Nathan Eddy

Add privately held wireless communications provider Cellular South to the list of organizations and companies protesting the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA by network operator AT&T. Cellular South filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing the deal should not be allowed to go through. The company joins the […]

Some 83 percent of American adults own cell phones and three-quarters of them (73 percent) send and receive text messages, according to a report from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. The organization also asked those texters in a survey how they prefer to be contacted on their cell phone, with 31 […]

Half the employees at small and midsize businesses are estimated to be working outside the office, and a quarter of SMBs’ staff works outside the firm at any given time, at any given time, according to a new study, entitled “State-of-the-Market 2011 Report: Mobility Trends in SMBs.” The report, released by business communications specialist Fonality […]

Confidence in the economy among small-business owners tumbled in August, as the National Federation of Independent Business’ monthly Small Business Optimism Index dropped a whopping 1.8 points, settling at a “disturbingly low” 88.1. The Index has now been in decline for a full six months. Unlike previous months, August’s decline comes in the immediate aftermath […]

Integra Telecom, a provider of fiber-based, business-grade networking, communications and cloud solutions, introduced a cloud security services suite of managed, networked-based security products for companies that rely on the Internet for their business and need to protect their network from unauthorized and malicious access and content. The first available product is Cloud Firewall Service, a […]

Network operator AT&T announced that it will launch its Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G wireless network in five cities across the United States, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The company said it expects to expand the service to 15 markets and 70 million people by the end of the year. Speaking at […]

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More U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline devices by 2015, according to a report from IT analytics firm International Data Corporation. The company’s Worldwide New Media Market Model (NMMM) forecast that as smartphones begin to outsell simpler feature phones, and as media tablet sales explode, […]

Electronic transaction processing services specialist Global Payments and CRE Secure, a provider of cloud-based, secure payment solutions for midmarket companies, announced an agreement to incorporate CRE Secure’s HTML Clone technology within Global Payments’ Global Transport Secure eCommerce solution. The solution is designed to addresses the small and midsize business (SMB) eCommerce segment. Global Payments’ merchants […]

Integrated Device Technology, a specialist in developing system-level solutions designed to optimize its customers’ applications, announced coolRAC technology, a power architecture for enterprise data centers that is engineered to increase energy efficiency and lower operating cost. IDT’s technology does not require a data center redesign or changes to the physical architecture, which helps minimize the […]

For a sixth consecutive time, Apple ranked highest among manufacturers of smartphones in customer satisfaction, according to a report from JD Power and Associates. Apple achieves a score of 838 points (on a scale of 1,00 points) and performs well in all factors, particularly in ease of operation and features. HTC (801 points) follows Apple […]

Business and financial management solutions specialist Intuit unveiled Salesforce for QuickBooks, which is designed to help enable small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) manage their customer relationships. Salesforce for QuickBooks is the result of an alliance that Intuit and Salesforce.com announced earlier in the year. The news comes as part of Intuit’s QuickBooks 2012 product announcement, […]