Nathan Eddy

Display manufacturer Vizio announced the pricing and availability of its spring 2013 lineup of Windows 8 PCs, equipped with 10-finger capacitive touch displays on every model and with prices starting at $1,089.99 for the 14-inch Thin + Light notebook. Each Touch PC features upgraded WiFi with 802.11ac, which is reportedly about three times faster than […]

Smartphones, coupled with rich applications and mobile data services, allow us to connect with our families, friends and community from the moment we wake up until the end of our day, and it seems as though social networking site Facebook is one of the most popular places to spend time, as a Facebook-sponsored report by […]

San Francisco: The Most Stressful City for IT Pros The city with the highest percentage of respondents who say they find their jobs stressful was San Francisco, with nearly 90 percent.Photo credit: Alfonso Jimenez Mile High City Keeps IT Stress Levels Elevated Denver placed second on the list of most stressful cities for IT administrators; […]

Cloud-based data protection specialist Spanning Cloud Apps announced a partnership with cloud backup and data access provider Mozy to embark on a co-marketing plan. Spanning, which offers a Google Apps backup solution, will co-promote its technologies with Mozy to offer businesses a data backup and recovery solution catering to the needs of the two customer […]

Batter Up With MLB.com At Bat (Free) With the official app of MLB, subscribers have full access to breaking news, interactive rosters and player stats for every team. Take the Baseball Ultimate Quiz (Free) The Baseball Ultimate Quiz app will help you bulk up on your knowledge of players, teams, stadiums and winning streaks—or losing […]

Most small-business brokers report an increase in both buyers and sellers on the market, resulting in a greater numbers of transactions, suggesting an improvement in the small-business market in the United States, according to a nationwide survey of business brokers conducted by BizBuySell, a Web-based marketplace for buying or selling small businesses. While brokers were […]

Networked storage solutions specialist Infortrend announced five additions to its ZFS-based EonNAS x10 Series, the 2-bay EonNAS Pro 210, the 5-bay EonNAS Pro 510 and the 8-bay EonNAS Pro 810 tower models, as well as the 4-bay 1U EonNAS 1110 and the 8-bay 2U EonNAS 1210 rackmount models. The additions are designed to offer enterprise-class […]

Straphangers in the nation’s capital, the Big Apple, and Salt Lake City could be facing a less stressful, more informed daily commute, thanks to Google Maps Transit. The service, which started March 27, allows user to view live departure times for seven lines on the New York City subway system, as well as for buses […]

Employers are committed to using new technologies like gamification, mobile apps and social media to promote health engagement and achieve desired employee behavior changes, according to research released by Buck Consultants, a Xerox company, and nonprofit human resources association WorldatWork. Among the three solutions studied, gamification—the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a […]

Worldwide devices spending, which includes PCs, tablets, mobile phones and printers, is forecast to reach $718 billion in 2013, up 7.9 percent from 2012, according to IT research firm Gartner. This growth will help drive overall worldwide IT spending to $3.8 trillion in 2013, a 4.1 percent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, Gartner […]

The number of IT professionals considering leaving their jobs due to workplace stress has declined from 67 percent last year to 57 percent in 2013, a 10 point drop in one year, according to GFI Software’s second annual IT Administrator Stress Survey. The independent blind survey of 207 IT administrators in U.S. organizations with more […]

Mobile accessories and consumer technology specialist Belkin announced the availability of an Apple iPad keyboard cover called the Ultimate Keyboard Case, which uses an aluminum alloy, magnet construction, and is available in two color options—black ($99.99) and white ($129.99). Belkin claims the keyboard, which is just 6.4 millimeters thin and weighs 17 ounces, is the […]