A Samsung advertisement and a Nokia tweet, both knocking the iPhone 5 and touting the respective products of their own design and construction, share a message: It doesn’t take a genius. The implication of the phrase is that one does need to possess great intellect to understand that rival smartphones outclass the newly announced...
A Samsung advertisement and a Nokia tweet, both knocking the iPhone 5 and touting the respective products of their own design and construction, share a message: It doesn’t take a genius. The implication of the phrase is that one does need to possess great intellect to understand that rival smartphones outclass the newly announced...
Samsung released a preview of a new anti-iPhone 5 ad it will run in newspapers tomorrow morning, and Apple fans are already mocking it. They have a valid point. It seems like Samsung padded its comparison of the Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5 with a ton of extra features while omitting features...
Samsung released a preview of a new anti-iPhone 5 ad it will run in newspapers tomorrow morning, and Apple fans are already mocking it. They have a valid point. It seems like Samsung padded its comparison of the Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5 with a ton of extra features while omitting features...
It’s not well known, but here in the United States, for the police to get their hands on your personal email, no warrant is required. Yes, your email really isn’t very secure. Here’s how it works: As provided for in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), only an administrative subpoena is required to read email from...
It’s fair to say that Reddit is having a moment right now. In the wake of President Obama’s decision to make the site part of the campaign trail by doing an “Ask Me Anything” QA last month, more and more people are seeing the site for the first time. Traffic is up, and mainstream...
Apple is rumored to be prepping a Pandora-like service providing virtual radio stations to users, according to the WSJ, and though it didn’t debut at this past week’s Apple event, I think there’s still a strong chance it’s coming. It’s not the same as an on-demand streamed music delivery like Spotify or Rdio, but...
The Federal Communications Commission plans to designate 100 MHz of spectrum for small use, which would go a long way in encouraging the deployment of a dense layer of mobile broadband capacity for our smartphones to romp around in. But there’s a catch: carriers don’t just get to buy this spectrum and lock it...
A decade ago, we used our mobile phones to make phone calls and perhaps to send text messages. Some advanced users checked their email and maybe did occasional tasks online. Smartphones and tablets have changed these habits dramatically. But how, exactly? In a recent report on Mobile Usage from BI Intelligence, we analyze various usage patterns in...
The many benefits Platform as a Service (PaaS) bring to the enterprise are well known and well publicized — chief among them the ability for developers to build applications faster than ever before. But as this space begins to mature, a new opportunity is emerging for PaaS players that could broaden their reach and...