Small Business Trends' Edith Yeung rounds up 65 mobile apps for small business users in just about every category from sales management to mobile payment to finance
PC World magazine's Liane Cassavoy reviews Single Click Filing for Outlook, a Microsoft Office Outlook add-on that makes it easy to organize incoming e-mails by putting them in folders.
PC World's Liane Cassavoy looks at CloudMagic, a browser plugin for Google's Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that lets you instantly search your Google Mail, Docs and Contacts.
Made for consumers but ideal for very small businesses too, Bento is a simple-to-use Mac database app that can be synched with iPhone or iPad. The new version brings important improvements.
Entrepreneur magazine's tech columnist Jonathan Blum reviews Microsoft's $6-a-month suite of online services for small companies, Office 365, which is now in public beta.
QlikTech, a major provider of business intelligence software for analyzing small business performance, has announced an iPad app that takes full advantage of the device's touch interface.
Small businesses that don't have systems set to automatically download and install Microsoft updates must be sure you get the omnibus update released this week. It includes many essential security patches.
SMB technology consultant Laura McCabe of the SMB Group analyzes recent news that Intuit and Salesforce.com will integrate Intuit's QuickBooks accounting application with SF's online CRM app.
PC World magazine's Jon L. Jacobi briefly reviews TestDisk and PhotoRec, two free downloadable apps for testing and repairing hard drives and recovering data.
ITBusinessEdge SMB technology editor Paul Mah suggests eight reasons SMBs should upgrade their Web browser to Microsoft's recently released Internet Explorer 9.
PC World magazine rounds up seven free Windows 8 utilities - everything from file renamers, to notes apps, to a virtual desktop organizer.
Reviewer TJ McCue looks at 60mo, an application that provides small businesses with simple, intuitive financial dashboards to keep them abreast of trends in their growing companies.
Small Business Trends rounds up 101 web apps that can help small business owners run their companies better and cheaper. Will you have time to check out all 101 tonight?
ITBusinessEdge columnist Paul Mah comments on recent research from cloud storage provider Egnyte suggesting SMBs are set to move into the cloud in a big way. Does this neccessarily mean you should?
Small Business Trends rounds up eight recent articles and blog posts with tips and guidance on using online services from Google to run your small business.
PC magazine spotlights a new social network site for small businesses from SohoOS, an Israeli company that also makes a free integrated software suite for small businesses.
Sarah Kessler from the blog site Mashable rounds up four inexpensive programs designed to help small businesses set and monitor progress on employee goals.
Even if you've been using Windows 7 for awhile in your small business, you'll probably learn a few things about how to make it work better for you in this roundup of ten tips from PC magazine.
Jonathan Blum of the tech blog Blumsday rounds up three tools for time tracking that he says would be ideal for small business users.
PC World's Nick Mediati gets hands on with the final pre-shipping version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 web browser. He says it looks promising.
Smallbiztechnology.com blogs about a new freeware solution that lets small business users add electronic post-it notes to computer files.
Small Business Trends reviewer TJ McCue looks at Followup.cc, a new software as a service (SaaS) offering that promises to help small businesses organize and keep on top of todo lists.
SMB technology consultant Laurie McCabe explains integrated payment solutions - software systems that integrate payments, customer relationship management and accounting - and why you need one.
ITBusinessEdge SMB columnist Paul Mah analyzes the recent announcement of a release candidate of the next version of Microsoft's Small Business Server (SBS) Essentials server software.
AllBusiness's Matthew McKenzie makes a compelling case for small businesses adopting Windows 7 64-bit, and explains what hardware is required to use it successfully.
Google is about to release version 9 of its increasingly popular Chrome browser (it now has a 10% market share) with a few key improvements, including instant search and loading pages as you type in the URL.
Google's free Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer plugin for its Chrome browser makes it easier to view PDFs and Powerpoint slide decks you find on the Web. They open right in the browser.
Ramon Ray blogs about the importance for small businesses of using CRM (customer relationship management) to segment and profile customers.
Print from iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Android mobile devices to any printer attached to your network-connected computers. It's free.
A first look at LibreOffice, a new free open source office suite available now for download. This reviewer doesn't recommend it.
Small Business Trends reviewer TJ McCue offers a summary of nine customer relationship management (CRM) solutions suitable for small businesses.
PC World's Keir Thomas spotlights recent enhancements to Google Docs, Google's online office suite, that make it even easier to use and more functional.
Smallbiztechnology heralds the arrival next week of a new online accounting module being added to Zoho's suite of small business applications.
Smallbiztechnology.com blogs about the importance for small businesses of embracing online do-it-yourself tech tools and learning to use them well.
Rieva Lesonsky blogs about a recent study from McKinsey & Company showing that small businesses can reap measurable benefits using Web 2.0 apps such as blogging, twitter, mashups and podcasts.
PC World magazine spotlights six downloadable Microsoft Office add-ons that can improve Office performance and user efficiency.
Most small business users end up having to log in to umpteen different websites in the course of their work. Here's an easy way to access them securely without all the login hassles.
Small Business Trends rounds up blog and ezine articles to help entrepreneurs set up or better manage virtual businesses - firms with no central office that rely on online and other digital tools.
Jonathan Blum of tech blog Blumsday reviews EditMe, an online collaboration service aimed at small businesses. It's not perfect, but it is highly customizable and not too expensive.
PC World's Keir Thomas samples the wares at Google's new Chrome Web Store (an app store for Chrome browser add-ons) and comes up with five cool productivity apps.
The latest version of Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, a server operating environment tailored for small businesses with up to 75 employees but limited IT resources, is due out in February.
In a new series in smallbiztechnology.com, consultant Ellen DePasquale details how one client used Basecamp online collaboration software to organize and execute its marketing efforts.
Online small business software vendor Zoho has made its CRM (customer relationship management) application more attractive by integrating with Quickbooks and telephony services.
PC World reviews NEO Pro, a $50 Microsoft Office Outlook plugin that adds a bunch of mail management features, including the ability to store a message in more than one folder at the same time.
Entrepreneur magazine reviews Capsule, an online CRM (customer relationship management) tool that focuses on managing the sales pipeline.
If you're going to use iPads in your small business, you'll need basic business apps along the lines of MS Office. PC World assesses the merits of leading contenders.
Professional image editing programs can cost over $500. Even consumer products cost over $100. But these products are free - and some will do quite nicely for processing images for use on a Web page.
A new Office plugin that lets small business users save Word files to a Google Apps repository and collaboratively edit them online is attractive, but Google ignores security concerns, PC World says.
This post talks about three simple-to-use accounting programs from start-ups that compete with Intuit's perennial market leader, Quicken.
Small business owners are smart but not very productive because because many business processes are still manual, says Smallbiztechnology.com. This post suggests some easy ways to automate..
