Nathan Eddy

The vast majority (86 percent) of mobile workers own the smartphone they use for work purposes, as do 37 percent of tablet users. Well over half of these workers (61 percent) trust their employer to keep their personal information private on their mobile device. The research was conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of MobileIron, […]

Verint Systems announced advancements to its identity authentication and fraud detection solution designed to provide faster customer identity authentication, and safer and more secure sales and service environments. Leveraging the company’s identity authentication and fraud detection platforms, organizations can validate legitimate customers’ identities by authenticating them based on their own voiceprints. The solution is designed […]

Proficio, a provider of cloud-based security services, introduced ProSOC Express, providing small- to medium-size businesses (SMBs) with 24×7 enterprise-class security monitoring and alerting services. ProSOC Express is offered as a software as a service (SaaS) by subscription and includes the same security information and event management (SIEM )technology and 24×7 monitoring as Proficio provides its […]

Customers are on the move and developing more beneficial shopping patterns by harnessing connected technologies to simplify and optimize the path to purchase, according to a survey of 2,500 consumers, conducted by Blackhawk Engagement Solutions. The smartphone is the most prevalent Internet device, with 71 percent of shoppers using one daily, followed by notebooks (66 […]

One out of three international smartphone travelers are aware of WiFi calling. Of those, seven out of 10 find it appealing and 77 percent will increase communication using WiFi calling, according to an Ericsson survey of 5,000 smartphone users in Brazil, Egypt, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. Respondents all traveled internationally in the past […]

Americans are moving closer to social media as a source for news, a trend that cuts across all demographics, a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, found. According to the study, Twitter and Facebook users report seeing news about seven of 11 topics […]

Global e-commerce sales are expected to reach $1.7 trillion this year, up by more than 17 percent from last year’s total, according to a report from Juniper Research. The report indicated social media companies are boosting the numbers by acting as direct sales platforms, though growth has also been buoyed by factors such as public […]

IT software specialist LANDesk unveiled the latest version of its IT Asset Management (ITAM) Suite, which includes a Workspace, targeted at IT asset managers. The suite, which provides a simplified view of IT assets in one central place, lets users know what assets they have, where they are, how they are used and how they […]

While nearly all consumers (97 percent) connect to and use WiFi in their homes, the vast majority (76 percent) also connect to WiFi outside of the home on a regular basis, according to a Xirrus study of 300 consumers. To break it down even further, 88 percent of consumers said they connect to WiFi at […]

More than a quarter of all businesses worldwide are now using machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, and in the Americas, more than nine out of 10 (93 percent) companies using M2M have experienced ROI. According to the Vodafone report, 41 percent of businesses in the Americas have achieved ROI within six months from their use of M2M. […]

Data protection and recovery software and services provider Arcserve announced the launch of the Arcserve Cloud, a service for off-site data protection. Integrated with the company’s unified data protection (UDP) appliance, its Cloud could help businesses complete their data-protection goals, and adds an option for Arcserve managed service providers (MSPs) to extend their data-protection solution […]

A majority of consumers think user names and passwords are cumbersome and would prefer using alternatives when it comes to protecting their security on the Internet, according to an Accenture survey of 24,000 consumers across six continents. The survey also found that less than half (46 percent) of consumers globally are confident in the security […]