Apple, Google Battle for Enterprise Customers in the BYOD Era
It's no secret that Apple is racking up customers in the enterprise market, attracting more corporate users whose companies have reluctantly acceded to their employees' desire to bring their iPhones and iPads to the office to use for both work and play.Research from mobile device management (MDM) software maker Good Technology suggests Apple iOS devices are trouncing Google's Android...
Farewell, Google Watch
This is my final post on Google Watch. Today, I've moved on to the next leg of my career at the Wall Street Journal, where I'll be writing content for CIO Journal.So Google will move from the center of my coverage galaxy to somewhere on the periphery. The company continues to ply its trade versus Amazon in platform-as-a-service (PAAS)...
Google Play Exemplifies How Cloud Is King
Some 90 percent of all Web-connected devices will have consumer cloud services tucked into them by the end of 2013, the better to help Web surfers quench their desire to store, synch, stream and share content from any device or platform.That's the postulation from researcher Gartner, which defines the "personal cloud" as a system that allows consumers to seamlessly...
Android 4.0 Headed for Verizon 4G LTE Devices
Verizon Wireless March 6 published a list of smartphones and tablets that will get the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, upgrade this year, with most of the devices designed to shuttle traffic for the carrier's 4G LTE network.Launched in December 2010, Verizon's (Long-Term Evolution) LTE network promises to facilitate data rates 10 times faster than that...
Jive Challenges Salesforce.com With Social CRM Software
Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE), which has always focused on social collaboration software, is going after Salesforce.com's social customer relationship management (CRM) honey pot.The newly public company is launching the Jive Social Customer Service Solution to help companies craft engaging CRM strategies that involve social tools. The goals are typical for this type of software product: decreasing costs by deflecting...
Google Cuts Cloud Storage Prices, Answering Amazon
One day after Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Service slashed its cloud infrastructure prices for the nineteenth time, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has chopped the rates for its Cloud Storage software product, which lets developers sock away great chunks of data on the search engine company's servers.Google first introduced Cloud Storage at Google I/O in May 2010. The service leverages the RESTful application...