Wayne Kawamoto

eBay has proven to be a key channel for small businesses to sell goods online without the cost and effort of creating and running their own shopping site. Yet making the jump to selling products through eBay can seem daunting and downright risky for a newcomer — unless you’re armed with the right intelligence. In […]

Ever-expanding Internet access and faster broadband connections make Web-based applications such as NetSuite’s NetSuite Small Business more appealing to a larger audience. This powerful online accounting system is the latest incarnation of a program that used to be called NetLedger in a previous life. Online applications — programs that you can access through an Internet […]

Filling a niche for the smallest of small businesses, MySoftware’soffers entry-level programs that can help you manage mailing contacts, organize customer data and create and track invoices. We take a closer look at three titles — MyMailList Deluxe, a customer name and address manager for direct mailings; Professional Database, it organizes customer and other business […]

For years, the spreadsheet programs Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel have helped accountants and analysts create and evaluate financial models. Whitebirch Software’s Projected Financials, an alternative to spreadsheets, competently builds multi-year income and financial statements and performs what-if analysis. Best of all, it doesn’t ask users to create their own models from scratch and foregoes the […]

Many small businesses find that once they master the intricacies of the Internet shopping cart, they can make as many sales through the Web as they can in brick-and-mortar stores. Fortunately, with Actinic’s Actinic Catalog and Actinic Business, two comprehensive shopping cart programs, even non-technical business owners can create professional online catalogs. Actinic Catalog creates […]

It’s not easy to get everyone working on a project in the office all together. Factor in off-site colleagues, partners, suppliers, clients and consultants, you can appreciate the value of an Internet-based collaboration system such as Documentum’s eRoom.net. The latest version, eRoom.net 7, promises more powerful project management features and pricing that better suits the […]

In a predictable evolutionary process, each fiscal year yields a crop of enhanced, genetically-altered, bigger and better accounting programs. This year, Peachtree’s accounting products offer minute improvements and one major addition — a long-needed online payroll service. It’s the strongest family of accounting programs from Peachtree yet. As before, Peachtree comes in First, Standard, Complete […]

Call a device an “all-in-one” and you probably think of a machine that performs many functions but does none of them well. But HP’s impressive OfficeJet 4215 may change your opinion about devices that try to be everything to everybody. This combination printer, fax machine, scanner and copy machine can’t handle the needs of large […]

Low-rate loans, fast-and-easy weight loss and get-rich-quick schemes are only a click away in junk e-mails. Even junkier e-mails pester you with offers for cheap Viagra and daily doses of unsolicited, unwanted smutty pictures. E-mail is a useful tool, providing convenient, low-cost communications for businesses and consumers, but it’s being undermined by shady and illegitimate […]

Businesses that want to hang shingles on the Web would do well to consider ShopSite. With few shortcomings, the product is simple enough that Web-phobic business owners can create basic online catalogs, but still offers sophisticated e-tailers the means to create elaborate shopping sites. ShopSite comes in Starter, Manager, and Pro versions. For neophytes, each […]

Mention “DVDs” and most people immediately think of their movie collections. But beyond movies and videos, DVD technology offers reams of data storage for PCs — a solid method to archive, back up and share data. Even if you have no plans to work with video, there may be a place for a DVD burner […]

While it’s not for the graphically challenged, Corel’s latest CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12 offers a sophisticated suite of tools for artists and design professionals that is competition for its pricey rivals, Adobe’s Illustrator and Photoshop. Corel’s suite consists of three great programs that encompass a variety of graphics capabilities. CorelDRAW 12 covers illustration, page layout […]