Collen Kriel

Collen Kriel is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE covering consumer technology with a focus on mobile. He has a passion for words, the Internet, the Web and all things tech. He endures a minor fascination with people who define themselves by the brand of smartphone they own. Prior to writing for SiliconANGLE he worked as an account executive in the IT industry, directly for, or in association with companies like Mimecast, IBM, VMware and Micros. He is an avid traveller currently making his way around South East Asia

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Report: 14 top U.S. hospitals testing Apple’s HealthKit

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL12 YEARS AGO

In an effort to curb rising medical costs and monitor patients remotely, 14 hospitals in the U.S. are currently running pilot programs with Apple Inc.’s HealthKit service, with more in talks to also participate. The hospitals confirmed their participation to Reuters, who …

Must love pot: High There! is a dating app for potheads

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL12 YEARS AGO

Prompted by Tinder’s success, online dating has progressively gone mobile and today a variety of dating apps exist for a range of interests. Now there is an online dating app aimed at another group looking for love: Potheads. Denver-based High There! wants …

Confide, the ‘Snapchat for business’ app takes aim at the enterprise with new features

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL12 YEARS AGO

Launched last year, Confide set out to offer ephemeral text messaging for business users. With its latest update, released Wednesday, it added key enterprise features, like the ability to share images and documents. The ‘Snapchat for business’ app now lets users share …

iOS finally outsells Android in the U.S., gains shares in Europe and China

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL12 YEARS AGO

For the first time since 2012, Apple Inc.’s iOS outsold Google Inc.’s Android mobile operating system in the U.S. It also gained on Android in Europe and China. According to the latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, covering the …

Report: Apple in talks with content owners about its own pay-TV service

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL12 YEARS AGO

According to industry executives, Apple Inc. is talking directly to TV programmers in an effort to strike deals that will let the company create its own “over the top” pay-TV service. Sources told Re/code that Apple has shown content owners demos of …

Apple leased camera-equipped vehicles spotted in Bay area, hints at street view-style mapping project

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL12 YEARS AGO

In recent weeks a number of minivans sporting camera equipment as well as LiDAR sensors mounted to the roof have occurred in the Concord, California area. The sightings could be due to a new Apple project, possibly a large update to their …

Wearables to help push mobile traffic growth tenfold, says Cisco report

NEWS By COLLEN KRIEL12 YEARS AGO

Released Tuesday, Cisco Systems Inc.’s Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast takes a look back at 2014 and offers a glimpse at what it predicts mobile data traffic will look like by 2019. Simply put, the numbers are staggering. Networking equipment provider Cisco …

Collen Kriel

Latest from Collen Kriel

Report: 14 top U.S. hospitals testing Apple’s HealthKit

Must love pot: High There! is a dating app for potheads

Confide, the ‘Snapchat for business’ app takes aim at the enterprise with new features

iOS finally outsells Android in the U.S., gains shares in Europe and China

Report: Apple in talks with content owners about its own pay-TV service

Apple leased camera-equipped vehicles spotted in Bay area, hints at street view-style mapping project

Wearables to help push mobile traffic growth tenfold, says Cisco report

Pixie, the ‘Location of Things’ solution, finds your stuff via augmented reality

Using ‘anonymous’ credit card metadata and a few Tweets, scientists reidentify consumers

New Apple Watch app to control your Tesla Model S

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