A Game of Phones In 2011, A Billion Smart Devices and Counting There are nearly 7 billion people in the world. In 2011, a smart device - be it a tablet, smartphone or a PC - was sold for one out of every seven of those people, according to estimates from International Data Corp. The research firm reports that about 946 million smart devices were shipped last year at a market valuation of $489 billion. Mobile… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Apple New iPad's Dueling Forces! The Cloud Revolution vs. HD Content A few of my thoughts over the past 10 days with Apple's new iPad: Whoa, these photos look amazing! Holy cow, 4G LTE is unbelievably fast. This HBO Go stream looks perfect. So does this HD movie from iTunes. Wait, this thing's storage is halfway full already? In general, these experiences fall into two trends: First, the rise of the cloud and… Dan Frommer View comments
Analysis [Infographic] Social Media Security Basics If you are part of your company's IT organization, chances are you wish you would have had this infographic that explains some of the basics about social media security a lot sooner. With lots of celebrities and ordinary people getting their accounts compromised, there are several basic strategies that can make you more secure. And we aren't… Enterprise David Strom View comments
Google Should Google Block Auto-Complete for Dick Hurtz? A Japanese man recently sought a court injunction against Google, alleging that its autocompletion of search queries got him fired. The man's lawyer, Hiroyuki Tomita, says that typing his client's name into Google produces thousands of automatic suggestions of "criminal acts," with which the man is not familiar, "defaming or disparaging him." It's… Jon Mitchell View comments
Communications Is Microsoft Challenging Google on HTTP 2.0 Back in 2009, Google began an industry discussion about a prospective upgrade to HTTP protocol - the application that enables the Web over the Internet. The concept is called SPDY, and to date, conventional wisdom held that while some are skeptical of Google's motives, as a concept, SPDY was running unopposed. Maybe not any more. This week… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments