Nathan Eddy

Electronics giant Panasonic announced an IP communications server optimized for the small-to medium-size business market. The new KX-NS700 compact hybrid communication platform supports up to 288 extensions with optional expansion units. Key features include one-numbered extension, which means up to two extensions can be assigned the same extension number. This feature allows calls to an […]

Stanford Health Care announced its iOS 8 MyHealth mobile app for patients, which was developed in-house by Stanford Health Care (SHC) engineers. Led by Aditya Bhasin, executive director of software at SHC, the multidisciplinary project team included developers and designers plus members from marketing to work with patients and focus groups to better understand their […]

Leaving the phone at home during Valentine’s Day dates this year will be hard for Americans, since more than half (52 percent) of smartphone or tablet owners consider online and mobile activities critical to their Valentine plans this year, according to a Harris Poll of 2,057 adults in the U.S. The study, sponsored by performance […]

Mobile carrier Verizon Wireless is still leading the mobile network race in nearly all aspects of testing, with the company’s network again sweeping in the overall performance, reliability and speed categories, according to a report from mobile performance information specialist RootMetrics. Verizon was also the top-performing network for data and call categories, while AT&T was […]

IT performance management software specialist SolarWinds announced a series of enhancements to its Network Performance Monitor (NPM) to improve business mobility and uptime. One of the major updates is wireless heat mapping capability, which allows IT workers to maintain automatic, real-time maps of wireless network signal strength to enhance continuous wireless coverage throughout an environment […]

10 Valentine’s Day Gifts for the Geek in Your Life by Nathan Eddy Flux Capacitor USB Car Charger, DeLorean Not Included ($24.99) Great Scott! It’s not quite the same as the time-travel gizmo from Back to the Future, but this port can charge two iPhones at once and that beautiful Flux Capacitor light sequence we […]

Unified communications, managed services, data solutions and visual communications specialist Carousel Industries and communications specialist Level 3 announced they will offer a range of managed services and cloud-based products together. Carousel will provide IT managed services and capabilities to support Level 3’s portfolio of business solutions ranging from unified communications (UC) and hosted video to […]

Of the digital communication and collaboration tools available to remote workers, email is the most used at 88 percent, followed by instant messaging at 47 percent, according to a survey of 353 U.S. Internet users by private-cloud solutions provider ConnectSolutions. Video conferencing (36 percent), VoIP platforms like Skype (32 percent), and presence functionality (30 percent) […]

Apple iPhone 6 Plus subscribers generate the most data volume, double that of an iPhone 6, suggesting larger screen sizes lead to increased data usage, according to Citrix’s latest mobile analytics report. The report also found the number of enterprise-managed devices has increased 72 percent year-over-year, and clear regional and vertical trends appear to be […]

Copy data solutions specialist Catalogic Software announced the release of ECX 2.0, its copy data management platform that manages the full lifecycle of copy data. The ECX software platform is hardware and hypervisor agnostic, integrating with the copy and replication capabilities of ecosystem partners through extensible plug-ins. Currently supported platforms include NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP, […]

Threat protection specialist Iboss Network Security announced an upgrade to its advanced persistent threats (APT) defense solution, FireSphere, which uses the company’s network traffic anomaly monitoring technology to provide protection against malware exploits. FireSphere network traffic anomaly monitoring provides a layer of protection that increases infection detection and identifies threats that use advanced evasive protocols […]

More than 56 percent of drivers have safety concerns about managing multiple, non-integrated applications for local search, navigation and mapping while behind the wheel, according to a survey of more than 150 U.S. car owners conducted by mapping software specialist deCarta. More than 65 percent of those surveyed said they would prefer always-on navigation systems […]