Nathan Eddy

While businesses have improved their practices around cloud computing security, there are continued concerns about organizations’ use of security best practices and their awareness of the cloud services used within their organizations, according to the “Security of Cloud Computing Users 2013” study commissioned by CA Technologies and research firm Ponemon Institute. When compared to a […]

MIT is the Highest-Ranked School for Computer Science The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked highest on the list for its computer science program, with a strong focus on engineering.Photo credit: Finlay McWalter Stanford No. 2 Among Computer Science Schools Located close to Silicon Valley in California, Stanford offers free iOS app development courses, as well.Photo […]

Android malware continued to gain in share in 2012 and was responsible for 79 percent of all threats for the year, up from 66 percent in 2011, according to security specialist F-Secure’s latest Mobile Threat report. In the fourth quarter alone, 96 new families and variants of Android threats were discovered, which almost doubles the […]

While the rise of bring your own device (BYOD) programs is giving employees greater flexibility regarding where, when and on what platform they are productive, 57 percent of employees believe that BYOD puts their personal data at risk as well, according to a report from data governance software specialist Varonis. The online survey of 168 […]

Data storage and backup specialist Synology announced the release of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.2, which offers a file-sharing solution that works on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, as well as support for Amazon S3 and Glacier platforms to offer small and midsize businesses (SMBs) more flexible options for data security. Synology’s support for Microsoft’s Active […]

A Ponemon Institute survey of small businesses throughout the United States found that 55 percent of those responding have had a data breach, almost all involving electronic records, and 53 percent had multiple breaches, suggesting the nation’s small to midsize businesses (SMBs) are at serious risk of a data breach. The primary causes of the […]

Bill Gates Is the Richest Man in Tech, Again The man who helped create Microsoft in his garage (and was at one time the world’s richest man) has to now settle for the richest man in the technology world, with a net worth of $67 billion.Photo credit: World Economic Forum Oracle Founder Larry Ellison Is […]

The battle for control of the living room through an all-in-one media content hub has been raging for some time, and this week Roku, the streaming platform for delivering video, music and games to the TV–and the first to offer Netflix streaming in 2008–has taken the wraps of the Roku 3, seeking to raise the […]

Greater adoption of on-premises software licenses and software as a service (SaaS) will drive a modest increase in worldwide software spending through 2014, according to a survey by IT research firm Gartner. However, the report also noted that regions with higher IT maturity, such as North America and Western Europe, expect lower or no budget […]

Remote monitoring and management (RMM) and service automation software developer N-able Technologies announced the launch of N-central 9.1, a managed IT services platform that scales and supports hybrid IT environments and mobile devices, as well as Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 platforms. N-central 9.1, which is offered as an upgrade to N-able partners […]

Enterprise mobility management and telecom software products and solutions provider Globo announced it has signed a distribution agreement with IT supply chain specialist Ingram Micro to provide Globo’s enterprise mobility solutions for the enterprise and small and midsize business (SMB) market to authorized resellers in the United States and Canada. Ingram Micro Mobility will act […]

Cover-glass shipments increased 44 percent in 2012, with more than three-quarters of that growth coming from mobile phones. The growth of touch-enabled mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, is projected to drive worldwide cover-glass shipments to more than 1.5 billion in 2013 and more than 2.5 billion by 2017, according to the “Touch Panel […]