Nathan Eddy

Internet security firm AVG launched its latest weapon in the fight against corporate cyber-crime, the Online Security Audit. The free audit is designed to provide SMBs (small and midsize businesses) with tailored reports on their security needs, helping them to understand and protect against the dangers of cyber-crime. Businesses can access AVG’s platform to get […]

NASA announced the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with a launch at 4:50 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 24, from the space agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission STS-133 is currently scheduled as Discovery’s final flight. Discovery’s launch date was announced Friday at […]

Speculation continues to grow that computer maker Apple is readying a refresh of its line of MacBook Pro notebooks. The Mac blog AppleInsider reported the company issued strict warnings to its retail partners not to open any sealed containers that arrive to their stores, which some say suggest the updated notebooks are contained inside. “According […]

As the battle for control of the tablet market heats up, Best Buy released the preorder price for the Motorola Xoom tablet, which made its debut at last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The tablet, which runs on Google Android’s “Honeycomb” platform, carries a list price of $799.99, significantly higher than that of […]

Knowledge workers at small to midsize businesses spend 50 percent of their workday on necessary, yet unproductive tasks, including routine communications, and filtering incoming information and correspondence, according to the findings of a new report released by Fonality and conducted by Webtorials. The report also showed that knowledge workers are one of the largest staff […]

Intelligent network-security and data-protection solutions specialist SonicWall announced the availability of the Secure Remote Access Virtual Appliance and Aventail E-Class SRA Virtual Appliance. The appliances add to the existing SSL VPN small and midsize business and enterprise-class hardware lineup and further expand the company’s virtualized appliance offerings that include management, reporting and e-mail security. Combining […]

Barcelona–Computer maker Acer launched a slew of products at this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC), including the Iconia smart, which the company is billing as a 100 percent smartphone, 100 percent tablet device. Along with the smart, Acer showcased the Iconia Tab A100, A500 and W500 tablets, which run either a version of Google’s Android […]

BARCELONA–The tablet market became ever more crowded with HTC’s release of the Flyer tablet, which debuted this week at Mobile World Congress. The device combines natural touch and pen interaction and features the company’s Sense user interface. It runs a hybrid version of Gingerbread (Android 2.4). Many of its competitors use the latest version of […]

BARCELONA, Spain-Handset maker HTC announced two phones built with an emphasis on social networking, combining the user-friendly platform of HTC Sense with connectivity to Facebook. As part of an extended portfolio of six HTC Sense-based devices being unveiled at Mobile World Congress here, the company’s ChaCha and Salsa smartphones feature a dedicated Facebook button for […]

BARCELONA – HTC unveiled three updated versions of its most popular smartphones, the Desire S, Wildfire S and Incredible S. Featuring the company’s Sense user interface for mobile devices running Google Android, Brew and Windows Mobile, the phones will be broadly available to customers across major European and Asian markets in the second quarter. As […]

BARCELONA, Spain-The leaders of five global telecom players and the CEO of GSMA addressed the challenges and opportunities facing the worldwide mobile industry with keynote presentations at the Mobile World Congress here, citing the explosive growth of smartphones and resultant increase in demand for mobile data access as key developments for the industry to capitalize […]

BARCELONA, Spain-The outgoing CEO of technology behemoth Google, Eric Schmidt, broke from the traditional tech-heavy Mobile World Congress keynotes so often reliant upon sales figures and growth metrics to paint the portrait of a future society where technology becomes subservient to humanity and our shared level of connectivity has the potential to solve the greatest […]