Nathan Eddy

Records and information managers (RIMs) are central to an organization’s information management strategy, but priorities, and therefore required skills, are also evolving, according to survey of 900 senior business executives and records and information professionals by information management specialist Iron Mountain. Nearly half (48 percent) of North American information managers believe their roles and responsibilities […]

Salaries for security tech professionals can greatly exceed the baseline for IT professional salaries, according to a report from Dice, the IT jobs portal. Lead software security engineers, directors of security, security consultants and others tasked with repelling cyber-threats can expect to earn six-figure salaries per year, so long as their skills, experience and certifications […]

ERPNext, an open source enterprise software developer launched an ERP suite that is designed to function more like the apps that users deploy on tablets and mobile phones. Features include a Setup Wizard and support to help small businesses, tools to aid in customer relations and selling, including opportunity tracking, order recording and email management, […]

BlueConic, a platform that helps marketers translate customer intent into sales, released its solution for cross-channel and cross-device customer engagement. Profiles that BlueConic creates for every visitor to a digital property are designed to be versatile and flexible for use in any channel in real time, giving marketers the ability to create individualized mobile in-app […]

Global shipments of small and medium (9-inch or smaller) non-crystalline, thin-film silicon, thin- film transistor panels are forecast to decline 7 percent in 2015, to reach a total of 1.6 billion units, according to a report from IT research firm IHS. Ongoing improvement in smartphone display performance is driving increased demand for high-resolution panels with […]

Xerox announced its acquisition of Healthy Communities Institute (HCI), developer of a cloud platform that provides socioeconomic and community health information to hospitals, public health agencies and community coalitions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however HCI’s management team and its employees will remain with the company. HCI’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform centralizes proprietary, health […]

The first quarter of 2015 closed with 73 technology deals valued at a total of $22.3 billion, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) US Technology Deals Insights Q1 report. Deals Insights is a quarterly analysis based on data for transactions with a disclosed deal value greater than $15 million. Data is provided by Thomson Reuters through […]

In the wake of record-setting first quarter mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, technology executives expressed confidence that global digital transformation will continue to drive M&A in the sector through 2015, according to a report from EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young. The global survey of more than 1,600 executives indicated tech executives are confident […]

More than half of organizations (52 percent) look to extend the life of existing storage assets and future-proof their IT infrastructure with software-defined storage (SDS) in 2015, according to a survey of 477 IT professionals currently using or evaluating SDS to solve data storage challenges. More than half of respondents (52 percent) identified the ability […]

Local online marketing specialist ReachLocal announced the launch of ReachDisplay InApp, an application that delivers location-based dynamic advertisements to consumer smartphones. ReachDisplay InApp is able to reach consumers within a geo-fenced radius, targeting users on Apple iOS and Google Android devices. The app works by creating a local geo-fence around the business address, whereby consumers […]

Texting has become an essential communication tool at work, according to a survey of 254 U.S. adults age 18 and over. The survey was conducted by Instantly and commissioned by RingCentral. The survey found 80 percent of people use texting for business and 15 percent said more than half of their text messages are sent […]

Workers worldwide visit inappropriate websites while at work, regardless of the risks to their companies, according to a global research study of 1,580 respondents across 11 countries. The survey was conducted by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Blue Coat Systems. The majority of survey participants admitted understanding the obvious cyber-threats when downloading email attachments from […]