Nathan Eddy

A record-setting 91 million (37 percent) Americans expect to purchase tech or tech accessories during the week of Black Friday, starting the Monday before Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, the Monday after the holiday, according to a report by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). In total, a record 155 million U.S. consumers plan to shop during […]

The vast majority of federal government IT managers (92 percent) said it’s urgent for their agency to modernize legacy applications, according to a MeriTalk survey of 150 federal IT managers familiar with their agencies’ application portfolios. Respondents cited the largest driving factors as security issues (42 percent), time required to manage and/or maintain systems (36 […]

Identity theft, payment fraud and data privacy concerns remain the biggest barriers to mass adoption of mobile payment services, according to an Inside Secure survey of 1,217 American consumers. The survey revealed that 17 percent of respondents who did not make holiday purchases with their mobile phone last year, plan to use a payment service […]

Avangate announced more than 150 enhancements to its Digital Commerce platform. The new features are aimed at simplifying customer acquisition, increasing revenue uplift and conversions. To help companies optimize their commerce operations and maximize the value of every customer, the online commerce company is also offering a free revenue leakage assessment service to help software, […]

Businesses struggle with fake users but are failing to take action, according to a Telesign survey of 584 U.S. and 414 U.K. respondents. The respondents, who are involved in the registration, use or management of user accounts and hold such positions as product manager, IT security practitioner and app developer, admit allowing fake users to […]

According to the fall 2015 Bank of America Small Business Owner Report, small business optimism is at its highest since the survey’s inception in 2012, with expectations for revenue growth and plans to hire hitting a three-year high. Confidence in the local, national and global economies rose as well, with 62 percent of the 1,001 […]

Sierra Wireless announced the launch of the AirLink Raven RV50 gateway, the 4G long-term evolution (LTE) successor to the company’s previously deployed cellular gateway solution for energy and industrial applications, the AirLink Raven X. The AirLink Raven RV50 offers a rugged design and low power consumption for an LTE industrial gateway, providing connectivity for remote […]

The likelihood that chief information officers (CIOs) will be left out of the IT purchasing loop has grown every year since 2013, according to the latest Logicalis Global CIO survey. The survey, which polled more than 400 CIOs worldwide, found that IT leaders are facing mounting pressure from shadow IT as line-of-business (LOB) executives continue […]

Silver Spring Networks unveiled its IoT Edge Router, expanding the capabilities of its Internet of things networking platform. The IoT Edge Router enables cities and utilities to integrate an array of devices and applications to their existing Silver Spring IoT networks. With the standards-based IoT Edge Router, network operators can plug and play new and […]

Panasonic expanded its line of rugged devices with the launch of the Toughbook 20, a detachable notebook featuring 6th Generation Intel Core vPro processor technology, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM and a choice of Windows 10 Pro or Windows 7 Professional. The Toughbook 20 offers six usage modes, and the tablet can be detached and used […]

Banners ads saw a 14 percent higher engagement rate and interstitials ads saw an 8 percent higher engagement rate in the third quarter, while the ad engagement rate for expandable banners is 0.87 percent, 10 percent higher than in Q2, mostly due to higher engagement rate on bigger screens such as desktop and tablet this […]

Nearly three-quarters of companies have been affected by internal information security incidents, according to the IT Security Risks Survey 2015 conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. The worldwide survey of more than 5,500 IT specialists also found that the largest single cause of confidential data losses consists of employees (42 percent). The survey also […]