Nathan Eddy

While the world economy has partially recovered since last year’s subdued Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona, for many participating vendors, the future is still clouded with uncertainty. Companies such as Nokia, which expects to sell 500 million mobile phones in 2010, are looking forward to continued expansion (500 million mobiles is roughly 40 percent […]

While small business owners have many concerns heading into 2010, finding ways to attract and retain customers is by far their top priority. That is the message drawn from a survey of small businesses by research firm Hurwitz & Associates and sponsored by Protus, provider of Web-based communication tools Campaigner, MyFax and My1voice. According to […]

10 iPhone Apps to Bring Home Olympic Gold in 2010 by Nathan Eddy NBC Olympics on AT&T (Free) Follow all the action with live real-time updates from every event in Vancouver, including Olympics clips and highlights, news stories for every sport, results, schedules, and updated medal counts. Plus, you can follow your favorite nations, sports […]

Trend Micro is expanding its “Worry-Free” promise of safer, smarter, simpler security through a subscription-based, hosted service solution designed to allow small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) to be always connected and protected. The services are part of both the Trend Micro Worry-Free family and its hosted security portfolio. The company said they are designed to […]

On-demand billing and subscription management solutions provider Aria Systems announced Platform Standard Edition, designed to address the recurring billing needs of organizations ranging from pre-revenue startup businesses up to small and midsize businesses. The updated version is designed to provide the product capabilities, services and pricing models to address the needs of the growing ranks […]

Online small and midsize business lead generation and social networking startup Company.com announced the launch of its Website, a social community for businesses that offers a questions-and-answers network, editorial reviews, customer rankings, exclusive deals and a vetted vendor marketplace providing solutions targeted specifically to small businesses. The Company.com vendor marketplace provides personalized vendor comparisons, editorial […]

Implix, an e-mail marketing leader and online solution provider to global small office/home office and small and midsize business markets, released a study of 1.65 billion e-mails sent from the GetResponse e-mail marketing platform between July and December 2009. The resulting report helped provide a global perspective of e-mail marketing today by tracking common performance […]

Opera Software ASA, designers of the cross-platform Web browser Opera, announced plans for a sneak preview of Opera Mini for iPhone in a press and partner preview during the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The company noted while Mini for iPhone is not publicly available, Opera will unveil a host of other Opera-powered devices […]

Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications, announced the launch of an integrated security suite from security specialist McAfee, which provides five-way protection against cyber-threats for a monthly per-user fee. Specifically, the security suite, priced for SMBs (small to medium-size businesses) helps protect against network, endpoint, Web, data and e-mail security threats. Verizon Business’ security […]

Communications specialist NEC announced the launch of enhanced functionality for contact centers, wireless and video collaboration solutions with the Univerge Sphericall software-based unified communications solution. Sphericall for Foundations was designed as a software solution that combines basic communications needs with the power of UC tools. Sphericall now integrates with NEC’s UC for Business (UCB) contact […]