Nathan Eddy

The bring your own device trend has created new opportunities for businesses looking to increase productivity from mobile employees and remote offices, but security remains a top concern for IT departments in the enterprise, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner, which found 86 percent of enterprise respondents are planning to purchase media […]

The mood among small business owners in the United States remains the same, with concerns over future sales, health-care costs and other factors weighing on positivity, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, whose Index of Small Business Optimism came in at 94.4€”historically low and a reflection of the sluggish pace of economic recovery […]

The seemingly unquenchable thirst for unsubstantiated news concerning Apple products rasps on today with two separate reports predicting Apple€™s 13-inch MacBook Pros would soon be getting high-definition Retina displays. Mac-centric blog AppleInsider received a note from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo saying that Apple would have a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina display on […]

Computer manufacturer Acer America shook up the burgeoning tablet market with the release of the Iconia Tab A700 tablet with a 10.1-inch Full HD 1080p display and a price of $449.99. The tablet, weighing in at 1.5 pounds, runs on Google€™s latest Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0, and is powered by an Nvidia […]

Data storage and security continue to be a stumbling block among small and midsize businesses, according to an independent survey with Ipsos Reid and commissioned by document and data destruction services specialist Shred-it. The survey found 35 percent of small-business owners do not have a known or understood protocol in place for storing and disposing […]

Cache solid-state drives will remain the mainstream storage solution for Ultrabooks and other super-slim notebooks, according to a new study from IT research firm IHS iSuppli. The study noted, however, that hybrid hard-disk drives, which contain a built-in layer of NAND flash memory, may offer the advantage of consolidated storage in the Ultrabook format, which […]

Despite a small slowdown in the growth of the CRM applications market, overall growth was up 11.2 percent year-over-year for the second half of 2011, down slightly from the first half of the year, according to IT research firm IDC’s latest Worldwide Semiannual CRM Applications Tracker, which covers more than 190 global and local CRM […]

A growing number of midmarket CEOs worldwide see the creation of a more collaborative work environment with a higher level of openness and transparency as a top priority, according a study from IBM. The number almost doubled in comparison to IBM€™s last study, with 45 percent of CEOs recognizing the need for a more open […]

Major storage player Toshiba made an impressive comeback in the first quarter of 2012 in the NAND flash storage market, after two major revenue declines in 2011 and the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Defying an industry wide contraction in revenue, Toshiba surged to double-digit growth, posting NAND sales revenue of $1.71 billion in […]

Organizations in the United States could realize more than $800 million daily savings in wage costs alone with the help of Siri-like search applications, according to a research report titled “Improving Performance in the Workplace With Voice-Enabled Natural Language Solutions” from language technology specialist EasyAsk. Apple€™s Siri application works as a virtual, intelligent concierge that […]

Apple iPad ($499.99) The iPad tablet, the current market leader, was the clear favorite for survey participants, beating out Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Samsung Galaxy Tab, with 62 percent of those surveyed requesting an iPad. Dell Vostro 3000 Series ($599) Notebooks ranked third overall (after the amorphous “other” category) for top Father’s Day tech gifts. […]

Two innovators, including Linus Torvalds, a Finnish American software engineer and the driving force behind the open-source Linux kernel, have won this year€™s Millennium Technology Prize, given out every two years by the Technology Academy of Finland. The other recipient of the prize, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, was singled out for his contributions to stem-cell development. […]