Nathan Eddy

Nine Gadgets to Geek Out Your Super Bowl Party by Nathan Eddy Samsung 46-Inch LED-LCD HDTV ($1,599.99) Catch every drop of sweat and every blade of grass on the field with this 1080p HD television from Samsung. It features Auto Motion Plus 120Hz processing and a 4-ms response time to help reduce blur when viewing […]

Businesses that value IT as an enabler for better business productivity and effectiveness and those that use hosted services performed better fiscally in 2009 than those that do not, new Microsoft research claims. Microsoft’s global SMB IT and Hosted IT Index 2010 investigates how small and midsize businesses (SMBs) across multiple segments fared during the […]

IT automation software specialist Kaseya announced the launch of Kaseya 2, its next generation line of products. Kaseya’s upgraded solutions include SAAS (software as a service) and on-premises solutions. The SAAS products are designed to meet the needs and preferences of service providers offering remote support, troubleshooting and managed services, the SOHO (small office/home office) […]

Microsoft announced on Feb. 1 that it would be selling a 250GB hard-disc drive add-on for the Xbox 360 gaming console on March 11, but there’s a catch: The hard drive, for now, will only be available in Japan. The device will retail for 15,540 yen, or approximately $170. According to the press release (when […]

Market research company The NPD Group’s Reseller Tracking Service announced U.S. sales through commercial resellers were up seven percent in December 2009 reaching $1.6 billion, the first and only year-over-year revenue gains in 2009. Sales through this channel, which primarily serves SMBs (small and midsize businesses), had been gradually improving since September, with October marking […]

A survey from network management specialist Spiceworks found small to medium-size businesses are accelerating plans to migrate to Windows 7 following the operating system’s launch in October 2009. The report, designed to gauge adoption sentiment among midmarket companies, was a global survey of more than 1,500 IT professionals and was fielded during the first two […]

Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit creator of the free and open-source Web browser Firefox, announced the application is now available for Nokia’s Maemo platform, a core platform for Nokia N series devices and based on open-source Linux components. Maemo 5 introduced support for Qt, a framework that offers the same application performance as native Linux applications. […]

Hoping to build on its strategy of capitalizing on revenue growth opportunities by expanding into new markets, Pandora, the personalized Internet radio service, announced a new initiative aimed at small and midsize businesses offering them the advertising tools larger corporations currently have access to. The company said SMBs would have ready access to Pandora’s audience […]

QNAP Systems, a manufacturer of NAS servers, NVR video surveillance systems and network-based video players expanded its Turbo NAS lineup with two mid-range NAS servers targeted at small and midsize businesses and corporate customers. The TS-239 Pro II (2 drive model) and TS-439 Pro II (4 drive model) incorporate the Intel Atom D410 single-core processor, […]

Apple’s latest creation, the touch-screen tablet known as the iPad, is drawing the attention of technology company Fujitsu, which claims it owns the “iPad” moniker. Released in 2002, Fujitsu’s iPAD is a VOIP-capable mobile device intended to assist sales associates and store managers in making sales and checking inventory data. The device used a Windows […]