We had an inkling that the fourth quarter smartphone sales crown was close: Last month, Strategy Analytics suggested it was a dead heat between Apple and Samsung. On Tuesday, research firm… Read more »
Venmo, a mobile payment app popular among college students and recent grads, has security holes “you could drive a truck through,” according to an article posted on Slate this week. The report… Read more »
Despite wide-ranging criticism last year, the state of California passed a law requiring phones to have a remote “kill switch” by July 2015 and the approach, as well as similar legislation in… Read more »
Like the iPod and iPhone, the HoloLens represents an inspiring connection of hardware and software that will take its company in a new direction. But unlike Apple’s immense successes, Microsoft is… Read more »
Apple announced a new cloud-oriented app called Photos last June at its developer’s conference, which we later learned would replace iPhoto and Aperture. The new Photos app for iOS came as part… Read more »
With the year nearly at an end, it seemed like a good time to take a look at which Gigaom posts generated the most traffic during 2014. The results speak for themselves: people really… Read more »
Per usual Android handsets will dominate the smartphone market, according to IDC, accounting for more than one billion, or 82 percent, of those shipments. Read more »
iOS 8.1 is ready for download and Apple Pay is the main feature. A quick look at the change log, however, shows some welcome updates, fixes and features such as return… Read more »