Nathan Eddy

According to market research firm T3i Group’s most recent survey of almost 300 U.S. and international enterprise and small to medium-size business decision makers, the near-term market for hosted Internet Protocol telephony and applications is much larger than indicated by previous studies. The survey addressed global demand for hosted telephony and seven hosted applications: contact […]

Google’s free e-mail service, Google Mail-or Gmail, as it is commonly known-surpassed AOL as the No. 3 most visited e-mail Website in the month of July, according to research firm comScore. Gmail, first released in April 2004, logged 37 million unique monthly users in July, compared with AOL’s 36.4 million. Google’s AOL leapfrog represents a […]

Accounting software integration specialist eBridge Software announced it has released a new connector application that will allow ePortal users to access Salesforce.com data through the Software-as-a-Service ePortal. The company said this new composite application will allow small to medium-size businesses to further streamline their data input and order generation. Small businesses can, either manually or […]

Networking solutions company NetGear announced the release of ProSafe 8-Port VPN Firewall (FVS318G) aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The compact firewall, which delivers network security, remote access and Internet access, can support up to 10 users. Providing IPsec VPN for secure remote connections and firewall functions to protect small business networks from hackers, […]

In a report certain to shock few, media analytics firm Pear Research took 2,000 tweets from the public timeline (in English and in the United States) over a two-week period, capturing tweets in half-hour increments, and categorized them into six buckets. Not surprisingly, “Pointless Babble” won, with 40.55 percent of the total tweets captured. Placing […]

TomTom, the Dutch maker of automotive navigation systems, debuted a navigation application on Apple’s popular iPhone application store on Saturday, but it’s not for the budget-conscious: The U.S. and Canada edition (versions for New Zealand and Australia and Western Europe are also available) retails fro $99.99 at the App Store, putting it up there with […]

In a struggling economy, it turns out small businesses and enterprises alike are turning to alternative measures in their IT departments to help stay competitive. Forrester Research found almost 20 percent of IT professionals are purchasing more managed services as a result of current economic conditions in the company’s latest Enterprise and SMB Networks And […]

Long touted as one of the most recession-proof markets, the video game industry is currently feeling the continued effects of the economic downturn. Market research company NPD Group issued a depressing report in July concerning steep June video game sales declines, then announced that sales dropped even more dramatically in July, falling below even the […]

Putting an end to rumors that Apple was on the cusp of selling millions of its popular iPhone smartphones to Chinese mobile operator China Unicom, the AP reports a company spokesperson said while China Unicom and Apple were indeed in talks, reports of a deal that would see 5 million iPhones shipped to China are […]

Virtualization and automation company Parallels launched the public beta of Parallels Panel 10 SMB Edition – a hosted control panel software aimed at helping hosting and cloud services providers broaden their offerings and better meet small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) needs. The solution introduces Parallels Partner Marketplace, which Parallels said enables hosters to enter the […]