Nathan Eddy

Health information services provider WebMD Health is expanding the beta program for its Patient Instructions feature, which enables physicians who use Medscape Mobile to securely send education and instructions on conditions, procedures and drugs to their patients who use the WebMD app for iPhone, or access WebMD on a PC or other mobile device. As […]

Enterprise data software specialist Varonis announced the general availability of DatAnywhere 1.5, updating the platform to include enhanced security features and more collaboration capabilities. For example, shared workspaces give IT administrators and data owners the ability to logically group collections of shares and automatically make them available to all or select users based on Active […]

More than one-half of Americans (52 percent) would be embarrassed about friends or family seeing certain files or documents on their smartphones, and one-quarter of Americans don’t want bank account information seen by others on their smartphones, according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults conducted by TNS and sponsored by KS Mobile. Emails or […]

Cloud applications and mobile devices are increasing security and compliance risk at many enterprises in the United States and the United Kingdom, according to the results of a survey of 400 IT decision makers conducted by independent research firm Loudhouse. The survey, commissioned by identity and access management (IAM) provider SailPoint, found 57 percent of […]

Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook Get High Marks From Employees: Glassdoor by Nathan Eddy Twitter’s Roster of Characters Is the Happiest Employees at the micro-blogging site praise the company’s “extremely smart” co-workers, urban setting, and strong leadership and company values. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo holds a 97 percent approval rating on Glassdoor, and one employee noted “great […]

Telecommunications giant AT&T has announced the launch of U-verse with GigaPower, its all-fiber Internet network, for the city of Austin, Texas. The company is offering two U-verse with GigaPower Internet packages: Standard and Premier. The Standard package offers Internet speeds of up to 300M bps for $99 per month. Or you could pay only $70 […]

While the public often cites teens as being the most common offenders, a recent survey found that adult drivers ages 25-39 were the most likely to admit engaging in these risky behaviors behind the wheel, according to research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The data, from a sample of 2,325 licensed drivers, ages […]

Consumer interest in purchasing dedicated wearable fitness devices in the next 12 months quadrupled to 13 percent in 2013, from just 3 percent in 2012, making it the largest year-over-year increase for any category of fitness device, according to a report by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). These devices experienced the largest gain in purchase […]

The Internet of things, which excludes PCs, tablets and smartphones, will grow to 26 billion units installed in 2020, representing an almost 30-fold increase from 0.9 billion in 2009, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. The IoT refers to a network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense […]

Nikon, Canon, Sony Boast Killer Digital Cameras for the Holidays By Nathan Eddy Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7K Can Fit in Any Pocket ($289) Don’t let its small size fool you—improved over the LX5 compact digital camera, the LX7 has a new 10.1-megapixel MOS sensor for high-resolution images and high-sensitivity recording. Plus, the camera packs a ton […]

Small-business employment is better at the end of this year than last year, as the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) indicators anticipated, but not enough to restore the 2007 level hiring, and uncertainty remains throughout the sector, as it anticipates increased taxes, regulations and health-care costs. November ushered in the holiday season, but it […]

During Black Friday week, tablets were the second highest revenue generating category and unit volumes increased by 105 percent and overall PC and tablet sales increased by 58 percent to almost 5.9 million units, according to IT research firm NPD. For the first time in three years, U.S. consumer electronics sales, both online and in […]