– The president has designated one week each year National Small Business Week since 1963 to honor the contributions of small U.S. business owners to the nation’s economy. The week of May 5-11, 2012 will be a week to recognize innovation and entrepreneurship.

Marc Saltzman (a business technology expert) teamed up with KillerApps.com to celebrate the week.Click here to view videoThese are three brands that offer the technology tools and services necessary to grow small businesses by increasing productivity at work or on the move.

First up, a laptop. The Dell Latitude7400 2-in-1 laptop makes a great work companion. It’s powerful, secure, beautiful, as well as as as easy to use. It uses Dell Express Sign-in to detect you, wake the system in just a few seconds, and scan facial recognition to log in. It will lock itself automatically if you walk away.

The world’s smallest commercial 14 is now Latitude” 2-in-1 to easily take on the go. It delivers the longest battery life in its class at 24 hours, enabling days of unplugged productivity during travel.

Next, printers are a must for business. The Color imageCLASS MF743Cdw is essential for small-to-medium businesses looking to print high-quality output while maximizing their productivity. A large, color touch display panel features intuitive, swipe technology. Perfect for producing vivid and vibrant output to meet the demands of any creative office, the MF743Cdw offers superb color duplex quality. Printers include a standard, three-year warranty backed by Canon’s service and support. In the spirit of the smart office, through the Canon Auto Replenishment Service, registered printers purchased at Canon Online Store automatically alert Canon when running low on toner and Canon automatically ships a new toner cartridge directly to the customer.

To stay connected, Ooma Office offers a set of features carefully curated to meet the needs of small businesses, available through a straightforward fee of $19.95 a month per user with no contract required. Customers have their choice of hardware and receive advanced features such as a virtual receptionist, ring groups, call parking and multi-site access, which combine to make small businesses sound big. Ooma Office is easy to set up and can scale with your company.

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