Nathan Eddy

As the world awaits Apple€™s latest Wordwide Developers Conference (WWDC), to be held June 11-15 at San Francisco€™s Moscone West, reports and rumors are piling up as to what the company will choose to showcase. May reports suggested Apple would unveil photo-sharing capabilities for iCloud service. An investor note by Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, […]

Transparent Factory, Dresden, Germany This futuristic Volkswagen factory, comprised of nearly all-glass walls, Canadian maple floors and ultra-efficient mechanics celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Its visitor-friendly layout was designed to accommodate up to 250 tourists per day. Very Large Array, Socorro, N.M. Get your deep space nerd on at this radio astronomy facility, which […]

Transparent Factory, Dresden, Germany This futuristic Volkswagen factory, comprised of nearly all-glass walls, Canadian maple floors and ultra-efficient mechanics celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Its visitor-friendly layout was designed to accommodate up to 250 tourists per day. Very Large Array, Socorro, N.M. Get your deep space nerd on at this radio astronomy facility, which […]

Google has unseated rival Microsoft as global usage of Google€™s Chrome browser passed that of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the first time, according to StatCounter, an independent Website analytics company. StatCounter data from more than 15 billion page views (4 billion from the United States; 850 million from the United Kingdom) for the full month […]

Cloud storage and cloud computing specialist Data Storage Corp. announced it has acquired 80 percent of the outstanding shares of Toronto-based e-ternity Business Continuity Consultants, which provides Web-based business continuance services using cloud computing technologies. The cash and stock transaction was approved this week by e-ternity’s shareholders, though additional terms of the deal were not […]

Users who lust for Apple’s iPhone 4 but don’t want to attach themselves to a carrier contract are in luck, as Leap Wireless subsidiary Cricket Communications said it will be the first prepaid carrier in the country to offer the smartphone to its customers. Starting June 22, Cricket will offer iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 […]

Small business hiring, which expanded slowly by growing 0.2 percent in May, for an annualized rate of 2.5 percent and revenue reports are improving slightly in the United States, but more work is needed before numbers are up to pre-recession levels, according to the monthly Intuit Small Business Employment and Revenue Indexes. Revenue growth was […]

In the highly competitive data storage space, there is always room for growth: Storage specialist Netgear has brought the midmarket storage market up a notch with the ReadyData storage line, aimed at small and midsize businesses. The family offers a healthy array of features including thin provisioning, compression and deduplication of block (storage area network, […]

It might be worth thinking about keeping your friends close, but keeping your Facebook friends carefully cordoned off from the eyes of your employers, if a recent report from IT research firm Gartner is any indication. The study found that corporate monitoring of employee behavior on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn will […]

Small and midsize businesses’ spending on security technology is growing at a healthy clip and is set to pass $5.6 billion in 2015, according to a new report from IDC. In fact, SMBs’ spending on security products and services is projected to nearly double the 5 percent to 6 percent annual growth projected for SMBs’ […]

Over the weekend, software allowing users to jailbreak version 5.1.1 of the Apple iPhone operating system, Absinthe 2.0, was released into the wild through the Website GreenPois0n by the ChronicDev, with nearly 1 million devices jailbroken since the jailbreak, which supports firmware 5.1.1 only, hit the Web. According to a tweet from Chronic Dev, 211,401 […]

Smartphone sales in May accounted for 71 percent of overall mobile handset sales, with basic phones representing just 28 percent of sales, according to a survey from iGR, a market strategy consultancy focused on the wireless and mobile communications industry. The survey also found users intending on purchasing Apple€™s popular iPhone are willing to pay […]