Small Business Computing Staff

By Amy H. Blankstein For a complete list of this year’s SBC 50 businesses, see ‘The SBC 50,’ December 2001 SBC. Advertising VenturesEmployees: 20Location: Providence, R.I.Principal: Steve RosaBusiness: Advertising firmTech: Uses intranet and extranet to communicate with clients and collaborate with contractors all across the world.URL: www.adventures.com When Steve Rosa started Advertising Ventures 12 years […]

By Eileen Bien Calabro For a complete list of this year’s SBC 50 businesses, see ‘The SBC 50,’ December 2001 SBC. Carolina MudcatsEmployees: 18Location: Zebulon, N.C.Principal: Dan O’Dowd, GMBusiness: Minor-league baseball teamTech: Technological renovation at its new stadium has improved customer tracking and increased fan interest.URL: www.gomudcats.com The Carolina Mudcats may not have the attendance […]

By Phil Albinus Mike Hennessy was looking for practical advice about running his growing business, so the owner of Eryn Computer, a four-employee technology consulting firm in Vineland, N.J., signed on to several online message boards and waited for the chance to interact with other entrepreneurs. Instead of receiving the advice he wanted, however, Hennessy […]

By David G. Propson For a complete list of this year’s SBC 50 businesses, see ‘The SBC 50,’ December 2001 SBC. Carolyn Sechler AssociatesEmployees: 14Location: Phoenix, Ariz.Principal: Carolyn SechlerBusiness: Accounting firmTech: Uses instant messaging, chat rooms, and other telecommuting technology to maintain a ‘virtual’ company.URL: www.azcpa.com Seven years ago, Carolyn Sechler’s accounting firm was targeted […]

By Amy H. Blankstein For a complete list of this year’s SBC 50 businesses, see ‘The SBC 50,’ December 2001 SBC. Horseradish GrillEmployees: 70Location: AtlantaPrincipals: Steve and Renie AltermanBusiness: Restaurant chainTech: Online reservation tool enables the staff to track and share information on guests’ preferences.URL: www.horseradishgrill.com Steve Alterman knows all about running a big business. […]

By Mike Langberg E-mail’s Nine LivesElectronic mail never dies. Even when deleted from an individual’s computer, messages often remain on company servers and can be retrieved for anything from corporate espionage to litigation. What’s more, e-mail intended only for the recipient often gets passed along to people the sender wouldn’t want in the loop. Several […]

By Charles H. Gajeway It’s no secret that entering information into a PDA is slow and cumbersome. Seiko’s SmartPad2 uses a mini digitizer tablet to transfer handwritten notes and drawings into a PDA, where they are stored and organized as images in linked applications. The SmartPad 2 improves the original design with the addition of […]

By David Schloss Leave it to Sony to take a perfectly ordinary business tool like a PDA and turn it into something, well, fun. But the Sony Clii PEG-N710C features provide more than entertainment value. While the 320 by 320 pixel, 8-bit color screen isn’t as vibrant as the Sony monochromatic N610Cs, it is certainly […]

By Victoria Hall Smith Peachtree’s latest version continues to refine features while adding new functionality and beefing up e-commerce capabilities. User-requested updates include a new Fast Add feature for streamlining the addition of new customer and vendor accounts, similar to the Quick Add feature in QuickBooks. Viewing transaction detail has been improved to include Receipts […]

By Phil Albinus Microsoft has woken up and made Office XP smarter in the way it helps you. They have added Smart Tags, small icons that appear to help users manage work; Task Panes, little panels in applications to help find features; Speech functionality, for dictation, command, and control in all Office applications; and Data […]

By Jamie McAfee DIGITAL DIMENSIONS Since the introduction of digital cameras, storage capacity and features have been few and far between. Now several companies are answering the call. Additional exposure modes and aperture settings have been added, giving users more control. Some cameras even resemble traditional 35mm SLR cameras, while others have CD-R built right […]

By Barbara Krasnoff If you are trying to operate a business with a dial-up Internet connection, you might as well be using a typewriter. Speed is second only to uptime when it comes to business-level Internet access, and the best way to guarantee both is to use broadband. In the past, customers who needed fast […]