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 ...
Mobile Cloud skills are being applied in sophisticated fashion in one of the most familiar businesses globally – Fast Food Restaurants. We recently spoke to Leszek James, founder and CEO of EZUniverse (EZU), whose service “360iQ” ...
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)...
According to a survey published by Proxbook, there were over 6 million active beacons globally, as of Q1 2016, with the great preponderance in North America and Europe. Interest in beacons has been growing, witness the advent of G...
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...
Persistent Systems (PSI) has in recent years acquired properties from the likes of: Intel, HP and Citrix – companies that dwarf this Indian-based, $400 million revenue, growth company. PSI is following a multi-dimensional strategy...
