Nathan Eddy

Small-business owners, particularly members of the Millennial generation (ages 18 to 34), are more confident in the future of the local and national economies, according to the fall 2014 Small Business Owner Report, released by Bank of America. The study, which is based on a survey of 1,000 U.S. small-business owners, found that half of […]

Network-attached storage and IP surveillance solutions specialist Synology announced the launch of the DiskStation DS215j, a two-bay NAS server designed for home and personal users to manage data, stream media content and synchronize files on the cloud while keeping digital assets secure. Currently shipping globally, the DS215j runs on DiskStation Manager (DSM) 5.1, an operating […]

10 Apps to Make Holiday Shopping a Smoother Experience by Nathan Eddy PriceBlink Helps You Comparison Shop This free app, which is also available as a browser add-on, automatically searches the Web while you shop to help you find better prices, coupon codes or free shipping. Once you enable the PriceBlink extension within Safari, you […]

10 Stylish IT Gadgets for the Design Connoisseurs in Your Life by Nathan Eddy Impossible Instant Lab Makes Photos Physical Again ($199.99) This ingenious device allows you to take your iPhone photos and turn them into physical Polaroid pictures, thanks to a microprocessor-controlled film-processing unit. The optical system consists of a four-element coated glass wide-angle […]

Information security professionals overwhelmingly covet a single, comprehensive endpoint security solution; however, endpoint security deployment is tactical and driven more by firefighting than strategy, according to a report on endpoint security conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) on behalf of Digital Guardian. Despite recognition of the problem—that endpoints are still at risk and data breaches […]

The diverse range of devices being used by consumers to access the Web, globally, is creating both risk and opportunity for mobile marketers, according to the Netbiscuits Web Trends report for the third quarter of 2014. Based on data from Netbiscuits Mobile Analytics, with an average sample of almost 1 billion page impressions per month, […]

Application networking specialist A10 Networks announced the launch of its Thunder TPS Release 3.1, which a programmable policy engine through the regex or enhanced aFleX commands and extends new distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation capabilities to block additional attacks such as the recent POODLE attack. The platform also provides rate-limiting for granular Layer 4-7 […]

Endpoint detection and remediation specialist Promisec announced an update to its Integrity service, aimed at helping small businesses and smaller enterprise organizations with endpoint risk detection through its new Endpoint Health Check. The Integrity Health Check platform operates as an early warning system for targeted attacks by identifying in advance specific hotspots that require attention. […]

More than 70 percent of IT professionals in the United States think that commercial open-source software provides more control and ensures better business continuity than proprietary software, according to a report sponsored by unified collaboration software specialist Zimbra and conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The study surveyed 1,398 IT and IT security practitioners to learn […]

On average, U.S. subscribers consumed 1.8GB of cellular data every month in the third quarter of 2014, with those on Google Android phones consuming 6.8GB of WiFi data and those with iPhones consuming 8.9GB of WiFi data, according to mobile analytics provider Mobidia’s latest report. The study, based on a data set spanning July through […]

Mergers and acquisitions dealmakers in the technology space are enjoying their most revved-up year since before the financial crisis and expect the momentum to continue into 2015, according to a joint survey conducted by Morrison & Foerster and tech market intelligence firm 451 Research. After nearly a year of torrid transaction activity, only 16 percent […]

Cloud-connected security and storage specialist Barracuda Networks has unveiled a security suite that combines Barracuda Firewall, Web Filter and Spam Firewall Virtual Appliances in a single hardware platform and announced enhancements to the security capabilities of its Web Application Firewall. The Security Suite allows customers to purchase and deploy protection across three common threat vectors—email, […]