Nathan Eddy

10 Apple iPhone Apps for Cost-Conscious Businesses Skype (free) The growing popularity of VOIP specialist Skype (and its high-profile iPhone App Store debut) coupled with focus on saving communications costs makes this application a welcome addition. The service, which was downloaded a million times in its first two days of release, allows free Skype-to-Skype calls […]

The AO751h, the first 11.6-inch netbook, also comes with a full-size keyboard. Acer says the netbook’s high-definition LED-backlit widescreen (16:9 ratio) display is large enough to view multiple windows and reduces the need to scroll to view Internet sites. Acer suggests a retail price of of $349.99, though an expanded six-cell battery version starts at […]

Search engine giant Google announced changes to its trademark policy concerning the company’s advertising product AdWords. Google’s Dan Friedman, a member of the Inside AdWords crew, wrote a blog post explaining the company is adjusting its U.S. trademark policy to allow some ads to use trademarks in the ad text. “This change will bring Google’s […]

The popular social networking site Facebook has been targeted with yet another phishing scam, Reuters reports. Facebook spokesperson Barry Schnitt told the news service that hackers broke into the site and began gathering passwords from users’ accounts, but the company was working to block affected accounts.A Facebook spokesperson told The New York Times the damage […]

Mobile operator Sprint announced the impending release of the MiFi 2200 mobile hotspot device, which will hit the market in the first week of June. The MiFi 2200 allow users to connect to the Internet by bridging Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as laptops, MP3 players and gaming devices to Sprint’s 3G EVDO mobile broadband network. The […]

UltraBac Software, based in Bellevue, Wash., announced an expansion of its line of server products aimed at cost-conscious businesses. The UltraBac Standard SBS Bundle and UltraBac Premium SBS Bundle are aimed at small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) and provide standard file-by-file backup along with the ability to perform image bare metal disaster recovery to dissimilar […]

Following the controversy of the infamous iPhone application “Baby Shaker” in April, for which Apple profusely apologized, comes another application that brings controversy back to the company. This week Apple decided to reject “Me So Holy,” an application that allows users to take a photo of someone’s face with the iPhone camera and paste it […]

Network solutions specialist Netgear has announced the ReadyNAS 2100, a rack-mounted 1U four-bay storage system that the company claims provides a compact, reliable solution to cost-conscious businesses of all sizes in 2TB and 4TB storage models.The solution enables SMBs (small to medium-size businesses) to share, store and protect files across a LAN or WAN, guard […]

A joint report by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and market research firm IDC suggests that in many ways the problem of software piracy and the damage it does to software companies is growing. For the first time, the monetary value of unlicensed software–“losses” to software companies–broke the $50 billion level. The report says governments […]

Dell, the world’s second largest computer maker, announced an expansion of online resources aimed at cost-conscious businesses, including a “Stimulus Learning Center” and a live chat feature that provides online access to Dell sales representatives.The centerpiece of the expansion is an upgrade to the Small and Medium Business Solutions Center, which features interactive content, industry […]