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What The 'New Social Operating System' Means For Government

Tom Shoop | Nextgov | December 3, 2012

Over the past 12 years, the influence of the Internet has grown to the extent that Americans now “live in networks,” according to an expert on how digital trends are affecting American society -- and that development has serious implications for the way federal agencies interact with the citizens they serve. Read More »

What The Story Of A Much Talked-About Bay Area Startup Tells Us About The Future Of Health IT

Jacob Plummer | The Health Care Blog | March 24, 2013

Today, we all know how dramatically different mobile phones are than they were a year or two ago, much less back in 2004. But as the power of mobile technology increases, tech entrepreneurs have taken a lead on challenging old rules that haven’t been discussed in decades. What if the development of the smartphone could give us some clues into the future of healthcare IT? Read More »

What's At Stake For Google & Android In Rockstar's Patent Lawsuit

Dan Rowinski | ReadWrite | November 4, 2013

Google’s Android operating system may be the rock star of mobile world, but it has another group of rock stars that are trying to knock it from its perch. Read More »

WhatsApp Shows How Phone Carriers Lost Out On $33 Billion

Olga Kharif, Amy Thomson and Patricia Laya | Bloomberg | February 21, 2014

Facebook Inc. (FB)’s $19 billion purchase of mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. is a stark reminder of how much money phone carriers are losing out on as competitors let users text and chat at no charge. Read More »

When To Regulate mHealth Apps?

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | January 8, 2013

With events such as the Consumer Electronics Associations’ 2013 International CES conference this week in Las Vegas, featuring a dizzying 3,000 global app companies and a digital health summit, there is a lot of hype around what apps can do for healthcare. Read More »

Where HIMSS Can Take Health 2.0

Andy Oram | EMR and HIPAA | March 16, 2017

I was quite privileged to talk to the leaders of Health 2.0, Dr. Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt, in the busy days after their announced merger with HIMSS. I was revving to talk to them because the Health 2.0 events I have attended have always been stimulating and challenging. I wanted to make sure that after their incorporation into the HIMSS empire they would continue to push clinicians as well as technologists to re-evaluate their workflows, goals, and philosophies...

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White House: It's Time To Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking

Rachel King | ZDNet | March 4, 2013

In what is sure to draw the attention (and disdain) of mobile providers nationwide, the Obama Administration is arguing that it's time to legalize cell phone unlocking. Read More »

Why Apple And Google Can't Sync Right—And Don't Care If You Suffer

Matt Asay | Say Media Inc. | August 30, 2013

There's a mobile ecosystem battle raging, with Apple and Google racing to build end-to-end mobile monopolies. According to VisionMobile, "The triumph of iOS and Android is a testament to the superiority of ecosystems economics over legacy business models." Sadly, this triumph has a casualty, and that casualty is you.

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Why Can’t All My Sensors Get Along?

Michael Essany | MedCity News | August 29, 2013

From wearable fitness-trackers to sleep-monitoring applications, mobile is the place to go for those looking to improve their health and well-being. Read More »

Why Incumbents Android And iOS Need To Watch It

Patrick Nelson | NetworkWorld | August 11, 2014

New operating systems are on the heels of the incumbents. What you need to know about mobile device, OS-upstarts, like Sailfish, Firefox OS, and Tizen...

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Why Mobile Developers Are Really Starting To Embrace The Enterprise

Dan Rowinski | ReadWrite | June 26, 2013

Big businesses have gotten a taste of mobile's productivity bump. Now they're craving more. Read More »

Why The Future Of Digital Security Is Open

Lou Shipley | TechCrunch | October 16, 2014

The topic of digital security often brings to mind the image of bleak and dark future, where computers, mobile devices and other systems are riddled with malware and cyber criminals lurk, ready to steal our data and crash our systems. We have good reason to be nervous...

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Why Tizen Will Be A Game-Changer

Jared Weiner | LinuxGismos.com | March 20, 2013

In this guest column, Jared Weiner, an analyst at VDC Research, presents four reasons why he believes Samsung’s first Tizen-based smartphone, expected to arrive this summer, is likely to be a game-changer. Read More »

Windows Is Dead, Google Killed It

Farhad Manjoo | Business Insider | September 3, 2013

Windows is dead. Let’s all salute it — pour out a glass for it, burn a CD for it, reboot your PC one last time. Windows had a good run. For a time, it powered the world. But that era is over. It was killed by the unlikeliest of collaborations.... Read More »

Wireless Learning: How Mobile Technology Is Transforming Classrooms And Empowering Young Women In Jordan

Edith Saldivar | National Geographic | July 18, 2012

Technology in classrooms often seems like an add-on, an extra luxury for developed education systems. But, as Edith Saldivar explains in today’s Digital Diversity, IT can help students all over the world learn in entirely new ways. [...] Read More »