Lauren Simonds

Tired of hunting through a paper jungle for a contract/invoice/W-2 form or other vital record you needed yesterday? eFileCabinet, a world-wide provider of document management software says its latest release can help turn that jungle into a manicured garden ‑ while providing security protocols and regulatory compliance across a wide range of industries. Founded in […]

In an economy where everyone’s doing whatever it takes to keep business open, it’s nice to know that a small business owner can still catch a break. Intuit recently announced that it’s temporarily reducing the price of its online payroll service from $29.95 a month to $9.95 a month for new customers. The company’s also […]

Microsoft has announced new server software that it said provides small and medium businesses with enterprise-quality capabilities while helping them to save money, increase productivity and grow their businesses. While designed specifically for small and midsized companies, Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (EBS 2008) include Microsoft’s high-end […]

Cisco, a leading enterprise networking Goliath, today announced a $100 million global strategy designed to develop technologies and products for small business with less than 100 employees. The initiative involves organizational restructuring that includes creating both a Small Business Technology Group and a Small Business Council to direct and implement the strategy. Tasked with developing […]

Growing your business in a stalled economy requires tenacity, creativity and resourcefulness. Good tools help too, and Elance.com could be one that you want to add to your small business arsenal. Elance is an online workplace where business owners can go to meet and hire the freelance professionals they need to get tasks done. “We […]

In this tight economy, you literally can’t afford to let anything disrupt your business, even for a short period of time. But too many small businesses remain vulnerable, as we discovered when we spoke with Emerson Network Power about its online study showing that 61 percent of small businesses do not have backup power systems […]

When a big fish eats a little fish, it’s not generally a happy ending for the guppy. But the news coming out of Iomega, now part of EMC, the one of the largest storage tech companies in the world, looks promising. Today Iomega announced the StorCenter ix2, a two-terabyte network attached storage appliance that, the […]

Today marks the start of Microsoft’s three-day Small Business Summit – a free, online event that showcases more than 35 experts sharing insight, information and advice to help small business owners compete, grow and succeed. The event will be broadcast live from Microsoft studios to more than 370 syndicated Web sites, and the company expects […]

If you watched any of the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games, you “saw” Lenovo servers managing events in 56 venues across seven cities. But outside of China, people are far more familiar with Lenovo’s ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops than they are with the company’s servers. For small business owners, that may be about to change. […]

Last month, HP released the RP3000, a small-footprint POS computer system designed to help small retailers manage their businesses. Today, the company unveiled a verification program intended to make it easier for those same retailers to find reliably compatible POS software applications. When it comes to point-of-sale solutions, hardware is just one part of the […]

Everybody loves YouTube. In January 2008 alone, Americans watched more than three billion videos on the site, according to an analyst report from comScore. Capturing even a fraction of a percent of those eyeballs could reap big profits for a small business. But how do you cash in on all that love? We suggest you […]

GoDaddy, the flashy patriarch of online presence and Microsoft, the mother of all software companies, are the no doubt proud parents of the latest arrival designed for small business at GoDaddy.com: mobile and group e-mail plans with Outlook, powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The offspring take the form of three plans –  Personal Outlook, […]