Nathan Eddy

For the fifth consecutive month, the National Federation of Independent Business monthly Small-Business Optimism Index fell, dropping 0.9 points in July-a larger decline than in each of the previous three months-and bringing the Index down to 89.9. This is below the average Index reading of 90.2 for the last two-year recovery period. Expectations for future […]

Astaro, provider of unified threat management solutions, announced the availability of version 8.2 of the Astaro Security Gateway. Chief among the over 60 new features or enhancements in version 8.2 are Application Control (Next Generation Firewall), Interactive Web Reporting and a new authentication agent, according to Astaro, a Sophos company. The new features and enhancements […]

German Technical Museum Dedicated to transportation, manufacturing and technology, the museum boasts an impressive array of radios, phones, planes, sea-faring vessels and two whole locomotive sheds on its sprawling campus. Computer Game Museum In this, Berlin’s newest museum, visitors are taken on a historical journey covering the highlights of a geek history that started 60 […]

Dell announced the Inspiron 13z and Inspiron 14z notebooks, extending the company’s emphasis on thin computing, and broadening the “z” distinction to Inspiron, Dell’s consumer notebooks brand. The company also introduced the Vostro V131, an addition to the Vostro laptop line designed specifically for small business customers. The Vostro V131 is available via the company’s […]

Infratel, a provider of call center products and general telephony services for the small and midsize business, announced the market launch of a cloud-based service that is engineered to make it easy and inexpensive for midmarket businesses to employ advanced voice solutions. “Cloud computing has created an amazing opportunity for SMBs to immediately level the […]

Buffalo Technology, a specialist in the design, development and manufacturing of storage and wireless networking solutions, announced the launch of the TeraStation Pro Windows Storage Server. The family of RAID-enabled NAS (network attached storage) is available in two, four and six bay models, as well as the 4 bay TeraStation Pro Rackmount, and Buffalo continues […]

The Federal Communications Commission dealt a blow to network operator AT&T by tying together the company’s proposed acquisition of rival carrier T-Mobile USA with a $1.9 billion deal that would see AT&T acquire some of Qualcomm’s spectrum licenses. The agency sent the letter to AT&T and Qualcomm executives on the last day of the 180-day […]

Storage Strategies Now (SSG-Now), a specialist storage analysis and research organization, released the findings of a report and survey on solid state drives and high-speed memory. Titled “Solid State Drives and High-Speed Memory: Adoption, Practice and Deployment,” the report defines solid state storage, outlines its explosive growth and details how businesses are adopting and deploying […]

Edgewater Networks announced the availability of the EdgeProtect Series Enterprise Session Border Controllers, which connect remote employees to headquarters-based unified communications systems. The EdgeProtect solution uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) to simplify connectivity and provide confidentiality, authentication and encryption for all IP-based voice, video and data connections. It also integrates passive call quality monitoring to […]

Enhancing its set of email and marketing-automation tools aimed at small and midsize businesses, Genoo expanded its offerings this week by adding two new service plans. In addition to their standard package for small business, companies can now choose from Premium and Elite packages. These plans are structured to provide better pricing for companies with […]

Inventory-management solutions specialist Fishbowl announced the release of SalesPoint, a POS (point-of-sale) software add-on to Fishbowl Inventory, the top-selling add-on for QuickBooks. The release of SalesPoint is part of a Fishbowl’s plan to provide full business automation for small and midsize businesses. Fishbowl customers can purchase SalesPoint as an add-on to Fishbowl Inventory by contacting […]

Computer maker Apple released a surprise update to its iOS platform over the weekend with a beta version of iOS 5, which reportedly features speech recognition software, as well as an updated iTunes 10.5 beta 5 and Apple TV beta 4. To install iOS 5 beta 5 using over the air software update, users must […]