Nathan Eddy

Businesses have lower expectations for IT budget increases and concern about supporting decentralized technology initiatives, according to a TEKsystems survey of 500 IT leaders. The percentage of IT leaders who expect budget increases is at its lowest level since TEKsystems’ first annual IT forecast survey for 2013. Additionally, it appears that IT spending is moving […]

Consumers are getting fed up with poor customer service, according to Corvisa’s survey of more than 1,200 U.S. consumers, which found that 48 percent of respondents have stopped doing business with a company due to negative customer service experiences in the past year. Some frustrated customers reported going so far as yelling at the call […]

Millennials are driving a new era of demand for digital performance excellence, with 81 percent of smartphone or tablet owners in this age group saying they will abandon transactions and shop elsewhere if a mobile site or mobile app is buggy, slow or prone to crashes, a new survey finds. According to Dynatrace’s survey of […]

Sonavation, a specialist in ultrasound biometric technology and developer of an ultrasound biometric sensor for protective glass, launched SonicTouch, an authentication solution for digital and device security. It is a FIDO-ready (fast identity online-ready) ultrasound biometric authenticator system-in-package module that is designed to deliver identity security and ease of integration into mobile and Internet of […]

Connected car specialist WayRay announced the launch of Navion, an augmented-reality navigation system that projects holographic GPS imagery and driver notifications onto the windshield of a car. WayRay Element is a smart tracker that can be plugged into the diagnostics port of any automobile for monitoring driver performance, safety and fuel efficiency. The Swiss startup […]

The number of users of carsharing services worldwide is forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 32.0 percent from 6.5 million people in 2015 to reach 26.0 million people in 2020, according to a report from Berg Insight. The analyst firm forecasts that the number of cars used for carsharing services will […]

Parents say the average acceptable age for their child to use and call a video game console their own is 7.34 years old, which also represents the youngest age for a child to own any personal technology device, according to an IEEE national survey of 1,000 parents with children in grades K-8. Of all the […]

Voluntary quits in professional and business services continue to trend upward, according to IT job services specialist Dice’s analysis of the latest turnover data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total quits in the category in the first three quarters of 2015 averaged 508,200, the highest since 2002 and a 9 percent increase from […]

Information and communications technology solutions provider Huawei and Telefonica Business Solutions, a provider of range of integrated communication solutions for the B2B market, have reached an agreement to promote the migration of traditional IT services to the cloud. The agreement is designed to strengthen the capabilities of both companies, helping enterprises migrate their servers to […]

Managing mobile devices and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives is a universal challenge for corporate IT administrators, according to a MessageOps and Champion Solutions Group survey of 447 IT decision-makers across a spectrum of industries. Organizations are nearly evenly split between those that have a formal BYOD policy (47 percent) and those that do not (53 percent). […]

Most frontline IT professionals around the world give their companies failing or near-failing grades on their ability to implement transformational technologies and drive IT innovation to gain competitive advantage, according to a report from the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network. The study, based on a global survey of more than 200 IT professionals, found that […]

Home automation hardware, sold as stand-alone units rather than as part of a subscription package, will exceed 300 million in 2020, according to a report from IT analytics firm Juniper Research. This represents growth of more than 1,000 percent from an estimated installed base of 28 million units in 2015, the report noted. While the […]