Nathan Eddy

While technology today is seen as providing tremendous opportunities for increasing worker productivity, it can also cause the inverse effect by offering up a bevy of distractions that pull employees off track. According to a Ricoh Americas online survey of more than 1,000 employed adults in the United States conducted by Harris Poll on behalf […]

Toshiba America’s telecommunication systems division released its UCedge Unified Communications (UC) platform, which delivers interoperability between Toshiba phone systems and third-party devices. The platform offers feature parity across different device types with differing operating systems, including Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets, Windows and Mac desktops and laptops. Moreover, with UCedge, a user […]

Medical technology company RightCare announced a partnership with Emmi Solutions, a specialist in outcomes-driven patient engagement, to improve care transitions and reduce readmission rates. Through this collaboration, RightCare will offer Emmi’s interactive technology alongside its end-to-end solution, adding patient engagement and post-discharge outreach capabilities. The product will be called RightCall, and the added communication features […]

Understanding where and how consumers use mobile is critical to successfully engaging them, with social, location and apps all playing a role, according to a report from Millward Brown Digital. The study revealed more than one-third (34 percent) of shoppers perform shopping-related activities on their mobile devices while in-store, and nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of […]

Business application software specialist Infor launched CloudSuite Healthcare, which includes health care-specific functionality, analytics and an implementation accelerator, and builds on Infor’s offerings available on Amazon Web Services (AWS. CloudSuite Healthcare provides care delivery organizations with capabilities, including managing complex clinician pay plans, tracking and validating clinical competencies and job-specific performance reviews, grants management, coordination […]

Consumers struggle to achieve health goals on their own, and lack of self-motivation is holding consumers back, according to a survey conducted by Welltok. The company’s Health Optimization Index provides insights from more than 1,000 consumers about the journey to optimizing their health and related roadblocks encountered along the way–from mounting work responsibilities to lack […]

Security specialists McAfee and Symantec have joined the Cyber Threat Alliance, following the original co-founders, Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks, into the industry’s first cyber-threat alliance. The mission of the Cyber Threat Alliance is to drive a coordinated industry effort against cyber-adversaries through deep collaboration on threat intelligence and sharing indicators of compromise. “Both McAfee […]

IT outsourcing budgets as a percentage of the total IT budget dropped slightly this year, continuing the downward move for the second year in a row, according to a survey from Computer Economics. Spending on outsourcing is averaging 10.2 percent of total IT spending this year, which is a slight decline from 10.6 percent in […]

Picwell, a recommendation engine to use predictive analytics to rate consumer health plan options according to individual needs, announced its official launch. The platform combines big data, predictive analytics, behavioral economics and machine learning with consumer-friendly user interfaces and engagement tools that integrate into health care exchanges and benefits platforms. The end result enables exchanges […]

Worldwide revenues in the Ethernet switch market reached $5.7 billion in the second quarter of 2014, representing an increase of 6.2 percent year over year and 8.1 percent quarter over quarter, according to a report from IT research firm IDC. The report found 10Gb Ethernet switch (Layer 2/3) revenue increased 7.8 percent year over year […]

Wireless systems specialist Ruckus announced the launch of a free Smart WiFi mobile application, the Smart Wireless Installation and Provisioning Engine (Swipe), to help field technicians and IT personnel install and configure the company’s ZoneFlex access points (APs) in distributed deployments using mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, smartphones, and tablets. Deploying a new AP […]

Data recovery specialist Unitrends introduced a pair of free tools that offer extended visibility into storage and file capacity and utilization, with the aim of helping organizations to identify cost savings. The company’s Backup Capacity and Storage Inventory tools are designed to help systems administrators determine how much storage to allocate for backups and which […]