Nathan Eddy

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a biomedical imaging system that has the potential to replace a $100,000 piece of lab equipment with components that cost just hundreds of dollars. The system uses a technique called fluorescence lifetime imaging, which has applications in DNA sequencing and cancer diagnosis, among other things, meaning […]

An estimated 56.9 million American adults—45 percent of all shoppers—have bought or plan to buy tech products during the Thanksgiving shopping week, according to a report released by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The shopping week, which includes the Monday before Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, reflects a changing retail landscape where online and mobile shopping […]

E-commerce and mobile devices are playing a bigger role in consumer shopping trends, according to a Custora report, which is based on Custora E-Commerce Pulse, which tracks more than 200 U.S. retailers, more than 500 million online shoppers and over $100 billion in e-commerce revenue. As of 9 a.m. on Black Friday, the company recorded […]

More than 80 percent of consumers expressed frustration with smartphones at the holiday dinner table, but 31 percent of consumers say it’s acceptable to take and share photos only, according to a survey by Sequence. Consumers also appear to be drawing the lines when it comes to commercial intrusion on holiday traditions, according to the […]

Health care organizations are planning robust spending on technology and data security, according to a TD Bank survey of 300 senior finance executives, including chief financial officers (CFOs), comptrollers, treasurers and directors of finance. More than three out of five (61 percent) respondents expect to increase capital expenditures next year, reflecting a marked and steady […]

Employees want more freedom over where and when they work and they’re willing to quit to get it, according to a survey of 1,700 North American full-time employees by managed services provider Softchoice. The study found that 78 percent of employees highly value the ability to access work from outside the office, and 70 percent […]

Consumer electronics giant Panasonic announced upgrades to the Performance version of its Toughpad 4K tablet, also known as the FZ-Y1D. The upgraded Toughpad 4K increases device performance while adding features to improve functionality for professionals across a variety of visual-intensive fields, such as photography, videography, computer-aided design (CAD), high-end retail and healthcare. The Toughpad 4K […]

The adoption of in-flight WiFi by budget airlines will provide a boost to the connected in-flight entertainment (IFE) market, driving the number of connected commercial aircraft to over 10,400 by 2020, according to a report from Juniper Research. This will represent over a threefold increase from an estimated 3,200 this year, and the decreasing costs […]

Despite the explosive growth of the public cloud, there are still major gaps surrounding its adoption and understanding, according to a ScienceLogic survey of more than 1,600 IT professionals. Of the organizations choosing not to leverage public cloud architectures, about half cite unclear benefits and lack of knowledge, while the rest blame security and privacy […]

Solarflare, a specialist in application-intelligent networking solutions, announced enhancements to Capture SolarSystem (CSS) to address risk management and compliance issues facing financial institutions. The latest version of CSS allows customers to capture the entire network traffic flow in a searchable form, offering improved visibility and network instrumentation capabilities for regulatory reporting, risk analytics, performance monitoring, […]

Full-time IT professionals reported working an average of 52 hours per week, but 18 percent of respondents to a Spiceworks survey said that they work more than 60 hours per week. Interestingly, IT work isn’t quite as busy for part-time IT staff, as part-time respondents said they put in about 21 hours per week. The […]

Document management specialist Xerox announced updated releases of its Digital Alternatives and DocuShare personal productivity solutions, which are designed to improve office efficiency by automating document processing. Digital Alternatives 2.0 is a desktop and mobile assistant application that automates paper-based workflows and helps workers overcome bottlenecks that make routine tasks cumbersome, like a remote worker […]