Nathan Eddy

10 Inexpensive Flash Drives from Sony, HP, SanDisk No Title Kodak 2GB USB Multimedia Drive ($14.99) For those who don’t need massive storage capacity, this 2GB Kodak drive still gives you plenty of room to store documents and media like photos or music. PC and Mac compatible, the ultra-portable design measures just 1.7 inches long […]

The ubiquitous microblogging Website Twitter currently logs 50 million “tweets,” online postings of 140 characters or less, according to a blog post written by the company’s analytics lead, Kevin Weil. That figure breaks down to an average of 600 tweets per second; in 2007, Weil notes, the site’s daily tweeting average stood at just 5,000. […]

Cloud computing and managed IT services provider BlueLock announced CloudSuite, a set of cloud computing solutions, offering a selection of infrastructure-as-a-service environments to fit the needs of individual applications. The company is marketing CloudSuite as an array of public and private cloud computing solutions aimed at SMBs (small and midsize businesses). CloudSuite includes public computing […]

Information technology firm Weidenhammer announced it is launching vRescue, an on-demand disaster recovery IT service aimed at providing small and midsize businesses with business continuity solutions via a fully managed backup and recovery service that quickly restores critical applications and data. Leveraging the power of the Internet and virtualization technology, vRescue takes daily snapshots of […]

Internet security provider Webroot reports IT managers in small to midsize businesses believe malware spread through social networks, Web 2.0 applications and other Web-based vectors will pose the most serious risk to information security in 2010. The data is part of a survey of 803 IT professionals in companies with 100 to 5,000 employees in […]

A power nap indeed works to recharge the brain, improving memory, according to findings of a study on sleep and midday napping by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley. Led by study author Matthew Walker, the team of scientists compared the results of memory tests after a group of test subjects took a […]

Virtualization and cloud security specialist Key Pair Technologies announced a family of products designed to address the need for increasingly tighter and more integrated security solutions to support building and operating public and private clouds. The solutions come in midmarket, enterprise and data center packages. Key Pair Cloud Security SME Edition addresses the small to […]

HTC Unveils Smartphones with Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile by Nathan Eddy HTC HD2 Boasting a high-resolution, 4.3-inch capacitive touch display, this ultra-thin smartphone is the first capacitive touch display on a Windows phone. It utilizes Qualcomm’s new 1Ghz Snapdragon mobile processor and gives users the ability to zoom and resize Websites, Microsoft Office files, […]

Microsoft Windows Phone Series 7, Samsung Wave and Scenes from MWC 2010 Microsoft Windows Phone Series 7, Samsung Wave and Scenes from MWC 2010by Nathan Eddy Braving the Rain There wasn’t much sunlight to be seen at this year’s convention, in stark contrast to last year’s brighter, warmer weather conditions. However, that didn’t stop attendees […]

Motorola, Acer, Samsung Release Smartphones at MWC Motorola, Acer, Samsung Release Smartphones at MWCBy Nathan Eddy Motorola Quench The touch-screen Quench offers capabilities such as pinch and zoom and a touch pad, and also features Motoblur, Motorola’s Android-powered content delivery service, which organizes messages and synchronizes contacts. The Quench also connects users to their music […]

Motorola Unveils Android Phones, LTE Appliances and More at MWC by Nathan Eddy Quench Smartphone with Motoblur The touch-screen smartphone, which offers capabilities such as pinch and zoom and a touch pad, also features Motoblur, Motorolas Android-powered content delivery service, which organizes messages and synchronizes contacts. The handset also includes Adobe Flash Lite support. It […]

Garmin-Asus, a co-branded alliance between satellite navigation specialist Garmin and computer maker AsusTek Computer, announced the launch of two smartphones loaded with location-based features and services. The A50, which runs on Google’s open-source Android operating system, also includes Garmin navigation with turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions for use in a car or while walking. The M10, a […]