Nathan Eddy

Data accessibility and protection specialist Acronis announced the release of Small Business: Server Cloud Backup, a platform designed to help small office/home office (SOHO) users securely back up files and data locally, as well as to Acronis cloud storage, where it is constantly available. Small Office: Server Cloud Backup is available in a variety of […]

It appears that there is no set clocking out time for most CIOs, a Robert Half Technology survey revealed, with the vast majority (73 percent) of CIOs checking in with work “often” or “somewhat often” on evenings and weekends. The survey, based on more than 2,300 telephone interviews with CIOs from a random sample of […]

Search giant Google’s foray into the low-cost tablet market, the Nexus 7, will get an upgrade this July as the company moves from Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chip, used in the first edition of the device, to a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, according to unnamed sources quoted by Reuters. The 7-inch tablet will also have a thinner […]

Customer relationship management specialist SugarCRM and NextPrinciples, a specialist in social CRM software, announced an expansion of their partnership, which will result in a joint go-to-market approach supported by more than 10 reseller partners and offering CRM integration across multiple points for sales lead generation, customer care and marketing campaigns. The NextPrinciples Insight-to-Action software as […]

With the overall semiconductor market shrinking in 2012, the number of vendors that declined among the top 25 outnumbered those that grew, including Intel, which still managed to claim the top spot for the 21st year in a row, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Intel’s market share was 16.4 percent in […]

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch tablet with 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) capability will be available at AT&T stores starting April 5, the network operator announced. Customers who purchase the $399 Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE with a two-year data-plan agreement at AT&T retail stores will receive up to $150 off, for a limited time, […]

Thanks in part to Samsung’s price drop in late 2012, which led various smartphone and feature phone users to upgrade to a Samsung device, Google’s Android mobile operating system continued to increase its share of smartphones sold over the last year in the United States, according to data released by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Android realized […]

Digital disruptors are at work in the payments arena, removing friction along the path to the moment of payment and creating products and services that are stirring up a transformation in the consumer payments industry, according to a report from Forrester Research. The study noted merchants and consumers will wield their influence in picking winners […]

Most social collaboration initiatives fail because they follow a worst-practice approach of “provide and pray,” leading to a 10 percent success rate, according to IT analytics firm Gartner’s research into the social collaboration efforts of more than 1,000 organizations. Although social technologies are employed by 70 percent of organizations, the vast majority of organizations treat […]

Voice and language solutions specialist Nuance Communications unveiled Voice Ads, a mobile advertising platform that is designed to engage consumers through voice technology. An ad appears and prompts the consumer to participate by speaking to it, and from there, the conversation drives the experience, which is tailored to meet both the needs of the brand […]

Graphics processing unit manufacturer Nvidia announced a family of chips that feature the company’s GPU Boost 2.0 technology, which intelligently adjusts GPU clock speed to maximize graphics performance. The lineup of Nvidia GeForce 700M GPUs includes the GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GT 745M and GeForce GT 740M GPUs for the performance segment, as a well […]

Smartphone fans looking to pick up the HTC One in its largest storage capacity—64GB—will have to turn to network operator AT&T, which has revealed it will be the exclusive carrier for that version of the device. There has been no word yet from AT&T or Verizon—which will carry the 32GB version of the One—as to […]