Patricia Fusco

Small businesses are quickly adopting the use of search engine advertising solutions, according to new research from The Kelsey Group and ConStat, co-sponsors of the ongoing Local Commerce Monitor study. The findings of the sixth wave of the Local Commerce Monitor indicate that among small businesses that advertise, 17 percent utilize search engine keyword advertising […]

There’s basically two ways to grow a business — acquire rival firms or acquire new customers. It’s difficult to do both at the same time because growth by acquisition requires extending resources toward integrating old customers into the new fold. Organic growth, actively finding and serving new customers, requires an entirely different set of resources. […]

iAnywhere Solutions, a subsidiary of Sybase, is pushing its enterprise-class anytime, any where database solution down into small- and mid-sized businesses. With the general availability of SQL Anywhere Studio 9, iAnywhere now offers an alternative for smaller businesses that have out grown Microsoft’s Access database program, but still don’t need the computing power of pricier […]

Small and medium businesses — those with 10 to 200 employees — are said to offer significant new technology sales opportunities to larger tech firms, at least according to a recent study by Harte-Hanks. The challenge for large tech companies is to match sales and marketing programs to the most commonly cited buying requirements of […]

Enterprise resource planning, ERP for short, is an industry term that represents a broad set of integrated business activities supported by different applications. ERP software is supposed to make your business fluid — it’s supposed to help you run your business more smoothly and make more money faster. Only true ERP solutions are usually too […]

WatchGuard Technologies, an Internet security solutions provider, this week introduced its new Firebox SOHO 6 Wireless lineup. Designed to provide remote office works, as well as small or home offices with a complete wired and wireless security solution in single appliance, the Firebox SOHO 6 features an integrated 802.11b Wireless Access Point (WAP), 4-port LAN […]

Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications, this week announced the launch of its NTT/VERIO Virtual Private Server Version 2 (VPS v2). The new offering, launched under the Small to Medium Enterprise Hosting unit’s family of products, offers smaller businesses a unique combination of technology and performance in a virtual private server (VPS) hosting solution. VPS […]

Congress just made it a little easier for small businesses to invest in growing their businesses. One of the provisions of the newly passed tax cut package is a quadrupling of the expensing limit for small businesses to purchase capital equipment. The tax cut increases the amount of investment in equipment that a small business […]

A relational database is a collection of information organized as a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables. A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a program that lets you create, update, and administer a relational database. A […]

SonicWALL, known more for its Internet security solutions, this week debuted the second generation of its Content Filtering Service (CFS). SonicWALL CFS 2.0 is an easy-to-use subscription-based service delivered through SonicWALL appliances, such as its recently released SOHO TWZ wireless access security device. SonicWALL CFS 2.0 enables small- and mid-sized businesses to maximize employee productivity […]

Simply Accounting Online, the new Internet-based hosted subscription service of ACCPAC’s popular small business accounting software, provides small businesses with a convenient bookkeeping alternative that’s accessible anytime, anywhere. The online service eliminates the need for server hardware and software installation and automatically manages upgrades, tax compliance updates and data backups. For busy small business owners, […]

Symantec originally introduced pcAnywhere as a telecommuting tool, providing secure remote control solutions for larger organizations. Today, pcAnywhere is used not only for safe and secure telecommuting by large and small offices alike, but also for help desk applications and troubleshooting PC problems at remote offices. With the latest iteration of Symantec’s pcAnywhere software released […]