NetApp Aiming To Add New Tech In Buying Mobile App Maker; Tom Georgens Comments
NetApp has acquired mobile application developer ionGrid for an undisclosed amount as part of a strategy to acquire new technologies. Tom Georgens, NetApp chairman and CEO, said the company pursues smaller acquisitions to acquire the technology and leaves larger buys for opportunistic ventures, CRN reports. Joseph Kovar writes Stratos, ionGrid’s flagship application, is intended for [...]
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has started distributing 17,000 iPhones to its employees, Nextgov reports. Although no exact numbers were released, ICE Press Secretary Barbara Gonzales told the website the geographical-based deployment plan is on schedule. Gonzalez added the iPhones to be given to ICE investigators, legal personnel and other staff will be subjected [...]
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The Defense Department‘s deputy chief information officer said Wednesday the department is aiming for a consolidated military app store to open in early 2013, American Forces Press Service reports. Air Force Maj. Gen. Robert Wheeler‘s comments come as the Defense Information Systems Agency seeks a contractor to build the app store and provide a mobile [...]
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency wants to acquire 17,676 Apple iPhone devices for its staff, officially replacing Blackberry phones after eight years, Information Week reports. J. Nicholas Hoover writes ICE is among several agencies that are switching to Apple iOS devices from Blackberry, including the Federal Air Marshall Service, Coast Guard, Transportation Security [...]
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Booz Allen to Cease BlackBerry Procurement, Opting to Buy iPhones, Android Smartphones
October 22, 2012 No CommentBooz Allen Hamilton Inc. will begin providing its 25,000 staff with Apple iPhones or Android-based smartphones in the coming months, Bloomberg announced. The plan will effectively end the consulting firm’s partnership with Blackberry maker, Research in Motion Ltd. Booz Allen spokesman James Fisher told Bloomberg’s Hugo Miller that the company already issues iPhones and Android handsets to [...]
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Citing its “objectionable and crude” nature, Apple has for the third time in a month rejected a mobile application where users get notified whenever a U.S. drone conducts a strike overseas, Wired reports. However, this is also the third different reason Apple has given Drone+ developers for not providing the app in the App Store, [...]
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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences wants industry assistance regarding a plan to use iPhones and iPads to disseminate agency information, the institute said in a May 31 FedBizOpps post. Working under NIH, NIEHS said the mobile apps project will provide its users access to news and featured articles, science findings, press releases and [...]
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The Army Software Marketplace currently offers 12 applications compatible with iPhone and iPad devices. The application store prototype is part of the Army’s Connecting Soldiers to Digital Apps Initiative. The Army originally launched the initiative in 2010 to test the effectiveness of mobile applications in the field and during training, according to Information Week. Android-based [...]
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The Government Accountability Office launched an application Tuesday for iPhone and iPad users, according to NextGov. The app gives mobile device users the ability to view reports, videos and congressional testimony on their Apple device. The government watchdog said in a press release it created the app as a result of the number of visitors that [...]
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