Nathan Eddy

The IT Employee Confidence Index, a measure of overall confidence among U.S. technology workers, showed a decline from 56.2 to 47.3 in the third quarter of 2011, according to a recent survey commissioned by Technisource. Surprisingly, the survey of 3,813 U.S. adults among which 257 are employed in IT, marks the lowest confidence level among […]

Network operator T-Mobile USA and Samsung Mobile are offering the latest budget-conscious 4G smartphone option, the Samsung Exhibit II 4G. The handset will be the first no-annual-contract 4G smartphone to be sold at most Walmart stores, available starting Oct. 27, and is expected to cost $29.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate card with a two-year service […]

Eighteen months after the introduction of the Apple iPad, 11 percent of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind, according to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism in collaboration with The Economist Group. The study found that the vast majority of tablet owners-fully 77 percent-use […]

The majority of small business owners believe Internet security is critical to their success and that their companies are safe from ever-increasing cyber-security threats even as many fail to take fundamental precautions, according to a survey of U.S. small businesses sponsored by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance and conducted by Zogby International. The […]

In the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup Small-Business Index, business owners (surveyed Oct. 3 to 6) generated an optimism Index score of -3, a slight change from the previous two Index readings of 0 (neither optimistic nor pessimistic). The future expectations component of the Index has been dropping since the first quarter of 2011 and now sits […]

Technology giant Dell unveiled its XPS 14z notebook, an ultra-thin 14-inch computer running Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium that measures in at less than an inch thin. The design also maximizes screen size, delivering a 14-inch screen in a 13-inch form factor, and features an anodized aluminum finish with a magnesium alloy palm rest, internal […]

Managed IT services provider Trinsic Technologies released EncryptSender, a user-friendly email encryption gateway service designed for the small to medium-size business market. With a price point starting at $2 per email account per month, EncryptSender is available in either a Lite or Enterprise plan. With the Lite version, users can send an encrypted email on-demand […]

In a survey of 1,237 employees across a variety of disciplines, software developer Oasys found that a full 96 percent of employees believe their companies face some level of legal risk associated with poor email management, with one in five saying their company faces “high risk.” The survey results of the company’s September 2011 Business […]

Networking and communications giant Cisco Systems is buying privately held BNI Video. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., BNI Video supplies service providers with two video products that offer video back-office and content delivery network (CDN) analytic capabilities. The acquisition is designed to boost the capabilities of Cisco’s Videoscape communications platform, which allows service providers to deliver […]

Cloud-based recovery services provider Doyenz announced rCloud, a disaster recovery solution for small to medium-size businesses. The platform is designed to restore virtual production server environments in less than 15 minutes. With rCloud, partners can offer SMBs a disaster recovery plan that will replicate VMware ESX virtual production environments. rCloud leverages ESX virtual machine snapshots […]

Cloud computing will be a key driver of net new IT spending over the next five years as public cloud service providers and the adopters of private cloud environments invest in the supporting infrastructure, according to a forecast from IDC. Overall spending by public cloud service providers on storage hardware, software, and professional services will […]

High-performance solid-state drive manufacturer OCZ Technology Group launched the Indilinx Everest-based Octane SATA 3.0 and SATA 2.0 SSD series–the world’s first SSD to achieve up to a 1TB capacity in a compact 2.5 inch format. The Octane SSD series combines high-speed data transfer rates with enhances access times to provide a better user experience and […]