Mobile phone users use their smartphones for greater usage of social media, navigation, video, retail, and music apps such as Facebook, Google Maps, YouTube, Amazon (retail), and Pandora Radio. Social media is the most popular with larger screens users, followed by navigation, video, retail and music. Last year, Forrester Research annual report predicted that mobile…
What is a real trend, which changed our lives forever and what is a mere hype that fizzles out quickly? Once a year, technology research firm Gartner releases Hype Cycle report to get the current nurve of the market, the business trend and the future direction. This year also Gartner has released its annual hype…
Today, mobile applications are much more effective and powerful. Users that install them show real interest in the content they provide, and they can even display custom alerts in the status bar of the phone. If you have a website, a business, or even a band and want to ensure that users can access the…
GrowthBeat — VentureBeat’s inaugural event on the future of marketing tech — is gathering the industry’s biggest names to uncover new case studies, insights, and strategies designed to help companies more effectively acquire and retain customers and grow revenue. There’s science in knowing your prospect or customer, learning what he or she does with or around…
Being application developer is not always the most exciting job. Especially when you have to devote time to implement functions or personally identify data analysis. To make life earier for mobile developers, Amazon Web Services introduced several new features that allow software developers to create and deploy mobile applications and expand its scale more easily….
IBM has unveiled one of its bigger plans so far. The company will invest three billion investment in chip and new technology. Over the next five years, IBM will invest a significant amount of their total revenue in new technologies like non-silicon computer chips, quantum computing research, and computers that mimic the human brain. Cloud…
Having been the first to understand that the services would yield more than the sale of equipment, IBM was the first to suggest that software sales will bring in more than services today. In continuation of that effort, IBM has launched a new big data service that is designed to deliver better results and decision-making…
MobileBeat — VentureBeat’s seventh annual event on the future of mobile — is gathering the industry’s brightest minds to unveil brand new case studies and strategies designed to help companies leverage mobile to drive real growth. They’ve got a bunch of new speakers listed below, as well as a roadmap laying out what exactly you’ll…
Google sets big jump on the bandwagon with networked home automation and in particular Internet of Things. The Internet giant subsidiary Nest, which Google bought for 3.2 billion earlier this year, aims to re-invent devices for the home that are overlooked, such as thermostats and smoke alarms and turns home into a smarthome. In this…
Organizations are dedicating increasing resources to security and risk. Security and risk leaders need to fully engage with the latest technology trends if they are to define, achieve and maintain effective security and risk management programmes that simultaneously enable business opportunities and manage risk. Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit is the only time when…