Small Business Computing Staff

Canon introduced two new desktop flatbed multifunction printers (MFPs) this week designed to extend productivity in small office and home office (SOHO) settings. The Canon MultiPASS MP700 and MP730 feature printing, scanning and copying while the MultiPASS MP730 adds faxing capability and a 35-sheet automatic document feeder to the service mix. The MultiPASS MP730 also […]

The Power of Print Whether your small business needs to print, fax, scan or copy documents and images in color or black and white, odds are good that some equipment maker somewhere has an inkjet or laser print solution that fits your budget. We’ll help you narrow down the selection with a series of insightful […]

IBM, BellSouth To Co-Market Small Business Data Services VeriSign, Easily.co.uk Form Pact To Pickup SMBs Filing Taxes Can Be Little Less Taxing for Small Businesses IBM, BellSouth To Co-Market Small Business Data Services IBM is to take over some networking operations for BellSouth customers, in an outsourcing agreement that includes joint development of on-demand network […]

Covad Offers New Small Businesses Services Ceridian Extends HR Management Solutions To Small Business IBM Recalls 56,000 Computer Monitors Covad Offers New Small Businesses Services Covad Communications introduced new broadband services for small business this week, including Web hosting packages with prices starting at less than $20 per month and support for Macintosh systems. Covad […]

By Grant Crowell How to bring visitors to your web site with little or no funds? Need to be found in the search engines but can’t afford to hire an search engine specialist? These and other issues facing small businesses and non-profit organizations were addressed at a recent Search Engine Strategies’ Small Business & Non-Profit […]

By Jim Geier By definition, a router transfers packets between networks. The router chooses the next best link to send packets on in order to reach closer to the final destination. Routers use Internet Protocol (IP) packet headers and routing tables, as well as internal protocols to determine the best path for each packet. Most […]

Microsoft bCentral Offers Yellow Pages Listings for Small Businesses Vulnerabilities of Broadband Drive Demand for Small Business Security SBA Warns of Potential Disruptions to Small Businesses Microsoft bCentral Offers Yellow Pages Listings for Small Businesses Microsoft’s small business resource center bCentral has expanded its offerings for small businesses through a new relationship with Verizon. The […]

By Bruce McCracken Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are implementing or evaluating customer relationship (CRM) systems in droves. With limited expertise, infrastructure, and budgets, business demands can exceed internal resources. Outsourcing to a hosted solution allows SMBs to deploy CRM and accommodate these constraints successfully. In so doing, they prepare for the brighter economic times […]

Tech Data enters the small-business world with a new bundled storage area network (SAN) solution for the small-to-midsize-business (SMB) market. The offering combines products from Brocade Communications Systems, Computer Associates (CA) and Emulex. The storage market for the SMB is considered to be lucrative in the coming years. According to research firm AMI Partners, worldwide […]

By Wayne Kawamoto NETGEAR, a provider of networking products, announced the addition of the NETGEAR Dual-Band Wireless Access Point (WAB102) to its dual-band wireless networking product line. The Dual Band Wireless Access Point joins the company’s WAB501 Dual-Band Wireless PC Card giving organizations the flexibility to implement new or upgrade existing wireless network infrastructures and […]

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols If you’re waiting for a single wireless standard to rise up and make your WLAN life easier-forget about it. In 2003, you’ll face choices between 802.11a, b, b+, and various flavors of 802.11g (depending on the chips used by either Texas Instruments, Intersil, or Broadcom, so far). No, there will be […]