Monthly Archives: March 2014
BlackBerry Adding New Features to BBM, BBM to New Phones
BlackBerry says it's listening carefully to what customers want and has some changes planned for BBM, its most-loved app.The next release of BBM will...
Google’s Project Ara: 10 Ways It Could Change Smartphone Design
Google's Project Ara: 10 Ways It Could Change Smartphone Design
by Don Reisinger
Customizability Is Lacking Across the Industry
The cornerstone of mobile product design today is...
Freescale, Broadcom Offer SDN Solutions for Chips
Freescale Semiconductor and Broadcom are unveiling new software and interfaces designed to make it easier for organizations to make the move to software-defined networks.The...
Apple, Samsung Lead Strong Worldwide Tablet Sales: Gartner
Worldwide sales of tablets to users reached 195.4 million units in 2013, a 68 percent increase on 2012, according to a report from IT...
HoyosID Mobile App Uses Biometrics to Secure Personal Info
Hoyos Labs, a digital infrastructure security company, used Mobile World Congress (MWC) convention in Barcelona, Spain, to present HoyosID, a mobile app that allows...
Mobile Users Expect Targeted, Relevant Ads: PwC
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of consumers are somewhat or extremely unwilling to share personal information on their mobile devices, according to a PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC)...
Hearst Health Ventures Invests in Tonic Health
Hearst Health Ventures, a unit of Hearst Corporation, and Tonic Health announced a venture investment by Hearst in Tonic Health, a patient engagement and...
Microsoft’s John Thompson Brings More to Role Than IBM Lessons
As Satya Nadella finds his stride as Microsoft's new CEO, much has been made of the new role Bill Gates will play, leaving the...
RSA Conference Proves Why the Privacy Landscape Is Challenging
From Monday, Feb. 24 to Friday, Feb. 28, I was trapped in the bowels of the Moscone Center at the RSA Conference here and...
RSA 2014: 10 Takeaways From a Show Overshadowed by Fractured Trust
The annual RSA Security Conference is an opportunity to take the pulse of the enterprise security business. While other technologies wax and wane with...