Nathan Eddy

6Connex, a subsidiary of Design Reactor, a virtual experience technology marketing solutions firm, announced its latest release of the Virtual Experience Platform v4.0. The Virtual Experience Platform helps enable small and midsize businesses (SMBs) connect and engage clients and staff anywhere using a dimensional environment-like architecture that can be utilized for internal meetings, virtual events, […]

A report from market research firm In-Stat found spending on wireline data services by U.S. businesses this year is falling across nearly every category, with the exception of IP VPN and Ethernet services. Overall, In-Stat expects a nearly 2 percent decline in U.S. business spending on wireline data services, which represents the first time this […]

A California judge has ruled in favor of computer maker Apple after the company sued Psystar Corporation to block the sale of “Open Computers”, PCs with Mac OS X Leopard pre-loaded onto them, that the Miami-based company was selling. Apple filed the suit in July 2008, claiming a copyright infringement (Apple prohibits non Mac-branded devices […]

Global DataGuard, a provider of network behavior analysis-based unified threat management tools for small to medium-size businesses and enterprise environments, announced plans to develop a unified cloud security solution by extending its systemic security architecture to support cloud and hybrid networks in addition to premises-based environments. With commercial availability scheduled for the first quarter of […]

A survey of 500 U.S.- and U.K.-based small and midsize businesses by market research consultancy Kelton found midmarket companies are increasingly valuing mobility and 96 percent said they view their information technology departments as a strategic part of their business. Sixty-three percent of non-IT managers say remote access services make their staff more productive, and […]

After the video game industry received an encouraging boost last month from the release of the highly anticipated “The Beatles: Rock Band” title and a slight improvement in hardware and software sales, research firm The NPD Group reported that sales dipped once again in October. The firm said hardware sales fell 23 percent and software […]

Wireless technology company Qualcomm announced it is sampling a smartphone chipset family, the MSM7x30, with an emphasis on multimedia performance and supporting high-definition video recording and playback, as well as Lenovo-branded smartbook (a cross between a netbook and a smartphone). The Snapdragon chip is an ARM-based central processing unit (CPU) developed by for use in […]

Research firm IDC has handed out 16 awards to companies excelling in the small to midsize business market sector, including Cisco, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. In the area of market segmentation and customer targeting, Cisco and Network Solutions picked up awards for looking at SMB customers in “new and effective ways” and developing programs to meet […]

Online auction site eBay and the grassroots online classified site Craigslist are flooded with offers of Microsoft Xbox 360 gaming consoles that have been “bricked”, or banned, from the console’s community game play service, Xbox Live. According to a report in Information Week, Microsoft banned up to 1 million consoles after suspecting the devices had […]

Unified threat management solutions company Fortinet announced the release of FortiGate multithreat security appliance that rounds out its small and midsize business family of products with an entry-level edition in the FortiGate-200B. The FortiGate-200B appliance offers a 5 Gigabytes per second (Gbps) firewall and 2.5 Gbps IPSec VPN throughputs. Fortinet is positioning the FortiGate-200B as […]