Nathan Eddy

Nearly half (46 percent) of respondents have stored confidential company information on their personal file sharing and sync apps, according to a survey by document management specialist M-Files. In addition, the survey found that 56 percent of employees said their company does not have policies in place that prohibit the use of personal file sharing […]

10 iOS Apps to Reduce Your Thanksgiving Weekend Stress by Nathan Eddy Butterball Cookbook Plus Makes Prep a Cinch (Free) Far more than just a cookbook, the app also features nutritional information, how-to videos, conversion and substitution charts, and Butterball’s handy cooking calculator to plan perfect portions and to guarantee proper defrost and cook times […]

Despite the substantial benefits of collecting and using social media data, less than one-third of marketers targeting small and midsize businesses mine social media to identify new opportunities, and only 4 percent use it to gather highly valuable SMB owner data to create better informed leads, according to a report by CEB Research of 880 […]

A record-breaking 103.3 million Americans will shop online between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday this year, an increase of 6.1 million shoppers over 2013, according to a survey released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The report found that, in total, 143 million U.S. consumers plan to shop over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with 89 million […]

There is strong interest in deploying software-defined storage (SDS) solutions, according to a 451 Research report sponsored by Maxta, with 96 percent of respondents stating that they were “somewhat or very likely” to adopt SDS and 82 percent stating they were “somewhat or very likely” to adopt a hyper-converged infrastructure. Midmarket storage management problems, often […]

Business recovery solutions specialist Unitrends unveiled Release 8.0, a significant upgrade of the data protection software powering the company’s physical and virtual backup and recovery appliances. Offering expanded support for the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), Release 8.0 provides midsize to large enterprises with protection for EMC and NetApp network-attached storage (NAS) arrays. Release 8.0 […]

More than half (56 percent) of companies spend between seven months and one year building a single app, and nearly 20 percent spend more than $500,000 on the development of each app, according to a report from Kinvey. Fully half of the respondents said they think the process takes too long, with 24 percent citing […]

In the third quarter of this year, the global notebook PC market grew 10 percent year over year, to reach 49.4 million units, according to a report from IHS DisplaySearch. Global shipments of tablet PCs, by comparison, fell 8 percent, while notebook PC growth was primarily driven by the developed regions of North America and […]

ESI, a designer and manufacturer of business telephone systems and cloud services, announced the expansion and enhancement of its mobile applications offerings designed for mobile work environments. The company introduced additional features for its Ditto Cloud PBX application, launched the beta version of its IP 900 Mobile application for users of the IP Server 900 […]

Nearly half of training professionals (48 percent) say their organization’s sales training content isn’t engaging enough to work, while a quarter say the materials created don’t match sales teams’ needs, according to a Brainshark survey. Survey results show that the most prevalent methods of sales training for organizations today include live classroom training (80 percent), […]

While confidence in security is notably high among businesses, likely the result of several key factors, widespread adherence to security best practices is lacking, and significant, damaging attacks continue, potentially indicating this confidence is a false sense of security, according to a report from IT management specialist SolarWinds. The vast majority—84 percent—of those surveyed said […]

Health IT specialist MocaCare launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its initial production run of MocaHeart, a compact health tracker designed for checking heart and blood health. The tracker makes it possible for people to notice changes in their heart and blood health when a traditional monitor is not available. The device gives users the […]