An IBM research report predicts vastly more powerful batteries and holographic cell phones are in our future. – Technology giant International Business Machines (IBM) issued a list of predictions of future technologies culled from a survey of 3,000 IBM scientists, Bloomberg reported, pronouncing cities heated by servers, holographic cell phones and advanced city traffic monitoring as among the prevalent techn…
Royal Bank of Canada customers can be the first Canadians to enjoy banking on the go. The RBC has released a mobile banking app for Apple iPhones, iPad and the iPod Touch, as well as BlackBerry devices. – The Royal Bank of Canada has become that countrys first bank to
launch a mobile banking application for select smartphones namely,
RIM BlackBerry devices and Apples iPhones, iPod Touch and iPad.
The free applications enable users to view account balances for
business and personal accounts, …
LinkedIn for Android is somewhat baked, launched in beta. However, users must jump through hoops to test the fledgling application on their Android handsets. – LinkedIn users with Android smartphones have long felt
left out, but that is set to change as the social network for professionals launched
its LinkedIn for Android application to beta Dec. 16.
LinkedIn for Android offers many of the same features available to mobile
users of LinkedIn’s BlackBer…
Chinas smartphone market is “exploding,” and its cell phone gray market is losing momentum, though still growing, says iSuppli. – Chinas gray-market cell phone shipments are slowing, iSuppli
reported Dec. 16. While still set to ship a considerable 255 million
units in 2011 up from 228 million in 2010 its a considerably slower
pace than the 43.6 percent growth between 2009 and 2010.
“The object of a nationwide government …
Most of the popular Websites have created or are in the process of creating a mobile-friendly version of their Website. Hundreds of thousands of new mobile applications for smartphones are also being developed right now. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy discusses these two mobile trends, plus shares his vision for the next revolution in mobile that will change things around yet again. – One thing you may not know is how the Web is being re-created all over again. You might sensibly ask, quot;Why would anyone want to do that? quot; since it took so much effort to define the standards and create tens of millions of Websites in the first place.
The reason that a good part of the Web…
Here are some useful tips for you to choose a right mobile spy software for mobile phones.
Ekahau Mobile Survey delivers a nice mix of WiFi stumbling tools and performance measurement to Android-based smartphones and tablets, supporting many Android devices running Android OS 2.1 or higher. Mobile Survey ($299) is sold through the Ekahau Web store, rather than the Android Market, so the device to be used with Mobile Survey must support non-Market application sources. The software performs both active and passive WiFi scans with the ability to measure detected network performance against multicriteria templates tailored for specific network use cases. Unfortunately, Mobile Survey is hampered because most Android smartphones don’t support 5 GHz 802.11n and only have a single transmit/receive chain, even though the software claims to be able to handle the higher frequency band and better antenna configurations. To read the full review, check out "Ekahau Mobile Survey for Android Troubleshoots WiFi Networks". Or if you have experience with Ekahau Mobile Survey, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
Microsoft has updated its Bing search engine with new features, as the company seeks to shorten Googles market lead. – Microsoft unveiled some updates to its Bing search engine
Dec. 15, as the company rounds out another year of heightened competition with
Google in the worldwide search market.
Those updates include new features for its Bing for Mobile
app for iPhone and Android, notably integration of OpenTable …
Flaunting the latest gadgets has almost become a style and status statement today besides being a necessity. It is the mobile phone that adds weight to every hand! Mobile phones are incessantly being stuffed with increasing number of vital features over time.
Google benefited from almost 60 percent of U.S. mobile ad spend for both search and display ads in 2010. Apple grabbed 8.4 percent of the spend, but almost tied Google in display ads. – Google garnered 59 percent of a U.S.
mobile advertising market worth $877 million in 2010, thanks largely to the
search ad business the company claimed was operating at a $1 billion run-rate this year.
Market researcher IDC said Apple was the
runner-up at 8.4 percent of the U.S.
ad spend, whic…
Ekahau Mobile Survey delivers a promising WiFi survey tool to Android smartphones and tablets but is limited by the available pool of hardware on which to use it. – Ekahau Mobile Survey for Android-based smartphones and
tablets delivers a promising foundation for an easy-to-use WiFi
troubleshooting, assessment and planning tool. However, current limitations in
the pool of hardware on which it can be used, and feature dependencies on more
expensive Ekahau pr…
Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab are among the tablets currently on the market. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy discusses the features of each tablet and suggests the tablets you should really buy for your loved ones this holiday season. – I’ve had a number of friends and relatives ask me, quot;What tablet should you buy for the upcoming holidays? quot; The question is a good one to consider because there are so many choices this year. Remember that, just a year ago, the only quot;tablet quot; in high-volume production was the Kind…
Facebook is adding an application dashboard for mobile users that will give them a more detailed view into what applications are accessing their data. – Facebook is bringing new privacy controls and visibility
to the more than 200 million people accessing the social network through
their mobile devices.
During the next few weeks, Facebook plans to roll out a new application
dashboard to mobile users. According to Facebook, the dashboard wi…
Health care messaging provider NaviNet buys mobile management company Prematics to build its medical resources on the iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices. – Real-time health care communications network
NaviNet announced that it has acquired mobile-care-management company
Prematics to boost NaviNet’s presence on mobile devices.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
NaviNet is a provider of UPIM (unified
patient information management). The compa…
The mobile application development industry has been witnessing a rapid growth and developments especially in the last few years. The so-called smart phones are getting smarter with every new launch and consequently, the applications are also getting more and more advanced.
If youre a growing business, then customer relations management can be a bit difficult to keep up with. After all, you only have so many options that you can choose fromÂ…right? Or is there actually a lot more to the process than you might think?
When you are hitting the sales trail for business take that mobile crm. Several companies make crm software and when you decide which mobile crm software you or your company likes best and that best fits your purposes then purchase it for your iPad.
A mobile crm or any business software program that is existing software for computers that has been redesigned for a mobile application or it could be new software.
The comScore report found Samsung ranked as the top handset manufacturer, while BlackBerry maker RIM led smartphones. – The October comScore MobiLens report, which reported key trends in the U.S.
mobile phone industry during the three-month average period ending October,
found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 24.2 percent
market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 35.8 perce…
The Atlanta Wireless Technology Forum hosted an interesting evening with some mobile and wireless industry veterans on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at the Ravinia Club in Atlanta. Five presenters discussed their vision for what mobile and wireless will look like in 2011. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy shares the evening’s highlights. – I was fortunate to be asked by the Atlanta Wireless Technology Forum to moderate an interesting evening with some mobile and wireless industry veterans on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at the Ravinia Club in Atlanta. The event was held to discuss their vision for what mobile and wireless will look li…
