Nathan Eddy

The market for enterprise technology products is booming, with 72 percent of high-technology providers reporting growth in sales quote volumes, and 42 percent reporting accelerating sales cycles, according to a report from SteelBrick. The report analyzes how enterprise tech vendors are selling to customers and also compares current B2B selling trends to this time last […]

RightCare Solutions announced the launch of RightCare Touch, an app designed to make it easier to stay in touch with patients after discharge, ensure they’re recovering properly with their personalized care plan, and prevent unnecessary post-acute care services and re-admissions. The app is available now for Apple iOS devices and Google Android devices, and can […]

Approximately 80 percent of small business owners use their mobile phone for business at least once a day, nearly a 10 percent increase since 2012, according to Manta’s latest SMB Wellness Index. The study revealed a quarter of small businesses use their mobile device for business at least every hour, and not just when they’re […]

As the technology advances and medicine grows more personalized, the overall health care market for microfluidics will swell to nearly $4 billion in 2020, showing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 percent, according to a report from Lux Research. Microfluidics can offer portable, cheap, single-use devices that replace centralized laboratory equipment in health […]

Ziften announced the availability of Ziften version 4.5 to deliver improved network and endpoint visibility to enterprise security teams. The company’s continuous endpoint visibility solution is designed to reduce threat detection and mitigation time by up to 70 percent— from 14 hours to 4 hours on average–with the ability to stop the attack from spreading. […]

The percentage of IT leaders who expect their budgets to increase this year is on the rise, now standing at 50 percent, compared to 45 percent at the beginning of 2015, according to a TEKsystems survey of more than 240 IT leaders. Furthermore, the number of IT leaders who expected budgets to either increase or […]

With the EMV liability shift deadline less than three months away, 52 percent of small businesses will not be EMV-ready, and 37 percent of small businesses have no plans to accept EMV cards after the deadline, according to a survey of 344 small business owners or managers, which was conducted by Cayan. EMV is a […]

Apple sold an estimated 2 million to 2.5 million Apple Watches in the latest quarter—bringing in approximately $1 billion in revenue and making it the best-selling smartwatch on the market—with more than 6 million sales expected by year-end, according to a report from Juniper Research. The $1 billion revenue figure only results in more than […]

Modernizing Medicine, the developer of a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical records (EMR) system built by practicing physicians, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weston, Florida-based gMed, another developer of health IT services. The acquisition is expected to increase Modernizing Medicine’s gastroenterology market share with the addition of gMed’s electronic health record […]

The greatest benefits of mobile messaging for the financial services industry are its abilities to enhance the customer experience and improve employee relations, according to an IDC study sponsored by OpenMarket. The vast majority (88 percent) percent of these businesses believe SMS has a considerable or major impact on customer service and nearly three-quarters (73 […]

A group of scientists at the University of Missouri has introduced what they are calling a game changer in the world of biological research—an online, free service called RNAMiner that has been developed to handle large data sets, which could lead to faster results in the study of plant and animal genomics. The website was […]

Without call attribution, marketers miss nearly half (49 percent) of mobile conversions, leading to inaccurate return on investment (ROI) data and risking campaign optimization. This occurs even though calls from mobile marketing sources are up 34 percent in the past six months alone, an increase of 77 percent on an annualized basis, according to a […]