Nathan Eddy

Technology giant Oracle has unveiled Oracle Billing and Revenue Management Cloud Service at its annual OpenWorld Conference. The platform provides enterprises with a scalable billing solution to capture recurring revenues from new digital services. The basic offering delivers a subscription-based model, supported by a feature capability for pricing, account management, billing and invoicing, posting to […]

Western Digital subsidiary WD has redesigned its My Book and My Book for Mac lines of external desktop drives to provide as much as 4TB storage capacity and enhanced data protection for users that create and collect large volumes of data. Available in 2TB and 3TB capacities, My Book for Mac is compatible with Apple’s […]

While big data is viewed as impacting organizations on a grand scale, IT leaders are under the impression that they have progressed further than IT professionals can verify, according to a survey of more than 1,500 IT leaders and 2,000 IT professionals from companies of all sizes conducted on behalf of TEKsystems Global Services. Nearly […]

Local online marketing specialist ReachLocal announced the general availability in the United States of ReachEdge, a marketing system aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that is designed to help them get more customers from their marketing spend. ReachEdge is a central component of the company’s marketing and commerce Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) suite of products, which […]

Of the nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of organizations investing or planning to invest in big data technology in 2013, 30 percent have already invested in big data technology, 19 percent plan to invest within the next year, and an additional 15 percent plan to invest within two years, according to IT research firm Gartner’s survey […]

The combined total minutes spent on activities requiring data connectivity on smartphones now far outpaces talking on these devices, according to the Smartphones: Consumer Behavioral Trends report from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which examined trends on consumer behavior and sentiment regarding smartphones from June to August 2013. Two-thirds (66 percent) of online U.S. consumers […]

The big data phenomenon has business of all sizes re-evaluating methods and strategies for managing and using data, according to a survey of 500 U.S. business and IT executives responsible for technical or strategic decisions affecting data at their company, which was conducted by IT industry non-profit organization CompTIA. With greater focus and resources devoted […]

Network performance visibility specialist Empirix released IntelliSight, an analytics platform that turns terabytes of data into real-time intelligence for improving customer experience and performance management as well as strategic business decision-making. IntelliSight is designed to manage terabytes of new data per day and analyzes billions of data elements in seconds for real-time results. The platform […]

Just 18 percent of organizations are confident that their mobile policies are compliant with corporate policy and government regulation, according to a report from mobile productivity solutions specialist Accellion, and AIIM, a global non-profit organization that provides independent research, education and certification programs to information professionals. Just more than half (51 percent) of organizations surveyed […]

There is a battle brewing in the C-suite over the way corporate mobile strategy gets decided, and chief marketing officers (CMOs), chief information officers (CIOs) and other C-level executives are driven by conflicting motivations across the business, according to a survey sponsored by Netbiscuits and conducted by Vanson Bourne. The CMO’s determination to be the […]

Google Maps Brings the Galapagos to Your Urban Aquarium by Nathan Eddy A New World Under the Sea Exploring Galapagos, a well-preserved tropical archipelago, is a dream for many, and a reality for a few. Going to School in the Galapagos The Galapagos’ 360-degree images on Google Maps are the result of a joint project […]

Many small businesses, from industries as diverse as retailers to professional services firms, are not as protected as they should be from increasingly sophisticated and rampant fraud schemes such as business identity theft, mobile malware and money mules, according to an online survey of 803 small business owners by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Bank […]