To coincide with Mobile World Congress, Google has announced its latest figures for the growth of the Android ecosystem. The company reports a year-on-year growth rate of more than 250%, with 850,000 new Android devices activated each day. Google says that this means that the total number of Android devices around the world has topped [...]
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Android chief Andy Rubin said to Nilay Patel from THE VERGE that the biggest problem for Android on tablets is “there’s no organized way for consumers to recognize it as a viable platform,” and that Google wants consumers to see its tablets as part of the broader Android ecosystem. [...]
Apple iPad 2 (16GB, Wi-Fi, black) – The iPad 2 refines an already excellent product. Its easy-to-use interface, vast app catalog, and marathon battery life bolster Apple’s claim to being the king of tablets. Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime (32GB, gray) – The Asus Transformer Prime is the best full-featured Android tablet yet, with a [...]
With its security features, sturdy design, and swappable battery, the Fujitsu Stylistic Q550 puts business functionality into a Windows tablet you can actually use, and its combination of touch input and physical controls sidestep many common problems. If your needs aren’t tied to an operating system, the Apple iPad 2 is maybe still the best [...]
The new version of the OS brings social integration with services such as Facebook and Twitter, speedier operation with the help of real-time multitasking and several new productivity tools including Documents To Go, which lets you view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
By Dan Rowinski, RWW Banks already play a central role in the day-to-day lives of consumers. There is huge potential for the banks to profit from the mobile payments evolution and they need to move quickly before the industry passes them by. The major players are already setting up foundations to profit on the mobile [...]
Lenovo says that paired with the keyboard dock, the combination has up to 20 hours of runtime. Compared to the ASUS Transformer Prime and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, this 10-inch IdeaTab comes close to or even beats them with a 8.69mm thickness and a 580 grams weight.
Feb 15, 2012 – xyzmo, a leading supplier of e-signature solutions, today announced it has won a major contract with an independent telecommunications retailer. Gerald Cäsar, xyzmo’s CEO commented, ”This project represents one of the largest single deployments of e-signature solutions in the telecommunications industry. Being selected as the ‘clear choice’, after a rigorous evaluation and [...]
Worldwide smartphone sales to end users soared to 149 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 47.3 per cent increase from the fourth quarter of 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. Total smartphone sales in 2011 reached 472 million units and accounted for 31 percent of all mobile devices sales, up 58 percent from [...]
Based on a decade of Ingenico experience in signature capture and touch-screen technology, the iSC250 represents a unique combination of security and performance, leveraging the multimedia enabled Telium 2 platform. Much more than just a payment device, the iSC250 enables retailers to leverage solutions that bring real value to their businesses and customers – true [...]
According to a company press release published on February 13, the 7-inch followup to Samsung’s Android-powered line of Galaxy tablets will go on sale in March. The new device is Samsung’s first to run Google’s latest Android 4.0 operating system, commonly referred to as Ice Cream Sandwich. The next generation of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab [...]
By 2016, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers. Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped SAP application. Rather, mobile is the manifestation of a much broader shift to new systems of engagement. These systems of engagement help [...]
The good: The Samsung Galaxy Note’s 5.3-inch HD screen is ideal for showcasing multimedia. It has 4G LTE, a great 8-megapixel camera, and a souped-up S-Pen stylus that brings new ways to interact with your phone. The bad: The Galaxy Note’s S-Pen is small, has a delayed response, and requires a little training to use. [...]
More than three-quarters of C-suite executives (CXOs) own at least one tablet computer while 20pc have two or more, according to new research. Nearly all CXOs report owning iPad devices which they bought directly from Apple while Dell is the most owned laptop computer. Frost & Sullivan’s analysis on 2011 EU CXOs’ Choice: Mobile Devices [...]
The STYLISTIC Q550 Slate is aimed at use in all sorts of settings from the office to the hospital and industry. The Q550 has a 10.1-inch screen that is LED backlit and uses IPS tech. The machine has WLAN, Bluetooth, and optional mobile broadband. The Q550 runs an Atom processor and uses Windows 7 Pro [...]
There is a beautiful and liquid secondary market for phones, and in that market, the iPhone reigns supreme. Priceonomics data suggests that buying an iPhone is a better economic decision than an Android or BlackBerry. If you buy an iPhone, down the line you will have a piece of hardware that still has economic value. [...]
by Craig Le Clair with Connie Moore and Emily Fowler-Cornfeld, Forrester Research Executive Summary Electronic signatures are gaining momentum due to accelerating consumer technology and the need to reduce both transaction costs and the time to close business. But despite increasing customer acceptance, most enterprises adopt e-signatures as an afterthought to larger processes like account [...]
A Gartner survey conducted in the fourth quarter of 2011 among 157 BPM professionals revealed that the main obstacle preventing further adoption of BPM was organizational politics. “BPM is frequently successful when applied to one-off projects at a departmental level with significant benefits. However, when it comes to scaling this success up to cross-departmental programs [...]
