Nathan Eddy

On the eve of the President’s State of the Union address, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) released its latest Small Business Optimism Index, which indicated small-business owner confidence continues to drag. The index attributes its results to the threat of higher taxes, rising health insurance costs, increasing regulations and overall economic uncertainty. While […]

Communication semiconductor solutions specialist Broadcom announced the release of the BCM21892, a multi-mode, multi-band modem designed for the 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) market. The BCM21892—which Broadcom officials claim is the smallest of its kind—combines a cellular baseband with a world-band radio in a footprint that is approximately 35 percent smaller than current industry solutions. […]

Network complexity, growth of cloud services and bring your own device (BYOD) trends will help drive the U.S. market for SMB tech support to a 14.4 percent compound annual growth rate between 2012 and 2016, reaching nearly $25 billion by 2016, according to a new report from market research firm Parks Associates. Major corporations like […]

Nearly three-quarters of IT professionals believe that employees’ personal use of cloud applications and mobile devices has significantly influenced their organizations’ decisions to adopt cloud computing, with 68 percent stating that employee requests for cloud services have increased in the last two years, according to CDW’s “2013 State of the Cloud Report.” Based on CDW’s […]

San Jose The capital of Silicon Valley topped the list with a five-year average of 9,237 patents per year, led by consumer technology giant Apple with 726 patents in 2011. San Francisco Apple, Cisco Systems and Oracle were the top-three patent-producing companies in the City by the Bay in 2011, while the city’s five-year average […]

Consumer electronics giant Apple has already reinvented and successfully marketed digital music players, revolutionized the smartphone and tablet markets, and is now turning its focus to a curved glass smart watch, which would be made with the company’s manufacturing partner Foxconn, according to reports in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The […]

Managing the storage lifecycle due to staggering data growth is a significant challenge for IT administrators, according to a study on the top IT pain points impacting today’s midmarket enterprises from software-defined storage solutions specialist Gridstore. The survey indicated that during a major storage upgrade more than half (55 percent) of midmarket enterprises experienced business- […]

Less than one-third (30 percent) of potential users in an organization adopt CIO-sponsored analytics tools, despite the fact that business intelligence and analytics continues to be a top CIO investment priority, according to a report by IT research firm Gartner. The growing volume of real-time data and the reduced time for decision making are driving […]

Apple’s game-changing tablet, the iPad, is generally placed in a separate design class than that of personal computers such as desktops and notebooks, but research firm Canalys, which includes tablets in the PC category, found that one in six PCs shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012 was an iPad. Including iPad sales, worldwide PC […]

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Consumers are still using their computers for many of the core PC-centric activities, but the tablet and smartphone are gaining traction, according to the “Connected Intelligence Application and Convergence Report” from IT analytics company The NPD Group. The report found 37 percent of consumers who used to access content on their PCs switched to their […]