Nathan Eddy

Egnyte, which specializes in adaptive enterprise file services, announced integrations for Microsoft Office 365, which are designed to enable business users to seamlessly access, manage, and share all of their files. Web Access integration means users can open Egnyte files directly from Microsoft Office Online for viewing and editing, and changes are automatically saved back […]

Tech giant Qualcomm’s health care-oriented subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, announced it is collaborating with P2Link and Davita Healthcare Partners to develop chronic care management solutions powered by Qualcomm Life’s 2net Device Connectivity Platform and HealthyCircles Care Coordination Platform. Designed to enable continuous care, informed interventions and better management of at-risk populations, the partnerships also include an […]

Apple finds itself within striking distance of the established market leader, Fitbit, in its first appearance in the wearables market, according to a report from IT research firm IDC. Apple shipped a total of 3.6 million units of its smartwatch, called Apple Watch, in the second quarter of 2015, just 0.8 million units behind Fitbit’s […]

The consumer electronics industry reached a milestone in the second quarter with half of U.S. Internet homes now owning a connected TV device, according to a report from NPD Group Connected Intelligence. The figures include connected TVs, video game consoles, streaming media players, and Blu-ray disc players that consumers connected to the Internet, allowing them […]

At the midyear point, most aspects of IT employment appear to remain strong, with America’s IT industry adding 70,500 new jobs in the first half of 2015, employing nearly 5 million people at midyear, according to an analysis of labor data released by IT industry association CompTIA. Most facets of IT employment show robust signs […]

ZyXEL announced its 3-in-1 unified access gateway, the UAG50, which functions as an integrated hotspot gateway router, wireless access point and point of sale thermal printer. Access control features allow network owners to service guest accounts as well as block unauthorized users. With advanced billing, businesses are given the flexibility to offer WiFi either for […]

Though interest in using mobile apps among consumers and enterprises continues to grow, adoption of mobile application development is slower than expected, according to a Progress Software survey of 3,000 IT professionals and developers. Nearly half (44 percent) of developers find user experience to be the most important part of the app, and the most […]

Strong hospital merger and acquisition activity continued in the second quarter of 2015, according a report from Kaufman, Hall & Associates,, a provider of strategic, capital, financial, and transaction advisory services and software tools. The firm identified 26 hospital and health system transactions in the second quarter of 2015, up from 23 transactions recorded in […]

Password-based authentication is no longer capable of meeting the demands of modern information security, according to a survey of 589 consumers by LaunchKey. An overwhelming 84 percent of respondents support eliminating passwords all together, while 75 percent said they forget passwords or have to write them down. Additionally, more than three-fourths of those surveyed (76 […]

Impetus Technologies announced the availability of free versions of StreamAnalytix, the company’s streaming analytics platform, which is based on open source technology components. Launched in February 2015, StreamAnalytix is built over an open source stack, including Apache Storm, Kafka and Hadoop, and embeds an event-processing engine for performing real-time analytics on streaming data. Interfaces to […]

Xerox announced a definitive agreement to acquire RSA Medical, which, once closed, would expand Xerox’s portfolio of health care service offerings to payers and life insurers using predictive analytics. The analytics capabilities would be employed to enhance member outreach services aimed at improving overall population health. RSA Medical is a provider of health assessment and […]

Not only are federal employees using personal devices to access potentially sensitive government data, a significant number of them engage in behaviors that could put the device and, in turn, the data it contains or accesses at risk, according to a survey of 1,000 federal workers. The survey, conducted by Lookout, found this includes behaviors […]