Nathan Eddy

It’s no secret that midmarket companies don’t have the advertising and marketing budgets of their larger business brethren. So, when it comes to funneling funds into bolstering your company’s exposure in the marketplace, money must be spent wisely. While opportunities in social media (Facebook groups, Twitter accounts) can link you with an online audience of […]

Security giant McAfee is planning to run more than 75 sessions around the world to educate small to medium-size business IT security teams on the security threats they face. The program is part of McAfee’s “Security in 15 Minutes a Day” message that it is taking on the road, and it will include workshops to […]

While the abundance of mobile technologies gives businesspeople the ability to stay in contact in numerous ways, text messaging arguably remains the most direct method for quick contacts and confirmations.According to a recent Nielsen report, SMS communications has now surpassed voice communications, with the typical U.S. mobile subscriber sending 357 text messages per month, compared […]

Apple debuted its all-in-one computing solution, the iMac, in 1998, and the simplicity of its design made it a runaway success. Last year, HP finally countered with its TouchSmart all-in-one desktop, which brought touch-screen functionality to the market. Now Dell is bringing its version of the all-in-one design to market with the Studio One 19, […]

File transfer solutions firm GlobalScape has announced the release of its latest version of information-sharing software, Enhanced File Transfer Server Version 6.0. GlobalScape targets its other high-end file transfer protocol software at the SMB market.The introduction of Version 6.0 also marks a rebranding of the company’s FTP solutions. GlobalScape’s legacy Secure FTP Server and EFT […]

So much for unlimited texting applications on Apple’s iPhone: Nearly a month after Seattle startup Inner Fence debuted its iPhone application Infinite SMS, Google says it will block the service, disallowing Inner Fence and all other non-Google software from sending free text messages. In a blog post on Inner Fence’s Web site, the company writes […]

Apples $79 Talking iPod Shuffle Is the Latest Evolution in Music Players by Nathan Eddy Smaller and Smaller The new iPod Shuffle, compared in size with a house key on Apples Web site, is just 1.8 inches tall and just 0.3 inches thick and retails for $79. Packing a Punch The Shuffle holds a 4GB […]

Asus’ netbook announcements last week are just the latest development driving the netbook market to new heights of recognition and acceptability. Smaller, lighter and cheaper than notebooks, netbooks still offer top-notch programs and features, as well as unbeatable portability. With major players like Dell, HP and Samsung entering the netbook marketplace, is there room for […]

Infrastructure solutions company Axway, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., announced a business-to-business integration (B2Bi) solution, B2Bi Express, specifically geared to small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The company said the offering, which is available as on-premise licensed software or as software as a service (SAAS), is a scalable solution that empowers companies to manage information flows with […]

VOIP application specialist BroadSoft, based in Gaithersburg, Md., introduced product enhancements to its BroadWorks VOIP application platform that it says will allow telecommunications service providers to simplify the deployment of hosted business communications solutions and drive unified communications (UC) adoption in the small to medium-size business (SMB) space. The new device management functionality enables service […]