Nathan Eddy

Earlier this month, the shutdown of hosting company McColo, which many reports identified as the leading spam producer, resulted in a precipitous drop in spam. Now it appears spammers have found a new home, and levels are again on the rise.Symantec’s MessageLabs believes McColo hosted 80 percent of the spam clogging in-boxes. After two weeks […]

Perennial purveyor of the hip PC, Apple, is quietly telling retail staffers they have “the authority to match the prices of other authorized retailers,” upping the competitive ante on big-box retail outlets such as Best Buy and online retailers such as Amazon.com-not to mention midmarket resellers. As the weakened U.S. economy stumbles toward the all-important […]

According to a recent survey conducted by the online payroll company SurePayroll, a majority of small-business owners believe there is substantial business value in popular social networking Web sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Fifty-five percent of small-business owners surveyed said they believe social networking has a place in the business world.“It’s excellent that […]

For those who never thought text messaging could boost an endpoint solution strategy, think again. Lenovo on Nov. 25 announced a text messaging service that freezes lost or stolen Lenovo notebooks. The “kill command” SMS (Short Message Service) technology, called Constant Secure Remote Disable, will be available on certain ThinkPad notebooks equipped with mobile broadband […]

A joint venture between Intel and memory maker Micron Technology has begun production on a 34nm NAND flash memory disk. The venture, called IM Flash Technologies, should heighten competition with Toshiba and Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest NAND flash memory chip maker. NAND flash memory is commonly used for multimedia storage on portable media players. […]

Several reports over the weekend revealed Microsoft has registered the domain name Kumo.com, which sent the blogosphere into a frenzy of speculation as to whether Kumo, which means “spider” or “cloud” in Japanese, will be the new face of Windows Live Search. Microsoft is reportedly gearing up to re-brand and re-launch the search feature. Microsoft […]

While the economy lurches from one day to the next and incidents of real-life piracy increase off the coast of Somalia, Symantec’s “Report on the Underground Economy” illuminates an online underground that has matured into an efficient global marketplace for stolen goods and fraud-related services. Symantec reports that in the yearlong period of observation an […]

The advent of social media has changed the nature of relationships forever, be they personal, professional or commercial. Twitter, the product of a research and development project at Odeo, has become a valuable communication platform for enterprise-level companies and mom-and-pop shops alike. Twitter is currently the fastest growing social-networking site in the United States.Julio Ojeda-Zapata, […]

In today’s business climate, money is tight and competition is fierce. The Internet and 24-hour news cycle flood our brains with information and advertising. But how much of it sticks? The midmarket business owner needs to spend advertising money wisely to make the maximum impact-that’s obvious. But what about Web 2.0 technologies such as Twitter, […]

Google’s SearchWiki tools are already generating an awful lot of buzz on the Internet, but can this new functionality benefit the midmarket business owner? Yes, in many ways, said John Fairley, a senior account manager for Walker Sands Communications, a marketing communications company.“In the short term, it’s important to [small and midsize businesses] because it’s […]

Big Blue announced plans to acquire the privately owned virtualization company Transitive Corporation, based in Los Gatos, Calif. The acquisition is part of IBM’s strategy to expand its virtualization portfolio. Transitive technology is already incorporated into IBM’s PowerVM software, which is designed to help customers consolidate x86 Linux workloads onto IBM Systems. IBM did not […]

Rob Scheible, Nortel’s senior marketing manager for Carrier VOIP and Applications Marketing, says he gets one constant appeal from small and midsize businesses looking to increase their competitiveness, and it isn’t about saving money. “When we talk to SMBs, they all say, ‘We may be a small business, but we don’t want to come off […]