Nathan Eddy

As part of its GoPayment mobile payment offering, Intuit announced the launch of the GoPayment Prepaid Visa Card. The card expands Intuit’s strategy beyond processing credit cards on a mobile device to offering the convenience of a Visa prepaid account linked to GoPayment. The company also recently launched SimpleStore for Facebook, allowing any current SimpleStore […]

Network operator AT&T announced that it has received all required regulatory approvals for AT&T’s acquisition of spectrum from Qualcomm, a bit of positive news for the carrier after the implosion of its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. The company is purchasing 700 MHz spectrum licenses covering more than 300 million people for approximately $1.9 billion. […]

Apple iPod Shuffle ($49) With five snazzy colors, 2GB of storage and the typical Apple design polish, this tiny MP3 player is the perfect gift for the mobile music fan. Star Wars Han Solo Carbonite Chocolate ($11.99) Made from delicious dark chocolate and straight from Tatooine’s Tasty Treats, this carbonite confection should be a sweet […]

Wholesale-only nationwide 4G Long-Term Evolution network operator LightSquared asked the Federal Communications Commission to confirm the company’s right to use the spectrum licensed to it by the federal government. In addition, the company asked the FCC to confirm that commercial GPS manufacturers have no right to interference protection from LightSquared’s network since they are not […]

Social networking accounted for nearly 1 in every 5 minutes spent online globally in October 2011, ranking as the most engaging online activity worldwide. Social networking sites now reach 82 percent of the world’s Internet population age 15 and older that accessed the Internet from a home or work computer, representing 1.2 billion users around […]

When it comes to creating new applications or software to solve business problems, a growing number of employees are going it on their own, a survey from Intuit QuickBase reveals. The survey found that nearly one in five information workers has built or customized a Web application or software for work purposes without support from […]

Santa GPS (99 cents) Track Santa in real time as he flies around delivering gifts to all the good people. It may keep your kids occupied Christmas Eve. Dr. Seuss Camera – The Grinch Edition (99 cents) Create your own Grinchmas Cards with more than 20 whimsical images to choose from and classic Seussian text. […]

Customers of Verizon Wireless were hit with a second nationwide outage this month of the company’s 3G and 4G networks, sending wireless users to the company’s support forums and Twitter feed to express their frustration. Some customers on the East Coast were reporting that 3G service had been restored as of 8 a.m. Dec. 21. […]

Nexsan, an independent provider of disk-based storage systems, announced a downloadable paper titled, “6 Tips for Selecting HDD and SSD Drives,” a free educational resource that provides guidance on selecting the most appropriate hard disk drive or solid state disk drive technology when configuring a storage system for business applications. There are a number of […]

An electronic application that finds loans, grants and other useful small business resources and its developer, Somesh Kumar of Fremont, Calif., won first prize and $5,000 in a nationwide competition sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The competition and resulting seven apps are meant to put new and useful Web tools at the fingertips […]

Cell phones are owned by overwhelmingly large majorities of people in most major countries around the world, and they are used for much more than just phone calls, particularly for SMS messaging and accessing social networks. In fact, text messaging is a global phenomenon: Across 21 countries surveyed by Pew Research, 75 percent of cell […]

Business security specialist WatchGuard announced its top security predictions for 2012, including a major breach of a top cloud provider, the rise of advanced malware attacks through virtual systems and mobile applications, and an increased reliance on virtualization, which will reawaken a need for virtual security. WatchGuard suspects that malware will increasingly leverage geolocation to […]