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You might say that entrepreneur Alan E. Hall lives in two business worlds. Don't complain to him how challenging it is to grow a business in today's fragile economy. He knows those struggles firsthand as a business owner. He also knows how next-to-impossible it is for startup business owners to find...

You might say that entrepreneur Alan E. Hall lives in two business worlds. Don't complain to him how challenging it is to grow a business in today's fragile economy. He knows those struggles firsthand as a business owner. He also knows how next-to-impossible it is for startup business owners to find...

You might say that entrepreneur Alan E. Hall lives in two business worlds. Don't complain to him how challenging it is to grow a business in today's fragile economy. He knows those struggles firsthand as a business owner. He also knows how next-to-impossible it is for startup business owners to find...

In the U.S., consumers are accustomed to paying for merchandise with checks, credit cards and debit cards. Online shopping and banking transactions are dependent on electronic money transfers between vendors and their customers' financial institutions. That experience, however, is not universal. Con...

It seemed like a logical leap: If you already provide shoppers with coupons online, what's to stop you from offering them an online source for e-gift cards? So the founders of online gift card company CashStar pooled resources with online shopping coupon mogul Coupons Inc. to create an outlet for m...

The economy is still broken, and businesses are scampering to save money and entice back lost customers. Don't remind Brett Caine, though. As president of Citrix Online, he's too busy growing the company's customer base into a $100 million business that a few years ago didn't exist. As a young start...

The end of mainstream support by Microsoft for Windows XP ended on April 14. That deadline came and left with barely an audible groan from the minions of enterprise, small business and consumer users of the decade-old operating system. The steadfast legions of corporate Windows XP users -- and the M...

Think of the ideal software asset management system as a monitor that displays what exactly drives your business operations. It provides a readout of all the software installed throughout the company's computer systems, and much more. SAM programs also help IT departments rein in duplicate or redund...

Google will start field testing its PowerMeter software with over 10 million customers of eight large utility partners in three countries. Google on Wednesday announced it's lining up energy companies so it can enlist the utilities' customers to start using the home energy consumption software. Powe...

It seemed like a simple enough idea when FixYa.com CEO and founder Yaniv Bensadon sought a solution for consumers caught in the maze of tech support that encompassed nearly every piece of consumer electronics equipment and household appliance on the market. Why not offer a community-based service, n...

Virtualization and cloud computing specialist Citrix wants to do for its IT customers what Apple does for users of its App Store. Instead of selling programs like games or restaurant finders for the iPhone, however, Citrix's new Dazzle service will provide on-demand business applications. Citrix ann...

The global economy is changing. For many consumers, the credit card crunch is crumbling their ability to buy things online. In many countries outside the U.S., consumers do not have credit cards but rely instead on smart cards to swipe transactions directly through their banks. Often, children too y...

When ubExact.com's CEO Wilhelmina Stephenson started work on her innovative beta platform last year for a new search engine concept, she had every reason to believe consumers would gravitate to the new search technology designed around the way they searched the Internet. However, what she did not co...

What started out on Sept. 2, 2008, as a potential innovation in the search engine space ended this month as the latest technology sacrifice to the economic gods. ubExact.com went out of business, unable to sustain enough financial traction to make the innovation viable. ubExact spent much of its bet...

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for $2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing. Silicon Valley-based True Ventures led a group of p...

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for $2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing. Silicon Valley-based True Ventures led a group of p...

Syncplicity, a startup online data management company, announced last October the closing of its post-seed funding round for $2.35 million. The company offers an automated, all-in-one service for online and offline file syncing, backup and sharing. Silicon Valley-based True Ventures led a group of p...

The old adage about a sucker being born every minute is no less true among respondents to spam. Dishonest people have always been trying to make a fast buck by duping others into confidence scams, and the Web has give those people an easy way to communicate with more potential marks. However, modern...

"SOA transition" is buzz term growing in popularity among IT managers, especially when they meet with corporate boardroom residents. Businesses are transitioning into service-oriented architecture by tapping into the increasing number of SOA products software makers are creating to meet this new int...

Caution: Just because your company has a payment card industry compliance certificate, don't assume your data is perfectly safe and secure. You can still suffer a breach. That's the lesson recently learned by retail clothing company Forever 21. Company officials posted a notice on their Web site las...