Nathan Eddy

In a continuation of Apple’s controversial method of managing its App Store for the iPhone, the company decided to remove a variety of applications designed to find WiFi hotspots the device can connect to. These “stumbling” apps run on a private application programming interface (API), which Apple has been known to reject in the past. […]

TiVo Inc., a creator of television services and advertising solutions for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in its favor in a patent lawsuit which pitted the company against satellite-television provider Dish Network and sister company EchoStar Corp. The suit, which first started in 2004, concerned a patent infringement by […]

The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Chile and sent a wave of tsunamis across the world may have been powerful enough to slightly tilt the Earth’s axis and shorten the length of a day, according to NASA scientists. Geophysicist Richard Gross, who works for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), calculated the massive quake, the result of […]

Security software specialist Symantec announced its latest messaging security platforms, Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 and Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Small Business Edition. The company said the updated versions would deliver enhanced protection through real-time updates, provide greater control through integrated email encryption and offer increased scalability to meet the needs of both enterprises and small […]

Axcient Inc., the provider of the Axcient data protection and business continuity platform, purpose-built for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT administrators to serve their small to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, today announced the release of ServerAlive. With ServerAlive, Axcient unifies backup, business continuity and disaster recovery on a single platform. The ServerAlive option on […]

Networking solutions specialist Netgear announced the release of two high-performance network storage platforms optimized for storage virtualization applications, aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The 1U rack-mount ReadyNAS 3100 comes equipped with 4TB or 8TB of storage capacity at an estimated street price starting at $3,800, while the 2U ReadyNAS 4200 comes equipped with 12TB […]

Managed security services provider Secure Designs announced a partnership with e-mail encryption provider Zix Corporation to offer hosted e-mail encryption services to its small and midsize business customers. Each ZixCorp customer is enrolled in the ZixDirectory, the company’s global repository with more than 20 million members. “Our offering delivers automatic e-mail encryption that’s transparent to […]

Network operator Verizon issued a statement blaming a four-hour data service outage on a software glitch at one of the company’s data centers. Verizon alerted customers, not all of whom were affected, by using the microblogging site Twitter to announce the data outage. Voice service was unaffected during the outage, which lasted from 4 a.m. […]

The burgeoning e-reader market, led by the success of Amazon’s Kindle device and products from companies like Sony and Barnes & Noble, is getting a processing boost from Freescale Semiconductor, which announced its i.MX508 applications processor, a system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates advanced ARM Cortex-A8 technology together with the newest hardware-based display controller from E Ink. […]

SimpleSignal, a service provider of hosted business telephone solutions for small and midsize businesses, and Vidtel, an innovative video conferencing service provider, announced a distribution agreement to market Vidtel’s Hosted Multi-Point Video Conferencing Service to SimpleSignal’s hosted unified communications customers. The companies said they partnered to deliver a hosted solution that even the smallest enterprises […]