Lauren Simonds

It’s the end of the day, you’ve got a presentation due tomorrow morning, and it still needs fine-tuning. You e-mail the file so you can work on it at home. Problem is, there’s no file waiting for you. Seems you mistyped your own e-mail address. Now what? BeInSync, a company based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, today […]

The Schlitterbahn Water Park Resort, located in New Braunfels, Texas (population 37,000), is the most popular water park in the United States, and it attracts nearly one million people during its summer season. Recently, Schlitterbahn hit a milestone of sorts; it now runs the entire park using Dell computers. We decided to take a look […]

Expanding on its line of Track-It help desk and asset management products, Intuit has announced a software program called Network Monitor. This set of tools helps IT and network managers monitor small and medium sized company networks in order to find and repair problems before they result in expensive down time. According to David Weiss, […]

Over the past few months, we’ve been reporting on Microsoft’s Technology Makeovers contest. You read about how winners Andrew McLeod of the Pigeon Internet Group and Denise and Carlos Nunez of Japanese Car Care improved their businesses with their winnings. This month, we take a look at how this technology windfall will affect Microsoft’s third […]

In the online world of $35-per-year domain registrations and Web hosting that runs anywhere from eight to 40 dollars a month, GoDaddy.com is making a name for itself (albeit an unusual one), by offering low-end pricing and high-end features. Bob Parsons, the company’s president and founder, saw opportunity in the over-priced domain registry market. “I […]

Today Iomega announces a Firewire version of its REV drive, targeted directly at Mac users. The two-toned white and gray REV 35GB 1394/Firewire drive matches other Mac peripherals and provides portable storage suitable for large file transfers and data backup. The native Firewire drive uses 35GB cartridge disks and provides up to 25MB per second […]

SMBs often use a variety of software titles that require licenses for each employee using them and have a tough time keeping a handle on when those licenses expire. Companies often buy software titles from multiple vendors at varying intervals, so the licenses expire at different times, makes tracking a challenge. Renewing an expired license […]

Whether its lawyers sending contracts, realtors providing new listings or restaurants faxing menus, lots of small businesses rely on volume faxing. Just as you can save money by switching your phone service to VoIP, you can send faxes over the Internet — also known as FoIP — and save a bundle in the process. BVRP, […]

Out of 125 entries, the judges (members of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship of the University of Texas at Austin) chose ten finalists, and from the final ten they selected one national winner: Donald A. Gardner Architects located in Greenville, S.C. We take a look at the company, what it does and why it […]

Tight budgets, rising travel costs and increased security procedures make face-to-face business communications a challenge for an SMB with a scattered workforce. Although video-conferencing has been available for years, the cost has generally been prohibitive to all but big enterprise players. Now, thanks to GlowPoint, the nation’s first carrier-grade, IP-based video communications service provider, SMBs […]

EGramPlus, Inc, a N.C.-based software company, offers a new software program called EGramPlus that promises to eliminate spam. According to the company, the program combines the power of white lists and disposable, or public, e-mail addresses to confound Internet e-mail harvesters. A white list (also known as a trusted list) is the list of e-mail […]

In the first installation of our storySmall Business Makeovers by Microsoft, we profiled one of the three companies that won a complete technology makeover. Next up, we look at how this technological windfall may well help the owners of an auto repair shop realize their dream of opening a second store. Profile 2 Company: Japanese […]