Nathan Eddy

Telecommunications giant AT&T is reaching out to its small and midsize business (SMB) customers with two Syn248 phone models to choose between, thanks to enhancements announced by Advanced American Telephones (AAT), which manufactures AT&T-branded telephones under a license agreement with AT&T Intellectual Property. The Syn248 system components include the SB35010 Analog Gateway, a basic deskset […]

Enterprises in the United States are facing mounting cyber-security challenges, with nearly six in 10 malware analysts reporting they have investigated or addressed a data breach that was never disclosed by their company. Moreover, the largest companies, those with more than 500 employees, are even more likely to have had an unreported breach, with 66 […]

Tablets and smartphones are fast becoming an indispensible part of hospital and home health agency services, according to a survey of nearly 200 health care executives by enterprise mobility management (EMM) software developer NetMotion Wireless and B2B media company FierceMarkets. The vast majority (93 percent) of respondents said mobile deployments were either extremely or very […]

Worldwide IT spending is expected to accelerate next year after dipping to its slowest pace of growth since the financial crisis in 2013, according to a report from IT research firm IDC. In 2014, a rebound in China and continued momentum in the United States and Europe would see a return to worldwide industry growth […]

Security specialist Kaspersky Lab announced the latest version of Kaspersky Small Office Security, the company’s security solution built specifically for businesses with less than 25 employees. The platform includes Kaspersky Lab’s latest anti-malware technologies, and a host of technology upgrades and improvements, as well as brand new features such as online backup, which allows small […]

The use of smart glasses, such as the technology developed by Google for its Glass project, has the potential to improve worker efficiency in vertical markets such as manufacturing, field service, retail and health care, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. The report projected that the greatest savings in field service would […]

Alarm hazards, robotic surgery risks and radiation exposure in hybrid operating rooms were on ECRI Institute’s annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list, which raises awareness of the potential dangers associated with the use of medical devices and helps health care providers minimize the risk of technology-related adverse events. Clinical alarm hazards remain at the […]

Data security and encryption services provider Vaultive announced support for persistent encryption of data stored and processed by enterprise cloud applications including Box Enterprise, Yammer, SharePoint Online, SkyDrive Pro, SAP SuccessFactors, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Vaultive’s gateway integrates a set of extensible configuration options to deliver support for additional software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications such as […]

In order for enterprises to save costs and optimize service delivery, they need a twin data center topology for each continent of major business activity, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. The report warned most global organizations have too many data centers in too many countries, and for many companies, having too […]

Weather intelligence specialist Stormpulse is broadening its umbrella of products with the release of Riskpulse, a risk management platform that gathers, elevates and visualizes external risk data. The Riskpulse ecosystem of products includes the Pulse application programing interface (API), which is designed to help companies merge data that has been aggregated and interpreted by Riskpulse […]

Security specialist Centrify announced the availability of the Centrify User Suite, SaaS Edition, an identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) platform designed to provide Active Directory and cloud-based single sign-on (SSO), access management, application management and mobile management across a cloud, mobile or on-premises application. With Centrify for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), organizations have the ability to solve users’ password problems […]

A host of Google Android-powered devices helped drive the worldwide tablet market to another quarter of strong growth this year, with research firm IDC reporting 7 percent growth over the previous quarter and 36.7 percent growth compared with the third quarter of 2012. While that number came in a bit under the company’s expectations, companies […]