Nathan Eddy

When it comes to mobile phone carriers, smaller may be better, according to a satisfaction survey of Consumer Reports’ online subscribers. At the top of the ratings for standard service providers are Consumer Cellular, a national carrier that uses AT&T’s network, and U.S. Cellular, which operates in just over half the United States. Credo, which […]

Demand for tech professionals will remain a bright spot as 2012 begins, according to nearly 1,200 IT-focused hiring managers and recruiters surveyed by IT jobs portal Dice. Some 65 percent of these hiring professionals said their companies or clients will look to add technology pros in the first half of 2012, with about a quarter […]

IT performance specialist Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) announced new features and capabilities for its Optimization System (RiOS) that broaden the company’s support for enterprise applications. With RiOS 7.0, Riverbed has expanded its set of optimizations to include native support for HTTP video, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and IPv6, and has extended its existing optimizations for […]

Hewlett-Packard announced the acquisition of Hiflex Software, a privately held software solutions provider specializing in Web-to-print and management information systems solutions for printing services. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Following the acquisition, Hiflex-founded in 1991 and based in Aachen, Germany-will continue to service its current customers, HP said in a statement. “HP […]

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard and secure content-sharing specialist Box announced a partnership to provide small and midsize businesses with an integrated collaboration experience to a range of users-from the individual to the enterprise-for storing and managing content in the cloud. HP is offering the Box cloud content management and collaboration platform on select SMB and enterprise […]

Storage software revenue reached nearly $3.5 billion in the third quarter of 2011, a 9.7 percent increase over the same quarter in 2010, according to a report from IDC. This makes 3Q11 the second-largest revenue-generating quarter in the nine years that IDC has been tracking the market. Over the past nine years, only the first […]

Social networking giant Facebook is snapping up the location sharing service provider Gowalla, a key competitor to FourSquare. Rumors of the deal began circulating over the weekend, with a CNN report saying that many of the Gowalla employees would be working on Facebook’s new Timeline offering. Initially, Gowalla CEO Josh Williams issued what on technology […]

IT security and data protection company Sophos announced the latest version of its endpoint security solution, Patch Assessment, which identifies, prioritizes and scans for critical threat-related security patches. Patch Assessment also enables scanning for Microsoft and third-party patches from vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Citrix, Skype and others. Sophos Web Filtering makes it possible to […]

IT managers are beginning to view the data center more holistically and are taking a more strategic approach to technology procurement and deployment, and technology and service providers that sell into the data center will want to broaden their marketing approach, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. The company identified six ways […]

Network operator Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) and Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) announced agreements potentially worth up to $1.6 billion over the next four years in payments for WiMax services, possible prepayments for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) services and potential equity investments. The agreements modify prior wholesale pricing agreements and provide Sprint with unlimited access to Clearwire’s WiMax network to […]

Unified networking solutions provider D-Link expanded its line of network switches with the DGS-105 and DGS-108 Gigabit Ethernet and DES-105 and DES-108 Fast Ethernet metal switches. Available in five- and eight-port form factors, these unmanaged switches offer small to medium-size businesses (SMB) high-speed networking and intelligent data streaming with quality of service (QoS) prioritization, and […]

Global cyber-security spending is expected to reach $60 billion in 2011 and is forecast to grow 10 percent every year during the next three to five years, according to a report from PwC, “Cyber Security M&A: Decoding Deals in the Global Cyber Security Industry.” The United States accounts for more than half of all deals […]