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 The last few years in IT have seen us move from a proactive to a reactive environment. For decades, the boundaries in communication technology were pushed by government, military and business needs. As technology improved and costs dropped, innovations were gradually adapted for the co...May. 16, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,091 |
 This morning Cognizant, the company where I work as an analyst, reported their earnings. In the earnings call Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza stated, "This year we expect to deliver about $500 million in SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) related services." That is a significant...May. 10, 2013 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,600 |
 A year after opening a formal investigation into how Motorola Mobility enforces its patents, the antitrust arm of the European Commission has sent the company an SO or statement of objections saying it’s misusing the standard-essential patents (SEPs) it’s got on mobile phones.
The mis...May. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,132 |
 Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads (classic and mini), up 65.3%, and it now has roughly 40% of the tablet business. Its numbers have been trending down and are expected to continue to decline.
Samsung was second up nearly 18% after shipping 8.8 million units.
Asus was third with 2.7 ...May. 6, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,674 |
 Apple has started borrowing money to underwrite the three-year $60 billion share buy-back program it promised stockholders last week.
The company is also going to pay out $55 billion in dividends through 2015.
It’s issued floating-rate notes maturing in 2016 and 2018 and fixed-rate ...May. 2, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,100 |
 Verizon Wireless is going into the cloud storage business for tablets and smartphones up against the likes of Dropbox.
It ultimately expects to let customers transfer information between operating systems.
The Verizon Cloud will roll out the service soon, starting with Android and ...May. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,640 |
 A panel of the six commissioners at the International Trace Commission Monday tossed out a Motorola claim that Apple’s iPhone 4 was in patent violation, foiling its attempt to get the widget banned in America.
Motorola and its parent Google can appeal to the Federal Circuit and Googl...Apr. 29, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,563 |
 A US federal court has cut the legs out from under Google’s ambitions to
harry companies like Microsoft and Apple that need its standards-essential
patents (SEPs) to function while it makes a packet off those self-same
patents bought for $12.5 billion – its stated purpose in buying ...Apr. 29, 2013 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 922 |
 In the most anticipated quarterly report in recent memory, Apple – which a few brief months ago was the largest company in the world before its record stock price collapsed – indicated Tuesday that its growth has tempered and its margins have been crimped.
It made $9.5 billion, or $1...Apr. 26, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,100 |
 Microsoft announced Tuesday that ZTE, one of the world’s biggest handset producers, had come to terms and signed a worldwide patent license agreement that will see Microsoft paid a royalty on all of the phones, tablets, computers and other devices the Chinese company makes that run Goo...Apr. 25, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,498 |
 Asian suppliers told the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft has been sampling components including a 1.5-inch display for a potential touch-enabled smartwatch that would compete with a purported watch from Apple and others coming from Google and Samsung as well as the Martian Passport ...Apr. 22, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,637 |
 Embarcadero Technologies claims to have created the first real native multi-
platform IDE – modeled on its FireMonkey widgetry – that a team can
use to build apps that are processor-optimized for PCs, Macs, tablets and
smartphones from a single code base on a single schedule to get ...Apr. 22, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 893 |
 In my research on companies that are transforming themselves by adopting an integrated SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) strategy, I came across a recent blog article by the CIO of Woolworths Limited, Dan Beecham. I will share some excerpts from it here.
Woolworths is an Aus...Apr. 18, 2013 01:44 PM EDT Reads: 1,653 |
 Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, is going to pay Microsoft royalties on all the Android and Chrome widgets it makes including smartphones, tablets and televisions under the broad worldwide patent licensing agreement they’ve just cut.
Hon Ha...Apr. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,241 |
 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started to provide its employees up to 17,000 iPhones for work and personal use as the agency moves to replace its Blackberry devices.
ICE selected the iPhone after evaluating other types of smartphones such as Android devices and analyzing Bla...Apr. 15, 2013 01:05 PM EDT Reads: 908 |
 The Field Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
India’s government is rolling out RFID-based ...Apr. 15, 2013 11:31 AM EDT Reads: 852 |
 There is little argument at this point that the mass adoption of mobile technology and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies by enterprises is a true business technology revolution. At the core, the catalysts driving this revolution are the vast array of mobile devices leveraging soa...Apr. 15, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,700 |
 Microsoft, Google, Nokia and the 14 other members of FairSearch.org have made an antitrust complaint against Google to the European Commission, hoping the regulator will quickly open an official investigation.
The companies accuse Google of using the Android operating system, install...Apr. 10, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,708 |
 Facebook Thursday addressed the mobile crisis that erupted when it went public 11 months ago and the two-year-old trend it’s among its users who are increasingly tuning into its site from mobile devices rather than PCs.
It commandeered Google’s Android operating system and overlaid it...Apr. 8, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,781 |
 Samsung rushed in to tell District Court Judge Lucy Koh the other day that the US Patent and Trademark Office had found a major claim in Apple’s so-called Rubber-banding patent invalid (US Patent No. 7,469,381).
The PTO said it wasn’t novel based on prior art.
The decision is a so-...Apr. 8, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,910 |
 The next two generations of iPhones were designed before Steve Jobs died in October of 2011, according to San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who reportedly gleaned this little tidbit during a rambling conversation with Apple’s government liaison, Michael Foulkes.
The San ...Apr. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,503 |
 I am here to tell you it’s true. You can write iPad applications in PowerBuilder. I’m sure that you are waiting for the other shoe to drop but ladies and gentlemen, there is no other shoe. It is simply the truth. You can write iPad applications in PowerBuilder.
Those of you who have i...Apr. 1, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,621 |
 How many advertisements for automobiles today promote the fact their cars are horseless carriages? None! Why? It is an assumption that your automobile will be horseless. The same is happening today with mobile apps. Who would develop a work order management or scheduling system tod...Apr. 1, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,532 |
 After Judge Lucy Koh cut $450.5 million off the original stunning $1.05 billion in damages a jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple for infringing its patents, Apple checked the judge’s arithmetic and wants to file a conditional motion to reconsider.
It complains it’s been gypped of $85 m...Apr. 1, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,556 |
 TechCrunch noticed a want ad indicating that Amazon Web Services aims to apply its model to mobile to get deeper into enterprise by creating “what looks to be a whole new arm of its cloud division.”
The ad plainly says that “The Amazon Web Services (AWS) team is launching a new busin...Apr. 1, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,006 |
 A coalition of news organizations and media advocacy groups including Bloomberg, The New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has asked the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold District Court Judge Lucy Koh’s order that Apple and Samsung unseal financia...Apr. 1, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,081 |
 This book is what it claims to be and that is a cookbook on advanced topics. I would follow the author's advice and if you are a beginner with Objective-C or iOS, this book is not the one you want to start with. This book is however an excellent book for experienced developers.
The fi...Mar. 26, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,529 |
 Apple has gotten sued for patent infringement again, but this time the charges are coming from Intertrust Technologies Corporation, now owned jointly by Sony and Royal Philips Electronics NV, which got Microsoft to settle a broad claim back in 2004 for $440 million.
The suit against ...Mar. 25, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,855 |
 Apple polished its reputation as a contrarian Tuesday when the news broke because of an SEC filing that it had hired Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch to be VP of technology and reportedly coordinate its hardware and software teams.
Adobe confirmed his departure effective Friday, March 22.
He ...Mar. 21, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,853 |
 Early data has IDC forecasting that PC shipments this quarter might drop 10%, roughly 2% more than it thought a few weeks ago.
It’s also predicting a mid-single digit drop in Q2 and is uncertain if shipments will increase in the second half.
IDC said “Even getting to positive growt...Mar. 20, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,452 |
 "We wish Kevin well in this new chapter of his career," said Adobe - somewhat sparingly - in a statement released as the company behind PDF and Acrobat confirmed that just four days after offering his resignation as CTO on March 18, Kevin Lynch will be leaving the company he joined in ...Mar. 20, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,759 |
 Dropbox, the cloud storage outfit, has spent something like a reported $100
million in cash and stock pushing Yahoo and Facebook out of the way so
it could buy a little 14-man e-mail management start-up whose early-stage
widgetry, out maybe a month, can’t really scale so couldn’t me...Mar. 19, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,222 |
 Speculation is back in circulation that Apple – enflamed by Samsung’s “slavish copying,” the ensuring worldwide patent litigation and Samsung’s increasing dominance in smartphones and tablets – is weaning itself off its component dependency on Samsung and moving its A7 chip production ...Mar. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,123 |
 Compuware has published the findings of a global study of consumer mobile application expectations and experiences. The survey reveals that global consumers prefer mobile apps over mobile websites.
Mobile applications are thought to make life easier by streamlining calendars and groc...Mar. 14, 2013 12:17 PM EDT Reads: 2,986 |
 IDC has been watching the growing popularity of the smaller, lower-priced tablets.
It found that one in two tablets that shipped this quarter had a screen measuring less than eight inches. It figures this strong trend is going to continue – strongly enough, in fact, for it to tickle ...Mar. 13, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,746 |
 If you want to learn iOS 6 development, this is a great place to start. The book spends the first several chapters covering the basics. The author first shows you how to get your system setup and how to install Xcode. He then covers the Xcode interface and the iOS simulator.
After tha...Mar. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,530 |
 Sharp, the big Apple supplier fighting for its life, is going to sell a roughly 3% position in itself to Samsung, which is an even bigger Apple supplier and one of Sharp’s biggest rivals.
The price is reportedly about a cheap $112 million, below market value.
Sharp is trying to cla...Mar. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,625 |
 The Red Chinese government doesn’t much care for the pervasiveness of Android-based smartphones in the country or the dependence of local R&D on Android and, according to a white paper put out by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, “While the Android system is open...Mar. 6, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,785 |
 A US district court judge Friday slashed the $1.05 billion award granted Apple last August by a jury that found Apple’s great nemesis Samsung copied Apple’s mobile widgetry. Apple’s stock thereupon fell.
The court has ordered a new trial to decide exactly what Apple should get.
Dist...Mar. 5, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,980 |
 We’ve heard about Google Glasses. And we’ve heard about Apple iWatch. And yes, we’ve heard about people embedding cellphones into shoes [1]. Once again, the term “wearable computing” is becoming a hot topic in news and literatures. Some have even announced that the age of wearable tech...Mar. 4, 2013 09:30 AM EST Reads: 2,521 |
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