Archive for the ‘Mobile Technology’ Category
Novell offers mobile file sharing for the enterprise
Joab Jackson, IDG News Service, 5/1/13 Filr is designed to let employees to access their work files from mobile devices In an effort to help enterprises get a handle on the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend, Novell has released enterprise file sharing software that it claims is as easy to use as commercial cloud [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: BYOD, Cloud
Free mobile messaging apps will be the death of SMS. Eventually. Just not yet.
Neelie Kroes, The Next Web, 5/1/13 Free mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Kik, Viber, WeChat and MessageMe are getting so popular in the developed world that they’re eating away at the telecom operators’ SMS revenues, traditionally a cash cow (and actually a bit of a scam) for carriers worldwide. Unless you’ve been living under [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: Samsung, SMS
Ubuntu 13.04 boosts graphics performance to prepare for phones, tablets
Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 5/1/13 Raring Ringtail for Ubuntu desktops and servers now ready to download. The stable release of Ubuntu 13.04 became available for download today, with Canonical promising performance and graphical improvements to help prepare the operating system for convergence across PCs, phones, and tablets. “Performance on lightweight systems was a core focus [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: Cloud, SDK
Dell Goes Mobile Using Acquisitions, Offers Enterprises New BYOD Possibilities
David Roe, CMS Wire, 5/1/13 Following-up on its promise to diversify its business in the face of the rapid decline of the PC market, Dell has just announced a new portfolio of mobile solutions that will facilitate Bring-Your-Own-Device strategies within the enterprise. Dell, Mobile That Dell, of all IT companies, should be doing this is [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: BYOD
Sprint brings Data Link and Static IP to its LTE network
Terrence O’Brien, Engadget, 4/25/13 Most of the hullabaloo around Sprint’s nascent LTE network has focused on the consumer. But, don’t worry, the carrier hasn’t forgotten about its precious business customers. Today it announced that Data Link and Static IP would be coming to its latest iteration of 4G. For those of you not familiar, Data [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: LTE, Sprint
Machine-to-machine systems resurrect a mobile rivalry
Stephen Lawson, ComputerWorld, 4/25/13 Sprint and component maker U-blox want to help machine-to-machine technology transition to CDMA Just as the mobile world seems to be finding peace and harmony around LTE, the age-old feud between GSM and CDMA is flaring up again. Now, the battleground is M2M (machine-to-machine) communications, the emerging use of wireless to [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, CDMA, EDGE, GSM, HSPA, LTE, Sprint, Verizon
SendHub, A Google Voice Alternative For Enterprise, Arrives On Android
Sarah Perez, Mobile Crunch, 4/17/13 SendHub, the Y Combinator-backed call and messaging solution targeting business users and other organizations, is today extending its platform to include support for Android. The company had previously rolled out support for iPhone almost a year ago, promising that an Android option was on the roadmap. The company says that [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, AT&T, Verizon, WiFi
SkyDrive Decision Reveals Microsoft’s Office on iOS Strategy
Gregg Keizer, CIO, 4/9/13 Microsoft’s update Wednesday to its SkyDrive iOS app is proof that the software giant has no intention of sharing revenue with its fierce rival, Apple, and further evidence it will tie Office on the iPad to its subscription plans, an analyst said today. “It appears that Microsoft doesn’t want to give [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology, WinPhone · Tagged with: Cloud
Visualized: AT&T’s network-boosting Small Cell
Joseph Volpe, Engadget, 4/9/13 WiFi used to be the only somewhat reliable way for a carrier to plug up holes in its network coverage. It’s a tactic AT&T’s used to great effect in many metropolitan areas where it offers wireless service. But short of acquiring more spectrum — a costly and time-consuming process littered with [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, WiFi
Google offers Python and Java libraries that bring SMS, voice to apps
Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 4/3/13 Google has released a set of Python and Java libraries that help developers who use Google App Engine integrate text messaging and voice communications into their apps. Google App Engine is Google’s cloud-based development platform, which lets developers build and host applications in Google data centers. The new Python and Java [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: API, Cloud, SMS, VoIP