Nathan Eddy

Newell Rubbermaid subsidiary DYMO announced an addition to its line of LabelWriter printers, the 450, the 450 Turbo and the 450 Twin Turbo, all aimed at small to medium-size businesses and small office-home office customers. The base LabelWriter 450 retails for $109.99, the Turbo retails for $139.99 and the Twin Turbo retails for $209.99. Although […]

Book chain store Barnes & Noble announced the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, which the company claims is the world’s largest, on the company’s Website. The service enables customers to buy eBooks and read them on a range of platforms, including the Apple iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry smartphones, as well as most […]

Technology sales, marketing and logistics company Ingram Micro announced a SecurePOS SMB bundle – an all-in-one POS solution that provides retailers with end-to-end data encryption of cardholder information starting with the customers’ swipe of their credit cards. Available now through the Ingram Micro Data Capture/POS Division, the company claimed the SecurePOS SMB Bundle is the […]

A survey by online payroll specialist SurePayroll found small to medium-size businesses are being forced to do more with less in a constrictive economy, but an increase in multitasking is hurting the quality of service at some midmarket companies. The survey found 88 percent of small business owners think multitasking is now a key component […]

Technology giant IBM announced a self-managing, “office-in-a-box” appliance for small to medium-size businesses that combines the unified communications and collaboration tools critical to running a business, along with the ability to connect to telephony in one solution. The new Lotus Foundations Reach solution customizes and extends the IBM Sametime UC(2) capabilities in a single appliance […]

Online marketing solutions firm Implix has announced the availability of e-mail marketing platform GetResponse 6.0, aimed at small to medium-size businesses. The platform offers audio and video recording capabilities, Twitter integration, and an iPhone application, which is available through Apple’s App Store. GetResponse also includes e-mail analytics, unlimited follow-up messages, 300+ HTML templates, online surveys, […]

Technology company Toshiba, which lost a protracted high-definition DVD format war with rival Sony (Toshiba backed HD DVD technology, but Sony’s Blu-ray player prevailed) is getting ready to produce Blu-ray players of its own, according to the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri. The newspaper didn’t cite any sources, although the paper also reported that Toshiba is also […]

Long touted as one of the most recession-proof markets, the video game industry is finally beginning to feel the full effects of a worldwide economic recession. Research firm NPD Group announced video game software and hardware sales in the United States plunged $1.17 billion, or 31 percent, in June. Hardware sales fell 38 percent, to […]

Reports from research firms Gartner and IDC show Apple, the company whose products are synonymous with style and substance-at a price-lagging behind its less sophisticated, but far less expensive, competitors Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Toshiba. This week’s report from IDC projected Apple would take fifth place in second quarter U.S. market unit shipments, with 1.21 million […]

Network security specialist SonicWall announced the expansion of their TZ Series product line with the launch of the TZ 200, TZ 200 Wireless-N, TZ 100 and TZ 100 Wireless-N. The expansion also includes the recently announced TZ 210 and the appliances are aimed at providing small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and distributed enterprises with anti-spam […]