Nathan Eddy

Residents of the tech-friendly Texas capital city will soon be able to enjoy Internet speeds up to 100 times faster than what most people in the United States currently experience, thanks to Google Fiber, which KVUE News, citing multiple City of Austin sources, reported will be installed across the city. Austin has long been rumored […]

A non-profit organization devoted to human rights, Civil Rights Defenders, announced the initial distribution of a bracelet that alerts social media sites Facebook and Twitter using a mobile signal to notify of an attack or kidnapping, and issues a real-time GPS location of the victim directly to the organization’s headquarters. The project is named after […]

Google’s Android mobile operating system ranked as the top smartphone platform with 51.7 percent market share, while Apple led as the top OEM with share of 38.9 percent, according to the latest ComScore MobiLens service, which reported key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry for the three-month average period ending February 2013. Newly revamped BlackBerry […]

Gehry’s Plans Call for a Hidden Headquarters Facebook’s new headquarters will be located across the street from its current digs in Menlo Park, Calif., and connected to the old campus by a tunnel. A More Demure Design From the Master of Folded Metal While there is evidence of the sharply angular slants and sinewy curves […]

The Main Street of Namie-machi On one of the main streets of this town, buildings lie in a state of collapse, and the lack of signs of life contributes to the eerie atmosphere. Major Buildings Remain Damaged Many buildings, like this one in the foreground, collapsed during the earthquake or were damaged by the tsunami. […]

The enterprise services division of technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) is looking to grab the attention of mobility-minded organizations with the release of HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Mobility, a cloud-based management solution designed to deliver anytime, anywhere secure access to applications and data from a wide variety of mobile devices. The cloud solution is part […]

Small- and midsized-business (SMB) owners in the United States plan to delay hiring new employees or seek new loans amid cautious optimism about the economy, which shows slow growth in the job market, according to the latest findings of the PNC Economic Outlook survey. Three out of four (75 percent) small businesses said they expect […]

Networked storage solutions specialist Infortrend is expanding its focus on the small and midsize business (SMB) market with two additions to its EonNAS line of network attached storage (NAS) appliances, the 12-bay EonNAS 3310 and the 12-bay EonNAS 3510. The appliances offer protocol support, which provides for file sharing among workstations using different operating systems, […]

Motorola DynaTAC Gets the Call Rolling The DynaTAC 8000X was truly the first mobile telephone that could connect to the telephone network without the assistance of a mobile operator and could be carried about by the user. Motorola Flips for MicroTAC Design Motorola introduced the world to the flip design that would dominate for years. […]

While it’s probably safe to say that every enterprising small business owner shoots for the moon, NASA is looking to take that expression to a whole new level through its Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program. The organization announced it has selected 295 research and technology proposals from […]

Computer manufacturer Asus announced the launch of the GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini, a compact high-performance graphics card designed for small-form-factor PCs with mini ITX motherboards. Mini ITX boards can often be passively cooled due to their low-power-consumption architecture, which makes them useful for home theater PC systems, where fan noise can detract from the […]

The proliferation of lower-priced tablets and their growing capability is accelerating the shift from PCs to tablets, while worldwide shipments for those two types of devices, as well as mobile phones, is expected to reach 2.4 billion units, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Device shipments are forecast to continue to grow, […]