Nathan Eddy

Small and midsize businesses looking for help executing a social media marketing strategy have a new option with Online Marketing DNA, which offers social media coaching packages to teach entrepreneurs how to build a social presence. The company currently offers two coaching packages: Clients can participate in social media marketing video training or receive one-on-one […]

The nation’s seventh-largest wireless provider U.S. Cellular announced a plan to offer its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) customers an unlimited data plan—but only for a limited time. The deal offers customers an unlimited 4G data plan for $40 per month, with an additional $20 per month; this allows users to tether another wireless device […]

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping insanity on the horizon, small businesses with an online presence could find themselves reaping a windfall of sales—if their Websites are fast enough, that is. A survey released Nov. 19 by cloud and Web application monitoring software provider Monitis found 56 percent of consumers who spend more than […]

Small and midsize businesses have dramatically changed their marketing practices to adapt to changing buyer behaviors in a Web-centric world, and the new generation of top performing businesses has embraced online marketing with open arms, according to a Forrester Consulting study. The report, commissioned on behalf of Act-On, a provider of cloud-based integrated marketing automation […]

Networking giant Cisco is looking to expand its reach into the small to medium-size business market with the acquisition of Meraki, which offers WiFi, switching, security and mobile device management that is centrally managed from the cloud. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives to […]

Employees spend, on average, 888 hours a year on email and see email as a file store, search engine and collaboration platform, according to the findings of the “Shape of Email” study, conducted by Loudhouse on behalf of cloud-based email management specialist Mimecast. While social media could help ease reliance on email, full convergence between […]

The success of Apple’s iPad tablets is helping the company secure a stronger footing among enterprises, according to mobile device management provider Zenprise’s Mobile Cloud Report, which uncovered trends for rival mobile platforms, Apple’s iOS 6 and Google’s open-source Android platform. At 57 percent of deployed iOS devices in Zencloud, the iPad is driving the […]

Search engine giant Google is testing an edition of its mapping application, Google Maps, for Apple’s recently updated iOS software. Google is distributing a version of the application to users outside the company before it submits the app for review and acceptance to Apple’s online App Store, according to a report in The Wall Street […]

Enterprise IT teams face huge operational challenges as they come to terms with the latest high-speed, network-centric technologies such as cloud, unified communications and virtual desktop infrastructure, according to a survey sponsored by network recording and network visibility infrastructure specialist Endace. Almost a fourth (23 percent) of organizations experience serious service-affecting problems on a daily […]

Small and midsize businesses worldwide are adapting to a new workplace reality that sees technologies like tablets and cloud services rise in importance, according to Spiceworks’ biannual State of SMB IT survey, which investigates technology purchasing, use and staffing trends among companies with fewer than 1,000 employees. While IT budgets at SMBs are rising—growing 7 […]

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Technology giant Texas Instruments on Nov. 14 announced plans to eliminate 1,700 jobs worldwide as the company seeks to reduce costs and focus investments in its wireless business on other markets, such as home appliances and cars, that offer greater potential for growth. The 1,700 jobs represent roughly 5 percent of the company’s workforce of […]