Andy Patrizio

Savvy small business owners often go through all kinds of headaches to secure their company computers, only to have their employees undermine everything with foolish out-of-the-office behavior. That’s the conclusion of a new report by antivirus vendor Trend Micro. The more mobile an employee is, the more likely he is to send confidential information via […]

Fujitsu Computer Systems is known primarily for its high-end servers, but the company is making a play for the small business market with the release of its Primergy TX120 tower server. The TX120 measures just four-inches wide by 13-inches tall and 16-inches deep, produces 28 decibels (dB) while idle and 31 dB in operation and […]

Salesforce.com has confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in Silicon Valley. At a media event here, Salesforce announced it’s extending its partnership with Google to provide tighter integration between Salesforce CRM applications and Google’s advertising and tracking resources. Early speculation thought the deal was going to be aimed at the enterprise. However, the announcement […]

Small to medium-sized businesses often don’t have the security policies, systems or know-how in place the way their larger enterprise brethren do, and that’s a lurking danger. So says a new survey by security adviser MessageLabs. In identifying the problem MessageLabs, not surprisingly, says it also has a solution. The company is launching the Small […]

Seagate on Monday announced a partnership with ASI Computer Technologies to deliver laptops with encrypted hard drives. The advantage of these drives is if the notebook is lost or stolen, the data on the drive is inaccessible. ASI provides the laptop equivalent of a “white box,” or an unbranded PC to value added resellers (VARs) […]

Computer firms are alerting their customers of an impending problem related to the change in daylight savings time next month, which could throw their computer clocks off by an hour. The issue stems from the change in dates for daylight savings time, the annual tradition best defined by the phrase “spring forward, fall back.” In […]

Small businesses across the country will eventually have to decide whether or not to upgrade their computers or to buy new systems pre-loaded with the Windows Vista operating system. That eventuality finally has a due date according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s platform and services division. During a conference call yesterday, he announced that […]

Microsoft is taking its Office Live service live and out of beta on November 15, expanding its offerings for small businesses both in content and its availability overseas. Office Live is a set of Internet-based services for small businesses, designed to get them up and running online quickly. Microsoft launched the service in February and […]

Lenovo’s new line of ThinkPad notebooks is designed to secure the entire contents of the hard drive with the swipe of a finger. And given the rate at which laptops are stolen in this country, it couldn’t have come at a better time. Laptop theft stories have dominated tech and security news this year. Some […]

Microsoft recently released Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 (RC2), build 5744, which it expects will be the final build before the long-delayed operating system is released to manufacturing. “As we stated from the beginning of Windows Vista development, the quality of the product will always be our first priority. That said, Microsoft continues to target […]

At the rate we’re going, safe surfing of the Internet is starting to require more pieces and components than a real life suit of armor. Antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, anti-malware, firewalls…do we have enough software to keep us safe? Apparently not. Symantec said it’s about to begin public beta testing for Norton Confidential, an online transaction […]

Salesforce.com has announced the availability of Summer ’06, the 20th release of its on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) software. The new release features additional connectivity options to third-party products and to non-Salesforce.com subscribers. One of the major additions is the Salesforce Connector for SAP R/3, providing integration between Salesforce.com’s applications and the widely-used ERPsoftware. The […]