Nathan Eddy

A media furor erupted late this summer when online retailer Amazon.com suddenly deleted digital copies of the George Orwell classics “Nineteen Eighty-four” and “Animal Farm” from its e-reader the Kindle. Now the company is offering customers affected by the decision a $30 refund. Former owners can choose to have the book replaced or take the […]

Digital music service Spotify launched its Spotify App for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch on the AppleApp Store, along with availability for Google’s Android powered smartphones free from Android Market. The Spotify App is available to Spotify Premium subscribers in the U.K., Sweden, Spain, France, Norway and Finland, the company said. Features include access […]

Computer maker Apple is alerting consumers to a security patch concerning Java for its operating system, Leopard (version 10.5.8 or later). Apple explained on its security update Website Sept. 3 that the version of Java installed with the Leopard OS “may allow an untrusted Java applet to obtain elevated privileges.” Apple’s patch updates Leopard to […]

Following a delay that annoyed many of Apple iPhone-owning AT&T customers, the wireless carrier announced Thursday it will launch its multimedia messaging service (MMS) for the iPhone on September 25. AT&T said it understood customers are “eager” for an update on the plan’s rollout schedule. The iPhone 3.0 operating system, updated this summer, allowed the […]

According to research firm IDC, pockets of growth appeared in second quarter results for the enterprise storage systems market, although worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted a decline of 18.3 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09), totaling $4.1 billion. The IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker also found total […]

10 iPhone Apps That Make the Grade for College by Nate Eddy Blackboard Learn (Free) Stay up-to-date with coursework, assigned reading and announcements with Blackboard Learn, the application that delivers course information to your iPhone. The app is available to users running the Blackboard Learning System Release 7.1 or higher or Blackbird Learn for Course […]

A report from independent warranty provider SquareTrade, which analyzed failure rates for over 16,000 new game consoles covered by SquareTrade Care Plans, found Nintendo’s Wii is four times more reliable than Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) and nine times more reliable than Microsoft’s console platform, the Xbox 360. When looking at the first two years of […]

The August report from online payroll SurePayroll, which tracks small to medium-size businesses (SMBs), said that while small businesses are continuing to add employees, albeit slowly, salaries continue to drop– year to date, the average small business salary has fallen six percent. Year-to-date small business hiring, as measured by changes in the average size of […]

Verizon Business, a unit of network operator Verizon Communications, announced expanded access to its customer portal, Verizon Enterprise Center (VEC), to small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The company also expanded its set of automated customer-care capabilities, such as feature for trouble tickets that gives customers greater detail about the nature of the problem and the […]

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia kicked off its 2009 Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Germany, Sept. 2 with the announcement of the N97 Mini, a smaller version of the handset announced this summer, as well as two digital-music focused phones, the X6 and the X3, the first Series 40 devices to come Ovi Store (Nokia’s app […]