Nathan Eddy

After a long wait, Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners are finally able to download the much-requested Skype application onto their mobiles. Although other third-party developers offer Skype clients, this is the first Skype-powered application for either device. The application is free to download from Apple’s online App Store. Company CEO Scott Durchslag said Skype […]

IT company DynaSis announced a new software-as-a-service product for small to medium-size businesses called ITility, which offers midmarket companies a low fixed monthly cost for all of the essential IT solutions needed to do business such as e-mail, network security and data backup, while hosting essential applications and delivering them on demand. The company said […]

Internet phone company Skype announced the availability of its Voice over IP telephony service for Apple’s iPhone and the BlackBerry, a smartphone manufactured by Research in Motion, Reuters reports. The application, which is available on Tuesday for the iPhone and Wi-Fi enabled iPod touch and comes to BlackBerry devices in May.With more than 450 million […]

At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, people from all corners of the world will turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour, as 8:30 p.m. rolls across the world to their time zones. This year, the event’s organizers, the World Wildlife Fund has set a goal of 1 billion participants. Major landmarks around the […]

Small business owners considering dumping their BlackBerry smartphones for the slick Apple iPhone may just have one more reason to do so come next week: Unconfirmed reports circulating the Internet are suggesting Skype (which is owned by eBay) will debut an application for the iPhone at next week’s CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. Speculation […]

Calgary-based Wedge Networks, a network-based Web security solutions company, announced the immediate availability of the NDP-1005G, its new 1U rack-mountable hardware to power BeSecure Web Gateway, the company’s Web security appliance. The NDP-1005G is Wedge’s latest addition to its network data processing platforms designed to combat malicious attacks over the Web and create a unified […]

Microsoft on March 25 released results of a study of the business challenges and technology priorities that small and midsize businesses are facing in the year ahead. The first “Microsoft SMB Insight Report,” which the company says will be published annually, identified virtualization, IT consolidation, business intelligence, software as a service and support of remote […]

Storage solution vendor Seagate reaffirmed its commitment to the small and medium-size business space by announcing its BlackArmor line of products designed to protect data.The first two products to be announced for this new family of small business storage solutions are the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 and BlackArmor NAS 420 servers. Each is a four-bay […]

Instant messaging has been a boon for small business communication. Free programs such as AIM or Google Chat can instantly connect entire offices and employees in far-flung locations. Like text messaging, instant messaging allows for concise, quick communication that can save your business time and help avoid other costly communication technologies. San Jose, Calif.-based hosted […]

As data protection moves up the list of security priorities and cloud-based solutions make further gains in the small to medium-size business (SMB) market, Mountain View, Calif.-based Axcient wants midmarket companies to know data protection and software as a service go hand-in-hand. The company announced the availability of a hybrid on-premise and cloud data protection […]