Nathan Eddy

The Digital Asset Management and Media Asset Management marketplace has split into a low end and high end, resulting in a dearth of midmarket solutions, according to recent research conducted by CMS Watch, a Boston-based independent analyst firm. Mergers and acquisitions of smaller DAM firms by enterprise-level corporations resulted in a shift in focus for […]

Remember college, cramming for midterm exams in a dark, dusty library? Today’s university students spend their nights scanning Web-based discussion forums and studying in a wireless Internet caf??«. Those bundles of notes you took and heavy backpacks you carried have been replaced by online lesson plans and digital discussions. Now it seems you don’t have […]

On New Year’s Eve, reports began flooding across the Internet that Microsoft’s Zune media player was experiencing a worldwide meltdown, leaving Zune owners across the globe angry and confused. The glitch, caused by software that did not account for the extra day in the 2008 leap year, affected only the 30GB Zune models released in […]

With IT budgets expected to be tight this year, small business owners must make wise investments in order to stay competitive. While most analysts believe some cutting-edge trends, like mobile advertising, are still half a decade away from offering immediate ROI to small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), technologies such as virtualization and the burgeoning proliferation […]

Call it Microsoft’s Z2K bug; reports are flooding across the Internet that Microsoft’s Zune media player is inexplicably failing, en masse. The Web site Zune Forums is loaded with comments regarding the 30GB Zune freezing, running the gamut from annoyed users to those who seem about ready to burn Microsoft’s headquarters down. The issue has […]

A report this week from comScore shows sales from Web sites declined three percent overall this holiday shopping season, although some Web stores, such as Apple’s and Amazon’s, posted gains. Despite large discounts from retailers hoping to salvage year-end sales in the face of a crumbling economy, online sales declined for the first time since […]

A December survey by online payroll service SurePayroll, based in Glenview, Ill., suggests small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are managing to stay alive, despite crumbling financial markets and a government bailout aimed not at midmarket companies but large corporations. The survey found that nearly four out of 10 small business owners have not seen their […]

Virtualization has been widely touted as a major cost-saving technology that reduces infrastructure costs and streamlines IT management. But in this economic climate, are small and midsize businesses willing to spend their IT budgets on emerging technology? Some vendors are betting on it.Software company DataCore is the latest vendor to offer virtualization products aimed at […]

When considering New Year’s Eve celebrations, you probably think of parties, Times Square, Dick Clark and one whopper of a hangover the following morning. These days, chances are you’ll participate in one more New Year’s tradition: texting your friends, family and old flames with greetings for the upcoming year. Sprint wants you to know your […]

For those of you who have been waiting for someone to cram a quad-core processor into a notebook, your time has come. Intel announced over the weekend of Dec. 27 the launch of a new mobile quad-core chip, the Q9000, which PC maker Acer is selling in its Aspire 8930G-7665 notebook. Designed for multimedia and […]

At this point, you may be ready to go out and uproot a tree with your bare hands after hearing the incessant promotion surrounding “green IT.” It seems as though every second manufacturer and service provider has the best solution for reducing your carbon footprint or your energy costs or to improve some aspect of […]

Those James Bond films from the 1970s are looking sillier and sillier, and not only because the plot of “Moonraker” makes less sense with every passing day. Gone are the days when a watch containing a radio or even a television screen was the height of technology. LG Electronics says it plans to debut a […]