Paul Mah

The Samsung CLX-4195FW Color Multifunction laser printer offers small businesses four-in-one print, copy, scan and fax functionality. In addition to its high-resolution color printouts, the multifunction printer (MFP) comes with a vibrant, 4.3-inch color touch-screen operating panel and an impressive array of both wired and wireless interfaces. It sells for $449.99 direct from Samsung and […]

Evernote last month announced Evernote Business, a product that, according to the company, is specifically designed for small businesses. For the uninitiated, Evernote is a highly-popular cloud-based service designed for storing and organizing digital information online. Images, audio clips and textual data captured in Evernote are fully searchable, and you can access them from any […]

You may have read of the outage experienced by major Web host and domain registrar GoDaddy earlier this month. For many hours, millions of websites and email accounts hosted by the company were inaccessible, including sites that were using its DNS hosting services. Though a member of the notorious Anonymous hacker collective came forward to […]

The Lenovo ThinkStation S30 is a workstation that combines powerful graphics processing with the number-crunching capability of the Intel Xeon processor. The S30 caters to 2D- and 3D-content creators, mid-range CAD applications, and professions that require a blend of performance and graphics computing capabilities.  To facilitate the latter, the S30 offers a comprehensive range of […]

It seems like every other month that a major online service has its password database stolen, starting a new ripple effect as hackers try out the compromised passwords on other online services. While the obvious solution would be to stop using the same password on different websites, two-factor authentication is a viable and far stronger […]

You may have read about how the IEEE has formed a group to tackle Terabit Ethernet in the wake of a report showing that global bandwidth will rise more than tenfold by 2015. What caught my attention in the IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report (page 16 of the pdf file), is that […]

I was invited to an EMC briefing in Singapore last week, where company executives shared the findings of a recent survey titled The Disaster Recovery Survey 2012: Asia Pacific and Japan, conducted by independent research company Vanson Bourne. Through chatting with the executives, I learned about how a sizeable proportion of businesses in India claim to […]

While small and mid-sized businesses are smaller than enterprise companies in terms of their headcount or their gross revenues, they not always tiny organizations that occupy a small space. In the past, I worked for two small businesses: one that spread over a large factory compound with clusters of small departments; and the second firm […]

Has your small business gone digital when it comes to banking? If so, you know the convenience of online banking first-hand. Whether you’re already a convert or just starting to think about it, you need to understand the risks involved and the steps you can take to mitigate them. Our colleague Paul Mah outlines three […]

If you’re thinking about tapping in to the cloud to help better manage your small business IT and reduce your costs, take a look at this Microsoft Office 365 offer from Dell. It’s a low-cost way to access the cloud-based productivity suite from any Dell device, and it even adds 24×7 tech support into the […]

Despite the growing acceptance of digital documents and email, the small business printer remains an essential piece of office equipment. Part of the reason is that many vendors may not be sufficiently IT-savvy to work with online portals or even email. And more often than not, these businesses require the use of paper documentation as […]

Since you can’t be everywhere at once, it helps to have affordable technology you can use to keep an eye on things in your absence. ZyXEL’ line of security cameras could be the small business IT boost you need. Check out more detail from our colleague, Paul Mah.