In a recent article for TechBeacon, industry insider Matthew David examines how mobility is evolving in a “pandemic-driven work-from-home” environment. In the article, he describes how, in this new work environment, it’s more necessary than ever to have a way to manage employee devices and access to data. At a time when employees are working […]
According to an industry survey by App Annie, consumers spent a record $32B on apps and in-app purchases on iOS and Android in the first quarter of 2021. This is apparently the biggest quarter since record-keeping began, and is up 40% over the same time last year. On Google Play, games, social media apps, and […]
It’s no surprise: in a work-from-home world, enterprise mobility is a must-have. The companies we’ve seen be most successful in the unprecedented transition from office life to an at-home workforce during the pandemic have, unsurprisingly, been those with the most robust enterprise mobility strategies and solutions in place. Of course, work-from-home may not be here […]
These days, just about everything relies on the cloud in one way or another. Infrequent as they are, outages of major cloud providers—like the AWS outage last November that knocked out a number of apps and services—serve as a good reminder of just how interconnected things are these days. Mobile apps are no stranger to […]
Remember GDPR? Okay… for those of you in IT, GDPR is probably impossible to forget. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a sweeping set of user privacy rules that went into effect in early 2018. We wrote about the new law way back in May of 2018, as we and many other […]
We’ve been saying it for months: in a work-from-home world, good mobile technology is a must for companies of all shapes and sizes. (Just last week, we explained why it’s essential these days to ensure that your mobile tech is up to par.) The long and the short of our argument is as follows: as […]
According to new research by remote desktop solution provider LogMeIn, IT leaders are increasingly concerned about the security and long-term reliability of remote work tools they put in place at the start of the pandemic. The study, completed in collaboration with researcher IDG, looked at current thoughts and concerns surrounding remote work tools almost a […]
Just last week, we wrote about an emerging controversy unfolding between tech giants Google and Apple: since Apple announced that it would require app “nutrition labels” in early December 2020, Google had updated only three of its 86 iOS apps. Of course, speculation was running rampant about the reasons for Google’s update outage. Most of […]
Late last year, Apple announced that it would require “nutrition labels” effective early December 2020 to help users understand what information apps collect. While many developers have complied, The Guardian reports that only one of Google’s 86 apps on the iOS App Store currently has a privacy label. In addition, The Guardian reports that only […]
According to a PYMNTS survey about mobile banking apps, more than a third of consumers are frustrated by a lack of functionality with the apps they use. PYMNTS, a news site with a focus on the future of payments and commerce, recently conducted a survey for its 2021 “Mobile Banking App Playbook,” which takes a […]