Small Business Computing Staff

Looking to help busy and overburdened small businesses better block the bad stuff and manage the good stuff, Rockliffe, a developer of e-mail server, anti-spam and secure e-mail software for small businesses, yesterday today the availability of Rockliffe MailSite MP. The MP stands for Message Protector and the e-mail gateway product is designed to provide […]

On the heels of last week’s announcement introducing its Desktop Management Services program for small and mid-sized businesses, IBM today announced four new Express Portfolio services designed to manage a mid-sized business’ back-end infrastructure. The goal of new network resiliency and manageability services, according to IBM, is to remotely monitor and manage a customer’s complete […]

Small- to medium-sized businesses are critical to the health of the U.S. economy. SMBs make up 99.8 percent of all employer firms, according to a recent Yankee Group report cited by the Information Technology Solution Providers Alliance (ITSPA), a national, non-profit group established to help the nation’s 22 million SMBs understand how local technology providers […]

Xerox extended its Phaser product lineup this week with the addition of its lowest-priced laser printers yet, providing small- and mid-sized offices with two more entry-level printing choices. Both products — the Phaser 6100 color laser printer starting at $699 and the Phaser 3130 monochrome laser printer starting at $299 — offer a great value […]

SBC has dropped prices on its SBC Yahoo! co-branded broadband service. SBC is offering customers a discount on its broadband service, when purchased with a bundle of local, long distance and wireless services. For $36.99, consumers can add SBC Yahoo! DSL to their mix of wired and wireless communication services. At download speeds of between […]

Almost half of IT managers believe that opening an unknown attachment is the most serious security offense their users can commit, according to a recent survey of IT administrators and security consultants conducted by WatchGuard Technologies. Nearly 80 percent respondents also indicated that a virus has successfully penetrated their network defenses at least once in […]

If small businesses thrive on competition, American small businesses should indeed be flourishing. According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), 80 percent of small businesses say that that competition abounds in today’s economic climate. The NFIB small business study also indicates that 53 percent of small businesses consider current economic conditions to be […]

The largest small business initiative in the history of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the Business Matchmaking program provides a way for America’s small businesses to secure one-on-one meetings with procurement officials from federal, state and local government organizations. The series of regional business-to-business events, spawned by a union of the SBA and Hewlett-Packard […]

Does the Internet play a part in the way you operate your small business? According to a new study, the Net is playing an increasing role in driving profitability for smaller businesses. Results from a recent study of small businesses, prepared by ACNielsen and commissioned by eBay, finds that 51 percent of small businesses using […]

After the computer, perhaps the most important piece of hardware your small business will buy is a desktop printer. There are inexpensive inkjet printers that could be up for the task, but printing is all about imaging. And if you want your small business to present a professional image, a laser printer is probably more […]

Telecom isn’t about the bottom line — making a phone call is a business necessity. Do small businesses pay more for these services than larger organizations because enterprises have an economy of scale? Or is the lack of alternative telecom services taking more from those businesses that can least afford it? The U.S. Small Business […]

The latest version of GoldMine Plus Accounting hit the market this week. The popular small business contact management system now works with QuickBooks 2.0 to integrate accounting data directly into the program, which now provides a single, unified record for all customer transactions. Designed for business professionals who require a complete customer profile — but […]