Nathan Eddy

First-quarter server revenue declined 4.1 percent year-over-year despite worldwide server shipment growth of 1.4 percent during the period, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Cisco was the only company in the top five that saw an increase in first-quarter revenue, with growth of 37 percent, compared with the same quarter in 2013. […]

The health care and pharmaceuticals sector has many of the same characteristics as the retail sector, including a high volume of security incidents and slow response times, according to a report from BitSight Technologies. The average rating in the health care industry was 660. Like the retail sector, the spread in performance across the industry […]

Wireless systems specialist Ruckus and WiFi provider Boingo Wireless are partnering to deploy thousands of Ruckus indoor and outdoor Smart WiFi access points across dozens of United States Army, Air Force and Marine Corps bases. Boingo is currently deploying Ruckus Smart WiFi technology bases across the United States, with Boingo Broadband and IPTV service going […]

Application-intelligent networking software and hardware specialist Solarflare announced the release of the Flareon SFN7002F dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) PCIe 3.0 SFP+ server I/O adapter, which features a virtualized host interface that includes 2048 virtual NIC (vNIC) interfaces. The SFN7002F features driver support for a slew of operating system and hypervisor environments, including Microsoft Windows, […]

Many employees participating in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs do not take adequate steps to protect company information, a weakness that could result in critical security breakdowns, according to a survey from threat detection specialist Webroot. Based on data collected by Harris Interactive, the report surveyed more than 2,000 working professionals in the United States, concluding that […]

Health information network Surescripts said it routed more than 1 billion electronic prescriptions in 2013, representing a majority (58 percent) of all eligible prescriptions in the United States, sent by 73 percent of all office-based physicians. The Surescripts network connects to 566,000 prescribers, more than 400 hospitals and health systems and more than 40 of […]

There is a growing consensus that embedded analytics is delivering more value than traditional business intelligence (BI) deployments, improving user experience and customer satisfaction while increasing revenue, according to a report from Logi Analytics. The study indicated customers are starting to demand embedded analytics, and the user base is expanding, with 86 percent of survey […]

A tablet application designed to help elderly patients remember when to take their daily doses of medicine proved to be highly beneficial and was successfully adopted by the patients tested, according to a paper published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. The study, which involved 99 elderly Spanish patients (48 in the control group […]

Mobile advertising performance rates in the first-quarter 2014 have stabilized for the first time since the second quarter of 2012, according to mobile ad technology provider Celtra’s quarterly benchmark report. The report found noticeable growth in some key areas of mobile display ad performance, especially in video consumption—video play rates for standard ad formats have […]

Broadband networking, Internet access, connected home and routing products provider Zyxel introduced its next-generation NXC5500 wireless local area network (WLAN) controller and its NWA5301NJ wall-plate Unified WiFi Access Point (AP). Offering WiFi service and WLAN optimization for large-scale wireless networks, the NXC5500 supports up to 512 APs, is equipped with the company’s ZLD V4.10 firmware […]

10 Ways Mobile Technologies Are Reshaping Small Businesses by Nathan Eddy Smartphone Use Is Boosting Employee Productivity The survey found that small businesses are open for an average of 5.7 days per a week. However, the average number of days their employees are using smartphones to conduct business exceeds that number—nearly half (49 percent) of […]

A total of 2.7 million wearable bands shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2014, with Fitbit maintaining its leadership position with nearly 50 percent market share. Jawbone, another basic band competitor, also grew rapidly as it expanded its international distribution after the initial launch of the UP24 in the fourth quarter. Canalys’ quarterly estimates […]