Dan Muse

Looking to offer alternatives to Dell and HP for small and mid-size enterprises shopping for servers and storage server, Gateway today announced three servers designed to help you more efficiently run applications and databases. The Gateway 9715 is a 6U rack-mount server that, at $3,999, hits a price point typically associated with 4U servers, according […]

If you run a retail shop, the competition is all around you. You have the superstore chains on one side and other local small businesses on the other. Competitive advantages don’t come easily, but Microsoft, a company that knows a thing or two about competitive advantages, says PC-based point of sale (POS) systems can provide […]

Some small retailers are just happy to make the sale. In today’s competitive retail market, who could blame them? However, a growing number of store owners are seeing the benefit of automating their point of sale operation and integrating storefront transactions with their back-office accounting and inventory systems. Using products such as Intuit’s QuickBooks Point […]

Think your business is an innovative, think-outside-the-box-kind of place? If you can convince UPS of that, you can win cash and computers. The package delivery and supply chain services giant recently announced the launch of a national contest in which it is searching for the most innovative U.S.-based small businesses. UPS dubbed the contest the […]

Although HP’s Kevin Gilroy stopped short of calling it the company’s biggest rollout of printing and imaging products for small and mid-sized businesses, he did say yesterday’s blitz is “certainly one of the two or three biggest launches” aimed at the SMB market. The sweeping product announcements were made at the HP 2005 Imaging and […]

Looking to help small and mid-sized companies move to the next level of fixed storage and archiving, EMC Corp. today announced that it will now offer its Centera family of content addressed storage (CAS) systems in configurations more appropriate for smaller operations. The new Centera offer falls under EMC’s Making Storage Simple campaign, which is […]

Looking to offer more content-control features and to make Web-based conferencing more open to third-party content and service providers, Macromedia today announced a new version of Breeze. New in Breeze 5 are Voice over IP, on-demand video, and real-time multipoint video conferencing. Breeze 5, like previous versions, taps the popularity of the Macromedia Flash Player, […]

Can anyone compete successfully with Microsoft Office when it comes to small business software? Corel is taking a pretty good run it. The company’s productivity and graphics applications — long-time staples in offices, but overshadowed in recent years — have been gaining momentum recently. Corel is now taking another step towards at least denting Microsoft […]

Looking to further expand its entry-level server and network-based storage lines, Gateway yesterday announced the availability of a new 1U rackmount server and a 2U Serial ATA storage area network (SAN). The Gateway 9415 is the first server in its price range to offer RAID 5 capabilities with redundant power in 1U rackmount configurable, according […]

Looking to offer high speed, color and convenience in one package that prints, copies and scans, Xerox Corp. today unveiled a new multifunction device aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. The WorkCentre C2424 is designed to produce color and black-and-white documents at a speedy 24 pages per minute — a speed that, Xerox claims, hasn’t […]

What’s as thin as a pizza box, doesn’t consume much power or require a web of cables, handles all your server needs, and can grow as your business grows? Blade servers, of course. You may have known that, but what you may not know is blades aren’t just for large enterprises looking to consolidate hundreds […]

Whether you’re looking for advice for big issues such as buying or a selling a business or something as pragmatic as how to design invoices and other forms, Yahoo! wants to be your one-stop destination on the Web. The company, which also offers a wide range of Web hosting, e-commerce and marketing services, announced yesterday […]