Stuart J. Johnston

If you’re in the market for new small business computers loaded with Windows XP, you’d better act now – immediately in fact. The deadline for computer manufacturer’s to stop shipping new PCs with Windows XP is October 22, and Dell plans to stop offering XP as an option this month. HardwareCentral.com has all the details. […]

A new feature among big etailers provides yet another way for their customers to shop online, and the trend is catching on: shopping by smartphone. It’s a growth market, and a potentially lucrative one. Take Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), for instance. “In the last twelve months, customers around the world have ordered more than $1 billion […]

For related articles, visit Internet.com’s new Cloud Computing site. Many small businesses, like medical and dental offices or small financial services firms, have the same regulatory responsibilities as hospitals and banks but without the budget or the staff to make sure that they’re in compliance with all the rules and regulations. And those small businesses […]

As the recession drags on, many small businesses are desperate to cut overhead any way they can. To which small business maven Liz Franklin says that you can cut significant fat out of your monthly budget by dumping expensive mobile phone contracts and, instead, switching over to unlimited prepaid phones. “Before you start firing people […]

Companies like Microsoft, Salesforce and Amazon are far from the only companies staking their futures on cloud computing these days. Online small business accounting software vendor Intacct, for one, began moving essential accounting services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) to the cloud in 1999. Now, Intacct is adding comprehensive project accounting to its online […]

Microsoft has announced a preview of the upcoming version of its Small Business Server (SBS), codenamed Aurora, that adds support for cloud computing, is now available. During Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington in mid-July, Kevin Kean, general manager of Windows Home and Small Business Servers, blogged that the company would release previews […]

Spiceworks, a free ad-supported IT management product, announced it is adding new features designed to simplify life for managed service providers (MSP) that need network management features. High on the list of new capabilities is a major upgrade of its help desk management technology. The updated package, which entered beta testing earlier this month, is […]

Have you wanted the collaboration and content management features in the cloud that Microsoft’s SharePoint Server provides but don’t have a big company budget? Central Desktop says it has a solution for that. The company’s newest product — called Central Desktop for Office and available Monday — aims to provide much of the functionality of […]

First, the good news: a large number of small and midsized businesses (SMB) are optimistic about the next year and are planning to spend more on technology services and solutions during that time than they did in 2009. The bad news is that many of them are already jammed up with information overload and haven’t […]

Many small businesses believe they don’t have the budget or expertise to take advantage of search advertising, at least not from major players like Google’s AdWords, Yahoo’s Search Marketing, and Microsoft’s adCenter. Now, however, American Express (NYSE: AXP) OPEN and Clickable have partnered to create a search advertising engine specifically for small businesses, providing one-stop-shopping […]

It’s not uncommon for small businesses and mobile professionals to need to have a way to take a credit or debit card for payment on the spot — right there, in the field. No one wants to haul around a credit-card processing machine, so why not use mobile devices SMB owners already have — smartphones. […]

Dell launched a new, three-pronged security initiative on Wednesday that combines its own and Juniper Networks’ hardware appliances with services provided in partnership with SecureWorks. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is shooting to provide midsized businesses with a flexible, total security solution built on deploying defense in multiple layers — a growing requirement as networks become more […]