Nathan Eddy

More than 50 percent of mobile applications deployed by 2016 will be hybrid apps as enterprises come under pressure from management and employees to develop and deploy solutions to accommodate mobile work styles and increase customer engagement, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Developers are expected to consider both hybrid and native […]

Data security in virtualized environments is often neglected by IT organizations, with nearly half (48 percent) of organizations either reporting or suspecting unauthorized access to files on virtualized servers, according to a survey conducted by Varonis, a provider of comprehensive data governance software. The lack of sufficient security could be putting sensitive company information at […]

SB XLVII Guide (Free) Sponsored by Verizon, this official guide to the game helps you keep track of events and lets you follow all the buzz with push notifications. ESPN Radio (Free) Take your listening experience wherever you go with this ESPN app, with live audio functionality that lets you pause and rewind up to […]

Apple has become the No. 1 mobile phone vendor by volume in the United States for the first time ever, with the company’s success driven by its popular ecosystem of iPhones and the App Store, generous carrier subsidies and extensive marketing of the new iPhone 5 model, according to a report from IT research firm […]

Led by Apple’s popular iPad and recently released iPad Minis, fourth-quarter tablet shipments jumped 75.3 percent from the same period in 2011 and 74.3 percent from the third quarter of 2012, according to IT research firm IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Lower average selling prices (ASPs), a wide range of new-product offerings and increased […]

While businesses are embracing collaboration suites such as Microsoft’s SharePoint platform within their organizations, there is confusion over who owns the management, compliance and end-user success of these platforms, according to a survey of 1,000 SharePoint administrators and business professionals by enterprise collaboration governance, administration and migration solutions specialist Axceler. Although 67.2 percent of respondents […]

North Korea Before This slide shows the very limited amount of information Google Maps could provide about the notoriously secretive country. North Korea After The new maps provide great information about the areas surrounding the capital city, Pyongyang, as well as transportation networks. Hwasong Gulag In the process of mapping the country, Google also identified […]

With the launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system this week and the company name change that went along with it, the future of the business and the devices that were once so popular and addictive they were nicknamed “Crackberrys” are finally on display for everyone to see. The initial reaction to the launch of […]

The widespread use of consumer technologies in the enterprise, thanks in large part to the growing popularity of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives, is having a sweeping impact on traditional ways of doing business and the results companies can achieve, according to a global survey of nearly 600 C-level executives and IT decision-makers in 19 countries conducted […]

Small business employment in the United States increased 0.11 percent in January, representative of 20,000 new jobs added and an annualized growth rate of 1.3 percent, while overall revenue dropped 0.4 percent in December, according to the monthly Small Business Employment and Revenue Indexes compiled by small and midsize business (SMB) financial management solutions specialist […]

Unified communications specialist Polycom agreed to acquire Sentri, a provider of UC, video collaboration, cloud services and networking services with expertise in Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Lync, SharePoint and Office 365. One of the major reasons behind the acquisition was Polycom’s portfolio of more than 40 video and voice products that interoperate with Lync, […]

With BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) on the verge of a critical comeback with the launch of its latest operating system, BlackBerry 10, third-party application developers are releasing a slew of apps designed for the platform, including ooVoo, which offers an HD video communications service, as well as apps from Cisco, SAP and content-sharing […]