Nathan Eddy

BARCELONA, Spain– As location-based services continue to gain momentum, most notably with Google’s recent announcement of Latitude, it should come as little surprise that Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, hopes to grab a large part of the personalized application market.Nokia Executive Vice President Tero Ojanper??? used a keynote address to do just that, […]

While Washington lurches toward passing another economic stimulus package, Dell is reaching out to small- and medium-size business owners to help them stay afloat as the worldwide economic crisis ricochets onward. This week the company announced financing deals on select Latitude laptops and PowerEdge Energy Smart servers. Dell calls the “zero percent $1 buy-out lease […]

The mobile industry’s largest exhibition, GSMA Mobile World Congress, kicks off in Barcelona on Feb. 13. The four-day conference is expected to draw nearly 50,000 attendees and more than 1,000 exhibitors from across the globe.As the show draws nearer, rumors continue to circulate and whispered expectations are intensifying. But in the face of a tumultuous […]

With the number of Wi-Fi enabled devices, including the enormous range of smartphones, increasingly finding their way into small to medium-size businesses, it is hardly surprising to expect vendors and wireless Internet service providers to cater to midmarket companies. However, a report from ABI Research, which specializes in emerging trends in global connectivity, discovered the […]

Even though the economy is forcing many midmarket companies to cut costs and trim budgets, security–particularly data protection–is still a top priority. A survey by information technology research firm IDC reveals small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are increasingly adopting technologies like replication or disk-to-disk-to-tape backup, previously seen only in enterprise datacenters. The report, Data Protection […]

If the law firm of Quinn Emanuel, which bills itself as “the premier business litigation firm in the U.S.,” had a Facebook page, Wednesday’s status update might read something along the lines of “Quinn Emanuel is wishing it kept its mouth shut.” That’s because the firm’s public relations department accidentally disclosed the terms of what […]

Do you ever wonder why the electric bill you receive at home or at your business costs what it does? Most people simply do not pay attention to the amount of electricity they use, but Google (who else?) announced a new tool to make people more aware of their power-sapping ways. On Monday, Ed Lu, […]

As more and more midmarket companies look to virtualization as a cost-effective solution to business IT challenges, an increasing selection of vendors are offering services geared at small and medium-size businesses. Doyenz’s Automated Virtual IT, a managed service for IT consultants that leverages virtualization and cloud services to automate the delivery and management of IT […]

Rumors and conflicting reports continue to spread around Apple’s alleged blocking of the popular social networking site Facebook from its in-store product displays. On Friday the technology news Web site tinyComb posted an article proclaiming Facebook had been “banned for life” from Apple stores.Over the weekend, various news outlets issued conflicting reports about the “ban,” […]

Small-business owners worried over how the credit crisis will affect their financing ability may find solace in a recent announcement from technology giant Hewlett-Packard. The company announced zero percent financing promotions that it hopes will make continued investment in business technology simple and affordable for small and midsize businesses, enabling them to increase efficiency and […]

Digium, the creator of open-source telephony software Asterisk, announced the release of the latest version of Switchvox SMB, an IP PBX designed for small- to mid-sized businesses. Version 4.0 adds numerous UC (unified communication) capabilities, including support for fax, chat and video calling. The company designed Switchvox SMB for businesses that want a full-featured voice […]

Storage and data management company NetApp quietly discontinued StoreVault, its storage appliance aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The product first debuted in 2006, with pricing starting at around $5,000. StoreVault could scale up to 12TB and was capable of direct-attached storage, network-attached storage and an iSCSI storage-area network. The news was announced via a […]