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Mobile: More than a Billion Smartphones Now in Use

By Dick Weisinger

In 2012, Gartner expects that 821 million smart devices will be sold and that in 2013 more than 1.2 billion will be sold.  In 2012, 34 percent of smartphones sold in the US and Europe were Android, and Gartner expects…

Mobile: Small Businesses Leverage Mobile for Competitive Advantage

By Dick Weisinger

94 percent of small and medium-sized (SMB) business owners say that they can’t live without their mobile devices.  They report higher efficiency when using their smartphones, tablets and notebooks.  67 percent say that their company would competitively lose out if…

Big Data and Technology: The Internet of 50 billion things in Eight Years Time

By Dick Weisinger

At the 2012 Oracle/Java One show, Oracle President Mark Hurd talked about Big Data challenges associated with machine data.  Today already 9 billion devices are attached to the Internet. A 2011 study by Ericsson estimated that by 2020 that number…

Big Data: Companies Use Big Data to Spot Trends and Opportunity

By Dick Weisinger

It seems like companies everywhere are revving up pilot projects to experiment with Big Data.  The reason for their interest is that many of these companies are hoping that Big Data will prove to be a sort of high-tech crystal…

Mobile: Enterprise IT Will Need to Be More Open To Mobile

By Dick Weisinger

In a world of proliferating mobile devices and employee and staff  members wanting to be able to use their own devices to access business applications brings along with it IT security risks and integration challenges, but it also carries the…