Orbital Antares Rocket Carries Phone Satellites for NASA; Michael Gazarik Comments
Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket carried three smartphone satellites into space Sunday during its maiden flight from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. All three PhoneSats have already sent signals to several ground stations on Earth and the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. will track the satellites over the next two weeks, [...]
SafeNet Builds Android License Tools for Application Developers; Michelle Nerlinger Comments
April 25, 2013 No Comment
SafeNet has released a new licensing suite for Android intended to help developers pack, control, track and manage applications. Sentinel RMS Embedded is a software licensing toolkit designed to help developers monetize mobile software on devices such as smartphones and tablets, the company announced Wednesday. The company also developed the software to help protect Internet [...]
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Microsoft and a mobile software provider have developed a new Android application for Outlook.com designed to deliver push-enabled access to email features such as inboxes, folders and contacts. The new service launched Tuesday on Google Play and is the second Android app Seven Networks has developed with Microsoft, Seven said Tuesday. Seven designed the app [...]
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Ciber, Healthcare Firm Launch New Account Info App for Windows Mobile; Jamie Spriggs Comments
April 12, 2013 No Comment
Ciber and a healthcare account management provider have rolled out a new Windows Phone version of a mobile application designed to contain information on account balances and claims. The company helped develop the original version of CYC Mobile two years ago for iOS and Android devices, Ciber said Thursday. Ciber provided ConnectYourCare with mobile tools [...]
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CGI Group‘s Logica subsidiary has developed a new mobile application intended for athletes to notify anti-doping authorities of their current location in order to be ready for drug tests. The World Anti-Doping Agency selected the whereabouts app to help manage its database containing details on where athletes are at a given time, CGI said Tuesday. [...]
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Dell has introduced a new suite of services aimed at helping clients develop strategies for responding to demand for mobility applications. The mobility services workshop portfolio aims to complement Dell’s existing products and services for connected devices, bring your own device platforms and enabling software, Dell said Monday. Services under the portfolio include consulting, developing [...]
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HP Enterprise Services has developed a mobile application for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to display information on housing discrimination and regional contact information. The Housing Discrimination Complaint Application also contains features for submitting complaints to HUD and aims to serve as a channel between citizens and HUD’s office of fair housing [...]
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Boeing Subsidiary Aiming To Help Mobile Carriers Assess Nets; Stephen Mazzo Comments
February 27, 2013 No Comment
A Boeing subsidiary has unveiled a new a tool aimed at helping wireless carriers assess cellular network assessment and identify areas for potential upgrades. Digital Receiver Technology built pocket-sized DRT4311B to scan between 2G, 3G and 4G networks with a wireless control application, Boeing said Tuesday. DRT unveiled the new tool at the 2013 Mobile [...]
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Close to three-quarters, or 74 per cent of respondents, to a Deloitte survey rank security risks of employees bringing their own mobile devices into the workplace as a “high or average” concern. Deloitte also 50 percent of surveyed businesses had a BYOD policy and 10 percent did not address BYOD risks at all, according to [...]
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Hewlett-Packard is developing a new tablet that will run on the Android operating system, ReadWrite reports. Taylor Wimberly writes HP has been working on Android-related projects since 2010 and once shipped TouchPads with Android installed instead of webOS. HP could help Google put Android in the desktop PC market, an area the search giant is [...]
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