Nathan Eddy

Google’s Android mobile platform maintained its lead of smartphone sales in the United States, capturing just more than half (50.3 percent) of the smartphone market in the three months ending November 2013, according to a report from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Apple’s iOS platform followed with 43.1 percent of smartphone sales, an increase month […]

Health and wellness specialist Basis Science unveiled Advanced Sleep Analysis, the company’s most in-depth sleep analytics tool to date, as well as the Basis 2014 Carbon Steel Edition band. The band features a new look, fit and feel with polished chrome details and stretchable, silicone black straps that allow for improved flexibility and breathability for […]

Storage firm Seagate announced the launch of its Backup Plus Fast hard drive line and the expansion of its Rescue data protection plan at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Rescue, which offers a comprehensive data protection plan on a range of storage options from multiple brands, is now available at Staples in […]

More than 40 million personal health and wellness products are expected to have sold in 2013, a figure that will rise to more than 70 million by 2018, according to a report from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The CEA report defines the connected health and wellness market, lays out key market growth drivers and […]

Storage specialist LaCie took the wraps off three storage models: Fuel, a wireless portable storage drive, the Little Big Disk Thunderbolt 2 and the silver-plated Sphère, designed by Christofle, a manufacturer of fine silver flatware and home accessories based in France since 1830. The Fuel, designed for Apple mobile devices, offers up to a 10–hour […]

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.8 trillion in 2014, a 3.1 percent increase from 2013 spending of $3.7 trillion, according to the latest forecast by IT research firm Gartner. Enterprise software spending growth continues to be the strongest throughout the forecast period, with the 2014 annual growth rate expected to grow 6.8 percent. […]

Small to midsize businesses (SMBs) see cloud and hosted services as key productivity and cost-savings drivers, with almost 88 percent of respondents saying they want to retire one or more legacy business technologies, and nearly 60 percent expect to save money by using cloud services in 2014, according to a survey by j2 Global. Mobile […]

Smartphones drove 28.5 percent of all online traffic compared to tablets at 18.1 percent, making it the browsing device of choice, according to IBM’s digital analytics benchmark for holiday shopping trends. When it comes to making the sale, however, tablets drove 19.4 percent of all online sales, more than twice that of smartphones, which accounted […]

Computer maker Acer announced the launch of the TA272 HUL Android all-in-one (AIO) desktop PC, which combines a high-resolution 27-inch display, Nvidia Tegra quad-core processor and svelte chassis design. In addition, the 2560×1440 resolution display offers wide-viewing angles without color difference and a high contrast ratio and features a 10-point touch-screen. Running Google Android OS […]

Digital health funding surpassed $1.9 billion in 2013, up 39 percent compared with the previous year and more than doubling since 2011, according to a report from Rock Health, which funds and supports startups in the health care technology space. There were six major themes that comprised almost half of all digital health funding this […]

Facebook continues to dominate the social networking space, with some 71 percent of online adults now users of the social media site, a slight increase from 67 percent in late 2012, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. Some 42 percent of online adults now use multiple social networking sites. In addition, […]

While there are hundreds of cancer-focused smartphone apps with the potential to enhance efforts to promote behavior change and provide real-time supportive interventions, conveniently and at low cost, there is a lack of evidence on their utility, effectiveness and safety, according to a report in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Researchers conducted a systematic […]