One of the major mobile cloud issues for companies of all sizes is how to get at, index, archive and protect data from mobile devices of employees. We spoke with Randy DeMeno Chief Technologist of Windows Products & Microsoft ...
There is an air of exceptional bitterness and nastiness in the fight over ad blocking, that is more characteristic of a political battle (e.g., Brexit, or the U.S. presidential campaign), than a typical business dispute. Ad blocke...
How far has the CLOUD progressed to date, and what’s the outlook? A Power Panel at the recent Cloud Expo in NYC discussed these questions under the title “Cloud Is Now Mainstream.” The panel brought together four growth companies ...
In a throwback to the French Revolution, the apps development world is increasingly experiencing the rise of “Citizen” Developers. This quaint phrase embodies a market trend that involves the growing demand for increasingly rapid ...
How big is the issue of mobile device theft and fraud? In the U.S. alone, there are over 1 million reported cellphone thefts annually, and the number is growing (and thefts are widely believed to be under-reported.) The FBI is sai...
Just a few years ago we were assured that free municipal WiFi services were dead, as major city projects collapsed in San Francisco, Philadelphia and elsewhere. “Whatever happened to municipal Wi-Fi?” asked The Economist (7/26/13)...
One of the most serious issues hanging over the Internet of Things (IoT) is: who will monetize it and how. Eric Hoffman, of mobile and cloud software house, EastBanc Technologies, recently offered an interesting presentation on mo...
Among the many exciting high-tech firms that have been founded in the last few years, VoltDB must be counted as high on the list. With fairly modest funding and a total payroll of 52 people, this in-memory, operational database ma...
Four innovations in mobile messaging and social networking highlighted a session on Communications Platforms at the recent M1 Summit. The innovators were: Phhhoto offers a photo app for iPhones and Android that basically turns a s...
The M1 Summit in NYC last week was a dynamic blend of mobile innovators and early stage investors. The companies on the program have raised nearly $1 billion to date. One of the first topics to leap to the fore was the issue of th...
