Thor Olavsrud

Western Digital Tuesday signaled its intent to expand into the small business storage market with a new small business server that offers data protection with built-in hardware and software redundancy for all of the devices connected to the network. “Today, our product is primarily targeted at consumers, with approximately 10 percent to 15 percent of […]

Panasonic System Networks Company of America in August took the wraps off its new cloud-based telephony solution for small businesses. Dubbed the Panasonic Business Phone System, the solution is intended to serve the needs of 10 or fewer employees. The New Jersey-based company is a leader in small business telephony systems already, but is looking […]

Small business billing and invoicing specialist Bill.com Monday announced new product enhancements to its service that will enable seamless money transfer between payers and payees and eliminate paper-based financial systems. “To date, eBilling and eInvoicing solutions have been complex and available only to Fortune 2000 companies,” said Rene Lacerte, founder and chief executive officer of […]

Fishbowl, provider of a highly popular inventory add-on for QuickBooks, will tomorrow unveil Fishbowl Inventory 2012 — small business software that can help manage a business’s inventory and processes and grow with it through every stage, from startup to enterprise. “It allows small businesses to grow and stay with Fishbowl,” said David Williams Fishbowl’s CEO. […]

Internet security firm AVG believes that small business security is about delivering more and demanding less. That’s the key idea behind its latest small business security software solution: AVG Business Edition 2012. “One thing we’ve done a lot of over the past year is research and insight into understanding the pain points SMBs are facing […]

Aiming to ease the complexity of virtualization for small and medium businesses (SMBs), Dell on Tuesday officially launched its vStart 50 virtualized hardware package. “A lot of small businesses realize the benefits that virtualization can bring to their companies but haven’t started their journey yet because they’re a little concerned about who’s going to hold […]

We love long lists of mobile apps. It’s like a business-oriented treasure hunt — and the prize is lots of cool features that you can add to your Android phone. One of our current favorites on this list is Document Scanner; it lets you scan docs, convert them to PDFs and then email them — […]

Intuit Wednesday unveiled a strategic partnership with customer relationship management (CRM) specialist Salesforce.com that brings Intuit’s flagship QuickBooks small business financial software and Salesforce.com’s cloud-based CRM into one tidy small businesses software package. Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU) touted the partnership as part of its broader QuickBooks 2012 product announcement. Dubbed Salesforce for QuickBooks, the integrated small business […]

Targeting small businesses with a need for a high-end network storage solution, or that simply want to operate their own datacenter, Iomega last week unveiled its new StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage Array. “Small and mid-sized businesses face many of the same challenges as larger organizations, including rapid storage growth, infrastructure sprawl and even more severe […]

Aiming to make it easier than ever for small businesses to accept payment from customers whether in the shop or on the go, Verizon Wireless and Intuit Thursday unveiled a new strategic alliance centered on mobile credit card processing. Under the deal, Verizon Wireless will offer Intuit’s (NASDAQ:INTU) GoPayment mobile payments app and a pocket-sized […]

Millenniata, a newcomer on the optical disc scene, wants to revolutionize the way small businesses and government institutions approach archival media and data storage. The company, based in American Fork, Utah, today unveiled its new storage technology, which allows users to etch data upon an optical disc made from a stone-like substance that never degrades. […]

Can’t get enough Android apps? Let me rephrase; can’t get enough essential Andoid apps? We feel your pain, but stress not. These 50 Android apps are all high-caliber; the kind you not only want on your mobile device, but will actually use. What a concept. Click on the link below to peruse the list of […]