Nathan Eddy

Technology Services Group has acquired IT software and services company Concentrix. The company called the acquisition a “key step” in the growth strategy of TSG that will provide “significant capability” in customer relationship management (CRM) software implementation, one of the company’s target growth areas. The acquisition is the 24th for TSG since its inception in […]

A report from environmental watchdog Greenpeace found that although Apple has become increasingly transparent about the environmental footprint and operational performance of its products, especially laptops and iPhones, it has not been as forthcoming about the current or expected impacts of its online products. Its research revealed that while many IT companies have pointed to […]

Business intelligence software provider MicroStrategy announced that MicroStrategy 9.2 comes with a new feature, Visual Insight, that helps business people explore data to get the answers they need without assistance from their IT teams. In addition, the latest release includes features that allow organizations to embed even more information into interactive dashboards and further extend […]

A new survey of more than 6,800 online U.S. adults aged 18 or older revealed that although a vast majority of respondents (89.4 percent) incorporate some level of greenness into their daily lives, there is an undercurrent of doubt when it comes to green advertising claims and product efficacy. Burst Media, a provider of targeted […]

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Organizations are making a concerted effort to buy IT products that are power consumption-friendly and easy to dispose of, according to research released this week by CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the IT industry. More than three-quarters of organizations surveyed for the organization’s Second Annual Green IT Insights and Opportunities study said they factor green […]

Data security specialist Imperva and the Ponemon Institute announced the results of their second study on the impact of the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standards. The 2011 PCI DSS Compliance Trends Study surveyed 670 U.S. and multinational IT security practitioners on how efforts to comply with PCI DSS affect an organization’s data protection and […]

NASA managers announced that space shuttle Endeavour is ready to launch next week on its final flight to the International Space Station following a daylong Flight Readiness Review. The space agency reported technicians at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A will continue preparations for space shuttle Endeavour’s launch countdown, which will begin Tuesday at […]

Networking specialist Netgear announced the release of two wireless access point platforms aimed at small and midsize businesses, the ProSafe Wireless N Access Point (WNAP320) and the ProSafe Dual Band Wireless N Access Point (WNDAP360). The access points are designed for first-time, small company single installations or for widely scattered corporate network “edge” deployments. Both […]

Small businesses are using cloud predominantly for storage (67 percent) and Website hosting (56 percent), according to a recent survey by Iconnyx, an managed IT and Web hosting company. Research of more than 300 small business leaders conducted over two events in the past month shows these to be the typical SMB applications, followed by […]

Seagate Technology, a provider of hard disk drives and storage solutions, and Samsung Electronics, a manufacturer of digital consumer electronics and information technology, announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Seagate and Samsung will “significantly expand and strengthen their strategic relationship” by further aligning their respective ownership, investments and key technologies. The […]

A report released from Juniper Research has found that the majority of traffic (63 percent) generated by smartphones, tablets and feature phones will transfer onto the fixed network via WiFi and femtocells by 2015, which means that the annual mobile data traffic offloaded from operators’ networks via WiFi and femtocells is forecast to reach nearly […]