Nathan Eddy

Consumer electronics giant Apple—the company behind the popular iPhone and iPad devices and that is facing competition from companies like Samsung, Sony and HTC and their smartphones and tablets with larger screens—is reportedly working on versions of the iPhone and iPad with larger screen sizes, according to The Wall Street Journal. Quoting unnamed officials at […]

The majority (88 percent) of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) polled in a survey by cloud services specialist j2 Global are optimistic about their businesses growth for the remainder of 2013, compared to 76 percent last year. More than 2,500 small business owners and employees in the United States who are eVoice, eFax and Campaigner […]

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced updates to its ArcSight portfolio, offering enterprises unified security analytics for big data with expanded identity monitoring to accelerate the detection of persistent threats. The series of updates includes ArcSight Threat Detector 2.0, which offers threat profiles and threat profile intelligence, and ArcSight Threat Response Manager 5.5, which provides cloud-ready, […]

Application performance specialist Riverbed Technology announced the release of the latest product in its Granite product family, designed to provide a solution for server and data consolidation. The Granite 2.5 and Steelhead EX 1360 model appliances are expected to be generally available in Q3 2013. The update includes Granite 2.5 software that adds support for […]

Small and midsize businesses traveled more often than their large-market counterparts, purchasing more air tickets (37 percent), meals (29 percent) and rental cars (65 percent), according to a report from integrated travel and expense management solutions provider Concur. The report found that SMB travelers filed 9 percent fewer lodging transactions per quarter than enterprise travelers, […]

As rumors swirl around the possibility of a smartwatch designed by Apple, which the tech industry has unofficially dubbed the iWatch, a report from the Financial Times indicated the technology giant is making some aggressive hiring moves as it attempts to create the device. The article, which quoted unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said […]

The worldwide IT outsourcing (ITO) market is expected to reach $288 billion in 2013—a 2.8 percent increase in U.S. dollars, according to IT research firm Gartner—and compared with the firm’s previous forecast, nearly all ITO segments are now forecast to grow more slowly during 2013. However, ITO markets in emerging Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Greater […]

Enterprise mobility specialist Cortado rolled out the latest release of its Corporate Server platform, version 6.5, which combines mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) with both file access and file sharing and is based on Microsoft’s Active Directory platform. For the area of enterprise access and collaboration, the new version offers intelligent, […]

Computer maker Acer announced that its Aspire Z3-605 series of all-in-one (AIO) desktops is now available for consumers in the United States, which puts an emphasis on high audio quality, boasting two 3W front-facing Harman Kardon speakers and Dolby Home Theater v4 audio features optimized digital output technologies for delivering media content in surround sound. […]

While social maturity may be lagging, perceived importance of social business is mounting, according to the results of MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte’s second annual global survey of more than 2,500 business executives on social business. The report, “Social Business: Shifting Out of First Gear,” found that when asked to rank their company’s social […]

There is a sizable knowledge gap between the working public’s knowledge of desktop virtualization as a productivity tool and server virtualization as advanced IT infrastructure, as compared to what IT managers and CIOs are reporting about virtualization. A study commissioned by a group of Cisco partners found that 40 percent of workers haven’t even heard […]

Network operator Sprint and wireless solutions specialist Novatel announced the launch of Novatel’s latest MiFi wireless hotspot, the MiFi 500 Long Term Evolution (LTE), among the first tri-band devices to join Sprint’s family of mobile broadband devices providing access to the company’s 4G LTE network at 800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz. The MiFi 500 LTE will […]