Nathan Eddy

Mobile solutions and tools are helping small-business owners cope with longer working hours and extended workweeks, according to a survey by business management software and services specialist Sage. The study of 258 U.S. small businesses found 78 percent of respondents use mobile devices to do work-related tasks when away from their desks or work computers, […]

Nike+ GPS ($1.99) Summer’s coming, which means you have to get your beach bod ready to go. Use this running app to track your distance, push yourself farther and melt off those hibernation layers. Flashlight ($0.99) Perfect for camping or finding your way around in the dark after a long night out, this app uses […]

Google users are by now no stranger to the company€™s inventive, whimsical and increasingly complex €œdoodles,€ a design that replaces the company€™s logo on the search engine home page. However, the latest doodle, in honor of Dr. Robert Arthur Moog, creator of the analog synthesizers that bear his name, raises the level of interaction in […]

Although IT pros feel that harnessing big data should be a priority for businesses, defining the term can be difficult and there is a lack of knowledge concerning big data products, according to a survey by data governance software provider Varonis. The survey suggested IT knows what they want to do with the information€”find at-risk […]

If you€™re a Windows Phone 7 user and you haven€™t yet updated to 7.5, now is the time to do it, if you want to have access to the applications through the Marketplace portal. Most Windows Phone users are already running the updated software, released last fall, but anyone who uses Windows knows that Microsoft […]

Apple€™s mobile PC business is booming, thanks mainly to exploding iPad sales, which accounted for nearly 80 percent of the company€™s overall mobile PC sales, according to figures from research firm NPD. Apple€™s iPad sales reached more than 13.6 million units in the first quarter of 2012, for 162 percent year-over-year growth. Overall, the company […]

Cloud computing specialist Salesforce.com introduced Skype-like real-time technologies for its customers through the Chatter Messenger and Chatter Screensharing platforms. Messenger, which can be accessed for free after signing up, allows social enterprise users to collaborate in real-time and collaborate on sales deals, service cases, marketing campaigns, files and dashboards through one platform, while Screensharing enables […]

During the five-year period from 2011 to 2016, hard disk drive areal densities are expected to more than double, thanks to growing video and audio storage requirements, a report from IT analytics firm IHS indicates. Areal density is the amount of data that can be physically stored in a given amount of space on a […]

Business analytics and information firm EMC and virtualization specialist VMware deepened their partnership, working together to integrate EMC€™s VNX storage intelligence with the analytics of the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. The sales and development agreement between the two companies will combine EMC€™s storage intelligence with the analytics and infrastructure visualization of VMware vCenter Operations. […]

At EMC€™s World 2012 conference, the company unveiled the DataBridge enterprise management software platform, which converges IT operations data from disparate silos of information, providing performance metrics to businesses with the aim of offering enhanced visibility and control over their physical and virtual IT infrastructure. Enterprise customers use widgets to combine storage and network management […]

As small and midsize businesses look to reduce costs and speed operations through software as a service offerings, Sigma Systems is launching the Cloud Service Broker, which is designed to manage all on-network business services, including voice over IP and high-speed broadband, as well as cloud-based SaaS services. The service provides seamless order management, provisioning, […]

Wireless service providers are aware of the growing trend toward bring-your-own-device programs among businesses, according to a survey sponsored by customer services provider Amdocs. However, the study suggests the need for converged business and operational support systems (B/OSS) to provide an end-to-end view of the customer. Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of respondents said they expect […]