Lauren Simonds

After employing what it calls the most state-of-the-art, customer-centric research practices “ever applied to one single e-commerce site,” Staples.com has finally re-launched itself in an effort to make shopping online for office products faster and easier. This comes months after the company pulled the plug on the new site the day before it was originally […]

If you’ve been thinking a Web site might be just the ticket to help get your small business noticed, but haven’t a clue where to begin, then Register.com wants to talk with you. The company offers a Web site service called Build-It-For-Me that’s designed to, well you know, build it for you. Register.com aims the […]

Businesses come in all shapes and sizes and so do their data backup needs. Products and services aimed at large enterprises abound, but for a small business run by a sole proprietor or one with only a handful of employees, finding a solution that’s tailored to your needs and budget can feel like trying to […]

New technological advances just keep rolling in, and the current one facing SMBs is the dual-core processor platform. The technology promises to deliver increased performance and power-consumption efficiency to both desktops and servers. Today, Dell announced one of the first dual-core servers — the entry-level PowerEdge SC430. Along with the server, Dell also announced three […]

We don’t know how you feel about it, but “free” is our favorite word. Especially when it relates to products or services that make a small business owner’s workday easier. Who’s with us? So when we heard that Nsite — a company specializing in on-demand, automated processes that are typically managed through e-mail and spreadsheets […]

Whether your small business involves high-volume color printing or focuses on small-quantity, high-quality color reproduction, Xerox wants its printers to be at the top of your I-gotta-get-it list. To that end, and as part of a larger 24-product announcement, Xerox today announced two new color printers specifically aimed at small-and-medium business owners: the Phaser 6300 […]

It’s not often that you find a link between a technology and an American literary giant, but when it comes to tape as a backup medium, the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Ever since the advent of high capacity hard drives, hard disk manufacturers have been trying to administer tape its last […]

A novel product, well-positioned business plan and a clear ability to “think big” — that’s what convinced Sir Richard Branson — chairman and founder of Virgin and judge of Yahoo Search Marketing‘s Think Big contest — to declare StairCycle Innovations the winner. Craig Ridenhour is a cardiovascular ultrasound specialist and the CEO of the Phoenix-based […]

Multiple people accessing multiple computers in a fast-paced environment can make securing data a challenge. Imagine a medical office, where doctors, nurses and support staff need to access patient records, insurance information or calendaring applications repeatedly. In these days of federally mandated auditing, patient privacy and identity theft, tracking who accessed what information and when […]

Ask just about any SMB owner what keeps him or her up at night, and you’re likely to get an earful about virus attacks, lost data or the challenges involved when upgrading PCs. That’s what the Yankee Group found in its 2004 IT infrastructure survey, and it’s what drove Computer Associates (CA), one of the […]

Protecting your identity and personal information while using the Internet is certainly a challenge and a growing concern for everyone — and small business owners are no exception. A layered security approach helps, and it makes sense to incorporate a variety of tools to combat the ever-changing, always-increasing barrage of digital threats, hackers, scammers and […]

Qualified sales leads are the lifeblood of just about any company. One of the best places to look for such leads is your company Web site where you can analyze traffic and other metrics to drive sales and marketing efforts. Manticore Technology, an Austin, Texas-based application service provider that specializes in online optimization software has […]