Mobile cramming scheme halted by FTC
Thursday, November 30, 2023 by Richard Harris
The Federal Trade Commission has obtained orders with the four remaining individual defendants and their affiliated companies in a mobile cramming scheme that the agency says bilked consumers out of more than $100 million through bogus charges added to their mobile phone bills.
The proposed settlements with Darcy Michael Wedd and Phwoar, LLC.; Fraser Robert Thompson ...
AI expands cross border payment capabilities
Monday, August 8, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Once regarded as a futuristic technology confined to the realm of films and comic books, AI’s science-fiction reputation has given way to practical usage in a fast-growing range of everyday business processes in the finance industry. This extends to cross-border payments, where AI is already automating processes to speed up transactions, strengthen security and im...
Mobile mapping solution from ProStar
Thursday, June 23, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
ProStar Holdings Inc. has announced that Utility Mapping (Aust) Pty Ltd in Australia has adopted ProStar's PointMan cloud and mobile mapping solution.
"We have tried other solutions, but after months of testing, PointMan has proven to be the solution that best fits our needs in order to provide superior and consistent underground mapping servi...
Networking trends in 2022 from Itential
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
A recent Itential report shows that only 34% of network management professionals are completely satisfied with the tools and processes they use for network configuration management, a tumultuous setup for the year ahead. Peter Sprygada, Vice President of Product Management at Itential shares his 2022 predictions and some prominent networking trends to look out...
Flight to the Future adds 1 million drone-based jobs
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Earlier this summer, Aquiline Drones (AD) launched a new employment initiative called Flight to the Future (F2F) to help pilots and the general public re-boot their careers by becoming certified commercial drone operators. This is to fulfill the increasing demand for commercial drone services nationwide. Now, the organization has announced a massive corporate offi...
Making apps by collaborating and sharing the profits
Monday, September 24, 2018 by Richard Harris
Everyone has a project idea but most of them never go anywhere because getting all of the resources together to pull it off seems monumental. You might be a developer, but your not a designer. Or you might be a good marketer, but you have no sense of business.
For the past 12 months Crowdsourcer.io has been working on a web platform where people can collaborate on pr...
Agile failure is common but this can help
Monday, August 27, 2018 by Rachel Burger
With the closing “ding” of the New York Stock Exchange, CA Technologies, the first software company to break $1 billion in revenue in 1989, confirmed that it would no longer be an independent company. Broadcom, a massive global semiconductor company, closed the deal at $18.9 billion, touting that its newfound ownership would bring diversity to its “mis...
The Google adoption case was just presented
Thursday, September 28, 2017 by Richard Harris
ilegra will be participating in the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2017 and presenting results Whirlpool Latin America reached with the migration of the communication and collaboration platform for Google. The case will be exhibited by Whirlpool Latin America's CIO, Renata Marques, on October 3rd, at 10:30am.During Whirlpool's presentation, which owns KitchenAid, Brastemp and ...
Enterprise mobility is a team sport
Friday, March 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Sports teams - from youth to the pros - are comprised of many individuals with various skill sets and talents. Yet when you hear championship teams and elite caliber athletes talk about success, their stories always boil down to a single commonality: the importance of the team. As Michael Jordan once famously said, “talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win c...
Why Big Data Could Also Mean Big Security Breaches for Insurance Companies
Friday, September 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
Quadrant Information Services is warning that digitization is a two-edged sword: with increased capability comes an increased danger of expensive—and possibly actionable—data security breaches.Big Data has been one of the largest growing developments for insurance. Car insurance companies, for instance, used to price policies based on only 10 to 20 rate bearing fac...
Tad Johnson Discusses JAMF Software's Focus on Apple Devices
Thursday, May 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
Tad Johnson, marketing campaign manager at JAMF Software, reached out to us to discuss why the company has focused solely on offering solutions for Apple devices and how that strategy has evolved.ADM: Who is JAMF Software and what does the company do?Johnson: Since 2002, JAMF Software has been solely focused on helping organizations succeed with Apple. In fact, we offer...
Enhancing Employee Engagement with Mobile Technology
Thursday, July 2, 2015 by Joey Shevelson
Mobile technology has changed how we behave, from how we communicate with friends to how we consume news and information to how we shop for and purchase products. And the trend is skyrocketing. According to Flurry Analytics, mobile app usage grew by 76% in 2014, and shopping apps on iOS and Android increased an incredible 174% year-over-year - 220% on Android alone.&nbs...
Tough gig making a living as an app developer
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 by Richard Harris
ROSEDALE, Md. — Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation.THE iECONOMYA series examining challenges posed by increasingly globalized high-tech industries.More in This Series »GraphicJob Prospects for App WritersRelatedWhat It Takes to Be an Ap...
