Featured Report: A Microsoft smartwatch could be here within weeks

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A Microsoft smartwatch could be here within weeks

Oct,20,2014

by: Liam Tung

Microsoft's long-rumoured smartwatch could be announced within weeks, giving the company a device to square up to wearables from Apple and Google's Wear partners. According to Forbes, Microsoft could launch the device within the next few weeks, with a focus on health. According to the report, the device will passively track its user's heart rate, and give the company a platform for building health and other apps on. Read More

The VAR Guy

CompTIA: More Companies Taking Ownership of Branding, Marketing

Oct,20,2014

by: Michael Cusanelli 

IT channel companies are becoming more self-reliant on their own branding, marketing and sales activities, according to a new study by CompTIA. The increase of in-house marketing and sales activities is chiefly being driven by the rising importance of new services such as cloud computing, changing customer demand and a more varied lineup of competitors, according to the company. CompTIA surveyed 350 IT companies for its fourth annual State of the Channel study, which examined the size, shape and growth factors affecting the channel. Read More

Fierce Wireless

Verizon again leans on tablets for postpaid subscriber growth in Q3

Oct,21,2014

by: Phil Goldstein

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) added more postpaid subscribers in the third quarter than financial analysts had expected, and the growth was again largely driven by tablet activations, not phones. Just as it did in the second quarter, in the third quarter Verizon relied heavily on tablet activations for the vast majority of its subscriber additions. In the third quarter Verizon added 1.53 million retail net connections, including 1.52 million retail postpaid connections. Of those though, Verizon added just 457,000 postpaid phones and leaned heavily on 1.1 million postpaid tablet activations in the period. In the year-ago quarter Verizon had 483,000 postpaid phone adds. Read More

Wireless Week

Report: Lenovo Crafting Bid for BlackBerry

Oct,20,2014

by: Andrew Berg

BlackBerry stock got a nearly 8 percent bump in early trading Monday as new rumors surfaced that Lenovo may acquire the Canadian smartphone maker. According to Benzinga, which cited a source familiar with the matter, Lenovo could make a play for BlackBerry as early as this week. Lenovo is apparently eyeing a $15 per share price for BlackBerry but the deal could go as high as $18 per share, according to Benzinga. Read More

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Featured Report: 7 Quick Marketing Tips for Attracting Holiday Business

ZD Net

For enterprise, mobile devices about to become irrelevant

Oct,12,2014

by:  Larry Dignan

 Samsung has revved up a services engine to better target enterprises and sell Galaxy tablets and smartphones. Apple has paired up with IBM to drive enterprise sales of iPhones and iPads. And Microsoft has Nokia, Surface and other devices. But a funny thing is happening on the mobility front when it comes to real business: The actual device is becoming irrelevant.  Read More

Marketing Sherpa

How reputation affects success (and 5 ways to improve it)

Oct,07,2014

by:Daniel Burstein

For an ecommerce transaction, trust is essential. While ecommerce has grown significantly, it still requires more confidence for a customer to purchase from an online retailer (where the value of the product and reliability of the store is conceptual) than a brick-and-mortar retailer (where customers can touch and feel a product and take it home instantly). We wanted to test this theory and see how reputation affects overall ecommerce success. In thisMarketingSherpa Ecommerce Benchmark Study survey Read More

Dex Media

7 Quick Marketing Tips for Attracting Holiday Business

Oct,07,2014

by: Marion Jacobson

The final weeks of 2014 are upon us, ready or not. It’s 11 weeks until Christmas, and savvy shoppers are already making plans to take advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Even if you don’t have a retail business or sell gifts or holiday-related items, you’re probably thinking of ways your business can capitalize on holiday activity. Read More

Mobile Marketing Watch

Infographic Shows the ‘Good and Bad’ of Social Media Marketing

Oct,10,2014

by: Michael Essany

Just because everyone, it seems, is using social media marketing for their business doesn’t mean that everyone is using it effectively. “Despite the growth of social media marketing,” says Kimberlee Morrison of SocialTimes , “CMOs still have some questions. Social has the potential to connect brands with consumers the world over, but only for those who understand how to use the medium.”   Read More

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Featured Report: Handy code-free mobile app development resources for small businesses

Handy code-free mobile app development resources for small businesses   ZD Net Apr,08,2014 by: Heather Clancy Many small businesses sill shrug off the idea of creating a mobile app but the case for doing so continues to become stronger, not just when it comes to engaging more effectively with customers but for empowering employees. Read More

NPD: 66% of U.S. mobile broadband connections by end of 2015 will be tablets Fierce Wireless Apr,15,2014 by:Phil Goldstein Tablets are expected to make up a large majority of all mobile broadband connections in the U.S. over the next two years, according to a new report from the NPD Group. By the end of 2015, NPD analysts expect the number of active mobile broadband devices to reach 34 million, a nearly 50 percent increase from 2013, according to a new report from NPD's Connected Intelligence group. The NPD report predicted that two-thirds (66 percent) of those devices will be tablets. Read More

Blackberry plans Heartbleed patches as mobile threat scrutinized Reuters Apr,13,2014 By:JIM FINKLE (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said it plans to release security updates for messaging software for Android and iOS devices by Friday to address vulnerabilities in programs related to the "Heartbleed" security threat. Read More

Small Business Owners,  Do you want your business to POP! In today's business climate mobility is coming the best way to reach your customers But most mobile apps for business require you to create many different versions of the same app to work with the array of mobile OS's. That can cost you money and time to get that app into the hands of your customers.But what if I showed you how you can get a mobile app for your business that will not only work on all mobile devices, but also work on tablets and PC at no additional cost.Then let me introduce you to WhosPoppin mobile apps.   The WhosPoppin mobile app is different from most other apps because it's developed once and can run on any mobile device,tablet or PC. That in itself would make WhosPoppin one of the best mobile app for your business, but let look closer at the WhosPopin mobile app. most mobile apps will create a mobile version of your business website and allow your customers to visit your page but that's about it. But when WhosPopin develops your app you get links to all social media sites like, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube and Pinterest.   WhosPopin also links your email,and phone to the apps. Best of all WhosPoppin allow your visitor to buy directly from your website and post it to their social media sites and the Youtube features lets you stream your video message directly to your customers. Now here the kicker WhosPoppin does this with making jump from app to app like other mobile app developers. Means your customers spend less time look for the right icon and more time doing the things you want them to do online buying from your website. So does WhosPoppin sounds like the mobile solution your are looking for for your business? Do you want to know more? visit our demo site at http://www.wirehead.whospoppin.com

Featured Report: How tech's giants lost the tablet and smartphone war, even if they don't know it yet

How tech's giants lost the tablet and smartphone war, even if they don't know it yet ZD Net Oct,06, 2013 by: Steve Ranger It's no secret that the PC market is in a tailspin - worldwide shipments are expected to drop 10 percent this year. And it's hard to see how things are going to get much better, as the old PC players are consistently outmanoeuvred by rivals with a totally different business model, and better designed, cheaper devices - and who, having dominated the consumer market, now want to sweep up the enterprise market too. Read More

AT&T expects to launch first VoLTE smartphone this year   Fierce Wireless Oct,08,2013 by:Phil Goldstein Share Tools Comment Print Contact Author Reprint HOLLYWOOD BEACH, Fla.--AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) expects to launch its first Voice over LTE smartphone by the end of the year as a prelude to a wider VoLTE deployment in 2014, according to a senior AT&T executive. Krish Prabhu, the president of AT&T Labs, said during a keynote appearance here at the PCIA wireless infrastructure conference that "I do believe there might be a VoLTE-compliant device for the holidays this year." He said AT&T is conducting network upgrade testing for VoLTE right now and that the technology will generally appear in the network next year. He said VoLTE will power an HD voice experience for customers who are using VoLTE handsets at both ends of calls. Read More

What's driving the future of the connected car? Fierce Mobile IT Oct,03,2013 By:Jason Ankeny Wireless carrier executives are all revved up by the connected car opportunity. AT&T (NYSE:T) CEO Randall Stephenson has been particularly vocal about the possibilities: "The way we think about the car is that it's just a big smartphone on wheels," Stephenson said earlier this year at Mobile World Congress. "The connected car will become just as routine as people carrying a smartphone." Read More

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Featured Report: Why I'm using my smartphone less and less every day

Why I'm using my smartphone less and less every day ZD Net Aug,07, 2013 by:James Kendrick When smartphones first appeared on the scene if you were like me your phone almost never left your hand. The ability to surf the web on the little phone was an amazing experience. Online activities previously relegated to a big computer or a laptop could suddenly be done on the little phone. In the early days I used my smartphone for all sorts of things. First there was handling email, then reading ebooks. Using the phone for Facebook and Twitter followed soon after. Then there was watching hours of video on YouTube. The phone was always at hand and kept the laptop in the gear bag. Read More

Microsoft launches Windows Phone App Studio to simplify development   Fierce Mobile Content Aug,07,2013 by:Jason Ankeny Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) unveiled Windows Phone App Studio, a free, Web-based mobile software development tool enabling users to build applications without coding expertise. Windows Phone App Studio lets aspiring mobile developers apply text, Web content, imagery and design concepts to customizable application templates. "Getting started is easy--just create a Microsoft account, choose your template and begin adding your content," explains Todd Brix, senior director of Microsoft's Windows Phone Apps Team. "Windows Phone App Studio does the rest. When your app is ready to go, you can download the app to your own phone, or share it with others by publishing it to the Windows Phone Store." Read More

Google's Motorola unveils Moto X Android smartphone, brings it to multiple carriers Fierce Wireless Aug,01,2013 By:Phil GoldStein After months of buildup and rumors, Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Motorola Mobility unit unveiled its Moto X smartphone, a new flagship Android phone that is the highest-profile embodiment thus far of Google's hopes for a revived Motorola brand. Read More

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