Nathan Eddy

Nearly half of respondents to a recent poll shopped online on Black Friday last November, whereas only 26 percent shopped in store on the same day, according to a Clustrix survey of 200 consumers. By contrast, 61 percent of consumers shopped online on Cyber Monday in 2014, and almost 60 percent of survey respondents received […]

AT&T announced the debut of ForHealth, a free wellness and fitness platform that it has developed with Tictrac to engage people in their health and well-being. The platform aggregates data from different apps and devices and provides users with actionable personal insights and correlations to improve their health. “As companies continue to develop a variety […]

Global mobile phone display module shipments in 2015 are expected to rise just 4 percent year-over-year to reach 2 billion units, leading to even stronger competition among mobile phone display manufacturers, according to a report from IT analyst firm IHS. The report noted that Chinese display module makers have resolved to increase their share of […]

Cloud computing is becoming more and more prevalent in the financial sector, though many respondents of a recent survey claimed to have less than 50 percent of a solidified, concerted cloud strategy, with controls and security being main concerns. According to the worldwide survey of more than 100 professionals conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance […]

Data protection, backup and disaster recovery specialist Paragon Software Group announced the release of Boot Camp Backup, a free OS X-based backup solution for Windows partitions on Mac computers. The platform backs up NTFS Boot Camp partitions at the sector level and creates incremental chains, where each new increment describes the changes between the current […]

Business-to-business (B2B) channel revenue increased for the third consecutive year in the United States, growing almost 5 percent in 2014 to more than $62 billion, according to The NPD Group’s Distributor and Reseller Tracking Services. Personal computers, the highest revenue growth category, brought nearly $11 billion into the B2B market, fueled by strong sales of […]

Despite the prevalence of cloud-based systems in the help desk software market, 68 percent of respondents to a survey from Software Advice said they use on-premises systems. The survey of 218 IT professionals in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia revealed that the most frequently used help desk functionalities are ticket management, reporting and […]

Perforce Software announced the launch of Helix, a source code management (SCM) and content collaboration platform that brings distributed workflows, Git management, advanced threat detection and new deployment options to enterprises building Internet of Things devices and digital media. Helix is hybrid version management software that supports both distributed and centralized version control. The platform […]

Backup and data protection solutions for the IT channel specialist Intronis announced the Winter Release ’15 of its ECHOplatform, which offers channel partners a variety of recovery options, including being able to recover an entire virtual machine or server, or restoring the data by copying the files through the portal of any hyper-V or image […]

Most companies are implementing security and compliance policies, but one out of three employees don’t understand them, according to a survey of 780 IT and business decision-makers across the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, three-quarters of respondents said they believe employees at least occasionally violate their company’s compliance and security policies, and more […]

Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users had a record fourth quarter in 2014, reaching 367.5 million units, with an increase of 29.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2013, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Consumer electronics giant Samsung lost the top spot to arch rival Apple in the global smartphone […]

Organizations with more than 500 employees are seeing tangible benefits from cloud computing, with 85 percent saying the cloud has lived up to industry hype and 23 percent declaring that cloud has exceeded their expectations, according to a global study of 1,000 senior IT decision-makers by Tata Communications. Tata reported that 83 percent of enterprises […]