Lauren Simonds

It used to be simple: Web sites were for e-commerce. If your business didn’t sell goods online, you didn’t need a Web site. That attitude today can kill a business faster than an IRS audit. And yet, 46 percent of the approximately 25 million small businesses in the U.S. don’t have a Web site, according […]

Last April, Lenovo entered into a partnership with Best Buy to let customers get up close and personal with the computer manufacturer’s desktop and notebook PCs being sold at Best Buy for Business kiosks — the retail giant’s store-within-a-store. However, while you could try-it-before-you-buy-it, you couldn’t leave the store with your PC in tow. You […]

Whether you need to print a single hard copy to give a rough draft a closer read, collate 50 copies of a client proposal or create full-color marketing materials to pitch your services, the printer is the workhorse you rely on time and time again. And according to the results of our 2007 Small Business […]

You need to keep your business safe from the vast assortment of digital vermin that threaten to infect your PCs. But they morph and evolve so quickly, it feels like an impossible task. In an effort to address this issue, and to offer its customers even more security protection, EarthLink, one of the largest Internet […]

The fact that small businesses face the same fast-paced storage growth issues as enterprise companies isn’t exactly a newsflash. So how do you address your storage needs when you don’t have the budget to afford, or IT staff to understand, the more expensive and complex products available to the big guys? Fortunately, one of the […]

Unless you’ve been confined for the last few years on a remote South Pacific island with only Tom Hanks and a volley ball to keep you company, you know that Vista, Microsoft’s new operation system, is due to debut on January 30. What you may not know is that this event, which coincides with the […]

One of the big advantages that small businesses have over large corporations is the ability to adapt on the fly. That nimble nature often translates into a competitive edge, but not every small business can afford to invest in — and then maintain — the IT infrastructure to support that flexibility. That’s where on-demand services, […]

Whether it’s shedding pounds or bad habits, the personal resolutions we make each year often go down the tube faster than you can say “Auld Lang Syne.” But how about making professional resolutions? We’re talking resolutions that protect your business and customer data, improve efficiency and keep your systems virus-free and running smoothly — actions […]

Try as we might, we can’t report on every product or service that passes over the editor’s desk here at Small Business Computing. But as any high-wire act can tell you, working without a net doesn’t make any sense. Our net is the Product Watch page, where we post press releases on products we think […]

Now that the holiday shopping blitz is nothing but a fading memory, you can sit back, breathe a sigh of relief and reacquaint yourself with life outside your business. Family, friends and fun…it’s all coming back to you, right? Once you’ve recharged your batteries, you can take stock of your business — what worked, what […]

How much time do your employees — particularly your sales people — spend in Outlook? Given the popular e-mail client’s ubiquity, chances are the answer is — a lot. Avidian decided to better leverage that time in Outlook by turning the personal information manager into a full-fledged sales CRM application. Prophet 4.0, the latest version, […]

Yesterday, it was called Metavize, but today the San Mateo, Calif.-based company officially changed its name to Untangle and, more importantly, announced that its suite of on-demand network security software is now free to the more than five million U.S. small businesses with 10 or fewer employees. Untangle says it offers the same enterprise-level protection […]