Nathan Eddy

Digital office equipment provider Ricoh Americas has announced the availability of its Ricoh Aficio SP C820DN and SP C821DN color laser printer series, an upgrade over the previous Aficio CL7200 and SP C811DN models. The new printers boast an upgraded engine design based on the CL7200 engine, which the company said produces faster warm-up times […]

Cloud-based security specialist Panda Security has announced its worldwide barometer on security at small and medium-sized businesses. According to a study, which surveyed 5,760 companies worldwide, 44 percent of the more than 1,400 U.S. respondents have recently been infected by Internet threats. Worldwide, 58 percent were affected, with Brazil showing the highest infection rate at […]

What appears destined to become a digital cat-and-mouse game between Palm’s touch-screen Pre smartphone and Apple’s iTunes digital media player took another turn this week when Palm updated the operating system for the Pre. Palm webOS 1.1, which the company hopes will make the Palm Pre smartphone more appealing to businesses, is also an excuse […]

10 iPhone, iPod Touch Games Youve Got to See by Nathan Eddy WORMS ($4.99) The classic game comes to the iPhone with a selection of single player battles, up to four multiplayer team mode and customized teams. The game offers 50 challenges, six environments with random battlefields, custom music support and an auto-save feature when […]

Initial results from a new online survey designed to measure IT effectiveness at small businesses shows almost one in four respondents score a “D” or “F” grade. According to the IT Effectiveness Index (ITEI) Mid-Year Report 2009, another 37 percent of small businesses are barely maintaining their IT operations, scoring only a “C” grade. The […]

Midmarket-focused technology company Greenview Data announced the availability of SpamStopsHere, a hosted e-mail filtering platform the company said blocks 99 percent of spam and ensures delivery of legitimate e-mails. The hosted platform requires no installation or tuning, no IT support to operate or maintain and costs as little as $6 per mailbox per year, Greenview […]

Computer maker Apple has dropped its complaint against OdioWorks, the company that owns BluWiki, a site that hosted a discussion on how users can reconfigure their iPhones and iPods to work with digital media players other than Apple’s proprietary iTunes application. The annoucement was made by the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Apple […]

Remote support and remote access company NTRglobal announced on July 22 a remote support solution for IT support professionals, NTRsupport Pro. This IT support solution, “built for support professionals seeking powerful remote control designed for a small IT support operation,” is available from the company’s Website for a free, seven-day trial. According to NTRglobal’s news […]

Integration and identity management solutions provider Likewise announced it would offer open-source software to share files among Linux, Mac and Windows computers by using Server Message Block, the networking protocol for file and print services known as SMB and CIFS. The file server will include support for the SMB2 protocol to provide access to files […]

Secure application delivery company Array Networks on July 22 launched the Array APV900 Application Delivery Controller, a load balancing and traffic management offering aimed at cost-conscious businesses. Array’s ADC solution “delivers Layer 2-7 server load balancing, high availability, caching, SSL [Secure Sockets Layer] acceleration, DDoS (distributed denial of service) protection, Connection Multiplexing and compression, all […]