Lauren Simonds

Maxtor places the emphasis squarely on mobility and security in the latest addition to its OneTouch line of external drives, the OneTouch III Mini Edition. The drive also represents the company’s first foray into small, 2.5-inch form-factor drives — a development no doubt influenced by Seagate’s recent purchase of Maxtor. Industry speculation aside, Maxtor designed […]

If you’re driving down the highway and your car suddenly breaks down, do you pull over, grab the toolbox out of the trunk and crawl under the hood to make a repair? Not likely. Chances are you pull out your cell phone and call a tow truck to haul the vehicle to the nearest garage. […]

Giant corporations aren’t the only companies with data storage needs that continue to increase at an alarming rate. Many small businesses face the same situation, which is compounded even more by regulatory compliance issues, small budgets and the lack of IT resources. In an effort to address the need for more storage space, Buffalo Technologies, […]

Faster. Stronger. Smarter. That’s the battle cry coming out of Round Rock, Texas, as Dell announces the availability of its new D-family line of Latitude business notebooks. The company claims that the D620 and the D820 offer a lighter, slimmer design while incorporating technology to improve mobility, security and all-around performance. Both the D620 and […]

Office space is at a premium in just about any small business, and it’s getting harder to justify the file cabinet space when a decent scanner can digitize all those documents for you. Extra floor space isn’t the only benefit, either. You’ll be better able to track and organize documents, maintain audit trails and other […]

Expanding on its current small business offerings, Skype, a popular Internet communications company, has announced Skype for Business, a program the company says is designed to help SMBs better manage communications, improve productivity and reduce costs. Thirty percent of Skype’s 75 million customers use the service to conduct business, and most of them have fewer […]

Save the date. Mark your calendar. Set an Outlook alert. Whatever you do to remind yourself of an upcoming opportunity, do it now. Starting Tuesday, March 14 and running through Friday March 17, Microsoft will host a small business summit — and it’s free. If a trip to Washington State doesn’t exactly fit into your […]

HP’s focus on mobility keeps getting sharper as the company today announced two notebook series and an extended-power battery designed to keep small business workers connected and productive. The HP Compaq 9400 Notebook PC Series fits into the desktop replacement category, and HP intends it for workers who require both high performance and portability. Carol […]

Lenovo, the Chinese company that purchased IBM’s ThinkPad and ThinkCentre notebook and desktop division last year, is hardly a household name in the U.S. But in a move to boost its brand awareness, the company just launched the Lenovo 3000 family of products — the first Lenovo-branded computers outside of China. According to Forrester Research, […]

In an ongoing effort to simplify its line of products for small businesses, Intuit has announced a credit card processing package aimed at companies that handle less than $5,000 worth of credit card transactions per month. Intuit designed the Credit Card Processing Kit, which sells for $39.95, for companies that don’t need a full-blown accounting […]

Storage — it’s something every business needs plenty of and, fortunately, prices have fallen to the point where it’s not unreasonable for small companies to have a network attached storage (NAS) box — with hundreds of gigabytes — plugged into a computer network. It’s great to have the comfort of, and access to, all that […]

Sending large or sensitive files to clients and co-workers isn’t always easy, especially for small businesses that don’t have the luxury of an extranet. E-mail has its limits — e-mail systems typically handle attachments up to — at most 10MB. The cost and complexity of an FTP site doesn’t make it an a practical solution […]