As mobile device shipments overtake those of PCs,cross-platform tool developer Xamarin hopes to get more enterprises to adapt their apps for Android and iOS with the help of its.Net Mobility Scanner. Xamarin's new tool shows how much of a ...
Tags: mobile device, apps, Android, IOS
Microsoft needs "to do a better job of telling the world" about Windows 8's features as a "fully-fledged" HTML 5 application platform, the company's general manager of platform strategy, Tim O'Brien, said today. Speaking at a session on ...
Facebook is where many people go to get news about their friends'latest parties and vacations. Now,if reports are accurate,Facebook may soon be where smartphone and tablet users can get the latest news from around the world. Industry ...
Tags: Facebook, Mobile, smartphone, tablet
Law firm DWF is to extend its use of mobile device management (MDM) solution MobileIron, to support the widespread use of apps in the enterprise. Richard Hodkinson, CTO of DWF, explained that the law firm has 1,000 mobile workers, who use ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Sharp and Toshiba used the occasion of "CE Week" to announce that their first their first Ultra HD TVs will arrive in August. Sharp will have a single 70-inch Aquos LCD model that will sell for $8,000, while Toshiba will have three Ultra HD ...
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SONY has upgraded its landmark SmartWatch giving it longer battery life, NFC communications, and making it water resistant. In a statement released overnight, Sony hailed its new SmartWatch 2 as being "a multi-functional message ...
Microsoft has told Computing that enterprise users will see "a marked difference" in the Windows 8.1 patch's effects on productivity. Speaking at Microsoft's Build 2013 conference in San Francisco today, the operating system's principal ...
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Companies in the retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods industries can make the onsite vendor compliance audit process faster, easier, more accurate and more productive with the new Factory Audit Mobile App for Centric 8 from ...
Tags: Centric Software, Factory Audit, Mobile App
Women’s specialty clothing brand, Free People, has launched a dedicated app. The multichannel app will allow iPhone users to shop while on the go, browse the brand’s most recent campaigns, scan hangtags to access online content, ...
Tags: Free People, Weblinc, Multi-Channel App
Computerworld - Sony Mobile today announced an Android-based SmartWatch 2 with NFC wireless and a large-screen 6.44-in. HD smartphone called the Xperia Z Ultra. The Sony SmartWatch 2 is water-resistant. The announcement was made at ...
Tags: Sony Mobile, Xperia Z, Smartphone
While mobile payments transform financial life in many less developed countries, retailers and payment providers in the U.S. and Europe are still trying to find the right incentives to drive adoption. The added convenience of mobile ...
Tags: Mobile Payments, credit cards
Over three quarters of Android threats are malicious apps that send SMS messages to premium rate numbers and could be mitigated by a protection feature present in Android 4.2, according to researchers from networking vendor Juniper ...
Tags: Android Threats, Apps, Android 4.2
Microsoft kicked off its Build conference in San Francisco this week by releasing a preview of the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, as well as updates to other development tools. How user input and follow-up interactions are ...
Tags: Microsoft, Visual Studio Tools, App
Microsoft today briefly previewed an Office application designed for the Windows "Modern," née "Metro," user interface (UI), and said it would launch the touch-enabled suite next year. "This is big," said Frank Gillett, an analyst ...
Tags: Microsoft, Office Apps, Windows