The PC is market is expected to shrink. Again.The smartphone market is expected to grow. Again.On Monday, IDC predicted that PC sales will fall 1.3% in 2013, and that smartphone sales will continue their explosive growth, topping 50% and displacing the legacy feature phone as the dominant mobile phone platform. Although...
Guest author Michael Della Penna is Senior Vice President of Emerging Channels at Responsys, Inc.We’ve heard it before… this is going to be the year that mobile payments will boom! Both Gartner and Forrester have made strong predictions of mobile growth, with Forrester recently saying that the U.S. mobile payments...
You do realize that you work for the only company on the planet that isn't leveraging Big Data? That everyone else is gaining competitive advantage by aggregating cash register receipts, the weather in Miami, your sister's Facebook posts and the average shelf-life of Lindt chocolate? That you, in fact, are...
The term “mobile payments” has been around for several years now. Really though, who knows what it actually means?Different aspects of the payments industry want you to think different things. PayPal wants you to think of mobile payments as when you pay for something on your smartphone through an app...
It’s Christmas Day and amidst the running tots and stress-inducing in-laws, you sneak away for a few moments to... well, check up on work. Nothing too extensive, probably: You draft a few emails, check the progress of some projects and maybe send a few text messagesIt used to be that...
While it might be an overstatement to claim that Microsoft news dominated 2012, the company’s drumbeat of publicity around the launch of Windows 8 gave it a disproportionate significance.And Microsoft did gear up and execute on a series of milestones: Windows 8, the Surface tablet, Windows RT, Windows Phone 8,...
When it comes to the war for mobile phone supremacy, Microsoft knows that it is the underdog; that it needs to make some drastic moves to make a dent in the power bases of top dogs Apple and Google/Samsung. So Microsoft appears to have given its marketing wing carte blanche...
Verisign, the operator for .com domain registry, has renewed its six-year contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN) with the U.S. Commerce Department's blessing. Under the new contract, Verisign is not allowed to raise its current price of $7.85 per domain name. Unless, of course, it can convince the Commerce...
Americans tend to think of free speech as allowing us to say just about anything we want, minus shouting "fire" in a crowded theater or threatening violence. But does that mean you have the same rights on a social network, specifically Twitter? Hey, it's not a government entity, it's a company....
If pervasive networks, cloud computing and big data are going to deliver on their promise - to make increasingly vast quantities of information always available and understandable - something is going to have to be done about existing network architecture bottlenecks.This quiet but uncomfortable truth permeates the discussion of technology...
Oh what a treat. Developer Thomas Perl has been working on a new application called "Billboard" which basically lets you access the standby screen and post information and more importantly for us Tech people lets you display the output of scripts. Yum !!! Without any further delay over...
Earlier this week, Float Mobile Learning released an info graphic making a promise that we've heard before: that the market for mobile health care is about to "explode."And why shouldn't it? See the bottom of this post for the full infographic, but some of the highlights include the fact that...
Red Hat’s customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 are getting a little more breathing room when it comes to updates. The company announced today that it is extending the support life cycle from seven to 10 years for RHEL 5 and 6. Customers using RHEL 6...
Red Hat’s customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 are getting a little more breathing room when it comes to updates. The company announced today that it is extending the support life cycle from seven to 10 years for RHEL 5 and 6. Customers using RHEL 6...
This post is from Aaron Aseigos blog: As I noted earlier in the week, my recent blog posts have been slowly leading up to something, and here's what that something is: The first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed. It's name is "Spark", in recognition of it being...
Let's get one thing straight: Apple's Siri is based on a DARPA-funded military artificial intelligence project. It is indicative of the AI-powered future of search. Siri is not just another voice-powered virtual assistant tool.Allegations of Siri being pro-life circulated about the Web yesterday, kicked off by a post on Raw...
Life itself is the biggest of all big data. The amount of information contained within one leaf is staggering, but the information contained within 6.3 million plant specimens staggers. Currently, those samples are contained in two buildings of the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) in St. Louis. But soon, they will...
A study from earlier this summer by wireless vendor Meraki reveals some starting information based on the data collected across their customers' networks. Apple's iPad users are piggy when it comes to their data consumption, averaging close to 200 MB monthly, compared to an average smartphone user of about 40...
In a well-publicized case, a data analyst employed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) took his laptop home to suburban Maryland. Burglars entered his home and stole the laptop. Suddenly, the personal information of some 26.5 million veterans was at risk. The incident became an international news story...
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Federal Communications Commission have released a map of the broadband connections across the United States. The most surprising thing in looking at the map? The reality that much of the country is not connected to broadband at all. But that was rather...
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