Nathan Eddy

Small businesses under pressure to cut costs and save money in the face of a worldwide recession and falling demand are looking to new technologies to help improve efficiency and streamline costs. Voice over IP, which allows users to make phone calls over the Internet, is one of the ways midmarket companies can reduce communications […]

To help its business partners increase their revenue and grow customer relationships in the midmarket space, IBM has announced the “IBM Business Partner Software Mid-Market Value Initiative,” which offers incentives to business partners that plan to invest in driving midmarket revenue through demand generation activity and by progressing midmarket leads passed to them by IBM.“IBM […]

The Product Development Company has announced the general availability of Windchill ProductPoint, Microsoft SharePoint-based software for product development that gives small to midsize businesses the ability to share CAD and other structured data among teams. PTC hopes this software will also allow smaller companies to experience the benefits of product lifecycle management without a large […]

Chip maker Intel quietly slashed the prices of several of its desktop processors, including its Core 2 Quad chips, over the weekend. Prices on other product lines were lowered as well, some by up to 48 percent. The cuts lower the premiums on some chips to within 15 percent of rival Advanced Micro Devices’ products.Core […]

Software giant Sun Microsystems, based in Santa Clara, Calif., today announced that it has expanded its portfolio of small to medium-size business solutions with the introduction of two new virtualization solutions that combine Sun’s x64 server and open storage products with VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V software. Notably, Sun also plans to offer vigorous support […]

Last week, Burger King announced it was teaming up with social networking powerhouse Facebook for a special promotion: If you removed 10 people from your network of friends, the fast-food company would reward you with a coupon for a free Whopper. The story became an Internet sensation, but it’s only now getting meatier.As it turns […]

Buffalo Technology, an Austin, Texas-based storage and memory solutions company, announced two products aimed at providing small to medium-size businesses with feature-rich network storage solutions. The newly designed TeraStation Duo and the TeraStation III feature enhanced backup speeds, hot spare and hot swap capabilities, as well as eco-conscious power management. “As businesses grow, so does […]

While it may be hard to dispute Google’s ubiquity in daily online life, not everything the Mountain View, Calif.-based company touches turns to gold. On various company blogs late Wednesday, Google announced it will stop supporting several Web-based services, including Google Video, Google Notebook and Dodgeball.com, a mobile social networking service that lets users share […]

Many small business owners regard flying as lost time, where they are unable to connect to the outside world. E-mails and use of the Internet are unavailable during flight time, which reduces productivity and makes in-flight adjustments to schedules or presentations impossible. United Airlines wants to change that. The airline company will today announce that […]

Long a satisfactory procrastination aid at work, school or home, Google Earth allows users to soar above cities and countries, oceans and deserts. Now, Google is teaming up with Spain’s Prado Museum to bring armchair tourists access to 14 of Spain’s most treasured works of art, including works by Francisco de Goya, Diego Vel??¡zquez and […]