Nathan Eddy

Internet freedom is in a more perilous position than ever before in history, said Google co-founder Sergey Brin, speaking to The Guardian newspaper. He cited “very powerful forces€ across the globe that are putting pressure on the open standards under which the Internet was envisioned. “I am more worried than I have been in the […]

Where€™s the surf? One in five American adults does not use the Internet, according to the latest report from the Pew Internet Project. Senior citizens, those who prefer to take the research organization’s interviews in Spanish rather than English, adults with less than a high school education and those living in households earning less than […]

On the heels of a widely reported interview in French publication Le Figaro, where famous French designer Philippe Starck said he had been tapped by Apple to create, in his words, a €œrevolutionary€ product that would be unveiled in eight months, an Apple spokesman threw cold water on the claim, telling the technology blog AllThingsD […]

Cloud infrastructure company GoGrid announced the Big Data Solution, an offering based on a hybrid infrastructure architecture that combines cloud computing with single-tenant infrastructure components, all managed through the GoGrid management portal. Built to support high-performance analytic jobs and able to be used for applications that leverage NoSQL solutions like Hadoop to serve up content […]

Optimism among small-business owners is on the rise, with more than half (56 percent, up from 48 percent last fall) having a positive outlook on business prospects over the next six months, according to the American Express Open Small Business Monitor, a semi-annual survey. At the same time, the employment picture is looking rosier, with […]

Dun & Bradstreet launched Hoover€™s Optimizer, an add-on module for Hoover€™s Online, designed to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) cleanse and enrich their customer and prospect data to increase return on investment on sales and marketing campaigns. Hoover€™s Optimizer combines a self-service program with the D&B€™s commercial information on more than 205 million businesses […]

Technology consulting added more than 70,000 positions last year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. More recently, another 16,000 positions were added in the first quarter, according to a report from online IT careers site Dice. In the arenas of consulting and staffing, Tom Silver, Dice senior vice president of North America, […]

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Remote access service provider LogMeIn announced the opening of the beta version of Cubby, a cloud data service to securely share information across PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android devices or with other people. The first service built on LogMeIn’s own cloud data sync and storage platform, Cubby lets people turn any number of PC or […]

In an effort to more directly compete with social networking behemoth Facebook, search giant Google unveiled a refresh of Google+, its social networking platform that hasn€™t made as big a splash as hoped (despite boasting 170 million members). Instead of static icons at the top, the redesign swings them to the left side of the […]

Chip giant Intel announced the availability of Intel Small Business Advantage (SBA) for laptops and desktops. The platform is based on the 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family, which includes a host of security and productivity features for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The SBA, announced at the company’s Developer Forum in Beijing, is available […]

Storage specialist Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) is shipping the WD Scorpio Blue 7mm hard drive, the latest addition to its mobile hard drive family, and the 2.5-inch drive, which functions with low power consumption. Specified to 400Gs shock tolerance, the new single-platter Scorpio Blue small-form-factor hard drives are available in 500GB and 320GB capacities, and […]