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Why the Midmarket Is Overlooking Benefits of BYOD

BYOD has the potential in the midmarket to empower smaller workforces. If mishandled with loose rules and complex legalese, BYOD can lead to increased feelings of isolation. Here's how the midmarket can make BYOD work for them.

Apr 24, 2013 7 mins

Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Microsoft Investor Joins ‘Get Office on the iPad’ Chorus

A U.S. hedge-fund sinks $2 billion into Microsoft, seeing future dollar signs in Windows Azure and Office on iOS and Android.

Apr 23, 2013 2 mins

Microsoft Office Small and Medium Business iPhone

Google Makes Mobile Search and Translation Faster and Easier

Need to make yourself understood in a foreign language but can't get online? Google's offline translation for Android makes it easy. The search king has also beefed up mobile search features.

Apr 23, 2013 3 mins

Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business Smartphones

6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT

Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that p

Apr 23, 2013 1 min

Big Data Healthcare Industry Web Development

Worst. Samsung Galaxy S4 Scratch Test. Ever

The Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone's display is made of Corning's Gorilla Glass 3, which may or may not be extremely scratch-resistant. It's impossible to tell from this incredibly-poorly-performed Gorilla Glass 3 scratch test.

Apr 22, 2013 3 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business Smartphones

A Braille Smartphone for the Blind

An Indian company is building what it says is the world's first Braille smartphone for the blind, and the device could prove to be an invaluable tool for the visually impaired.

Apr 22, 2013 2 mins

Data Center Small and Medium Business Smartphones

‘Aurora’ Cyber Attackers Were Really Running Counter-Intelligence

An attack Google attributed to Chinese targeting human-rights activists was actually a case of hackers probing U.S. surveillance on undercover agents, according to the senior director of Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technology

Apr 22, 2013 7 mins

Cybercrime Government Markets

Thousands of Consumers Demand That Verizon Drop Two-Year Contracts

T-Mobile did away with long-term contracts last month. Now Verizon customers are demanding the same freedom. Sign their petition if you want to do away with two-year contracts.

Apr 18, 2013 3 mins

Carriers Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business

Start Button Resurrection in Windows 8 a Double-Edged Sword

If Microsoft brings back the Start button in Windows 8 and allows direct boot into the Desktop, it will appease disgruntled users but stunt its own mobile progress.

Apr 18, 2013 3 mins

Operating Systems Small and Medium Business Windows

Microsoft Tells Federal CIOs Mobile Management Is Better With Windows 8

The lines between PCs, tablets and smartphones will continue to blur. In response to this shift, Microsoft is selling a vision of single-device management to public-sector IT workers and federal government CIOs.

Apr 18, 2013 4 mins

Government IT Small and Medium Business iPhone

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