Nathan Eddy

With the HP TouchPad on the ropes and Apple’s iPad 2 cornering the tablet market, small businesses might think they don’t have as many choices as they’d like when it comes to an efficient, business-centric tablet. While devices like the BlackBerry PlayBook cater to a more professional market, consumer-savvy devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab […]

The telecommunication systems division of Toshiba America announced its IP5531-SDL IP telephone, a new addition to its line of Toshiba IP5000-series business telephones. The IP5531-SDL IP telephone gives more endpoint choices to users of Toshiba’s IPedge IP business telephone systems. It is also compatible with the company’s Strata CIX IP business communication systems. All of […]

The tech support market for small and midsize businesses will exceed $20 billion by 2015, according to Parks Associates, which notes that the 2008 launch of AT&T’s Tech Support 360 is a significant milestone in this market because this service was the first to integrate communications, data services and technical support on a nationwide level. […]

Chipmaker Intel announced it has joined the Linux Foundation and the LiMo Foundation in support of Tizen, a Linux-based, open-source software platform for multiple device categories, including mobile handsets, netbooks and tablets. The standards-based Tizen project will be hosted at the Linux Foundation and offer an operating system and a flexible standards-based HTML5 and Wholesale […]

NASA App (Free) The mother lode for space geeks, this app collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of news, images and videos. Satellites (99 Cents) Keep track of the International Space Station as it orbits Earth, with tracking data culled from NASA and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Moon Globe (Free) Hold the […]

Cloud automation and management software provider Cloupia announced Open Automation for Clouds, allowing its customers and partners to extend, add or enhance data center management and operations automation in addition to its Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC) cloud and data center automation capabilities. The company’s Open Automation for Clouds capability provides customers with a way […]

Just 27 percent of small business owners have had an outside party test their computer systems to ensure they are hacker-proof, according to the findings of Newtek Business Services’ Small Business Authority Market Sentiment Survey, a monthly window into the concerns of independent business owners. Based on a poll of approximately 1,200 respondents, one of […]

While Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft left it with two operating systems destined for the technological dustbin, Symbian and MeeGo, the company is still releasing its first-and last-smartphone using the Meego OS. The N9 offers three home views via its touch-screen interface, including Applications, Events and Live Applications, to enable users to navigate through the smartphone. […]

Mitel announced that its Unified Communicator (UC) Advanced software is now available on the iOS mobile operating system for Apple iPhones and iPad tablets, further extending the reach of Mitel’s unified communications platform on mobile devices beyond Research in Motion BlackBerry handsets and Android-based mobile devices. Through a single cloud-ready software stream, Mitel delivers a […]

The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced that it will deploy and support a world-class supercomputer with comprehensive computing and visualization capabilities for the open science community, as part of the National Science Foundation’s “eXtreme Digital” (XD) program. The new system, called Stampede, will be built by TACC in […]

Hosting and cloud services enablement specialist Parallels announced the availability of Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure, a scalable solution for service providers to deliver cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to small to medium-size businesses. PACI provides hosting control, from provisioning and billing to self-service management and security. It is ready to deploy on any […]

Newtek Business Services announced the release of the Small Business Authority Index for August 2011, which reached 108.06 points. The SB Authority Index is up 0.76 percent from July 2011, with approved SBA loan volumes, the Russell microcap index and retail sales causing the increase in the index. However, the index growth was limited by […]