Nathan Eddy

Apple fans can breathe a sigh of relief as Google announced that a version of its popular—and fully functional—mapping application will return to Apple devices running iOS 5.1 and higher, and is optimized for the iPhone 5. Available through Apple’s App Store portal online, Google Maps offers local search, voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transit […]

The rise in popularity of bring your own device, or BYOD, policies is also spurring an increase of consumer-oriented application usage in the workplace, according to a survey of more than 1,200 small and midsize businesses conducted by Edge Strategies on behalf of cloud and mobile services specialist LogMeIn. Nearly 70 percent of the SMBs […]

The competitive landscape in the mobile PC market—which includes tablets, notebooks, netbooks and hybrid devices—is rapidly changing thanks to increased tablet adoption, Apple’s strong dominance and the emergence of new players like Google and Microsoft, according to a Dec. 12 NPD DisplaySearch report. This change is forcing display manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and others […]

Although there is no hard evidence that consumer electronics giant Apple is anywhere close to releasing a television, that hasn’t stopped interest in the supposed device from increasing, and a survey by Morgan Stanley Research suggests consumers would be willing to pay a 20 percent price premium over competitors to get their hands on one. […]

It is not a shock to hear tablet use is growing in the workplace, as businesses adopt bring-your-own-device platforms and look to squeeze more productivity out of an increasingly mobile workforce, and a CDW survey of 610 respondents from business, education health care and government suggests tablets are a major asset—and their use is taking […]

A mixture of elements, including the superstorm Hurricane Sandy and the presidential election, contributed to a massive drop in small business confidence in November, according to the latest National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Optimism Index. The most significant factor impacting the decline in optimism is the expectation that future business conditions will be […]

As a barrage of smartphones continue to find their way into consumers’ hands, the smartphone market will begin to diverge and sales will become dominated by two poles; low-end devices priced below $150 and high-end handsets priced above $250, according to a study from Informa Telecoms & Media that assessed price evolution and market opportunities […]

Security and encryption specialist DataMotion announced the Dec. 10 launch of the latest edition of its SecureMail Gateway platform, a monitoring solution that uses policy-based encryption and Exact Matching functionality to help prevent data leakage and protect sensitive information housed in email messages and file attachments. The Gateway scans all outbound email and attachments for […]

Tablet and smartphone users are accessing mobile news sites from their devices frequently, but there are intriguing differences as to what demographics consume the information and how, according to a report from the Pew Research Center. One divide in tablet use occurs between those who prefer more of a print-like experience and consumers who prefer […]

Despite the sales success and glowing reviews bestowed upon Apple’s iPhone 5 handset, the company’s in-house maps application designed for the iOS 6 operating system was the subject of widespread derision for its inaccuracy and lack of functionality when compared to Google Maps. Now, however, the application’s faults have become life threatening in the eyes […]

While many jobs sectors and regions continue to deal with historically high records of unemployment, the tech industry and corresponding IT jobs market has been a notable bright spot, and hiring indicators are likely to stay positive in 2013, according to a survey conducted by IT career services specialist Dice.com. However, the brightness looks poised […]

In between strings of lawsuits accusing each other of patent infringement, consumer technology titans Samsung and Apple are locked in a heated battle for supremacy in the worldwide market for mobile smart devices, according to the fourth quarter (4Q12) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device Tracker from IT research firm IDC. The smart connected device market, […]