Nathan Eddy

Online business lending specialist Funding Circle announced it has raised $65 million in a Series D funding round led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors, Accel Partners, Union Square Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company said the latest funding would be used to continue to fuel the company’s global growth, expand product ranges […]

Most organizations within the United States, United Kingdom and the German speaking countries in Europe are experiencing an alarming number of security breaches and exhibit a diverse range of exposures, indicating that gaps in existing security operations and defenses are widely apparent, according to an IDG survey of 1,600 senior IT security and technology purchase […]

Heading into the second half of 2014, 62 percent of IT leaders expected their IT budgets to increase, and at the end of June 2014, just 47 percent reported this to be the case, the exact same percentage reported at the end of March 2014, according to a report from TEKsystems. The survey, which represents […]

The volume of new and renewal prescriptions sent electronically has increased 13-fold from 2008 through 2013, according to statistics released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The analysis uses data from Surescripts, an e-prescription network used by the majority of all community pharmacies in the U.S. routing prescriptions, excluding closed systems. […]

Revenues for the consumer electronics (CE) industry are projected to grow 2 percent in 2014, reaching a record high of $211.3 billion, according to U.S. Consumer Electronics Sales and Forecasts 2010-2015, the semi-annual industry report released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Sales of mobile-connected devices, specifically smartphones and tablets, continued to stand as the […]

A partnership between Aalto University in Finland and the Internet Society, the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force, has resulted a collaborative mobile application, Netrader, designed to measure the diversity of Internet access around the world. Netradar is a free service that provides neutral and accurate information about the quality and diversity, in […]

Data protection and disaster recovery specialist Unitrends announced the availability of Unitrends Virtual Backup (UVB) 8.0, a virtual appliance providing hypervisor-level protection for VMware, Microsoft and Citrix. Formerly known as PHD Virtual Backup, the solution, available through direct sales as well as channel partners, starts at $625 for two sockets, and the product is also […]

Increasing complexity is one of the top three network management challenges facing federal agencies, with more than half of agencies admitting their network complexity has increased over the past year, according to a report from MeriTalk and Brocade. Nearly seven in 10 (68 percent) said they believe network complexity will continue to increase over the […]

While most health care organizations focus due diligence on their largest vendors, more than half of data breaches are attributed to small businesses, according to a CORL Technologies survey on the security level of vendors in the health care industry. The report revealed that the majority of health care vendors lack minimum security, which is […]

Procurement functions are not adequately staffed to successfully execute their transformation goals and do not operate on a strategic level within their respective organizations, according to a survey of more than 310 procurement professionals. More than one-third (36 percent) of procurement professionals reported that their companies were behind schedule in their transformation goals, according to […]

Consumer electronics giant Panasonic announced upgrades to its Toughpad FZ-G1 fully-rugged 10-inch tablet, which now features a faster, fourth-generation Intel Core i5 vPro processor, a Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro update and a single battery providing up to 10 hours of continuous use. The Toughpad FZ-G1 is available this month at a list price of $2,599, […]

Home Depot’s Wink Home Automation Lineup Includes Lights, Thermostats by Nathan Eddy Chamberlain’s Ultimate MyQ Belt Drive Is Smartphone-Ready Aside from a powerful 1.25hp motor and battery backup system, this garage door opener includes an Internet gateway to monitor and control the opener. Users can also receive alert notifications for the garage door opener and […]