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How Samsung’s Rebranding Could Set them Apart from Apple
A couple years ago, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone that could see a day when Apple didn’t rule the mobile device scene. Lo and behold, someone rose up to the challenge and it’s munching away at Apple’s success. Who’s the culprit? Samsung Electronics Co. Reports from IDC state that more Android devices are ...
The Opportunity in Mobile OS Fragmentation, as One CEO Sees It
When we launched our DevOps vertical within the SiliconAngle network, we had no idea how dominant the mobile developer’s interests would become for our publication. The mobile arena has opened up a whole new world for businesses, developers, publishers and advertisers alike, and as a result we’ve seen countless startups and existing firms launching tools ...
Data Week: A New SXSW for the Sleek Geek?
When I first ventured into the world of online publishing, social media was the buzz term of the day. SXSW was the mecca of all things web 2.0, and you could feel the revolution under foot, freeing individual voices and empowering a consumer-driven era. Yet nothing’s grabbed my heart like data science, the underlying methods ...
In 5 Years Digital Pubs Will Rebuild for the Wired World, says Zinio CMO
With yesterday’s unveiling of the new iPad mini came an update for another Apple product: iBooks. It may not have seemed like the best setting for software update news, but the success of iBooks has been squarely attributed to the rise of the tablet. Mobility has impacted every consumer-driven industry in today’s market, including publishing. ...
iPad mini Price Disappoints. Is Apple’s Ecosystem Strong Enough to Fight the Fire?
The rumors were mostly right. At Apple’s Special Event today in San Jose, CA, the iPad mini was revealed. Its screen measures 7.85 inches diagonally, slightly bigger than its 7-inch rivals that have crafted their own market niche with “phablets.” As the holiday shopping season approaches, the iPad mini will round out Apple’s iDevice line ...
Would Schmidt Open Source iOS as Apple’s CEO?
By Kristen Nicole, Mellisa Tolentino and Saroj Kar In an interview with AllThingsD, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt stated that if he were to serve as CEO again at any company, he would choose Apple. Having once sat on Apple’s board, the company is near and dear to Schmidt, not to mention, Apple is where the ...
What Came First: The Cloud or Mobile Workers? SugarSync CEO Finds the Balance
The cloud may still be a vague and amorphous term, but it’s become a bridge between consumer and enterprise like we’ve never seen before. It’s all thanks to mobile, which traverses the many different roles our daily lives take on as easily as we do. And thanks to a boom in smartphone and tablet technology, ...
Thismoment Update Bakes In Dynamic Social Marketing for the Enterprise
Dynamic is the word of the day. If I’d known how many times John Bara, CMO of Thismoment, was going to use the word “dynamic” during our phone conversation earlier this week, I would’ve counted. Because according to Bara, “dynamic” is the most important characteristic of our new era in social media marketing. The consumer ...
A Realistic Vision of How You’ll Adapt for Data, as MetraTech CEO Scott Swartz Sees It
In all the excitement over big data, it’s easy to forget the consumer. They are, after all, the ones impacted by analytics that uncover patterns in consumer purchasing behavior, create algorithms for product recommendations and determine the best marketing methods. And it is the consumer that must provide all of those data points. In today’s ...
Smarter Not Harder: from Datacenter to Supply Chain
Datacenters may not be the greenest, most manageable products out there, but a recent article in The New York Times would have you believe that Facebook’s datacenter was melting at the risk of losing 1 billion users’ photos, or that Microsoft can’t handle the countless servers needed to operate a software development conglomeration. So while the Times article ...
