Nathan Eddy

With this year’s Consumer Electronics Show right around the corner, computer makers are taking the wraps off their latest devices, including Samsung, which is upgrading and expanding the Series 7 Chronos Ultrabook at the event. The company revealed two additions to its Series 7 PC lineup, the enhanced Series 7 Chronos, which delivers professional performance […]

Despite the success of Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPad mini launches last year, the company got some major negative press for its in-house mapping application, which was derided as inaccurate and lacking the polish Apple is so well known for. Company CEO Tim Cook said Apple was fully invested in fixing the application, and the […]

Enterprise software spending, mobile data and device spending are expected to drive worldwide IT spending to $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest Worldwide IT Spending Forecast by IT research firm Gartner. Worldwide enterprise software spending is forecast to total $296 billion in 2013, […]

Search engine giant Google has been playing around with its Glass project, a pair of smart glasses that offer a heads up display for the wearer, and is gearing up to send the device to developers early this year, designer Babak Parviz said in an interview with IEEE Spectrum. Over the course of the interview, […]

The CTIA wireless association announced that in 2014 it would be combining its two conventions into one mega meeting. The first CTIA super mobile show, CTIA 2014, will take place Sept. 9, 10 and 11 at the Sands Expo Convention Center in Las Vegas, and will be focused on technology and consumer electronics, adding MobileCon’s […]

The security appliance market, led by Cisco, Check Point and Fortinet, grew in the third quarter of 2012 (3Q12) compared to the previous year, according to IT research firm IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker. Cisco continued to lead the overall security appliance market with 16.2 percent share in factory revenue for the third quarter, […]

Apple had a big year venturing into new markets, most notably the launch of its first 7-in. tablet device, the iPad Mini. Now reports are surfacing that Intel is working with chip maker Intel to produce an Apple-branded smartwatch in 2013. According to the report on China’s TGbus.com site, the Bluetooth-enabled device would feature a […]

The Federal Communications Commission is moving to ease restrictions on Internet use in commercial airlines as the agency attempts to enhance competition in the mobile telecommunications market and help speed the deployment of Internet services onboard aircraft. In addition to promoting the economic growth and job-creating impacts of ubiquitous broadband, the action also continues the […]

On Christmas Day, more iPhones, iPads, Galaxy devices, Kindle Fires and other mobile devices were activated than on any other day in history, according to a report from Flurry Analytics. The research firm also found activations soaring to more than 17.4 million, a 332 percent increase from the December baseline of 4 million per day. […]

The number of American homes with only wireless telephones continues to grow, as more than one-third of American homes (35.8 percent) had only wireless phones during the first half of 2012, an increase of 1.8 percentage points since the second half of 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control’s National Health Interview Study. The […]

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD tablet is the online retailer’s best-selling, most gifted and most wished for product across the millions of items available worldwide from the company since its introduction 15 weeks ago, although Amazon declined to provide specific sales figures. The Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle held the top four […]

As the number of ebook-reading devices proliferates, the population of ebook readers continues to grow, according to the findings of the Pew Research Center’s latest Internet & American Life survey. An estimated 25 percent of Americans owns a tablet device such as an Apple iPad or an Amazon Kindle Fire, up from 10 percent who […]