Nathan Eddy

Best New Year’s Eve Apps (Free, Android) Here are the best New Year’s Eve applications on the Google Android Market, assembled in one awesome collection. Countdown to the New Year ($0.99, iPhone) Dont miss a minute of New Years Eve action with this countdown clock, complete with crowd cheers and a variety of noisemakers. New […]

Nearly three quarters of U.S. small and midsize businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees have plans to purchase tablets over the next 12 months, with the Apple iPad being the most considered tablet among those firms planning an upcoming purchase, according to IT research firm The NPD Group’s third quarter SMB Technology Monitor. Among the […]

Employers expect to add new jobs in the New Year, but are waiting to see how the economy shapes up before turning up the volume on hiring, according to CareerBuilder’s annual job forecast. Nearly 25 percent of hiring managers plan to hire full-time, permanent employees in 2012, similar to 2011. Employment trends among small businesses, […]

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a $553 million multistate settlement with seven major technology corporations alleged to have illegally conspired to artificially inflate prices for liquid crystal display (LCD) screens used in televisions, computer monitors and laptops. New York state taxpayers may receive upward of $11 million, in addition to restitution to compensate […]

Owners of Apple’s iPhone 4 who have a hankering to use the company’s much-publicized voice-recognition personal assistant Siri can now do so thanks to a download designed by a hacker known as “chpwn,” who posted the details of the program on his blog. The tool, Spire, will download Siri itself (directly from Apple) while it […]

Mobile phone manufacturer LG will be offering the Ice Cream Sandwich operating system upgrade for a range of LG smartphones that were introduced this year, according to a post on the company’s Facebook page. The global upgrade is scheduled to begin in the second and third quarters of 2012, which will be followed by a […]

It’s the smartphone market, stupid. That’s the point of view from one Windows Phone 7 evangelist and former Microsoft employee, who wrote a long blog post lamenting poor sales of the Microsoft smartphones and the success of inferior products like Google Android-powered devices and Apple’s iPhone. The comments came from Charlie Kindel, a 21-year Microsoft […]

As the tablet market continues to expand, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt let slip to the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera that the company was planning to directly manufacture tablet devices “of the highest quality” and mentioned a six-month window for production. Google’s Android operating system is already running the tablets of major manufacturers […]

The loosely-associated band of hackers known as Anonymous claims to have targeted the global intelligence think tank Strategic Forecasting, known as Stratfor, boasting on the microblogging site Twitter that personal information, including credit card numbers, belonging to Stratfor clients had been stolen. As of Monday morning, Stratfor’s Website was down, with a placeholder page saying […]

LG Display, a manufacturer of thin-film transistor LCD technology, announced that it has developed what it calls the world’s largest organic LED TV panel, measuring 55 inches and just 5 millimeters thin. The company will showcase the TV at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The OLED, a medium that controls […]

Electronics giants Sony and Samsung have signed agreements to transition the current business relationship with respect to LCD panels. Under the agreement, Samsung will acquire all of Sony’s shares of S-LCD Corporation, the two companies’ LCD panel manufacturing joint venture, making S-LCD a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung. Under the terms of the share transfer, […]

The global CRM applications market recorded a robust performance in the first half of this year, with revenue totaling $9.2 billion, with semiannual year-on-year growth of 13.3 percent, a third stronger than what it was a year ago, according to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual CRM Applications Tracker. Oracle remained the top CRM vendor worldwide, growing above […]