Nathan Eddy

Cyber-security awareness and training solutions specialist Wombat Security Technologies announced its anti-phishing training suite, which helps security officers to assess and reduce their company’s vulnerability to cyber-threats by integrating simulated phishing attacks and two interactive follow-up training modules. All of Wombat’s training solutions utilize learning science principles to engage the user, deliver practical knowledge and […]

Struggling smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry announced its popular messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), would be available for the first time to users of Apple’s iPhone and Google Android smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean. BBM will be available as a free download in Google Play and the Apple App Store starting Sept. 22, and […]

Mobile app stores will see annual downloads reach 102 billion in 2013, up from 64 billion in 2012, while in-app purchases (IAPs) will account for 48 percent of app store revenue by 2017, up from 11 percent in 2012, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Total revenue in 2013 will reach $26 […]

AT&T and Microsoft announced plans to deliver a security-enhanced cloud offering that would allow enterprise customers to connect to Microsoft’s cloud platform using a private network. AT&T’s cloud integration technology, NetBond, bonds networking and computing resources together and automates functions that are often performed manually. It allows the network and compute resources to flex in […]

Beleaguered smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry officially announced its latest attempt at a comeback with the launch of the Z30 smartphone, featuring the company’s BlackBerry 10 OS version 10.2 and sporting a 5-inch Super AMOLED touch-screen display. The handset sports a 1.7 GHz processor with quadcore graphics and the largest battery yet on a BlackBerry smartphone, and […]

Nine out of 10 statisticians (88 percent) believe that consumers should worry about privacy issues related to the data that is being collected on them, according to a recent survey of 865 statisticians and data scientists in North America by Revolution Analytics. Of those surveyed, 80 percent agreed that there should be an ethical framework […]

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced the release of its customer communication management solution Exstream 8.6, which is designed to unify companies’ design environments, allowing the creation and delivery of brand-compliant HTML customer communications for email, the Web and mobile applications. Exstream 8.6, which is scheduled for general availability at the end of the month, gives […]

Half of mobile device screen time is spent on entertainment, such as playing games, reading books, watching live TV or listening to music or the radio, according to a survey of 726 tablet owners in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia by IT research firm Gartner. Owners of Apple and Samsung tablets spend more […]

Access to wireless Internet in a hotel is as important as a comfortable bed, according to a survey of the mobile workforce. However, 81 percent have had unsatisfactory experiences with hotel WiFi in the past year, according to enterprise mobile services provider iPass. The survey revealed 82 percent feel that free hotel WiFi services are […]

Time-tracking application developer Replicon released the latest version of its time-tracker app, offering built-in compliance and business analytic metrics to better measure company performance and provide data-based decision-making capabilities. The latest release from Replicon includes an updated user experience that combines a role-based approach with a more intuitive design to streamline the process and increase […]

Flash memory storage solutions specialist SanDisk announced the Extreme Pro CFast 2.0 memory card, designed for professional broadcast, cinematography and professional photography and boasting read speeds of up to 450M bps for improved workflow efficiency and write speeds up to 350M bps for faster recording performance. The Extreme Pro CFast card is the first to […]

Data transfer specialist Aspera announced the beta availability of Drive, a unified sharing and collaboration platform for big data combining desktop explorer integration with support for on–premise and cloud storage, and with security, management and access control. Drive brings remote file browsing, transfer, synchronization and package sending and receiving to the desktop, browser and mobile […]