Nathan Eddy

Although bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, initiatives can bring a multitude of benefits to businesses, security remains a major concern for companies with limited IT resources. Most organizations that allow employees to bring their own devices are experiencing high rates of mobile threats, including lost or stolen devices, malware and compromised company data, according to the findings […]

Storage solution specialist WD, a Western Digital company, announced the launch of a new version of the My Book Studio external hard drive with USB 3.0 capability, providing data transfer speeds up to three times faster than USB 2.0. The My Book Studio drive is designed with an aluminum enclosure and will be available in […]

Forget about greasy fingerprints smudging the screen of Microsoft’s touch-based Windows 8 devices. Elliptic Labs announced the Nov. 13 launch of touchless gesturing that uses ultrasonic technology to let users scroll, select application commands and perform other functions in the operating system by moving their hands in front of the display. While it may seem […]

Security specialist Webroot announced the Nov. 13 launch of SecureAnywhere Business Mobile Protection, an endpoint security solution for Google Android and Apple iOS devices that uses a Web-based administration console to secure mobile devices and PCs within a corporate environment. The platform, aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs), provides a view into an organization’s […]

Networking specialist Netgear announced the Nov. 13 launch of the newest addition to the company’s unified threat management (UTM) S series of firewalls, the ProSecure UTM25S, which provides two modular slots that fit optional interface cards, enabling IT administrators to custom-tailor the firewall to specific connectivity requirements. The UTM25S is available now with a 30-day […]

Cloud backup and storage services specialist SugarSync announced the beta launch of SugarSync 2.0, a redesigned service that lets users access, sync and share files and folders across all computers and mobile devices. SugarSync 2.0 also introduces the SugarSync Drive capability, where users can see their entire SugarSync Cloud in their file system. The interface […]

Talari Networks launched the latest addition to the company’s line of Mercury WAN appliances, the Mercury T5000, which delivers enterprise-grade WAN connectivity features to support the requirements of large data centers and call centers. The T5000 supports bandwidth aggregation up to 3G bps upstream and 3G bps downstream across as many as eight WAN connections. […]

Security specialist Sophos announced the Nov. 12 launch of its latest unified threat management platform, the UTM 100 appliance with BasicGuard, which is aimed at small and midsize businesses and offers network, email, Web and wireless protection in one package. Features include Web application control, network firewall, remote access and virtual private network, wireless protection, […]

It’s been less than two months since Apple unveiled the latest iteration of its popular smartphone, the iPhone 5, and already reports are surfacing that the technology giant is preparing to embark on trial production of the next generation of the device, informally referred to as the iPhone 5S. The report comes from the Taiwanese […]

Colligo Networks announced the launch of Briefcase, a mobile app for secure SharePoint content management for Google Android and Apple’s Mac OS X and iOS platforms. The mobile collaboration solution also extends compatibility to Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Windows 8 PCs and mobile devices. The company’s Briefcase platform is designed to […]

Processor specialist Advanced Micro Devices on Nov. 12 launched the FirePro S10000 graphics card, which the company said exceeds 1 teraflops, or 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, of double-precision floating-point performance. The processor, aimed at high-performance computing (HPC) environments, also brings 5.91 TFLOPS of peak single-precision and 1.48 TFLOPS of double-precision floating-point calculations, compared […]

The microblogging site Twitter—which recently made headlines, thanks to the executive power cast off by the recently re-elected president—has issued an apology following an accident in which the company reset passwords that had not been affected by a concurrent security concern. Although some Twitter accounts had been compromised, the company accidentally overreached, resetting user passwords […]