Friday - October 10, 2008
Customers are cutting back and scrutinizing their budgets. That's the reality facing small-business owners today. An October survey by the PNC Financial Services Group PNC shows growing pessimism among small- and midsize business owners and decision-makers, much of it tied to unstable energy prices, a credit squeeze and slowing sales. Only 43 percent of the nearly 1,000 polled expect an increase in their company's sales over the next six months.
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Wednesday - October 8, 2008
Intuit's small-business accounting solution, QuickBooks, has gotten more than just a pretty facelift with its new QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac edition. Not only does the user interface utilize Mac OS X's Leopard look and feel, but it also it now sports handy new features that are exclusive to the Mac platform.
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Tuesday - October 7, 2008
Apple's Time Machine is great for incremental on-site backups, but what happens if there's a theft, fire, or flood? Mac owners facing such a disaster can wave goodbye to the Time Capsule and prepare to start from scratch -- unless there's a remote backup solution in play, of course.
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Wednesday - October 1, 2008
For most businesses, data security is a mission-critical undertaking, and a summer of weather calamities drove home that point. "As the recent hurricanes reminded us, off-premise backup solutions can make the difference between being out of business for good and being on hiatus for a few months," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group.
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Wednesday - September 17, 2008
Even as late as 2003 -- years after Amazon.com and other e-tailers started shipping consumer goods all over the world -- Canada was still far behind in its e-commerce evolution. Most Canadians didn't buy their furniture online. That gave Fasihi, a 33-year-old Iranian immigrant, an idea.
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Tuesday - September 16, 2008
HP on Tuesday launched HP Adaptive Infrastructure in a Box for Midsize Businesses, a suite of products and services designed to enable businesses with anywhere from 100 to 999 employees to more efficiently and cost-effectively manage their evolving network and IT needs.
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Sunday - September 14, 2008
David Hauser and Siamak Taghaddos were just college students when they came up with the idea for a phone service that would help small businesses give a big impression. They envisioned a call center that would handle calls for small businesses, answering them professionally and sending them off to the small business owner or his employees who could be at home, in the office or at the grocery store.
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Thursday - September 11, 2008
Virtual worlds come in all shapes and sizes, says Michael Cai, director of broadband and gaming for Dallas-based research firm Parks Associates. Virtual worlds can be categorized by graphics type (2D, 2.5D, 3D), applications (enterprise worlds, social worlds, entertainment worlds, gaming worlds), and by demographics (adult worlds, teen worlds).
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Tuesday - September 9, 2008
Things are changing at eBay. eBay says it is evolving to adapt to changes in the larger market, but it's not clear how the auction giant will fare against an emerging army of specialized competitors, and it's far from clear whether sellers will warm to its new internal price structure.
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Monday - September 8, 2008
Election time is a crazy time here in the U.S. I'm fascinated by what happened when John McCain, the presidential candidate of the Republican Party, chose a woman that no one on the Democratic side clearly anticipated. In campaigns, people can say some rather hurtful things, and given the feelings surrounding Hillary Clinton's loss, really stupid things.
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Thursday - September 4, 2008
Today's consumer is smarter than yesterday's consumer, and with the technology available to make educated purchasing decisions efficiently and quickly, Web-savvy buyers are making the most of the tools they have at their disposal. Online reviews are permeating the Web in all shapes and sizes, from reviews of a local pizza shop to posted commentary on a new piece of software.
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Thursday - August 28, 2008
Why sell somebody else's product line when you can do a better job offering your own? That was the question that ultimately pushed Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro, and two other cofounders to develop their own Internet security solutions for a market they viewed as needy of attention -- the small- to medium-sized business segment.
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