Small Business Computing Staff

By Rebecca Lieb Who steals my purse steals trash… / But he that filches from me my good name / Robs me of that which not enriches him / And makes me poor indeed. –William Shakespeare Imagine this scenario: Hundreds of thousands of spam emails appear to come from… your company. The ensuing flood of […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com PeerStor, Inc. announced that it is shipping its flagship software product, PeerStor WS, for backup, failover and disaster recovery. According to the company, PeerStor is a solution that’s designed to provide business continuity and data protection for any type of business. The company says that its PeerStor WS offers […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com Softline Software unveiled its new Small Business Edition of BusinessVision 32, BusinessVision’s flagship business accounting system. According to the company, BusinessVision 32 Small Business Edition is a Windows-based accounting solution that offers features commonly available now only to mid-market and larger enterprises using much higher-priced systems that often require […]

By Robyn Greenspan What kind of e-business are you developing? One that will make an immediate impact in the market and generate a proliferation of one-time sales, or a business that will grow steadily over time, inspiring long-term loyalty? If your e-company depends on an emerging trend or the latest fad, you may have just […]

p>Apple introduced Xserve, a 1U rack-mount server that’s designed to be simple to set up and remotely manage. Designed from the ground up as a complement to Apple’s UNIX-based Mac OS X Server software, Xserve may appeal to business and education customers. According to the company, Xserve provides exceptional performance in a compact 1U rack-mount […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com PayMaxx, Inc. (www.paymaxx.com), a provider of payroll processing, recently introduced XpressTime, the company’s new Web-based time and attendance solution. With XpressTime, employers with 1-10,000 employees may be able to collect and analyze time and attendance data and import the results into their payroll systems. According to the company, the […]

Eric Grevstad www.hardwarecentral.com What do you get when you cross Nikon’s popular, pivoting-lens Coolpix 995 with a cell phone? The new Coolpix 2500 — a coat-pocket digital camera whose lens swivels inside the body like a window-shade louver or car-dashboard cooling vent. It’s not a high-end, high-resolution camera to please expert photographers; it’s a two-megapixel […]

“Navigation” comes from two Latin words: navis (ship) and agere (to drive). According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the general meaning of “navigate” is “to steer a course through a medium… to get around, move… to make one’s way over or through… to operate or control the course of.” It is a mistake to design Web […]

Wayne N. Kawamoto Managing Editor, www.smallbusinesscomputing.com McAfee.com, a provider of managed Web security services launched McAfee.com SpamKiller, a managed service that helps PC users block unsolicited messages (“spam”) from entering their email inboxes. According to the company, SpamKiller helps stop spam email, tracks the mail back to the source ISP and sends complaints to the […]

www.smallbusinesscomputing.com Staff When desktop space is tight, which is probably the case in most offices, a multifunction device that combines a printer, a scanner, and a fax can be an excellent option. And if you’re on a budget, a multifunction device can often cost less than buying a separate printer, scanner, and fax machine. Shopping […]

By Eric Grevstad www.hardwarecentral.com No company wants to be known as a supplier of cheap digital cameras, but Toshiba Imaging Systems is trying to establish itself as your first choice for inexpensive ones. Right now, a 2-megapixel autofocus camera with 3X optical instead of just chintzy digital zoom is the sweet spot of the digital […]

Intuit says that of the 1.4 million small business retailers in the United States, 80 percent use tools such as calculators and electronic cash registers to manage their businesses. With these retailers in mind, Intuit launched its QuickBooks Point of Sale Solution for Retailers, a PC-based point of sale (POS) system that should give small […]