According to IDC, in 2013 the global volume of the enterprise networking market (which includes software defined networks (SDN)) will reach $42.4 billion, and will reach $50 billion, with growth across all categories, by 2017. The volume of the Layer 2-3 switch market segment of the market has increased by 46.9% compared to the same period last…
After more than a year of announcements, Google launched its paid YouTube channels. The service allows YouTube viewers to access premium contents from select content providers. Monthly subscription rate starts at $.99 with a 14-day free trial. Some content creators also offer discounts for those who will pay an annual rate. As of now, there…
More and more companies encourage their employees to work on their devices, thus reducing the cost of computer equipment, but also increase the cost to maintain licenses and safety. According to research by Gartner, half of the world’s companies will seek from their workers to individually provide devices for work by 2017. It is estimated…
Teaming up with a University of Texas engineering professor, Samsung starts working on allowing the brain to control a tablet or smartphone. In a MIT Technology Review by Susan Young, the electroencephalography cap being developed can start an application, pick a song from a playlist, select a person from the contact list, or turn on…
Rackspace recently launched its “mobile-ready” stack for developers which allow them to use the pre-packaged backend repeatedly every time they have a mobile project. According to John Engates, Rackspace CTO, the firm is including experience and expertise in its pre-packaged backend so that developers need not spend a lot of time in developing the backend….
In a recent gathering of developers, Twitter announced its updated iPhone and Android applications which will support its newly launched Twitter Cards. The cards introduce new contents like photo galleries, product information, applications which can be contained in expanded tweets. Aside from the Twitter Cards, Twitter can support deep-linking for mobile applications. This means that…
With just a little over a year into mobile advertising, Facebook is expected to at least corner 30% of the mobile display market this 2013. According to eMarketer, a market research organization, the social networking site can earn about $1 billion from its ad revenues for mobile phones alone. Being the second mobile advertisement publisher…
According to Kapersky Lab researchers Denis Maslennikov, Kurt Baumgartner, and Costin Raiu, this is the first time that there has been a target Android malware attack against mobile phones. Furthermore, people at Kapersky Lab had traced the malware to a Chinese server in LA. The phishing email contained an Android Package file, “WUC’s Conference.apk”, refers…
The latest addition to the roster of mobile apps millionaire is a 17-year-old boy in London by the name of Nick D’Aloisio. Yahoo was reported to have bought the mobile news app Summly for $30 million. Although the terms of the sale haven’t been disclosed yet, Summly creator D’Aloisio is touted to be Yahoo’s youngest…
There’s one more addition to Europe’s growing number of mobile payment providers. Aside from local startup companies, Intuit recently launched its mobile credit card payment system known as Intuit Pay. It was initially launched in the United Kingdom, ahead of PayPal which first announced launching its own mobile payment in the region. Intuit’s closes US…