Nathan Eddy

Western Digital subsidiary and storage specialist WD unveiled what it claims to be the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hybrid hard drive, designed to provide high-capacity storage while featuring instant-on and application performance similar to today’s client solid state drives (SSDs). The company noted it is sampling the 5mm-thin hard disk drive and will showcase the technology […]

With bring your own device initiatives gaining traction among businesses of all sizes and tablet computers flooding the marketplace, social IT management specialist Spiceworks is looking to capitalize on increased workplace mobility demands with the announcement of the Spiceworks Mobile HD for the Apple iPad and Google Android-based tablet devices. The application is designed to […]

The percentage of the IT budget designated for outsourcing services is up 23 percent, on average, in 2012 over the prior year, according to Computer Economics’ annual outsourcing study, IT Outsourcing Statistics 2012/2013. The report also found Web/e-commerce systems and application development were the two most widely outsourced functions, and outsourcing in that sector is […]

While the overall economy remains stuck with slow growth and a struggling labor market is dominating headlines, the August small-business employment index (SBEI), published by business and payroll services firm CBIZ, showed a small uptick in small-business hiring to 1.15 percent, following a decrease of 1.57 percent in July. The index, a barometer for hiring […]

Search engine giant Google continued its efforts to bolster security credentials with the acquisition of VirusTotal, which provides a free service analyzing suspicious files and URLs and helps detect viruses, worms, Trojans and other malware. The announcement was made via a VirusTotal blog post, which expressed excitement about the deal and reiterated its dedication to […]

With just under a week to go before Apple is widely anticipated to debut the latest iteration of its game-changing smartphone, the iPhone, one last batch of rumors is making the rounds before the press event Sept. 12 in San Francisco, including a report from U.K. newspaper The Telegraph, which said the iPhone 3GS will […]

The outlook for the worldwide disk storage systems market continues to look promising after external disk storage systems factories posted nearly $6 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2012, up 6.5 percent from a year earlier, according to IT research firm IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. EMC maintained its lead in […]

Processor manufacturer Nvidia announced the debut of the Quadro K5000 for Mac Pro systems. The graphics processing unit (GPU) is based on Nvidia’s Kepler architecture and sports a new display engine that can drive up to four displays simultaneously. Among the other features is Cinema 4K display support (4096 by 2160 resolution), which enables content […]

Samsung had the chance to boast about a significant milestone for its Galaxy S III smartphone, which passed 20 million units sold, according to a blog post on the company’s Website. The smartphone set the record just 100 days after its debut in May 2012, faster than any previous iteration of the Galaxy brand. The […]

Western Digital Corp. subsidiary WD announced the latest version of My Passport line of portable hard drives for PC and Mac with the debut of My Passport Edge. The drives feature 500GB of storage and a USB 3.0 interface for improved read/write speeds, and a variety of security features to protect the drive’s content from […]

Network security specialist AlgoSec announced version 6.3 of its Security Management Suite, which extends support to a wider breadth of network security devices and offers deeper automation capabilities to streamline firewall operations. The suite integrates the company’s Firewall Analyzer and FireFlow technologies to address the challenges of managing security policies by automating policy analysis and […]

Building on the model for the Federal Communications Commission’s ongoing Measuring Broadband America program, the FCC announced the country’s first nationwide mobile broadband performance-measurement program, Measuring Mobile America. The program, created to help test mobile performance data, follows a July FCC report indicating broadband service providers are offering faster Internet speeds and more accurate bandwidth […]