When Samsung first got interested in the smart home, and IoT more generally, it approached the endeavor from the usual consumer electronics direction—create a closed ecosystem it could control and monetize… Read more »
The drive to provide an omnichannel customer experience has become a war for the “everywhere customer,” who uses multiple devices and channels for shopping and expects brands to be everywhere. Forward-thinking companies… Read more »
Microsoft has released a free ‘preview’ edition of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac. Users on Windows, Android, and iOS have had numerous updates, but Mac users have had to wait four… Read more »
Dropbox has added the social design element of Groups to Dropbox for Business. This is not currently available for other Dropbox accounts. In essence, Groups provide a shorthand way to share… Read more »
In two weeks, Gigaom brings its big data conference, Structure Data, back to New York City in a big way. Growth in the big data industry has moved beyond infrastructure to include… Read more »
Good Technology released their Q4 2014 report, and iOS devices are clobbering Android. Led by the enormous surge of iPhone 6 devices, iOS was 73% of all smartphone activations in the quarter,… Read more »
Last week, I wrote briefly about Apache HBase pushing out its 1.0 release. Subsequently, news of several more new releases of Big Data-related projects rolled out of the Apache Software Foundation. I… Read more »
BitTorrent has been developing products that can lead to cash for the peer-to-peer communications and file sharing platform, with the secure Bleep messaging app and the Bundle content publishing service. The beta… Read more »
A consortium of 15 banks — led by Goldman Sachs — are bankrolling a messaging and networking platform, Symphony (see Consortium of Leading Financial Firms Invest in New Communication and Workflow Platform –… Read more »
It seems that everyone from home security leader ADT to the broadband and cable providers like Time Warner want a piece of the smart home. The logic goes that these companies… Read more »