Nathan Eddy

New Sony Xperia Tablet, HP Spectre Notebook: Ultra-Thin and Versatile by Nathan Eddy HP Spectre x360 Carries at $900 Starting Price With an Intel Core i5 Processor, full HD touch-screen display, 4GB LPDDR3 system memory and a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD), the Spectre x360 convertible notebook carries at starting price of $899.99. The price jumps […]

YouMail announced it has completed a $5.5 million series B round of funding, which it plans to use to expand its base of more than 6.5 million registered users. YouMail raised the funding in February as a private placement, taking advantage of the federal Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. Among other things, the JOBS […]

Ruckus Wireless announced that its 802.11ac technology is being integrated into Nokia Networks’ Flexi Zone small cell indoor and outdoor solutions. The combined Ruckus Nokia Networks solution will be commercially available in the first half of 2015 from Nokia, and brings together, for the first time, cellular and Wi-Fi technology to enable operators to integrate […]

Researchers at IBM have created a new tool designed to make Apple iOS and Google Android mobile applications more accessible to the elderly and users who are vision- and hearing-impaired. The new Mobile Accessibility Checker is an automated test to help strengthen the accessibility features of mobile applications as they are being built. It is […]

Syntonic announced DataFlex for Enterprise, a security platform designed to manage employees’ use of Samsung Knox mobile devices and business applications. The platform establishes and maintains a secure transmission channel between Samsung’s Knox container applications and the mobile Internet, even over unsecured WiFi networks or from business apps that are sending data in the clear, […]

Apple’s iOS market share increased from 69 percent to 73 percent of all activations during the fourth quarter, riding the momentum of the September 2014 launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, according to Good Technology’s quarterly Mobility Index Report. Android market share declined to 25 percent, while Windows Phone and Microsoft Surface […]

Just 18 percent of retail IT security professionals were concerned that point- of- sale devices were being targeted by cyber criminals, and only 20 percent were confident that POS devices were securely configured, according to a survey of 276 retail executives and IT professionals in the U.S. and U.K. Tripwire, a security software provider conducted […]

Secure broadband access specialist ZyXEL has released 12- and 24-port 10-Gigabit switches, including the XS1920-12, a 12-port smart-managed 10-Gigabit switch and XS3700-24, a 24-port L2+ managed 10-Gigabit switch, aimed at small and midsize business (SMB) networks. Both switches are backward-compatible, and offer port configuration for server and switch aggregation, along with its L2+ features and […]

Triumfant released AtomicEye, the latest version of its endpoint security agent for Windows-based and Mac OS X environments. The platform is designed to ensure that once inside a company’s or government agency’s systems, no attacker can leave with proprietary information In this way, damage to enterprise systems is minimized and critical assets are secured. AtomicEye […]

Consumer sentiment toward the overall economy and technology spending reached record highs for the month of February, according to the latest data released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The CEA Index of Consumer Expectations (ICE), which measures consumer expectations about the U.S. economy as a whole, increased 3.3 points from January to reach 181.2. […]

The popular music streaming app Spotify is now the second most resource-consuming app in the Android store, up from its fifth place rank in the third quarter of 2014, according to security firm AVG’s quarterly Android App Performance Report. The report analyzes aggregated, anonymous data from more than 1 million AVG Android app users to […]

Security of cloud services remains a top priority, although just 28 percent of respondents identified security as the largest source of problems for their current cloud services, according to a survey of more than 1,200 IT professionals by IT solutions specialist CDW. The report measures the successes and struggles that organizations across multiple industries experienced […]