Nathan Eddy

Small and midsize businesses will continue the recent trend of shifting their marketing budgets to digital advertising, performance-based platforms and customer-retention business solutions over the next five years, according to a U.S. SMB Spending Forecast by media and marketing consulting firm BIA/Kelsey. The report said this trend creates an increasingly large market opportunity for businesses […]

Small businesses created 35,000 new jobs in August, but employees worked fewer hours and received less money, key findings among the results of this month’s update of the Intuit Small Business Employment Index, covering the period between July 24 and Aug. 23. The monthly report found that small business employment grew by 0.18 percent in […]

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are capturing a larger share of the adult population than ever before, according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. Two-thirds of adult Internet users (65 percent) now say they use a social networking site, up from 61 percent one year […]

Remote IT infrastructure management specialist NetEnrich introduced its Small Business Services package, designed to support IT solution providers who deliver managed services to small and midsize businesses. The technology that powers the SBS framework is NetEnrich’s Agent, with built-in discovery capabilities to identify infrastructure and application instances, track and record actions performed by NetEnrich, and […]

Application availability is a top priority for IT organizations supporting mission-critical business processes, but many companies grapple with identifying an effective, secure and efficient solution to fit the complexity of their IT environments. To help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) meet this challenge, SunGard Availability Services is augmenting its portfolio of offerings with Recover2Cloud, a […]

Hardware as a Service and managed services provider sales training specialist CharTec announced the latest version of its backup and disaster recovery solution featuring improved restore times, reporting functionality and offsite transfers to help enable managed service providers with the ability to deliver more rapid, reliable recovery of clients’ computing environments. Built upon the original […]

Data security intelligence and protection specialist Dataguise released a report suggesting data masking, or the de-identification of sensitive data used in application development, testing and business analysis, can go a long way to improving a business or organization’s ability to protect itself against security risks. The company recommended creating test and development copies through an […]

Nokia 701 The 701 smartphone has a 1GHz processor, 8-megapixel, full-focus camera with dual LED flash and 2X digital zoom. In addition, there is a second front-facing camera and HD video capture. Nokia 701 It comes with 8GB of internal memory and the possibility to increase to 40GB by installing a 32GB microSD card. In […]

Handset maker Nokia announced the launch of three smartphones, including Symbian Belle software. The Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 600 extend the range of available designs, features and functionality in the Nokia Symbian smartphone range, and Symbian Belle powers all three, with single-tap near-field communication technology sharing and pairing. In addition to allowing content […]

Business communications specialist Fonality unveiled Heads Up Display (HUD) Mobile, an application designed for small and midsize businesses. Through the flexibility of Apple or Android platforms, HUD Mobile delivers access to cloud-based voice over IP, unified communications (UC) and contact center solutions with a single, secure and user-friendly interface. Based on the desktop version of […]

Momentum behind the cloud computing movement continues to accelerate as businesses move from limited deployments to more comprehensive cloud solutions, according to research published by CompTIA, the nonprofit trade association for the IT industry. More than half (56 percent) of the organizations surveyed for CompTIA’s Second Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study said their investment […]

Apple Designed by Norman Foster, this environmentally friendly, ring-shaped headquarters for Apple looks like a spaceship from the future. Google Known as the Googleplex, the search engine giant’s campus in Mountain View, Calif., features a series of solar panels covering the rooftops of eight buildings and two solar carports capable of producing 1.6 megawatts of […]