Featured Report: Are You Sabotaging Your Business Website?

Wall Street Journal

For the Few Who Do Use Mobile Payments, They Like NFC

Sept,12,2014

by: BRIAN R. FITZGERALD

Mobile payments have been around for years, offered by the likes of Google GOOGL -1.28%, Amazon and Square. But none of the various technologies have been adopted broadly.

Apple AAPL +0.73% is hoping to change that with its own service, Apple Pay, that relies on near-field communication, which involves waving a device in front of a reader. Of U.S. adults who have embraced mobile payments with their smartphones, 37% have used NFC, according to a recent survey by Nielsen that was charted by Statista. Read More

Dex Media

Are You Sabotaging Your Business Website?
Sept,08,2014
by: Marion Jacobson

It’s essential for your business to have a website, but if you’re making these mistakes, you might be hurting your business more than helping.

Visual Mistakes

You can drive people away from your website in a nanosecond with:

• Flash or animation that begins to play automatically
• An extremely busy design
• A very dull, vanilla design
• Tiny text that is hard to read
• Missing, hard-to-find, or hard-to-read contact info

Read More

QuickSpout

One Insanely Actionable Content Marketing Strategy That Will Generate You 74% More Search Traffic

Sept,15,2014

by: NEIL PATEL

Are you tired of your competition outranking you? Or even worse, seeing them rank for keywords that you don’t even show up for? In this post, I will teach you, step by step, how to identify keywords your competition is ranking for and how to create content that will outrank them. This approach is so effective that by leveraging it on Quick Sprout over the last 12 months, I’ve been able to increase my search traffic from 160,773 visitors to 280,428 visitors a month. That’s 119,655 more visitors a month. Or 74% more search traffic per month. Read More

Site Pro News

Google+ Social Media Strategies – What You Need to Know

Sept,15,2014

by: Tina Courtney-Brown 

No social network invokes the fear, confusion, and outrage that arises when someone mentions Google+. It’s the most controversial platform out there these days, in part because so many business owners can’t seem to quantify if it’s worth the time and effort. Most concur that businesses need to have a presence on the flailing social space, for no other reason than Google wants you to, and Google owns the search stratosphere. SEO value aside, it’s a tough space to unravel.

Rest assured, however, that if you’re crafty, committed, and well-prepared, Google+ can indeed be a marketing boon for your business. There are metrics available now that help decipher what was once an intensely mysterious space. You no longer have to “trust it’s working.” Google+ experts ‘CircleCount’ recently released an interesting and highly valuable infographic and report that helps marketers capitalize in a space that few have truly mastered. Heed their advice, and you’re light years ahead of the pack  Read More

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Featured Report: Mobility "like a drug" says CEO of property buyer's agent

ZD Net

Mobility "like a drug" says CEO of property buyer's agent

Aug,22,2014

by:  Angus Macaskill

Ben Handler, co-founder and CEO of property buyers' agent Cohen Handler, provides insights from his organisation's experience of implementing mobility tools.  Handler discusses the client service and collaboration benefits that accrued, and advises other businesses to get on the mobility train before it leaves the station. "The phone is like a drug, people are addicted to their phone…and if you can't work out a way to get to your phone, to connect with your customers, to be connecting with your group, then you've missed the boat."  Read More

Fierce Wireless

5 reasons cable operators are building public Wi-Fi networks

Sept,08,2014

by: Mike Dano

It's no secret that the nation's cable companies are making a serious investment in public Wi-Fi networks. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and others are building out hundreds of thousands of public hotspots that their customers can access for free. Moreover, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable already enable roaming across 250,000 of their individual hotspots via the "CableWiFi" initiative, without requiring the use of Hotspot 2.0/Passpoint technology. Read More

Media Post

Kids Have Opinions About Smartphones; Tablets, Too

Sept,09,2014
by: Aaron Baar

Although they’re not generally the target consumer for high-end electronics, kids are using smartphones and tablets in increasing numbers and are showing a clear preference among brands. According to advertising consultancy Communicus, one-third of American pre-kindergarten-age children have a tablet specifically used by them, while two-thirds of kids regularly use tablets. Among those that don’t have tablets, 50% ask their parents to buy them one.  “It’s certainly an opportunity area” for device manufacturers, Jeri Smith, president and CEO of Communicus, tells Marketing Daily. “[Kids] don’t dictate the brand, but they can use the ‘pester factor’ to get what they want.”  Read More

Wireless Week

Smartphones, Apps Lending Intelligence to Cars

Sept,09,2014
by: Tom Krisher

With a thumb swipe on a smartphone, your car one day will be able to drive into a parking deck, find an open spot and back into a space — all by itself. Technology being honed by French auto parts maker Valeo uses a dozen ultrasonic sound-wave sensors, 360-degree cameras and a laser scanner to safely park within a few centimeters of other vehicles. Then, when you're done with dinner or a business meeting, the car will return to you after another swipe of the thumb. The potential benefits are plenty. More orderly parking means less congestion. Drivers are spared the time and frustration of the hunt for a spot. Parking lots can squeeze more vehicles into limited space.  Read More

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Featured Report: Health IT a new sweet spot for investors

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Modern Healthcare

Full D.C. appeals court expected to uphold ACA subsidies

Sept,04,2014

by: Paul Demko and Bob Herman 

The District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington on Thursday said the full 11-member court will rehear (PDF) the controversial case that ruled Americans could not receive subsidies to help pay for plans on federally run health insurance exchanges. Oral arguments will begin Dec. 17.

The court's decision to rehear the case en banc, which experts said is rare for the D.C. appellate court, vacates the judgment issued earlier this summer. On July 22, a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 in Halbig v. Burwell that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act forbade people with lower incomes from receiving tax subsidies from insurance marketplaces run by the federal government, effectively making those subsidies illegal in 36 states. Read More

Fierce EMR

Meaningful Use payments top $24.8 billion
Sept,02,2014
by: Marla Durben Hirsch

The Meaningful Use program has paid providers more than $24.8 billion in incentive payments since its inception, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' latest report.

The report, presented by Elisabeth Myers at CMS' Office of e-Standards and Services to ONC's Health IT Policy Committee on Sept. 3, stated that as of July 2014, there are 487,866 active registrants in the program and payments have amounted to $24,873,262,183. More than 92 percent of eligible hospitals have received payment under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, 90 percent of eligible professionals have registered for the program, and 75 percent of eligible professionals have made a financial commitment to implementing electronic health records. Read More

Fierce Health-Payer

Pharmacy group comes down on health plans

Sept,04,2014

by: Diana Manos

To provide for a smooth transition from coverage to care at the start of the 2015 plan year, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) urged the federal government to require that health plans provide nightly updates to patient eligibility files. This is just one of many actions the group wants health plans to take to help beneficiaries during the upcoming enrollment process. 

NACDS announced it wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to "recommend administrative changes to facilitate a smooth start for new exchange enrollees seeking prescription drug coverage in the 2015 plan year."   Read More

Fierce Health IT

Health IT a new sweet spot for investors

Sept,04,2014

by: Dan Bowman

As use of electronic health records by providers and health tracking devices by consumers becomes more ubiquitous, the health IT industry is gaining a reputation as an emerging sweet spot for technology investors, according to a Reuters report.

Several investors, according to Reuters, said they see health IT as more of a safe bet than an industry like biotechnology. While success in the former industry is linked to services and data being sold to insurers and providers, the latter's success hinges on the unpredictable drug market, the article notes.  Read More

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Featured Report: Microsoft finally cracks down on deceptive Windows Store 'crap apps'

Fierce Wireless 

Nokia to bring HERE mapping platform to Android via partnership with Samsung

Aug,29,2014

by: Phil Goldstein

Nokia (NYSE:NOK) said it will bring its HERE mapping platform to devices that run Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android software starting with Samsung Electronics' Galaxy smartphones. The deal represents a major win for Nokia since the company sold its devices business to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) in April.

According to Nokia, thanks to a licensing deal with Samsung, a HERE beta for Android will be made available for free in October when Samsung rolls out its Gear S smart watch, which runs on the Tizen platform but also supports HERE. That should strengthen the link between the wearable device and Samsung's smartphones, which can be paired together via Bluetooth. Read more

PC World

Microsoft finally cracks down on deceptive Windows Store 'crap apps'

Aug,28,2014

by: Mark Hachman

So-called deceptive “crap apps” have always plagued the Windows Store. But now, Microsoft appears to be finally ready to do something about them.

In a blog post late Wednesday, Microsoft said that it had removed 1,500 deceptively named apps as part of a policy shift to crack down on developers “trying to game the system with misleading titles or descriptions,” the company said.

A year ago, Microsoft publicly said that the Windows Store has more than 100,000 apps, and it’s unlikely that that number has climbed higher than 200,000 apps by now. But as far back as Oct. 2012—before Windows 8 even launched—analysts were pointing out that the fate of the Windows 8 app store didn’t need a large number of apps to be successful. It needed quality, and that’s not what Microsoft delivered. Instead, consumers are faced with numerous clone apps and paid “alternatives” to freeware, both outcomes that give those users a bad taste in their mouths.  Read More

Wireless Week

AT&T Rolls Out New Secure Cloud for Government Clients

Sept,02,2014

by: Ben Munson

AT&T today announced a new secure cloud storage offer for Federal Government agencies. Synaptic Storage as a Service for Government is a multi-tenant, community solution.

The carrier has built in the same features and policies as its commercial cloud storage service but it’s added other functions to beef up security.

The STaaS storage towers are physically separated from other towers in the data center, government customer data won’t co-exist with commercial data, government customers get a separate cloud portal, and all their users are assigned RSA hard token for 2-Factor Authentication.   Read More

Mobile Marketing

Apple Updates Mobile App Ad-serving Guidelines

Sept,01,2014
by: Tim Maytom

Apple has released new, stricter guidelines for developers submitting apps to the iTunes store designed to serve ads.

Under the new rules, Apple will reject mobile apps that don’t use Advertising Identifiers, specifically the IDFA, a unique ID for each iOS device that is the only way to offer targetd ads across the network. Apps may also be rejected if they use the IDFA but do not display ads properly or have a built-in advertising, or indicate they don’t use the IDFA when they do.

With more and more developers using deep linking to help people discover relevant content within their apps, identifying content-related ads in apps has become increasingly important. Apple has expanded its iAd advertising network into 16 countries and regions, moving into Russia and Switzerland most recently.  Read More

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Featured Report: FBI warns healthcare firms they are targeted by hackers

Venture Beat

Guess what? Doctors don’t care about your Fitbit data

Aug,15,2014

by: Mark Sullivan

In theory, health wearables could make a real difference by providing a way to monitor at-risk people, like diabetics. They might be a great way to monitor poorer people who often never touch the health care system until it becomes an emergency. Also, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is introducing millions more people into an already taxed healthcare system, and wearables could be a powerful tool to monitor those new members, catching illnesses before they turn into clinic visits.    Read More

Modern Healthcare

Reform Update: Hospitals see more paying patients, but there's a hitch

Aug,20,2014

by: Beth Kutscher 

Insurance expansion under healthcare reform is starting to yield patient volume for hospitals, but the costs of staffing up for more patients are eclipsing the additional revenue.Earnings reports for not-for-profit systems in the first half of the year show that many providers are seeing rising salary and benefit expenses cut into revenue gains, leading to smaller operating surpluses. “As the pieces of the Affordable Care Act are coming together, it's changing the demand for care,” said Jeff Jones, managing director at Huron Consulting Group. “It's shifting the way that providers are thinking about their labor pools.”    Read More

Reuters

FBI warns healthcare firms they are targeted by hackers

Aug,20,2014

by: JIM FINKLE

 The FBI has warned that healthcare industry companies are being targeted by hackers, publicizing the issue following an attack on U.S. hospital group Community Health Systems Inc that resulted in the theft of millions of patient records.

"The FBI has observed malicious actors targeting healthcare related systems, perhaps for the purpose of obtaining Protected Healthcare Information (PHI) and/or Personally Identifiable Information (PII)," the agency said in a "Flash" alert obtained by Reuters on Wednesday. Read More 

MobiHealthNews

California court’s BYOD ruling could affect hospitals’ policies

Aug,19,2014

by: Jonah Comstock

A new California Court of Appeals ruling has dealt a major blow to bring your own device (BYOD) policies. Although the case focused on employees working in retail, the court’s decision may have implications for any employer with a BYOD policy in place. It could potentially have repercussions for healthcare down the road.

In a class action lawsuit, a customer service representative named Colin Cochran sued his employer, Schwan’s home food delivery service on behalf of 1,500 customer service reps who had been denied reimbursement for work calls made on their personal mobile phones. Overturning the verdict of the California Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals ruled that employers must reimburse employees for some “reasonable portion” of their phone bill, even if the employee’s phone plan was unlimited (so the work calls cost them no additional money) or was paid for by a third party.  Read More

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Featured Report: When the FCC gambles on number portability, consumers stand to lose

Wireless Week

B&N and Samsung Launch New Nook Tablet

Aug,20,2014

by: Andrew Berg

NEW YORK - Barnes & Noble (B&N) Wednesday unveiled its new Nook tablet, the first of its products to be released since the company announced it would outsource its line of slates to Samsung. The new Nook is essentially a re-branded Galaxy Tab 4 that comes running Barnes & Noble’s Android overlay.  B&N CEO Mike Huseby called the launch an “historic” day for his company, saying that he was very proud to be partnering with Samsung. 

Tim Baxter, president Of Samsung Electronics America, noted that the research firms are seeing a slow-down in tablets, but he also said that Samsung continues to see sales of its slate grow. He attributed that growth to Samsung's variety of sizes and choices.  Read More

RCR Wireless Week

When the FCC gambles on number portability, consumers stand to lose

Aug,17,2014

by: JERRY JAMES

The Federal Communications Commission will soon make a critical decision regarding a vital component of the U.S. telecommunications infrastructure: selecting the administrator for local number portability. Portability enables U.S. consumers to keep their phone numbers when they switch carriers and supports the routing of virtually every voice call and text message sent across the country The FCC will decide whether to stay with current vendor Neustar or direct the industry to transition to a new vendor, Telcordia, a subsidiary of Ericsson. The contract with Neustar is currently scheduled to expire in July 2015, about 10 months from now.  Read More

Fierce Developer

'Like' it or not, Facebook's developer program change is the right decision

Aug,19,2014

by: Shane Schick

According to Facebook, all app developers using its platform should be able to honestly quote a version of Sally Field's famous Oscar acceptance speech: "They 'like' me! They really, really 'like' me!" Earlier this month, Facebook made some significant updates to its Platform Policies under games and proper use. The first one comes as no surprise: In keeping with recent moves by Google and increased threats from regulatory bodies, Facebook is requiring developers to be up front about any in-app purchase requirements in so-called free-to-play (F2P) games. Read More

RCR Wireless News

Reality Check: Making voice over Wi-Fi a reality

Aug,15,2014

by: DAVE FRASER

Wi-Fi is now an essential part of our smartphone and tablet-enabled lifestyle. Today, more than two-thirds of our monthly wireless data is consumed over Wi-Fi, and all signs are that this proportion will continue to grow. So while the traditional, cellular-centric view of the industry positions Wi-Fi as a support to the mobile network, there is an alternative and provocative perspective: we actually use the cellular network as in-fill during the time we spend away from our Wi-Fi connections, be they in the home, the office or our favourite coffee shop. Read More

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Featured Report: So you have an app idea and want to make a bajillion bucks

Fierce Wireless

Untangling the business opportunities in the Internet of Things

Aug,13,2014

by: Mike Dano

It's no secret that the Internet of Things has generated a significant amount of buzz in the wireless industry. Indeed, the Internet of Things is now at the peak of its own hype cycle,according to research firm Gartner. (For comparison, the M2M market has already peaked and is on its way toward a "plateau of productivity" while virtual personal assistants are on the firm's pre-peak "innovation trigger" slope.)   Read More

ZD Net

So you have an app idea and want to make a bajillion bucks

Aug,12,2014

by: David Gewirtz

Reader Ron sent me an email recently. He asks, "I know you have a million people ask you this, and every one that asks is sure they have the next best thing. I'm a simple non-tech guy, and I have an idea that should have already been on every phone made. I don't have a lot of money, I'm an ex-Marine who now works in law enforcement, but I'm sure if the app is made, Apple and Android both will want to make it part of the standard features of the phone."   Read More

The Next Web

iOS drops to 67% enterprise share in Q2 2014, Android grows to 32%, and Windows Phone stays flat at 1%

Aug,12,2014

by: EMIL PROTALINSKI

Apple’s iOS still rules the enterprise space, even after having fallen 5 percentage points to 67 percent of total device activations in Q2 2014. Android device activations increased the same amount to 32 percent of total activations last quarter, while Windows Phone activations remain consistent with the five previous quarters: flat at 1 percent.

The latest findings come from Good Technology‘s semi-annual Mobility Index Report. It’s worth noting that since BlackBerry devices use BlackBerry Enterprise Server for corporate email access, Good Technology does not have insight into BlackBerry handset activations. Read More

Wireless Week

A Closer Look: Multitasking on Mobile Devices

Aug,12,2014

by: Anick Jesdanun

Smartphones and tablets would be much more useful if they allowed us to multitask the way desktop and laptop computers do.  When I'm watching video, for instance, I have to pause it to read an email or text that comes in. When I'm composing a message to make plans, I have to leave the app to check the weather forecast. For the most part, I'm not able to do more than one thing at a time on a single screen.   Read More

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