Nathan Eddy

Although sales of Apple’s iPhone 5 accounted for just a week-long stretch of IT research firm IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report for the third quarter, the aggressive rollout of the device resulted in more than 5 million iPhones sold in the first weekend of availability, helping buoy Apple’s shipment totals in that period. […]

Apple iPad mini ($329) The iPad mini’s 7.9-inch display has 35 percent more screen real estate than other 7-inch-range tablets, and Apple’s world-class fit and finish, not to mention a voluminous apps store. But shelling out $329 for a WiFi-only tablet may be a stretch. Google Nexus 7 ($199) The Nexus 7, running Google Android […]

Now that Apple has taken the wraps off its latest MacBook Pro, a 13-inch notebook updated with the company’s high-definition Retina display, the teardown team over at iFixit has taken the screws to it—or out of it, as the case may be. During the analysis, the company noted the most striking change was the redesign […]

Some of the tech industry’s leading companies banded together on Oct. 24 to announce the formation of the Cyber Security Research Alliance, a private, non-profit research consortium formed in response to the growing need for increased public-private collaboration to address the growing list of issues concerning cyber-security. The founding members of the CSRA include Advanced […]

The next few years will see some interesting trends in the world of IT, if the latest predictions from technology analytics specialist Gartner are any indication. The company revealed its top predictions for IT enterprise users in 2013 and beyond on Oct. 24 during the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando. Notably, Gartner predicted that enterprises will […]

Cloudera, an enterprise software company that provides Apache Hadoop-based software, support and services, announced the Oct. 24 launch of Impala, a real-time query engine for Hadoop to help companies make use of big data. The platform allows batch and real-time operations to be performed on any type of data, unstructured and structured, within one scalable […]

Big data, mobile device battles and the rise of the personal cloud were among the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2013, research firm Gartner announced at the ITxpo in Orlando Oct. 23. Gartner Vice President David Cearley noted that while enterprises may not have to adopt and […]

Apple finally took the wraps off the consumer technology industry’s worst-kept secret, the iPad Mini, on Oct. 23, resulting in yet another device that will battle for market share in the increasingly competitive 7-inch tablet market. Sales of the iPad Mini may have more to do with initial supply constrains than any lack of consumer […]

As the technology world awaits today’s widely expected unveiling of a smaller Apple iPad, informally dubbed the iPad Mini or iPad Air, the 7-inch tablet market is already a highly competitive space, with low-cost entries from Amazon and Google stealing market share from the full-size iPad, which costs substantially more and sports a 9.7-inch screen. […]

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard announced the Oct. 22 launch of Service Anywhere, a software as a service (SaaS) IT service management (ITSM) platform that integrates HP technologies such as Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB), which manages services, applications and hardware across the IT environment. The platform, which can be delivered as a service through the cloud, […]

Organizations that adopt bring-your-own-device programs without implementing mobile management policies could be exposed to security risks and resultant data losses. A survey of 4,000 full-time employees by technology consulting firm Ovum found that while nearly 70 percent of all smartphone-owning professionals are using their personal device to access corporate data, 80 percent of BYOD activity […]

With Microsoft getting ready to launch the latest version of its operating system, Windows 8, there has been much talk about how people will react to its radically designed user interface. Some reports indicate the OS is confusing and not intuitive for users who have grown accustomed to the standard layout earlier Windows systems have. […]