Nathan Eddy

Technology trends such as bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives, virtualization and the complexity of attack types have the greatest impact on securing today’s organizations, according to a security trends survey conducted by networking appliances specialist F5 Networks at this year’s RSA conference, held Feb. 25 to March 1. Nearly half of the respondents admitted […]

Ringya, the development company behind the mobile application of the same name, announced the availability of the app for Google Android devices. The application allows smartphone users to convert contact lists into organized, sharable mobile contacts by snapping a photo of the list with the smartphone’s camera. The application has the ability to transform paper […]

While there has been some chatter lately about bendable glass technology applied to smartphones, watches, or other wearable connected devices, the president of Corning Glass Technologies, which supplies the glass for Apple’s iPhone (as well as other handsets), said products featuring flexible glass are at least three years in the future. “People are not accustomed […]

In a sign of the growing popularity of smartphones around the world, global sales of the devices, made popular by Apple’s iPhone and Google Android-based handsets, are poised to overtake sales of feature phones in 2013, the first such occurrence in the mobile phone market on an annual basis, according the latest “Worldwide Quarterly Mobile […]

While mobile IT developments and bring your own device (BYOD) adoption offer huge potential to improve workforce productivity, it also introduces significant new challenges for enterprise IT departments, according to a survey from WiFi network and services firm iPass and mobile device management firm MobileIron. More than half (56 percent) of the 477 enterprises surveyed […]

Total enterprise spending on hardware, software and IT services is expected to grow 6 percent in 2013, to approximately $474 billion, according to research firm IDC’s United States Black Book 4Q12 report. The report, which tracks IT spending across all 15 enterprise industries, noted that IDC expects the U.S. economy to stabilize in the second […]

Half of businesses say their organization is a potential target for state-sponsored cyber attacks, according to a survey of 205 attendees of the RSA 2013 security conference by information risk and security performance management solutions specialist nCircle. The survey also found just under half (48 percent) of respondents thought China had the most advanced capabilities […]

Social networking site LinkedIn is the platform the 2012 Inc. 500—a list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies compiled annually by Inc. magazine—use most, according to a report from the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In fact, 81 percent of the companies on the list employ it, the study shows. […]

The Future Is Now Futuristic architecture and giant television screens greet attendees at this year’s Mobile World Congress in its new home in Barcelona. Mobile’s New Home This is the first year in the convention’s new home, located in the sprawling, eight-hall venue at Barcelona’s busy Fira Gran Via district. Mobile Security Everyone knows mobile […]

Voice and video unified communications (UC) and collaboration specialist Polycom announced the launch of the VVX 300 and VVX 400 business media phone series designed for call centers, front desks and administrative and corporate offices. Polycom is pitching the VVX 300 series as an entry-level phone with six programmable line keys and suited for office […]

Clearwire, a provider of 4G wireless broadband services, is reaching out to small and midsize businesses (SMBs) looking to reap the benefits of high-speed wireless Web access with the launch of Clear Professional, a 4G wireless broadband service aimed at midmarket companies as well as enterprise branch locations. The company is offering three variations of […]

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 The tablet features multi-window options to split the portable screen and allow access to a number of live applications. Contents and Apps The Galaxy Note 8.0 also comes pre-loaded with content and apps, including upgraded Chat-On, which provides instant messaging and group chatting in multiple formats. Universal Remote Control The Smart […]