Patricia Fusco

Founded in 1998, Bizfinity is an Application Service Provider (ASP) offering an interesting lineup of back-office computing capabilities that are integrated with specific business functions and delivered over a single synchronized platform. BizfinityPro, its flagship service, is a Web-based application built on Oracle’s 8i database and powered by Sun Microsystem’s Enterprise servers. Rather than a […]

Proxim unleashed the latest additions to its ORiNOCO lineup of wireless local area network (WLAN) products this week. Designed for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that desire to support 50 to 250 wireless users, the new AP-600b retails for $395 and supports 802.11b wireless access, while the AP-600a retails for $549 and supports faster 802.11a […]

Cisco Systems this week unveiled its Cisco Solution Center as part of the Yahoo! Small Business directory. The Cisco Solution Center offers specific content and solutions to help small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) accelerate their business progress in vertical-specific industries, such as financial services, healthcare, the public sector, professional services, education, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, transportation, […]

Lockstep Systems this week released its new disk-based backup and disaster recovery software utility designed for the small and midsize businesses. Backup for Workgroups 1.0 delivers many of the same powerful backup and disaster recovery features commonly found in enterprise-class, tape-based backup software, only at a fraction of the cost. Backup for Workgroups’ incremental backup […]

Small businesses can often increase profits and attain new efficiencies by outsourcing payroll functions to trusted third parties. After all, outsourcing allows you to concentrate on your core business, safe in the knowledge that your legal and statutory payroll obligations are being fulfilled. But if you can’t afford a full-service accounting firm, there are other […]

Web services are gaining momentum not only for big businesses in the upper echelon of capital and industry, but also at small- and medium-sized businesses that recognize the promise and potential Web services can provide. Web services are more than one of today’s most important business technology trends. Web services are all about machine-to-machine communication, […]

2nd Story Software’s TaxACT 2002 offers a low-cost alternative to name brand tax-preparation products. The company offers two free tax preparation products — TaxACT Online and TaxACT Standard. They both function about the same way, but TaxACT Online is a Web-based program and TaxACT Standard is a downloadable program users install on a computer. Both […]

eBay, probably one of the world’s best-known consumer e-commerce sites, this week introduced its new business-to-business site, aptly dubbed eBay Business. The business-oriented site brings together all of eBay’s business and industry listings under one easy to browse Web destination. Rather than hunting through more than 500,000 business items listed for sale each week on […]

In a landmark effort to connect big government with small businesses, the U.S. Small Business Administration and U.S. Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to launch a national Business Matchmaking Program. Sponsored by HP, the program is designed to bring small businesses together with government agencies and private companies in face-to-face appointments regarding specific business […]

Every year, Intuit has its hands full supporting TurboTax Free EFile users during the tax-reporting season. But this year, the leading tax preparation software maker has to get a handle on an entirely new issue — user reaction to its 2002 product activation scheme introduced in September. All 2002 TurboTax tax-reporting programs employ Macrovision’s SafeCast […]

Although traditional retailers reported a sales slump for the fourth quarter of 2002, online small businesses operating e-commerce Web sites experienced a boost in holiday sales. At least according to a study of 5,000 small- to medium-sized businesses that participated in a survey conducted by Affinity Internet. More than 40 percent of online small businesses […]

PayCycle, a popular online payroll service for small businesses, recently added a new capability to its PayCycle basic program. The new service allows small businesses to electronically file 1099-MISC, 940 and 941 forms for a flat fee of $20. The inexpensive e-filing service means that small businesses no longer need to purchase expensive 1099 software […]