Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World
As technology shifts from personal computers to smartphones and tablets, Apple Inc. is expanding its reach into a lucrative customer base: companies. The popularity of the iPhone and iPad among employees is prompting corporate tech managers to rewrite policies and change traditional buying patterns. The iPhone has replaced the BlackBerry as the mobile phone of choice, as the iPad assumes tasks once reserved for PCs. Apple won…...
Samsung unveils Knox 2.0, lets users run Google Play apps even more securely
Exactly a year to the day after it first announced its Knox security solution, Samsung’s returned to Mobile World Congress with news that it’s making it even easier to secure and manage Galaxy devices. With the launch of Knox 2.0 today, Samsung’s changed the way the platform handles Google Play apps, digitally securing their data without the need to run them in a dedicated Knox workspace. Before, personal- and...
New York City makes room for Breather
Breather, a startup offering a mobile app that lets users rent private rooms on demand, is looking to break ground in New York City. The Canadian company said Tuesday that it had launched in the Big Apple, after going live in Montreal last year. Breather’s service operates almost like Airbnb, but with a short-term twist focused around work. “Think of us as your second home or office, wherever and whenever you need...
Apple Expands Worldwide Access to Educational Content
CUPERTINO, California—January 21, 2014—Apple® today announced iBooks® Textbooks and iTunes U® Course Manager are expanding into new markets across Asia, Latin America, Europe and elsewhere around the world. iBooks Textbooks bring Multi-Touch™ textbooks with dynamic, current and interactive content to teachers and students in 51 countries now including Brazil, Italy and Japan; and iTunes U Course Manager, available in 70 countries now...
Breaking the smartphone mold isn’t easy. Just ask Jolla
Jolla’s got a big problem, and the company knows it. The small Finnish startup has grand plans to upend the smartphone paradigm with its modular phone and unique gesture-based OS, but that foreign approach has left some users confused. The MeeGo-derived Sailfish OS relies entirely on swipe navigation — there are no soft keys onscreen — and the current tutorial does a poor job of explaining how it all works....
