Jamie Bsales

The best thing about today’s powerful smartphones and tablets isn’t that they can help you perform PC-based tasks on the go, it’s that they deliver a whole universe of functionality you never thought you could have in your pocket. The best business apps leverage the inherent mobility and at-the-ready convenience of mobile devices to let […]

Money keeps your business going. The problem, though, is that you can rarely stop long enough to do the essential chores—invoicing, tracking expenses, and checking on the health of your finances—to maintain the cash flow. But armed with your smartphone and these standalone, finance-related apps, you can take advantage of the minutes between calls and […]

Between traditional desktop software and cloud-based applications, there’s no shortage of ways to get real work done whether you’re in the office of on the go. But sometimes, there’s just you, your smartphone or tablet, a few minutes to fill, and that stubborn proposal that just won’t get done. Fortunately, there’s an app for that—or […]

If you are like most small business owners, your laptop is indispensable. You also like the idea of a tablet for business use, but recognize you’ll still need a full-fledged PC to get work done. You can try to juggle both, or you can buy one device that is both. That’s the idea behind Lenovo’s […]

As a business owner, you likely spend more time away from your desk than at it—and just a few years ago that was a real hardship. Sure, you had your cell phone, but life on the go meant late nights spent doing all the tasks that required your computer and the software that lived on […]

Remember the good old days when music came on a CD, people kept in touch by email, and you loaded software from a disc onto your PC? Now iTunes and Pandora have changed the way we get music; texts and tweets are as important as email, and cloud services and mobile apps have rearranged the […]

A funny thing happened in the mad rush to adopt hip new tablets: People realized they still needed a PC. Mobile apps are certainly fun and handy, and an impossibly thin and light device with a touch screen is convenient to have around. But business buyers still need a laptop to run critical applications, not […]

It’s no wonder that PC sales have fallen off a cliff in recent years. The confluence of belt-tightening due to the Great Recession, the need to invest in fast-evolving mobile products like smartphones and tablets, and the lack of a pressing software need for faster office machines left many small business owners delaying PC upgrades. […]

You’ll also want to check out the range of online tools and educational products offered, including a handy Tax Calendar desktop tool that alerts you as various deadlines approach. Tax Time? Think Intuit Thanks to its TurboTax line of products, Intuit has become inexorably linked with tax time. The company offers a range of tax […]

Between Gmail, Search, Maps, Android and the up-and-coming Chrome browser, it’s almost assured that Google is part of your daily business life in some way. But if you’re like most business owners, you haven’t considered Google+ as a serious business tool. You’re not alone. Since its public debut in late 2011, Google+ has been building […]

Original post on 5/01/2012. Updated on 5/16/2012 – We’re making our guide to small business accounting software even more awesome by adding two new products released today by Sage. If you own or manage a small business and need an entry-level option, take a look at the cloud-based Sage One, which specializes in bookkeeping and […]

Small business retailers have watched the shopping spectacle known as Black Friday soak up ever-more attention from the media and precious disposable income from shoppers — to the tune of $10.7 billion in 2010 according to some estimates. The vast majority of that revenue goes to a relatively small pool of big-box retailers, which entice […]