Nathan Eddy

Social media giant Facebook and communications technology and services provider Ericsson announced the creation of a joint innovation lab supporting the Internet.org initiative at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) convention in Barcelona, Spain. The Internet.org Innovation Lab, a collaboration between the two companies, will provide an environment and expertise for optimizing applications, networks, devices and […]

Nokia unveiled five affordable handsets including a new family of smartphones debuting on the Nokia X software platform at the Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona, Spain, based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The launch builds on Nokia’s concentration in delivering innovation to more price points with its family of Lumia smartphones, and […]

A majority of businesses (53 percent) are unprepared to deal with hacked or stolen bring-your-own-device (BYOD) technologies, even though half indicated company-owned tablets, notebooks and smartphones may have been hacked in last 12 months, according to a report from ITIC and KnowBe4. The survey results indicate that 65 percent of businesses now allow end users […]

With a strong finish in technology deal activity in 2013, the outlook for 2014 points towards an accelerated pace as technology mergers and acquisitions (M&A) continues to play a critical role for companies across industries to innovate and drive growth, according to analyst firm PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) US Technology Deals Insights 2013 Year in Review and […]

Through 2017, customer relationship management (CRM) leaders who avoid master data management (MDM) will derive erroneous results that annoy customers, resulting in a 25 percent reduction in potential revenue gains, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. The report notes that MDM also provides new opportunities for CRM leaders to effectively utilize big […]

Mobile ads are now served to 50 percent of smartphone subscribers, up from 30 percent of smartphone subscribers in February 2013, according to the latest Citrix Mobile Analytics Report. However, even with such growth, mobile ads generate less than 2 percent of a subscriber’s daily mobile data volume, and only 1-in-20 subscribers are currently served […]

Automated mobile workforce management and optimization solutions ClickSoftware Technologies announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Xora, a cloud-based market specialist in mobile workforce management, by merger. Under the terms of the merger agreement, the consideration for the transaction is approximately $14.7 million in cash, plus working capital and cash adjustments. Based […]

Storage specialist NetApp unveiled unified, scale-out products designed to enable enterprise customers to manage and control their data through a single storage and data management platform, the FAS8000 series scale-out enterprise storage systems. The FAS8000 series unifies storage-area network (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS) and storage virtualization into a single hybrid array. It is the company’s […]

Cloud application security specialist Elastica emerged from stealth mode and released its CloudSOC solution for making cloud applications and services secure for use by companies and their employees. The company also released four Elastica applications on CloudSOC that provide audit for cloud application usage and shadow IT, granular transaction visibility, real time threat detection, security […]

Software-defined storage specialist Atlantis Computing announced its Ilio USX platform designed for virtualized server workloads such as databases, mail, collaboration, big data and an array of business applications. The software enables customers to deploy more virtual machines (VMs) on their existing storage, and can pool and optimize a wide variety of storage classes including storage […]

When comparing enterprise wide area network (WAN) traffic traveling over the Aryaka network in 2013, one type of traffic clearly dominated, HTTP and HTTPS, indicating that applications are continuing to transition away from monolithic, on-premises applications to Web-based consumption and delivery models, according to a report from the company. While a broad swath of the […]

Vantage Health and its parent company Nanobeak announced that they have formed a strategic partnership with Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) for the advancement of mobile health technology. With its foundations in advanced nanotechnology, Vantage’s first product, the Health Sensor, is the convergence of nanoelectronics, bioinformatics and wireless technology to create the next-generation mobile health […]