Lauren Simonds

It’s hard to imagine conducting business today without e-mail. Transmitting data electronically offers many benefits, speed being the primary advantage. Still, there’s a downside. Viruses and spam get a lot of attention when it comes to the dark side of e-mail, but what about the misdirection or outright theft of intellectual property? You know how […]

Shifting away from its tradition of serving the mid-size and enterprise markets, Lenovo recently announced the ThinkCentre E Series, PCs built with the needs of small business in mind. According to Dilip Bhatia, Lenovo’s program director, feedback from small business owners (Lenovo defines small business as companies with one to 99 employees) showed they were […]

Maxtor’s new external drive places a terabyte of storage space on your desktop — that’s 1000 gigabytes of digital real estate ready to house your business data, MP3s, digital images, video and just about any other electronic file you might have. But seriously, folks, who needs this kind of space? After all, it’s not an […]

Last June, Computer Associates (CA) announced its line of Protection Suites, software packages designed to make it easier for small businesses to protect their data. Today, the company announced release two of the suites. The software within the suites remains the same; what’s new is an integrated management interface for all five products and a […]

Expanding on its Smart Office initiative to make acquiring, using and maintaining technology easier for small and medium businesses, HP today announced new products and services related to data safety and recovery, storage and financing. “This is part of our on-going effort to deliver smart advice, smart technology and smart services that meet the needs […]

Ever sat on the phone for what seems like hours with a support technician asking you an endless series of questions as he tries to puzzle out what’s wrong with your PC? It’s an almost-universal experience that most of us never care to repeat. That’s why remote desktop support — a direct online connection that […]

As the adage says, acknowledging that you have a problem is the first step toward solving it. But it’s one thing to know that you need to protect your company’s critical data and another thing entirely to create a plan, test it to make sure it works, and then put it into action. On the […]

When it comes to small business collaboration and communication, getting everyone in your company on the same page doesn’t can be a challenge — and an expensive one at that. Small companies might want Microsoft Exchange capability, but both the cost and the complexity of the messaging solution often places Exchange far out of reach. […]

When a new player enters a market, the resulting competition almost always benefits the consumer, either through the introduction of a product that’s better than what’s currently available or through price drops that make a venerable product even more appealing. Case in point: Intuit has announced it is cutting prices on its upcoming 2006 line […]

Loyalty — it’s a quality that small business owners strive to elicit from their customers, and it’s exactly what CompUSA would love to receive from small business. Of course nothing builds customer loyalty better than providing quality products and exceptional service, but a pecuniary enticement to foster that allegiance doesn’t hurt, either. The national chain […]

The latest ThinkPad notebooks from Lenovo — the Z-Series — offer small business owners and employees yet another way to stay connected while on the road: integrated high-speed EV-DO Wireless WAN (WWAN). In English that translates as the Verizon Wireless network that lets you connect to the Internet at speeds somewhere between 400 and 700 […]

Best known for remote access appliances for small-and-medium businesses, EnKoo today announced its adding new function to its current form. The new feature, called Meeting@MyPC, is a software-based Web conferencing tool available on EnKoo’s family of remote-access appliances, the EnKoo 1000, 2000 and 3000. Ajit Deora, the EnKoo’s CEO, said that Meeting@MyPC is the first […]