Nathan Eddy

Denver the Best, Detroit the Worst for Small Business Employment by Nathan Eddy Denver Takes the Top Spot for Small Biz Employment The Mile High metropolitan area boasts nearly 30 businesses with fewer than 250 employees per 1,000 residents, a workforce that’s growing at the second fastest rate in the country. Beantown Is a Great […]

San Francisco, San Jose, Portland Lead Nation in Clean Technology by Nathan Eddy San Francisco Leads in Clean-Tech Leadership Ranking No. 1 in advanced transportation and second or third in the three other categories, San Francisco took the top spot. San Jose Drops to the Second Spot The city’s first-place score in investment, innovation and […]

Virtualization can create potentially devastating gaps in disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) planning and operations, particularly for enterprise application availability, according to a survey of 252 IT professionals conducted by business IT continuity management specialist Neverfail. While virtualization is being widely implemented, it is often being done at the expense of availability and […]

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments experienced year-over-year growth of 12.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013, according to the IT research firm International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker. Cisco’s first quarter worldwide enterprise WLAN revenue grew a strong 23.4 percent year over year, reaching […]

Mobile workers are using connectivity to be more productive and work longer hours, and most of this work is being done over WiFi, but poor connectivity and expensive WiFi still impede them, as does overly strict bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, according to mobility services provider iPass’ quarterly Mobile Workforce Report. The survey indicated that most mobile […]

The bring-your-own-device trend is here to stay, with corporate BYOD activity by full-time employees (FTEs) remaining steady at almost 60 percent over the past two years, according to a report from IT research firm Ovum. The report advised business leaders that they would need to respond and adapt now to this change in employee behavior, […]

Communications lifestyle management and mobile device management (MDM) specialist Tangoe announced integrated versions of its Mobile MDM and Real-Time Telecom Expense Management (Tangoe rTEM) solutions. The application, Tangoe Mobile, offers combined MDM and rTEM functionality, enhanced geo-fence policy enforcement capabilities, and a carrier plan optimization tool that identifies cost-effective carrier plan options. Mobile combines the […]

Many small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are experiencing significant issues with the cost, complexity and lack of capabilities of their data protection for virtual environments, according to backup, replication and virtualization management solutions specialist Veeam Software’s inaugural SMB Virtualization Data Protection Report, which surveyed 500 SMBs in the United States and Europe. In particular, 85 […]

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active Smartphone Withstands Dust, Water by Nathan Eddy An S 4 Built for Active Use The Galaxy S 4 Active has qualified protection from dust and water with a level of IP67—the highest level is IP68. You do the math. A Smartphone Made to Last The S 4 Active will be […]

Hot on the heels of Sony’s latest announcement of its Xperia family of smartphones, rival handset manufacturer Samsung announced the Galaxy S 4 Active, with a fully sealed design that keeps dust particles out and protects against water damage for up to 30 minutes of submergence at a depth of 3 feet. The S 4 […]

The number of mobile payment users worldwide will reach 245.2 million in 2013, up from 200.8 million in 2012, while worldwide mobile payment transaction values will reach $235.4 billion in 2013, a 44 percent increase from 2012 values of $163.1 billion, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Money transfers and merchandise purchases […]

Cox Business announced it has expanded its portfolio of small and midsize business (SMB) solutions with the addition of PayLeap, a cloud-based merchant and card processing service through a strategic relationship with Acculynk, a company which secures online transactions through a suite of software-only services backed by an authentication and encryption framework. This service will […]