Thor Olavsrud

Business travel can be downright exhausting, and if you’re bouncing around the country frequently, it helps to have a well-stocked smartphone to keep you on track, on time and well-oriented. A smartphone is the 21st century road warrior’s Swiss Army knife — we’re pretty sure some enterprising mobile app developer will eventually come up with […]

Internet threat protection company M86 Security took the wraps off a new offering today designed specifically as a full-featured small business security suite. The suite promises full-featured, enterprise-grade Web and email security — including data loss prevention and content management — in a package affordable to small businesses. The M86 SMB Suite brings together the […]

It is no secret that many people in the U.S. are looking to small business as a bellwether for the economic recovery, and President Barack Obama is no exception. In January, he unveiled the White House’s Startup America Partnership, a coordinated public/private effort to increase the prevalence and success of America’s entrepreneurs. A key element […]

Seeking to help small businesses attain enterprise-level IP-based communications solutions, Siemens Enterprise Communications will unveil its OpenScape Office V3 on Tuesday. The platform will provide small business IT with new deployment options for all-in-one unified communications and collaboration (UCC) solutions. Siemens said the release aims to help mobile workers and small business employees in separate […]

With 200,000 apps (as of December 31, 2010) and counting, the Android Market offers a dynamic range of apps for Droid smartphone users. If searching through that morass of apps feels a tad overwhelming, we’re here to help. Take a stroll through these 50 popular Android apps that our sister site, Datamation.com, culled from the […]

Dell today unveiled an ambitious plan to remake its portfolio, including small business solutions, in what the company called its largest-ever business computing portfolio update. “This is the broadest introduction of products and services in the history of our company,” said Kirk Schell, executive director of Dell’s Commercial Client Product Group. Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) announced 24 new […]

Small businesses are leading the economic recovery in the US, and Elance — which provides a platform for small businesses to contract talent online — said Monday that record-setting online hiring on its platform in the fourth quarter indicates small businesses are optimistic about their outlook for 2011. “Small businesses are embracing online employment as […]

Many economists believe that small businesses are the key to economic recovery, but as SMBs shift into growth mode, the question becomes where will they find the capital to fund that growth? Justin Brownhill and Nicolas Perkin, co-founders of The Receivables Exhange, believe the answer lies in an underutilized asset on most small businesses’ balance […]

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Unless it happens at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show, then it gets plastered all over the Internet. While the show is primarily dedicated to consumer products, more than a few of the exhibitors at CES 2011 had small business technology offerings to show off. Here’s a roundup […]

For related articles, visit Internet.com’s new Cloud Computing site. Was 2010 the year small business IT took the cloud computing plunge? Yes and no. A company called 7th Sense Research recently conducted a study on cloud computing in small business computing environments on behalf of Microsoft. According to the study, 29 percent of SMBs see […]

Despite what appears to be a sluggish economic recovery, about one-in-five small business IT decision-makers say they plan to invest in new small business technology over the next six months, according to the CDW IT Monitor. “I think there are a couple factors that influence the optimism we’re seeing among small business owners,” said Tom […]

While the economic environment remains challenging, small businesses are bucking the trend, according to the November update to the Intuit Small Business Employment Index. The monthly report showed 0.24 percent job growth for small businesses last month — about 49,000 new jobs nationwide. “The recovery that began late last summer for small businesses is still […]