Pedro Hernandez

LenovoEMC today announced a first for the company. The storage systems maker, which last year embarked on a big name change from Iomega to its current brand, is releasing its LifeLine 4.0 software without accompanying hardware to extend the capabilities and value of its customers’ StorCenter network storage products. In the history of Iomega — and […]

Is your constantly-updated, pixel-perfect Facebook page failing to attract new business? Maybe you’re neglecting some of the social media giant’s most devoted fans: mobile users. A recent Facebook-sponsored study from research firm IDC revealed just how addicted the average smartphone user is to the social network. In March, IDC surveyed 7,446 iPhone and Android smartphone owners (ages: […]

The economy is picking up, and that’s great news for small business owners. Or is it? Economic booms — or boomlets, let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves — are rife with opportunities for small businesses. But not if they’re caught unprepared. While shop owners worry about staffing up and capital improvements, they often […]

Your dry erase pen’s days may be numbered, warns Epson. The company announced today a new projector system called the BrightLink Pro 1410Wi that transforms whiteboards into connected and collaborative tools that encourage information sharing and promote increased productivity. Projector as Small Business Collaboration Tool The BrightLink Pro 1410Wi is a standalone (no PC required), ultra-short throw […]

Entrepreneurs like Hattie Austin Moseley, Elizabeth Arden and Ruth Fertel helped blaze a trail for women in business. And now, the National Women’s History Museum, in partnership with Microsoft, celebrates these successful women and others with a new online exhibit called From Ideas to Independence: A Century of Entrepreneurial Women. As the exhibit demonstrates, the […]

Mobile payment solutions allow customers to skip the trip to the register, helping small business owners to attend to their patrons’ needs as they shop and potentially land a sale faster. In essence, your iPhone is the register. So it’s no mystery that products like Square Register are showing up at boutiques and coffee shops that seek to boost […]

Short tempers, hair pulling, chewed-up pencils… These are just a few unmistakable signs that tax time has arrived. Personal taxes are daunting enough, but small business owners usually grapple with complex tax codes. And often, those taxes are made all the more confounding for small business owners by factors like where they do business, how […]

Data loss continues to pose a serious problem for a sizeable number of small and midsized businesses (SMBs) according to a new study from Spiceworks, an online community of small business IT professionals. The survey of 1,012 IT decision makers, commissioned by cloud backup services provider Carbonite, unearthed some startling statistics on the state of data protection […]

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but for small business owners they can also be equally scary. Scammers work overtime to turn this yearly ritual into a nightmare for entrepreneurs and mom-and-pop shops. Crooks have caught on to the fact that big money and a whole lot of personal information pours across the Internet as […]

Comcast aims to tame the cloud for small businesses with a new service called Upware. The offering is designed for organizations that are overwhelmed by the sheer number of cloud services available in the market today. Upware builds on Comcast’s Business Services product slate. Since first delving into business services in 2006, the company has experienced […]

In a sweeping revamp of its Office 365 product line, Microsoft today unveiled a new Small Business Premium edition of the cloud-enabled productivity suite. First launched in 2011, Office 365 is Microsoft’s answer to the booming cloud-based business application market. Also available in midsized and enterprise flavors, the offering blends locally installed Office applications with cloud-enabled collaboration, […]

Think that only physical stores, manufacturers and construction contractors need insurance? Even if your startup is made up of just a handful of developers, their laptops and a cloud server, you need a good, comprehensive insurance policy to protect the business you’ve built for yourself. Down the road, someone may make a claim against your […]