Nathan Eddy

Smartphones will soon be able to predict a consumer’s next move and his or her next purchase, as well as interpret actions based on what it knows about the user’s habits and daily routines, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. What smartphones can do through apps has improved and broadened thanks to […]

Storage solutions specialist WD, formerly known as Western Digital, expanded its My Cloud family of personal cloud solutions with My Cloud EX4, a high-performance four-bay network attached storage (NAS) solution for creative professionals, workgroups and users looking to store large amounts of data. With Easy-Slide-Drive technology, the EX4 allows customers to install or hot-swap drives […]

Communications giant Sprint is looking to help its small to medium-size business (SMB) customers improve their productivity with Cloud Optimizer, available with Microsoft’s cloud productivity solution Office 365 offered by Sprint. The platform features caching technology that lets users enjoy the collaboration functionality of Office 365 and SharePoint Online as well as read access to […]

The rate at which information technology is changing the health care industry will be the main focus of the fourth annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE) in Washington D.C., where experts from academia, industry and government will gather for two days starting Nov. 15. Organized by the Center for Health Information and Decision […]

Many small business owners say they’ll be pulling out all the stops to get customers into stores during the critical holiday shopping season, according to the second annual Small Business Saturday Insights Survey, released by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) and American Express. For many of the small business owners who are aware […]

Online retail giant Amazon announced a partnership with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver packages on Sundays, starting in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas. Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service plan to roll out this service to a large portion of the U.S. population in 2014 including Dallas, Houston, New Orleans and […]

While IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will show an average annual growth rate of 2.2 percent through 2017, the Internet of things will create new markets and a new economy, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. The Internet of things encompasses hardware, embedded software, connectivity and communications […]

Nearly half of Americans are at least a little interested (46 percent) in owning a watch- or wristband-style wearable tech device, with more than one-quarter (27 percent) specifying that they are very or somewhat interested, according to an online survey of 2,577 U.S. adults by Harris Interactive. One bright spot for wearable tech is that […]

Google Street View Gets a Thames’-Eye View of London by Nathan Eddy Tower Bridge Looms Large Ahead The combined bascule and suspension bridge crosses the river close to the Tower of London and is an iconic feature of the London skyline. Construction started in 1886 but took years to finish; in 1894, the future King […]

Consumer electronics giant Panasonic announced the release of the latest tablet in its line of rugged products, the Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 tablet, a 20-inch tablet with a 4K resolution display. The business-rugged 4K UT-MB5 is powered by an Intel Core i5 vPro processor, features Windows 8.1 Pro and offers a 3840×2560 pixel display that boasts […]

There is a growing potential for security risks resulting from increasingly blurred lines between personal and enterprise devices, according to a nationwide survey of 2,000 office workers carried out for enterprise content collaboration specialist Huddle by Ipsos Mori. The survey revealed that 73 percent of U.S. office workers using enterprise-issued tablets admitted to downloading personal […]

Enterprise mobility management (EMM) and mobile security specialist MobileIron announced a slew of capabilities for its Google Android-focused security platform to accelerate the adoption of the open-source operating system in the enterprise. With the fourth quarter 2013 release of MobileIron for Android, the company is launching a complete email and PIM (Personal Information Management) solution […]