Patricia Fusco

Wire-free network access is changing the way small businesses work. It’s less expensive to deploy that conventional wired networks because new users can be added in seconds without expensive cabling. Wireless access also allows employees to work anywhere — from the lobby to the conference room to the great outdoors. There are two prerequisites that […]

Novell is providing small businesses networking software for free. Novell’s Small Business Suite 6 comes complete with powerful Web access, collaboration, security and management capabilities. What’s the catch? None really. Since most small businesses turn to local solution providers rather than national vendors for technology advice and troubleshooting, Novell’s free offer will be delivered by […]

SAP’s Business One solution made its U.S. debut this week, designed to extend the company’s software expertise to a new segment of the small and midsize business (SMB) market. At the same time, SAP also announced that the Tax and Business Services (TBS) unit of American Express is ready to distribute and support services for […]

Corel’s WordPerfect Office 11 and Microsoft’s Office 2003 are both still in beta testing, but the Canadian company announced this week that the flagship office productivity suite will make its public debut before April is through. What’s the allure of using a non-Microsoft office productivity software package? According to Wendy Lowe, Corel’s WordPerfect product manager, […]

Small businesses and home offices do not escape the need to procure reliable data backup and protection. Their unique requirements necessitate a storage system that’s affordable and easy to use — ideally featuring plug-and-play connectivity while providing enough storage capacity to handle the data load. This is why Sony Electronics extended its StorStation lineup to […]

Web services are gaining momentum not only for big businesses in the upper echelon of capital and industry, but also at small- and medium-sized businesses that recognize the promise and potential Web services can provide. Web services are more than one of today’s most important business technology trends. Web services are all about machine-to-machine communication, […]

eBay, probably one of the world’s best-known consumer e-commerce sites, this week introduced its new business-to-business site, aptly dubbed eBay Business. The business-oriented site brings together all of eBay’s business and industry listings under one easy to browse Web destination. Rather than hunting through more than 500,000 business items listed for sale each week on […]

Although traditional retailers reported a sales slump for the fourth quarter of 2002, online small businesses operating e-commerce Web sites experienced a boost in holiday sales. At least according to a study of 5,000 small- to medium-sized businesses that participated in a survey conducted by Affinity Internet. More than 40 percent of online small businesses […]

There is one sure sign of a looming tax deadline — the parking lots outside of H&R Block tax-filing offices are full. If you don’t want to wait in line to prepare your taxes this year, try going online. With four products to choose from, H&R Block’s lineup of tax-reporting tools — TaxCut Standard, Deluxe, […]

Intuit’s popular TurboTax software could be facing a different type of tax rush, as initial reaction to anti-piracy safeguards installed by Intuit are causing unrest among customers as the United States enters its annual tax-preparation season. In its 18th tax season, TurboTax was the No.1-selling tax preparation software program in 2001. According to third-party research, […]

Between 1997 to 2001 voice and data service providers were being rolled up as fast as they could start up. In 1998, the top ten telecom deals in the U.S. amounted to over $200 billion. In 1999 MCI WorldCom, AT&T, Vodafone, SBC, and Qwest all announced or completed transactions that ranked among the 10 largest […]