Lauren Simonds

Small-scale retailers looking to gain more control over their point-of-sales transactions or who want to simplify the transaction process for their customers might appreciate the latest news coming out of HPtoday. The company announced its first integrated point-of-sale (POS) system featuring HP-branded peripherals that run on an open-standards hardware and software platform. Based on HP’s […]

Does your business struggle to keep track of signed agreements, invoices, approvals and contracts? EchoSign, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, believes that many small businesses do, and it also believes that its document management system — a hosted, Web-based service — is the right tool for the task. Here’s how EchoSign is designed to work: […]

Just because a business is small doesn’t mean it does a small business. Plenty of companies with fewer than 20 employees generate thousands of printed pages and demand big performance and capability when it comes to in-house printing. It’s exactly these companies – the ones with high-volume, professional-quality print needs – that Xerox has its […]

Last November, we told you about Miralink, a company that makes IP-based recovery solutions that save an exact copy of your business data in two physically different locations. Today, the company announced another member of this real-time disaster recovery family, the Miralink 400, that’s designed especially for small- and medium-sized businesses. Like its previous models, […]

Any businessperson can tell you that the better you know what your customers like, the easier it is to make a sale. But that’s harder to do when you run a Web site. Web analytic software can help; it lets you monitor site traffic for things like general trends, number of visitors per page, the page they […]

The seemingly endless stream of notebooks arriving on the market today reflects the simple fact that about the only thing mobile workers have in common is their mobility. Beyond that, their computing needs are as individual as, well, individuals. Today, HP announced a portfolio of five different notebook series designed to appeal to all kinds […]

A recent spate of corporate security breaches has at least two big companies scrambling after the loss or theft of corporate notebooks resulted in exposing the personal information of thousands of clients and employees. In one case, a notebook stolen from Ernst and Young contained the personal data on employees from Sun Microsystems, Cisco, IBM, […]

Last October, Eli, Inc., announced TrustEli, an all-in-one security appliance featuring a wireless router with a managed service that provides, monitors and maintains firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam and content-filtering capabilities. Today, the company announced it’s taking that appliance a step further by adding remote access — in the form of secure VPN — to the mix. […]

The briefcase used to be the standard means of conveyance when taking work home or across the country. With the advent of USB Flash drives, you can fit today’s digital workload in the palm of your hand and still have plenty of room for your car keys and a latte. But digital files keep getting […]

While some small business owners cringe at the very thought of processing their own payroll, others cringe at the mere thought of relinquishing control over that paramount responsibility. It takes all kinds. However, in these tech-driven times, employees have come to expect certain amenities — namely direct deposit — and for small companies that handle […]

If you’ve ever thought about severing the umbilical cord to your local print shop and producing your own marketing materials, then you’re just the kind of small business owner that HP’s trying to woo. The company’s announcing eight new printers — plus new services and updated software — designed to help SMBs produce their own […]

Last month, Microsoft announced a partnership with Best Buy wherein small businesses could receive advice on — and purchase — Microsoft technology at Best Buy for Business centers, the nationwide retailer’s store-within-a-store. This month (and just in time for National Small Business Week), Lenovo has announced a similar relationship. The company’s entire product line — […]