It’s raining cash in the personal cloud storage space. Brought forth by the idea of massive cost savings, cloud storage has become one of the hottest items in the market today. People are becoming more mobile, and their content must follow suit.  With growing consumer demand around being able to save, access and collaborate anytime ...

It seems like the end is near for modern-day mobile cheating in schools. Virginia Tech researchers have developed software that will impose tailor-made policies on Android OS depending on what room you are in. this feature is something that healthcare, military, and the academe could benefit from, in terms of protecting confidential data from intrusions. Security ...

RIM Blackberry bathes in publicity nowadays; but, this is the kind of publicity no one wants to be in. A four-day outage triggered following a failure of England’s data center. Millions of Blackberry users were infuriated by not having e-mail and messaging access. This was a mobility famine, a disaster that reached latitudes. Even with ...

Early in the game, Pandora hit all the right pockets, made all the more evident by a strong entrée in the IPO space.  Along with other cloud music services, Pandora has become one of the most sought-after brands in the market.  But have they have peaked too soon?  With fierce rivals like Spotify going global, Pandora’s market ...

Just when you thought that Apple iOS lords over the most powerful regions in the world, Europe prefers things the Android way, especially in the United Kingdom.  UK users were probably one of the groups teased most by the short-lived opening of the Amazon Appstore for Android outside the US, but their love for Android ...

Enterprise apps are becoming hot items in the mobile world.  Companies have now recognized the substantial advantage of workers having remote access to their emails, files and programs anytime, anywhere.  Tie this with mobility and social media, and now we have a strong platform and opportunity for virtualization and cloud computing.  This industry is still ...

The ballooning of the mobile payments market still has several avenues for growth.  These channels are exactly what several companies are exploring to get their share of an industry predicted to reach revenues of $245 billion by 2014.  Experts also see 2012 to be the pivotal year for mobile payments. With a few months left in ...

In this day and age, when enterprises cloud solutions are becoming a great deal and cost savings are what chiefly constitute IT economics policies, a virtualized environment is tantamount to an ideal workplace set-up. With different offerings and seemingly endless upgrades from key players like VMware, Citrix and Pano Logic, IT departments and managers are ...

There is a reason why its name is “inbox” spelled backwards—Xobni steps out of the box when it comes to how you receive emails and text messages.  It allows users to manage contacts, files and social networking applications either through desktop or mobile phone efficiently. A tool that helps you handle your relationships professionally and ...

Social networking is elbowing out many other industries with its massive popularity on a global scale. One of the luckiest channels here is social gaming.  Everyone saw how Zynga, makers of FarmVille and CityVille, spooned money from Facebook users, entered an IPO with a billion-dollar valuation, and is now invading the Google+ landscape.  This has set ...