Nathan Eddy

Digital marketing software specialist Silverpop announced the launch of marketing automation solutions for e-commerce businesses, including purchase insights to marketers information about the amount of revenue attributable to email. The purchase insights service also provides information on how multitouch campaigns increase revenue, and the impact of their campaigns on total orders and average order value […]

Outside of the more traditional measures of using social media, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have also turned to social media platforms to gather information to make better business decisions, according to a survey by LinkedIn. The results found nearly half (49 percent) of small businesses surveyed use social media to learn, either from their […]

Technology giant IBM announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cloudant, a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to create mobile and Web apps. Financial terms were not disclosed. An active participant and contributor to the open-source database community Apache CouchDB, Cloudant offers high availability, elastic scalability and mobile device synchronization. Cloudant’s […]

Streaming media platform Roku announced the Roku Streaming Stick HDMI version, a tiny Roku player that gives consumers a way to access a wide selection of streaming entertainment on TV. Once plugged in, the Streaming Stick lets consumers start streaming from more than 1,200 channels (more than 750 channels in Canada, the U.K. and the […]

Worldwide PC shipments fell by 9.8 percent in 2013, slightly better than a projected decline of 10.1 percent, but still the most severe contraction on record, according to IT research firm IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Emerging regions were on forecast for the fourth quarter, finishing a dismal year with volume declining by 11.3 […]

Despite the acknowledged benefits that health care organizations would realize by implementing business intelligence (BI) platforms, a survey by TEKsystems, a provider of IT staffing solutions, IT talent management expertise and IT services, found that the vast majority have yet to implement a BI system. The survey indicated 58 percent of respondents’ organizations have not […]

Storage solutions specialist WD, formerly known as Western Digital, expanded its personal cloud solutions for consumers with the release of the My Cloud EX2, a two-bay network attached storage (NAS) system. The My Cloud EX2 and My Cloud EX4 products are designed for creative professionals and prosumers that need to save, share, back up, stream […]

Networking and IT integration specialist NEC and technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced they are collaborating on the integration of advanced technology and leveraging open standards, to develop software-defined networking (SDN) enabled networking solutions to their enterprise customers. The collaboration will work to deliver the infrastructure and open standards-based SDN solutions taking into consideration current and […]

Computing, communication and entertainment device manufacturer Logitech announced the Harmony Smart Keyboard, a keyboard and touch pad combination designed for controlling streaming media in a user’s home. The keyboard is designed to simplify text entry, so users can search for shows, navigate menus and browse the Web on a PC or Mac connected to the […]

Print management specialist Xerox will work with hospitals and physician practices to introduce PatientPoint’s digital check-in and population health management software, the result of a $28 million contract awarded to the company. The technology, part of PatientPoint’s patient-physician engagement suite of offerings, collects information from multiple sources into a single view to help doctors identify […]

Worldwide sales of tablets to users reached 195.4 million units in 2013, a 68 percent increase on 2012, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Tablet growth in 2013 was fueled by the low-end, small screen tablet market and first time buyers. This led Android to become the top tablet operating system (OS), […]

Hoyos Labs, a digital infrastructure security company, used Mobile World Congress (MWC) convention in Barcelona, Spain, to present HoyosID, a mobile app that allows consumers to use biometrics to securely and replace the usernames and passwords for all of their most frequently visited Websites. The HoyosID app leverages smartphones as real-time biometrics pattern acquisition devices […]