Nathan Eddy

Live the St. Patrick’s Day Lifestyle (Free) Simply titled St. Patrick’s Day, this app helps you find out what’s going on in various cities like New York, Chicago and San Francisco, plus the holiday’s longstanding traditions. Give Yourself a St. Patrick’s Day Quizzle (Free) Test your knowledge of the holiday and quiz your friends and […]

Data protection and disaster recovery planning is a priority but remains a challenge for many small to misize businesses (SMBs), according to the results of a recent survey of more than 1,000 SMB IT professionals by software developer Spiceworks. The survey, sponsored by online backup specialist Carbonite, found slightly less than half (45 percent) of […]

Network services provider Pacnet announced plans to spend $90 million on a Tier III data center in Singapore, expanding the number of its Asia-Pacific data centers and boosting its ability to serve American content providers, e-commerce firms and Internet portals. Located in the Paya Lebar area on the north-east side of the island nation, the […]

Computer maker Acer is looking to extend its reach into the education market with the release of the C7 Chromebook model for its commercial customers, which features automatic updates so students have the latest software version and protection against online threats. Chromebooks run Google’s Chrome operating system (OS) and are designed to be used while […]

Mobility is reshaping mainstream consumer behavior in fundamental ways, as household adoption and spending on consumer technology products shifts faster than expected in favor of gadgets and services that are portable or mobile, according to a report by IT research firm Gartner. The survey of more than 8,000 consumers in the United States, the United […]

Business collaboration and communications solutions provider Avaya announced the release of Session Border Controller for Enterprise. SBCE provides organizations with a solution to secure Session Initiation Protocol- (SIP-) based applications across networks and offers new security enhancements for enterprise collaboration. The platform is designed to help companies more effectively manage bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies, where employees […]

A worldwide survey of more than 2,200 mobile device users suggests gadgets are a dominant and irreplaceable part of our modern lives, with an average user carrying 2.9 devices, according to security specialist Sophos. Of the 2,226 respondents (the majority of whom represent Australia, Canada, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom), residents of […]

Computer products distributor D&H Distributing has developed a new roster of services designed to enable small- and midsize-business resellers to profit from a suite of cloud solutions, including taking on distribution partner Cloud Nation’s cloud solutions platform and community portal. The portal provides a roster of training, services and technologies aimed at SMB resellers that […]

Smartphone adoption among American teenagers has increased substantially and mobile access to the Internet is pervasive, with a quarter of teens described as “cell-mostly” Internet users—those who mostly surf the Web using their phones, rather than other devices such as desktops or laptops, according to a Pew Research Center survey that explored technology use among […]

Digital marketing spending averages 2.5 percent of company revenue, with budgets expected to increase 9 percent in 2013, according to a survey of U.S. marketing executives by IT research firm Gartner. The report found that, on average, companies spent 10.4 percent of their annual 2012 revenue on overall marketing activities. These expenses include salaries, advertising […]

IT management software specialist Ipswitch unveiled WhatsUp Gold Version 16.1, featuring WhatsUp Application Performance Monitor, which is designed to help IT departments oversee the performance of applications on their network from a unified, customizable dashboard. The monitor offers customizable, automated actions IT can use to assess the impact, isolate the root cause and restore performance […]

Wireless network operator AT&T’s 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network speed was clocked at 18.6 megabits per second, offering the fastest pure LTE download speed of any carrier and outpacing Verizon’s mark of 14.3M bps for LTE-only downloads, according to a report by Root Metrics. Across its LTE markets, AT&T averaged a maximum download speed […]