Dan Muse

The husband-wife team that makes up Imagic Digital does business by a simple rule. The products and technology that Danya and Mark Henninger use have to be mature and stable — and they have to be digital. By living within those guidelines, the company — which specializes in shooting digital photography and video of resorts, […]

What’s the best way for you to communicate with Microsoft? According to Doug Leland, general manager for small business at Microsoft, the Microsoft Small Business Center has been “the key component for communicating with small businesses.” He added Microsoft’s goal is to “build on that foundation and to offer more in-depth training and technical support.” […]

Small businesses often face two obstacles that interfere with their ability to manage their PCs — time and money. However, small business can’t afford to avoid dealing with mobile workers, software license tracking, data backup and protection, patch distribution, and virus protection and compliance. In a move designed to help small businesses easily and affordably […]

In the realm of small business accounting, for years it’s been Quickbooks and everyone else. While it’s too soon to say whether or not Microsoft Small Business Accounting can knock off the reigning champ, the tide may be turning. At least, according to Microsoft, it’s making waves. Announced last November, Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting […]

While many headlines focus on the threat that open source applications present to Microsoft Office, WordPerfect has been consistently chipping away at the king of office suites both in terms of market share and also in terms of features. The company continues to emphasize compatibility with Microsoft Office in Corel WordPerfect X3, which it announced […]

We all think of Google as a giant Web-based search engine, which, of course, it is. But for small businesses looking to add search capabilities to their intranet or Web site, Google is also in the hardware business with its Google Mini search appliance. The Google Mini was originally announced last January and offered the […]

Tomorrow, at large businesses around the country, the eggnog will flow, gifts will be exchanged and general holiday merriment will abound. But you’re a small business owner — you don’t have time for that. Why waste an afternoon on frivolity, when you could be learning about taxes? That’s right. Taxes. Knowing that for small businesses, […]

In a move to help small and medium-size businesses accommodate both their growing networks and the increasing variety of network-attached devices, Netgear today announced three additions to its ProSafe Smart Switch Family: the ProSafe 24Port 10/100 Stackable Smart Switch with 4 Gigabit Ports (FS728TS), ProSafe 48 Port 10/100 Stackable Smart Switch with 4 Gigabit Ports […]

If you’ve been waiting to see how Microsoft has improved its CRM application, the wait is over. About two years in the making, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 adds new marketing features, tighter integration with Microsoft Office and Outlook and a hosted option. “We have been building products specifically designed for small business,” said Doug Leland, […]

If you want the same messaging and collaboration capabilities as large businesses, but you don’t want to invest in costly services and drawn-out deployments, hosted services can be the answer. And if you’re comfortable with Microsoft applications, you don’t have to give that up either. In a move designed to equip its partners with improved […]

Looking to allow small businesses to tap two of the biggest trends in software, iRadeon today announced the iRadeon Dashboard. The new Web-based service is designed to let smaller companies take advantage of both the growing number of open source business applications and the increasing popularity of the software-as-a-service model (i.e., applications delivered online by […]

Many successful small businesses are happy to stay small businesses. After all, if you’re profitable and have loyal customers and employees, trying to push growth for growth’s sake can backfire. On the flip side, most mid-sized businesses grow from small business roots. With growth comes the possibility that you may outgrow the capabilities of software […]