Nathan Eddy

Ever wonder how any small business owner is able to keep track of all the miscellaneous business cards, credit card receipts and papers that find their way into (or under) every desk in the office? If entropy is an inevitability, then at least The Neat Company is trying to help small to medium-size business (SMB) […]

Now that 2008 is officially over, SurePayroll has tallied up how the small business economy performed over the course of a year that many small to medium-size businesses are surely ready to be over with.Throughout 2008, the Glenview, Ill.-based company helped more than 20,000 small businesses process payroll-$4.5 billion in payments to employees and contractors […]

Hardware and software licensing audits can be a major hassle for small to medium-size businesses. Just ask Will McManus, IT director for Dynamic Systems, a mechanical installations company based in Austin, Texas. “We’ve been through two audits now, with two different manufacturers,” he says. “And let me tell you, there were some real lessons learned.” […]

In an effort to reduce the stress and strain small businesses feel around tax season, PayCycle Jan. 5 announced the availability of its 1099-MISC E-File service for small-business owners. The company is positioning the product is a way for small and midsize business owners to cut costs and reduce the time required to process year-end […]

The Digital Asset Management and Media Asset Management marketplace has split into a low end and high end, resulting in a dearth of midmarket solutions, according to recent research conducted by CMS Watch, a Boston-based independent analyst firm. Mergers and acquisitions of smaller DAM firms by enterprise-level corporations resulted in a shift in focus for […]

Remember college, cramming for midterm exams in a dark, dusty library? Today’s university students spend their nights scanning Web-based discussion forums and studying in a wireless Internet caf??«. Those bundles of notes you took and heavy backpacks you carried have been replaced by online lesson plans and digital discussions. Now it seems you don’t have […]

On New Year’s Eve, reports began flooding across the Internet that Microsoft’s Zune media player was experiencing a worldwide meltdown, leaving Zune owners across the globe angry and confused. The glitch, caused by software that did not account for the extra day in the 2008 leap year, affected only the 30GB Zune models released in […]

With IT budgets expected to be tight this year, small business owners must make wise investments in order to stay competitive. While most analysts believe some cutting-edge trends, like mobile advertising, are still half a decade away from offering immediate ROI to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), technologies such as virtualization and the burgeoning proliferation […]

Call it Microsoft’s Z2K bug; reports are flooding across the Internet that Microsoft’s Zune media player is inexplicably failing, en masse. The Web site Zune Forums is loaded with comments regarding the 30GB Zune freezing, running the gamut from annoyed users to those who seem about ready to burn Microsoft’s headquarters down. The issue has […]

A report this week from comScore shows sales from Web sites declined three percent overall this holiday shopping season, although some Web stores, such as Apple’s and Amazon’s, posted gains. Despite large discounts from retailers hoping to salvage year-end sales in the face of a crumbling economy, online sales declined for the first time since […]