Nathan Eddy

Small businesses rely increasingly on mobile applications, Facebook pages for their companies, and employees working remotely via wireless technologies, according to the AT&T Small Business Technology Poll. The national survey of small businesses with two to 50 employees revealed that nearly three-fourths (72 percent) indicate they use mobile applications in their business, with roughly four […]

Communications giant Cisco announced it has completed its acquisition of privately held Inlet Technologies, a provider of Adaptive Bit Rate digital media processing platforms. Based in Raleigh, N.C., Inlet was acquired to help strengthen the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform, allowing service and content providers to deliver video experiences to a variety of devices […]

XO Communications launched a cloud-based security platform, which offers small and midsize businesses the ability to deploy and manage comprehensive network-security capabilities across their enterprise networks. As a cloud-based service, Enterprise Cloud Security delivers network-security capabilities for midmarket companies without requiring them to purchase premise-based equipment. Instead, all the applications are delivered through the XO […]

A report from AMI-Partners found U.S. small businesses (SBs, or firms with less than 100 employees) are increasingly adopting Unified Communications (video and Web conferencing solutions), utilizing various free offers available on the market. According to the report, more than 25 percent of U.S. SBs would deploy Unified Communications integrated with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings as […]

Virtual PBX, a supplier of hosted PBX services, announced the results of a recent survey that asked small and midsize business owners and employees about their use of virtual offices. Respondents cited employee flexibility (61 percent), cost savings (54 percent), geographic distance of staff (42 percent) and the desire to reduce commute time, cost and […]

Midmarket companies are not doing enough to protect their mobile phones, according to survey results by research firm Canalys. Based on 814 SMB (small and midsize business) respondents, the report indicated that 86 percent of SMBs have not yet adopted mobile phone security throughout their organizations. The research signals an “alarming gap” between the growing […]

NASA reported the crew of the space shuttle Discovery landed safely at Kennedy Space Center in Florida March 9 after its last mission into space. With this last flight, Discovery has spent a total of 365 days in space, over the course of 39 missions. It will have orbited the Earth 5,830 times and traveled […]

The crew members of the space shuttle Discovery received another special wake-up call Tuesday, as they began what is scheduled to be Discovery’s last full day in space on its last mission into the heavens. The wakeup call was a live performance of the song “Blue Sky” by Big Head Todd and the Monsters. The […]

NComputing, a provider of desktop virtualization solutions, has signed an OEM relationship with Fujitsu Technology Solutions. Fujitsu will integrate NComputing’s 64-bit vSpace virtualization and Numo system on a chip (SoC) with its PC, servers and services to provide integrated multi-workplace solutions optimized for SMB customers. The technology will be marketed under Fujitsu’s Futro brand in […]

Business collaboration systems, software and services specialist Avaya announced an array of application development partners driving new capabilities for IP Office, the company’s communications solution for SMBs. These partners are part of Avaya’s DevConnect program, an initiative to promote the creation of a new generation of solutions complementary to unified communications by integrating products, services […]

Web application security assessment and risk management solutions specialist Cenzic announced plans to expand internationally with the white-labeled version of its ClickToSecure Cloud solution to meet the growing needs of international partners. The release is designed to give managed security services providers (MSSPs), Web hosting providers/Internet Service Providers (ISPs), managed service providers (MSPs), and cloud […]

Small to midsize businesses are beginning to move toward cloud-based backup (as opposed to traditional technologies) to protect their company data, according to a Forrester Research survey whose goal was to discover the drivers for the move to cloud-based recovery tech versus traditional on-premises solutions. The report, commissioned by cloud-basked backup specialist Asigra, found that […]