You can also offer special promotions and coupons to help promote your business. Check out Computer Repair Locator today and see if there is a computer business in your area you did not know about. If you own a [+]

ATT made the news late last month announcing that they would begin throttling the top 5% heaviest users of their bandwidth. This, in the wake of a slow but rising tide of reports signaling residential ISPs will also be throttling bandwidth. (Think you've got it bad in America? Canada's got it worse!) The excuses ISPs use is that these caps are necessary to ensure quality of service to the majority of subscribers. Credible reports dispute ISPs claims of increasing costs. My concern is the dangerous precedent that is set by setting bandwidth caps. 250GB  seems like alot here in 2011 - but in two years, who is to say you'll hit that limit a couple/few times a year? Multiply that by millions of subscribers and these caps translate into healthy profit margins for ISPs. Remember the early days of cell phones - before there [+]

I hear it all the time....."Should I start a computer repair business?"....Very good question and extremely hard to answer. Some of the questions you have to ask yourself are: Do I like a steady paycheck? Do I like vacation time yearly? Do I like having sick days? Do I like my weekends free? Do I like not having a 401K plan? Do I like the cost of insurance for my family? Am I an outstanding tech? Am I a good business person? Now, those are just a few of the questions you have to ask yourself before you can really decide. One of the biggest complaints is "I am tired of working for the man"....Well sometimes the grass is not always greener on the other side....Maybe looking at employment elsewhere is a better choice than starting your own business. Maybe there are actually things you can do to improve [+]

By Eric Larson All San Diego Computer Repair There is a controversial bill working its way through the US Senate. The PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA) is aimed at blocking the pirating, stealing, "sharing," [enter your term of choice here] of Intellectual Property. The idea is to give courts the power to compel ISPs to block requests to domains "deemed to be infringing" against intellectual property laws. The bill was introduced by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), backed by Hollywood and the entertainment industry and has attracted the attention of several groups of experts in the fields of technology, security and law professors. These experts are raising warning flags indicating the bill would have a problem constitutionally "read here" , it could break the DNS system "read here" and could in fact backfire by actually aiding the very hackers it is designed to thwart  [+]

Received an email the other day (actually my 2nd notification it said) and it starts with: "Recently you were selected as an inductee into the Distinguished Professionals Online Registry Among Executives. This selection was based on our research committees efforts to identify top professionals around the globe. " Pretty impressive isn't it? But the more I look at it the top starts with: Dear <#contactname#>, So I think to myself how can they not even know my name after their "research committee" hand selected our business and myself for this distinguished award. Now if you go to the link it takes you to a form to fill out and if you try going to the actual domain itself it takes you to an "Under Construction" page for the domain of www.distinguishedprofessionalswhoswho.com I suppose they were so busy in their research for distinguished people and businesses that [+]

How to Choose an Online Backup Service If you’ve ever suffered computer failure and lost valuable data, photos, videos, or music, then you know the importance of data backup. While you certainly have the option of copying your data to a disk—which is certainly better than no backup at all—a growing number of individuals and businesses are opting to sign-up with an online backup service. These services automatically backup your data using your internet connection, and will continuously save new data as it’s being created. But, with so many online data backup services now available, how does one know which to choose? Are they all work pretty much the same? Do they all offer the same features? While no one can say which service is right [+]

When you started your business what did you have in mind? Was it to open a computer business that would offer services like virus removal and spyware removal? Was the idea to just have lower prices then other big box companies around? Was it that you just thought to yourself why not? Well anyone that starts a business I'm sure has their reasons for doing such. But, now that you have your business up and running you have to decide just what exactly your business is going to offer. There are the typical things like: Virus removal Spyware removal Hardware upgrades Software Upgrades Tune-ups Those are pretty much the normal shop will do each and every other day.  I always envisioned opening a computer repair business and doing more than just the normal. I did not want to offer exactly what others offer in their business model. [+]

How many other business owners do you know that just say things like "word of mouth"? That is the answer they give for "What kind of advertising do you do?"...In reality I find that very difficult to believe or at least believe it to an extent that they never had to do anything else in order to make their business successful. Now if all they are doing is removing a virus here and there then great, but that's not really a market that I care to base my business model off of. In the technology industry you have to stay up on the latest trends and be able to implement them into your business model. Well the same goes with advertising your business in your community. Back in the day who would of thought the internet would turn into a marketing [+]

For some unknown reason people seem to think they can build a website and amazingly it will just show up in the top of the search engines. Now many moons ago that might have been possible but not in this day and age. Getting ranked on search engines is a continual battle and only the strong survive. It use to be enough that you could get a good domain name, put a great title, some keywords and a great description on all your website pages and you were golden. Well nowadays that is all still great to do, but if that is all you are doing then you are not going to see the results you expect. You now not only have to make sure you website is coded exactly right, but you have to keep up on the search engines and [+]

I read all the time from other owners about things such as Geek Squads $19.95 per month unlimited repairs and how to counter things like that. No matter how many times I see these things or hear about them I always come to the same conclusion and that is to "worry about my own business". I do not have the time or the patience to track what all the big box companies are doing nor do I care what they are doing. I will never be able to compete against any of them in price on repairs and probably on parts also. By the same token I am sure they are not sitting home thinking "gee I wonder what Computer Medics" is doing this month for their business....Bottom line is they don't care and they never will. What I can do on [+]