Nathan Eddy

Although Apple has been at the forefront of the tablet revolution, low-cost Android devices are fueling the current market expansion, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. IDC forecasts that tablet shipments will grow 58.7 percent to 229.3 million units in 2013 from 144.5 million units last year. The research firm currently predicts tablet […]

Mobile Devices Aid in Job Hunting, Career Decisions by Nathan Eddy Mobile Devices Increasingly Used to Hunt for Jobs Sixty-eight percent of survey respondents said they use their mobile devices to search for jobs once a week or more, and 30 percent do it more than once a day. Mobile Search Is a Growing Trend […]

Western Digital subsidiary WD, which specializes in hard drives and storage platforms for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs), announced the launch of its Se line of hard drives, designed for scale-out data center deployments, mid-sized network attached storage (NAS) deployment, and backup and archiving applications. The design and higher workload capabilities for SMB-focused 6-bay-plus table-top […]

All of the top five server vendors suffered revenue declines in the first quarter of 2013 except for Dell, which grew 14.4 percent, as worldwide server shipments declined 0.7 percent year-over-year, while revenue declined 5 percent from the first quarter of 2012, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. IBM held the lead […]

Consumer electronics manufacturer LG Electronics announced the launch of Nexus 4 White, the latest edition of the Android-based smartphone the company developed in collaboration with Google. Starting in Hong Kong on May 29, the Nexus 4 White will roll out globally in select markets in Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East over the […]

On an otherwise quiet news day, consumer electronics giant Samsung opted to try to draw eyeballs with a tantalizing teaser campaign on its Website that promotes the June 20 launch of a new member of the Galaxy family of mobile devices and a new ATIV product, which is Samsung’s foray into Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating […]

With the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend growing increasingly popular, a survey released by the CTIA wireless association and conducted by Harris Interactive found that regardless of company policy regarding the use of personal devices, employees are using their own notebooks, smartphones and tablets to access work data. Nearly half (47 percent) of consumers surveyed said they […]

Wireless systems specialist Ruckus has unveiled Secure Hotspot, a secure WiFi platform that automatically helps protect open WiFi communication by allowing an operator or enterprise to offer encrypted access to public network WiFi services through automatic configuration of each device with the requisite WiFi network information along with a unique pre-shared key. With Secure Hotspot, […]

The revenge of the nerds may be well under way, according to the Geek Pride 2013 survey from recruitment firm Modis. A whopping 87 percent of the general population say that they do not “sneak their geek”—for example, hiding personal or embarrassing passions or interests—while only 13 percent of Americans do, the study found Nearly […]

Domain Names: Small Businesses Struggle to Find the Right Web Addresses by Nathan Eddy Small-Business Owners Unsatisfied Of small-business owners with a Website or blog, just under half expressed dissatisfaction with their current domain name choice. A Good Name Is Hard to Find Business owners appear to be pessimistic about their chances of finding a […]

Use of company-issued and personal devices are on the rise, with Apple iOS devices surpassing BlackBerry for the first time, according to hosted archiving and compliance solutions specialist Smarch’s third annual Electronic Communications Compliance Survey Report. For the third straight year, respondents cited new and changing regulations (67 percent), new communications channels (64 percent) and […]

Secure broadband networking, Internet access, connected home and routing products specialist Zyxel Communications introduced a host of 802.11ac routers and USB adapters to meet consumer demand for speeds required for video media streaming, online gaming, and telephony applications for PCs, tablets, and smartphones. The three routers (NBG6503, X650 and NBG6716) offer data rates from 750 […]