Nathan Eddy

New Dell, Asus, Acer Netbooks Won’t Bust the Budget No Title Asus Eee PC 1005HA-P Seashell ($340.99) Utilizing Asus’ Super Hybrid Engine, this netbook boasts an impressive 10.5 hours of uninterrupted battery life, 92 percent scaled keyboard, multi-touch touchpad and instant key (for quick access to touchpad-lock) and a 10.1-inch LED-backlit display. Also included are […]

Computer maker Lenovo announced the ThinkStation E20, the first in a series of entry-level workstations. Starting under $600, the E20 is aimed at professionals working in computer aided design (CAD) and digital content creation (DCC) fields. The E20 also includes elements of green design by using more than 50 percent recycled plastic content. The ThinkStation […]

10 Inexpensive Flash Drives from Sony, HP, SanDisk No Title Kodak 2GB USB Multimedia Drive ($14.99) For those who don’t need massive storage capacity, this 2GB Kodak drive still gives you plenty of room to store documents and media like photos or music. PC and Mac compatible, the ultra-portable design measures just 1.7 inches long […]

The ubiquitous microblogging Website Twitter currently logs 50 million “tweets,” online postings of 140 characters or less, according to a blog post written by the company’s analytics lead, Kevin Weil. That figure breaks down to an average of 600 tweets per second; in 2007, Weil notes, the site’s daily tweeting average stood at just 5,000. […]

Cloud computing and managed IT services provider BlueLock announced CloudSuite, a set of cloud computing solutions, offering a selection of infrastructure-as-a-service environments to fit the needs of individual applications. The company is marketing CloudSuite as an array of public and private cloud computing solutions aimed at SMBs (small and midsize businesses). CloudSuite includes public computing […]

Information technology firm Weidenhammer announced it is launching vRescue, an on-demand disaster recovery IT service aimed at providing small and midsize businesses with business continuity solutions via a fully managed backup and recovery service that quickly restores critical applications and data. Leveraging the power of the Internet and virtualization technology, vRescue takes daily snapshots of […]

Internet security provider Webroot reports IT managers in small to midsize businesses believe malware spread through social networks, Web 2.0 applications and other Web-based vectors will pose the most serious risk to information security in 2010. The data is part of a survey of 803 IT professionals in companies with 100 to 5,000 employees in […]

A power nap indeed works to recharge the brain, improving memory, according to findings of a study on sleep and midday napping by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley. Led by study author Matthew Walker, the team of scientists compared the results of memory tests after a group of test subjects took a […]

Virtualization and cloud security specialist Key Pair Technologies announced a family of products designed to address the need for increasingly tighter and more integrated security solutions to support building and operating public and private clouds. The solutions come in midmarket, enterprise and data center packages. Key Pair Cloud Security SME Edition addresses the small to […]

HTC Unveils Smartphones with Google Android, Microsoft Windows Mobile by Nathan Eddy HTC HD2 Boasting a high-resolution, 4.3-inch capacitive touch display, this ultra-thin smartphone is the first capacitive touch display on a Windows phone. It utilizes Qualcomm’s new 1Ghz Snapdragon mobile processor and gives users the ability to zoom and resize Websites, Microsoft Office files, […]