Patricia Fusco

Last October Transmeta demonstrated how its new Efficeon, or TM8000, processor works. According to the company, Efficeon is said to offer performance increases of about 50 percent over the Crusoe processor. At the time, manufacturers expected to see the chipset at work in new notebooks before the first quarter of 2004 was through. They were […]

Were it not such a shocking shade of lime green, Greencomputer Innovation’s PowerElf II would be considered just another white-box server solution produced by yet another value-added reseller. But increases in small business IT spending levels is a driving force behind white-box server sales — which is good news for white-box assemblers because small businesses […]

Customer relationship management technologies are a bit misunderstood, partly because there are so many different flavors of CRM programs and services available today, and partly because getting disparate business processes to work together can be quite complex. Adding to the confusion is the fact that some applications that are called CRM systems are merely glorified […]

Desktop databases offer simple, flexible solutions for organizing, storing and retrieving information. A good desktop database program is often a sufficient solution for building an uncomplicated data organizational system for a small business. While Microsoft Access may be found on more business computers than FileMaker Pro, credit should go to Microsoft’s success in software bundling, […]

According to IDC’s quarterly server tracking report, the fourth quarter of 2003 marked three consecutive quarters of positive growth in worldwide server sales. Worldwide server unit shipments grew dramatically by 22 percent, when compared with prior year. Hewlett-Packard intends to keep the market momentum moving forward by expanding its ProLiant server portfolio with an addition […]

Middleware inherently requires middlemen to facilitate small- and medium-sized business deployments of integrated computing solutions. Just as journeymen once set signals on railroad tracks to secure a safe journey, so to IBM has set a new course for its business partners to follow. More and more resellers, independent software vendors and systems integrators are climbing […]

Customer information is not worth being collected if the data can’t be used to drive additional sales. NetSuite this week released a major upgrade to its hosted business software service that squarely puts the “customer” back into customer relationship management. NetSuite 9.5 includes advanced customer relationship management features, which are based on the programs ability […]

Small businesses that have demonstrated success by leveraging computer technologies may be eligible to win $50,000 in computer software, hardware and services by entering Microsoft’s “Realizing Business Potential” contest. Chuck Sharp, marketing vice president for the Information Technology Solution Providers Alliance (ITSPA), a national non-profit small business technology advocate, said small- to medium-sized businesses have […]

A funny thing happened while Corel’s new chief executive stumped for institutional capital support for its flagship software products CorelDRAW and WordPerfect. Derek Burney hooked up with Amish Mehta, a principal at Vector Capital. As a happenstance would have it, Vector Capital completed its acquisition of Corel in August 2003, and Mehta was a key […]

A paradigm shift is a change from one way of thinking to another. It’s a revolutionary transformation, a sort of metamorphosis that marks an abrupt change in the form or structure of an entity. It doesn’t just happen — a paradigm shift is driven by agents of change. Oddly enough, eBay Business is becoming an […]

According to the Small Business Administration (SBA) there are more than 22.9 million small businesses in the United States. Home-based businesses account for as much as 53 percent of all U.S. small businesses. The way a medium-sized business with 500 employees buys laptop and desktop computers is completely different than the way a home-based entrepreneur […]