Apple won about 8% of global business and government spending on computers and tablets in 2012, Forrester Research says, up from 1% in 2009. By 2015, Forrester estimates that figure will climb to 11%. The numbers exclude the iPhone, which may be the most widely purchased Apple product by corporate customers. It is often Apple’s gateway into a business.
All three brands were seen as innovative by consumers, so what sets Microsoft apart? While Apple and Samsung battle it out to reign supreme with the coveted Millennial generation, Microsoft has quietly stolen the consumer technology crown by becoming more trusted and essential across multiple generations. The very ubiquity that perhaps renders it uncool turns out to also be its strength.
In the OS market, Android continues to be the OS of choice across all devices (see Table 2). Gartner estimates that Android will reach 1.1 billion users in 2014, a 26 percent increase from 2013.
Palo Alto-based Lumo BodyTech is revealing its second product today, the Lumo Lift. The Lift, like its original Lumo Back, is a device designed to enhance a..
It’s okay that I’m going to wear this and my FitBit One at the same time, right?
Lumo BodyTech Introduces The Lift: A Small, Stylish Wearable For Better Posture | TechCrunch
Launched back in November, Agent for Android has proven to be a very popular service for automating actions in your day-to-day life. Indeed, Agent proclaims to be five apps in one. The …
Very, very cool app.
Agent, the 5-apps-in-1 smart assistant for Android, goes free
Twitter cofounder Biz Stone launched a question-and-answer social networking app on Tuesday called Jelly.
Social Q&A is a crowded space based on the number of apps and sites out there, but I’ve personally not had a ton of success with using them and end up just Googling my question and looking through results. I’m curious to see how much traction this gets and will be playing with it for a bit to see. Expect me to ask you some questions. Please help. 🙂
Mr. Zuckerberg says he is aware of the risks, but notes that user activity still is rising. The company does more than 35,000 surveys a day to monitor user sentiment, and the “driving force behind everything is that we’re trying to build the best experience for mobile,” he says.
A Microsoft spokesperson said today that Windows Phone had “record sales” during the recent holiday season, and that the company saw double the unit sales, year-over-year, for Christmas week.
I’ve recently made the switch to Android (after using iOS for a year, prior to that i was on WP), and articles like this remind me of how many things I really loved about the WP OS. Miss me some live tiles…
Microsoft claims to have seen “record sales of Windows Phone this holiday” – Neowin
Maybe we’re tired of the crusty baby-boomers’ business model, or maybe we just have more resources and technology available to us. Whatever the deciding factor, it’s a fact that an unprecedented amount of recent college grads and undergrad students are forming their own startup companies. But between classes, current jobs, student loans and that ever-important social life, staying focused on your startup can be challenging. The best way to keep your entrepreneurial dreams in sight is to develop habits. Developing the right productivity habits and, more importantly, making sure those habits stick will help you stay focused on your startup.
I’m a sucker for learning and improving my personal productivity habits. This is a good article in that it doesn’t necessarily cover any specific habits to form, but rather the mentality you should have create those types of habits. Good stuff.
Staying Focused on Your Startup: How to Build Habits That Stick
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