Patricia Fusco

Older operating systems have a way of dragging a business down. The proposition of upgrading a business network can be costly, but not making the move to a more efficient, and more importantly, more secure operating system (OS) can be ruinous. There’s no such thing as an easy OS migration. For many businesses, OS migration […]

How do small businesses view the impact of technology? Where do they shop to acquire hardware and software? How do they finance those acquisitions? Hewlett Packard wanted to know, so it teamed up the Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) to co-sponsor the “Small Business Technology Poll.” The survey was developed and supervised by COMsciences, an […]

In 2003 Intuit, the maker of TurboTax software, outraged millions of taxpayers with a new anti-piracy scheme that disallowed multiple use of the tax preparation program. A single-use activation code was built into all versions of TurboTax 2002 software. As a result, the program could only be activated on one computer. And TurboTax 2002 users […]

Internet security solutions provider Network Associates recently released McAfee Desktop Firewall ASaP, a managed, host-based firewall technology for small- and medium-sized businesses. McAfee Desktop Firewall ASaP is a managed firewall security service that monitors, controls, and logs a computer’s network and system activity. McAfee Desktop Firewall ASaP provides PC protection for small- to medium-sized businesses […]

Cisco Systems and Microsoft today announced that the two companies are combining their respective strengths in information technology (IT) hardware, software and services to help spur small- and medium-sized business deployments of computer systems once reserved for enterprise-class corporations only. Building on the twosome’s prior collaboration in areas such as enterprise-class data center architecture and […]

When IBM first released the X31 ThinkPad in March 2003 it was heralded as the undisputable, ultra-portable, heavyweight champion of the lightweight notebook computer world. Weighing in at just 3.6 pounds and packing a powerful processing punch, product reviewers proclaimed that mobile computing doesn’t get much better than this. That is, of course, until today. […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft have been cited as three of the leading suppliers of technology for small- and medium- size businesses by information technology research firm Gartner. In its first ever vendor ratings of the most powerful global technology providers serving the small- to medium-sized business market, Gartner analyzes each vendors strengths and weaknesses. Microsoft […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft have been cited as three of the leading suppliers of technology for small- and medium- size businesses by information technology research firm Gartner. In its first ever vendor ratings of the most powerful global technology providers serving the small- to medium-sized business market, Gartner analyzes each vendors strengths and weaknesses. Gartner […]

If speed kills, Xerox is ready to take a whack at HP and Lexmark for a fair share of the small business printing and imaging market. Xerox unleashed three new Phaser printers this week, each designed with different small- and mid-sized businesses in mind. With two units priced under the $1,000 mark, ‘The Document Company’ […]

Last August eBay kicked off its first “Big Savings for Small Business” contest in which small businesses could win $25,000 to put toward purchases made through the online auction colossus. To enter the contest, small business owners had to answer the question: “If I won $25,000, what would I buy on eBay to help my […]