Nathan Eddy

There has been overall improvement across key engagement metrics in mobile display advertising, including ad expansion rate, ad engagement rate and time spent, which can be attributed to seasonality, better quality of creatives as well as a maturing buying ecosystem with improved targeting, according to Celtra’s Mobile Display Ad Performance Report for the second quarter. […]

Mobile security specialist Good Technology introduced the Mobile Cost-of-Ownership (MCO) Analyzer, designed to help organizations learn and understand the key drivers of their mobile cost, benchmark against peers and identify areas for improvement. The tool allows enterprises to reduce the cost of mobility deployments by addressing device, carrier, labor and infrastructure costs, as well as […]

Nearly 70 percent of companies are concerned about employees using third-party messaging and chat apps to communicate and send documents internally, according to a survey of 397 IT enterprise decision-makers by messaging and mobility specialist Infinite Convergence. The study also found that 59 percent of IT decision-makers think third-party messaging apps and chat tools are […]

MarkITx, a company which runs a marketplace for buying and selling used enterprise IT equipment, announced the launch of Portfolio Selling through GearTracker. The service gives businesses the ability to sell large quantities of pre-owned data center and IT hardware with an emphasis on simplicity and security. The program, which just completed a three-month beta, […]

Technology giant Dell unveiled its latest mobility and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) offering for enterprise mobility management (EMM), with enhancements to its Mobile Workspace, a cloud-based solution that allows secure access to enterprise phone, email and storage services from an employee’s personal Android or iOS smartphone or tablet. The software helps streamline mobile enablement with the availability […]

As the rate of stolen mobile devices has increased, the average time for IT departments to respond to this security threat has also grown, according to a Kaspersky Lab survey of global IT security professionals. The report found that more than one-third of employees (38 percent) take up to two days to notify their employers […]

Federal agencies want to double their cloud use across infrastructure, platforms and applications, but 89 percent of federal IT professionals still feel some apprehension about migrating to the cloud, according to a MeriTalk study underwritten by NetApp and Arrow. Fifty-five percent of federal IT professionals say that cloud makes data management/stewardship easier, noting easier upgrades […]

CEOs believe IT will play a critical role in the success of their businesses, with company leaders and business owners trusting their IT senior leader, with the overwhelming majority believing their chief information officers (CIO) hires the right IT talent for their business, according to a report from Modis. Nearly all CEOs and business owners […]

Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 42.4 percent OEM market share, up 1 percent from April, according to industry analyst comScore’s MobiLens and Mobile Metrix studies, which reported on key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry for July 2014. Samsung ranked second with 28.4 percent market share (up 0.7 percentage points), followed by […]

The health care analytics and workflow software package known as the Juvo Care Performance Platform was launched by Midas+, a Xerox company, to collect and analyze volumes of patient-care data and deliver detailed recommendations for better health care. Through this next generation of software and applications, Juvo maintains and processes data to analyze every aspect […]

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) introduced its updated Z Workstations notebook and desktop lines, combining increased system expandability, higher-speed memory and multicore updates. HP Z Desktops and ZBook Mobile Workstations are built to address the constraints of compute-intensive industries, including media and entertainment, graphic design, CAD, architecture, photography, manufacturing, finance, health care, scientific imaging, and oil […]

Cyber-attacks targeting financial services firms are on the rise, with 93 percent of financial services organizations experiencing various cyber-threats in the past 12 months, according to a report from IT research firm Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. More than half (52 percent) of financial institutions have a policy of reimbursing all losses caused by cyber-crime […]