Nathan Eddy

About

A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Nathan was perviously the editor of gaming industry newsletter FierceGameBiz and has written for various consumer and tech publications including Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, CRN, and The Times of London. Currently based in Berlin, he released his first documentary film, The Absent Column, in 2013.

Digium D6x Series IP Phones Get Overhaul, Boast Full-Color Screens

Unified communications and telephony specialist Digium announced its newest IP desk phones, the D6x series, which includes the D60 value phone, the D62 Gigabit networking value phone and the D65 Gigabit networking feature phone. List pricing for the series starts at $139 for the D60, $189 for the D62 and $239 for the D65. Each […]

Tech Spending Rises as Back to School Season Starts

Back-to-school tech products and accessories spending is expected to hit $18.5 billion this year, with 59 percent of Americans doing back-to-school shopping this year expecting to buy tech or tech accessories, up 12 percentage points over last year. These were among the findings of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)’s “Role of Consumer Tech in Back-to-School […]

Small Businesses Struggle With Shifts in Government Regulations

Many small-business owners believe their business has been negatively impacted by recent national and local regulatory changes, according to a Manta survey of small businesses. Nationally, tax regulations were cited by a third of small-business owners as the most confusing rules to understand. This was closely followed by the Affordable Care Act (21 percent), new […]

Brandwatch Launches Audiences Marketing Analytics Tool

Social intelligence specialist Brandwatch launched Audiences, an influence and audience analytics product that helps marketers gain insight for planning highly targeted campaigns. The platform also helps marketers discover real-time opportunities specific to their target customer segments, allowing them to build custom audiences from scratch, discover the influencers within them and study the content they are […]

Ooma Releases Office for Mobile Aimed at Small Businesses

Small-business communications specialist Ooma announced the launch of Office for Mobile, a cloud-based phone service that allows small-business owners to run their business from their mobile phones. Office for Mobile utilizes the same cloud-based platform as Ooma Office, which supports any combination of analog, IP or mobile phones, so businesses can add fixed-line desk phones […]

Toshiba Clarify Call Recording Helps Ensure Quality, Compliance

The telecommunication systems division of Toshiba America Information Systems has unveiled Clarify Call Recording for use with Toshiba’s unified communications platforms IPedge and Strata CIX with IPedge App Server. Clarify is a call recording solution that helps ensure call quality and compliance in a variety of businesses, including contact centers or sales desks concerned with […]

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Launches Special Investigative Unit

LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Government has created a Special Investigative Unit (SIU) designed to help government agency customers better use its identity intelligence to keep communities safe by fighting fraud and ensuring program integrity. The unit, a team of analyst and solution consultants focused on the law enforcement, education and federal, state and local government […]

Qvidian Debuts Enhancements for RFP Collaboration Platform

Qvidian announced the summer 2016 release of its cloud-based sales content solution, designed to help companies improve their requests for proposal (RFP) and content management efforts. The latest updates include expanded RFP collaboration, which enables project owners to select team members and assign tasks for the assembly of sales documents. Also, contributors now can comment […]

Sage, Cloud Elements Announce Partnership

Cloud accounting software specialist Sage and API management and integration platform Cloud Elements announced a partnership to leverage Cloud Elements’ open API Hubs to enable third-party developers to create a cloud accounting platform. With the Sage Integration Cloud, setting up an integration between Sage One and Expensify, for example, can be as simple as logging […]

CTERA Portal Enhancements Simplify Cloud Migration

Secure file services specialist CTERA Networks updated its cloud data management capabilities for its Portal to help businesses implement file service and data protection strategies. The enhancements to the company’s platform are designed to help IT organizations migrate data across data centers and cloud infrastructure, optimize storage infrastructure costs through intelligent file management and simplify […]