Nathan Eddy

Data Deposit Box, “the online backup and recovery service designed especially for small and midsize businesses,” on March 13 “announced the launch of KineticD, a comprehensive cloud storage and remote access solution that enables SMBs to continuously back up, restore, access and share information online from any location.” The company said its “cloud-based services are […]

Vonage Holdings, a provider of voice and messaging services over broadband networks, announced the expansion of its Vonage Mobile application to AT&T and T-Mobile devices that use the Android mobile operating system. The app is currently available to download for AT&T and T-Mobile Android devices via the company’s Website and is already available for iPhone, […]

SCORE, an organization that bills itself the “Counselor to America’s Small Business,” announced that The SCORE Foundation rallied corporate partners for a combined donation of $1.1 million to jump-start a nationwide public/private consortium to help small businesses compete in the Internet age by using broadband technologies. The consortium will offer training, tools and resources, all […]

A global study of chief financial officers by IBM reports that nearly three quarters of midmarket CFOs worldwide cite the need for faster decision-making and pressure to reduce costs as their top challenges. These CFOs believe that external pressures (economic, industry, regulatory) will increase over the next three years. As a result, more than half […]

10 iPad Apps Every New Owner Needs by Nathan Eddy MLB At Bat 2010 ($14.99) Get yourself into the swing of things with this multitouch Major League Baseball app, which allows you to get detailed box scores, track every pitch and get play-by-play announcements. Plus, MLB.com subscribers can watch full regular season live games with […]

News that the latest operating system for Apple’s popular iPhone, OS 4.0, was greeted with skepticism by Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime, who said Apple’s increasingly surefooted move into the mobile gaming space is not having an impact on Nintendo. Moreover, Fils-Aime dismissed the selection of games Apple offers. While Nintendo has indeed achieved […]

Since its inception, the world unified threat management (UTM) products market has witnessed high growth rates and, despite the harsh economic conditions of 2009, the UTM market grew at a healthy rate. During 2008, the market witnessed a growth rate of 32.2 percent; however, the growth rate dropped to 20.1 percent in 2009 due to […]

Ahead of an expected official company announcement, a build of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) surfaced online on a selection of Torrent sites, along with screenshots of the upgrade. Based on information gathered from screenshots, the build date is March 27 and the build string is “build 6.1.7601.16537.amd64fre.win7.100327-0053.” A writer for the […]

NEC Corporation of America, a provider and integrator of communications, networking and IT solutions, announced the availability of NEC HYDRAstor’s OpenStorage (OST) Suite for Symantec NetBackup. The HYDRAstor OST Suite introduces Dynamic I/O, which delivers adaptable front-end load balancing with efficient inline global deduplication, as well as Optimized Copy, which creates WAN-optimized backup images for […]

Qwest Communications announced the launch of two managed solutions, Qwest iQTM Managed Security Service and Qwest iQTM Network Management Service, which deliver on a relationship Qwest and IBM previously announced to provide a technology ecosystem specifically designed for businesses with 15,000 employees or fewer. MMS helps reduce the costs and complexities associated with managing security […]