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Facebook Home, the new Android launcher that was announced in early April, may be targeted towards socially-obsessed consumers, but in today's world of BYOD, many are asking questions about how this always-connected launcher will handle privacy and data collection. Though ...
The popular app for Quickoffice is now available for both iPhone and Android users. Google released the new mobile versions of the application, which is widely used by midsize businesses today. The expansion of its availability will help employees share ...
A recent study completed about data management professionals reveals that senior IT administrators are still hesitant to make use of big data. The world of analytics has grown to such a tremendous size that professionals seem to be unwilling to ...
Tablets have become a dominating force in the consumer market, but businesses have been slower to adopt tablet computing, viewing them as unnecessary when desktop computers are already present. However, a new study suggests that having a workplace tablet equipped ...
Mobile payments could be a trillion dollar business in just two years. That's according to a recent IT industry panel at Apps World in San Francisco. This shift in purchasing behavior could mean various opportunities for midsize firms to capture ...
Cloud technology with its disruptive nature has set a new paradigm for enterprise tech. Many IT executives are now looking beyond the hype surrounding cloud and virtualization, and putting in motion plans to effectively leverage the technology in practical ways.Venturing ...
BYOD encourages employee productivity, according to a new study that says than six out of 10 companies are approving personal devices for workplace use. With the rise of the mobile workforce, especially at growing firms, IT pros are weighing the ...
According to IDC, the software-defined data center (SDDC) is big business. The research firm estimates the SDDC market will be worth over $3.7 billion by 2016. As a result, technology providers are racing to remove physical barriers from all aspects ...
Microsoft released its Windows 8 operating system in October of last year, and since then, multiple manufacturers have released a number of tablets and hybrid tablet/PCs. Since the latest version of Windows is designed for maximum efficiency on a tablet, ...
There's an emerging mobile platform option that could help businesses gain customers: talking ads. The voice-recognition company Nuance may be introducing ads that can have actual conversations with smartphone users, according to an article from E-Commerce Times. With the rise ...
It's impossible for midsize admins to miss all the hype about bring your own device (BYOD). Over the last five years, the number of American workers bringing (and using) their personal smartphones and tablets at work has grown to a ...
If you use Twitter, chances are good you have heard of Vine. The video equivalent of a character-limited tweet, Vine is a service that allows users to upload quick six-second videos to Twitter to share a small bit of information ...
According to Thomas Davenport, writing for the Wall Street Journal, business analytics is moving into what he calls "Analytics 3.0," a combination of the small, structured data sources of version 1.0, with the big data collection and Hadoop warehousing of ...
The prevention and eradication of viruses, adware, spyware, and other computer infections is a persistent challenge for IT administrators. There is no single, magic elixir that will coat servers with a virtual shield of protection, and admins know they need ...
One of the things that makes Facebook such a valuable marketing tool for businesses is its ability to target ads to specific subsets of consumers. For instance, if a user posts a lot about having a baby, ads for diapers ...
Smartphones that can fix themselves. That's what researchers envision for the future, thanks to the development of self-healing integrated chips. This technology advancement would be a big boost for midsize firms that seek the most effective, high-performance devices on the ...
Google announced yesterday that it would be getting rid of its Google Reader service. As part of its "Spring Cleaning" initiative, Google is putting RSS on the block. The announcement was met with some surprise, as there still seemed to ...
First it was laptops. Then came smartphones, tablets, and phablets. The world is being overrun b/y devices that rely on wireless connections to reach the Internet; and this is not altogether a bad thing. In business, people are able to ...
Startup company Everpix announced an image analysis software platform that automatically organizes digital photos into broad categories. According to an article in MIT Technology Review, the software is machine vision based; the company used crowd sourcing to help tag thousands ...
IBM has an impressive set of credentials in the world of open source: Apache, Linux, and Eclipse all owe much of their success to support from Big Blue. Now, the technology mainstay is putting substantial resources behind cloud platform OpenStack ...