Tag: business impact
Smartphone Tracker Gives Doctors Remote Viewing Powers
- By Tom Simonite
- 05/17/2013
Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble.
Augmenting Social Reality in the Workplace
- By Ben Waber
- 05/15/2013
A new line of research examines what happens in an office where the positions of the cubicles and walls—even the coffee pot—are all determined by data.
With Personal Data, Predictive Apps Stay a Step Ahead
- By Tom Simonite
- 05/13/2013
Apps that proactively help people with their lives represent a significant departure from earlier approaches to software.
Logging Life with a Lapel Camera
- By Duncan Geere
- 05/10/2013
A startup believes people will want a photographic record of their lives, taken at 30-second intervals.
Stephen Wolfram on Personal Analytics
- By Antonio Regalado
- 05/08/2013
The creator of the Wolfram Alpha search engine explains why he thinks your life should be measured, analyzed, and improved.
Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible?
- By Patrick Tucker
- 05/07/2013
As the amount of data expands exponentially, nearly all of it carries someone’s digital fingerprints.
The Data Made Me Do It
- By Antonio Regalado
- 05/03/2013
The next frontier for big data is the individual.
Akamai’s Plan for a Wireless Data Fast Lane
- By David Talbot
- 03/29/2013
Clogged wireless networks spur a plan to speed data to smartphones, for a price.
Qualcomm Wants to Be Famous
- By Jessica Leber
- 03/27/2013
Qualcomm is already worth more than Intel. Now the chip maker wants everyone to know it.
Amazon’s Head of Mobile Interfaces
- By Rachel Metz
- 03/25/2013
The man responsible for Amazon’s mobile shopping strategy talks about app design, shopping habits, and how to make it easier to act on your impulses.
Five Opportunities for Mobile Computing
- By Rachel Metz
- 03/22/2013
Thousands of startup companies see mobile computing as their chance to strike it big. We picked five.
Lack of Ways to Measure Success Holds Back Mobile Ads
- By Tom Simonite
- 03/20/2013
No one really knows if ads on smartphones work.
For Investors, Mobile Startup Boom Gives Way to Caution
- By Jessica Leber
- 03/18/2013
Some venture capitalists are avoiding consumer apps and putting their money behind the “picks and shovels” of mobile computing.
Smartphones Are Eating the World
- By Benedict Evans
- 03/15/2013
The spread of mobile computers, in numbers.
Here’s Where They Make China’s Cheap Android Smartphones
- By Michael Standaert
- 03/14/2013
Apple and Samsung, beware. Practically anyone can make a smartphone these days.
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