Mobility Set to Transform Retail Industry

2013-04-22T23:00:00Z

A bevy of tech startups are helping retailers use mobile devices to change the way offline stores interact with customers—and make them a lot smarter, too. "Mobility is set to trigger a business transformation across retail,” Leslie Hand, research director for IDC Retail Insights, wrote in a recent ...

Small Businesses Going to the Cloud: Three Top Considerations

2012-10-23T12:00:00Z

Small businesses, of course, can save a ton of money and gain a lot of efficiencies by going to the cloud. But getting there isn't necessarily that simple. Fact is, one size does not fit all. " A startup marketing company, for example, may take a very different path from an established medical practice," says Igal Rabinovich, CEO of IT Help ...

Mobile Technology that Takes the Sting Out of the Fall

2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tis the season to be hassled. For most of us, the fall means a lot more than cooler weather and shorter days. It's also a time when the world speeds up. If you have school-age children, of course, you're back to the relentless task of juggling your various jobs: kids' homework and activities, along with the demands of your own work. But even ...

Mobile Apps With a Social Conscience

2012-08-26T12:00:00Z

If there are mobile apps with which you can, say, tune your guitar, it stands to reason you can find some that help you to be socially and environmentally responsible. And, in fact, there are dozens of such apps available. Here's a look at three of them:

Greenmeter

In 2008,

Mobile Friendly Websites Make a Difference

2012-08-05T12:00:00Z

Two years ago, Joe Edelman, a photographer in Allentown, Pa, decided he had to do something about all those mobile devices potential customers were using. Because his site had been designed for traditional desktops or laptops, when people came across it using, say, an iPhone or Android, what they saw simply didn’t do his pictures ...

Four BYOD Challenges Small Businesses Face

2012-06-26T12:00:00Z

A 20-person oil and gas exploration business recently faced a dilemma when a senior-level executive left, taking his personal Blackberry with him. "He had pictures of his kids, along with emails about deals they were renegotiating and all sorts of corporate contacts," says David Rosenbaum, who runs Real-Time Computer Services

Big Apps In The Big Apple

2012-06-05T12:00:00Z

Earlier this year, 96 New York City development teams competed for more than $50,000 in prize money by submitting apps based on 750 or so datasets from 63 agencies, retrieved through the cloud. One entry--the winner-- created an app to help developers understand and work with the information in all that data. Another provided a map for ...

Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Luis Von Ahn

2012-05-01T11:57:00Z

You know those annoying stretched out words you need to type in order to get access to Ticketmaster, Yahoo, or dozens of other places? They're called CAPTCHAs and they were developed about 12 years ago by a then-22-year-old Carnegie Mellon University computer science graduate student named

Online Platforms Link Impact Investors and Triple Bottom Line Companies

2012-03-12T12:10:00Z

On the one hand, there's a burgeoning interest in a brand-new asset class. Called impact investing, it focuses on for-profit companies with a social mission. Enterprises from J.P. Morgan Chase to the Rockefeller Foundation , which estimate the market could grow to as much as $1 trillion over the next 10 years, have been trying to develop the ...

Doctor-Patient Communication in the Cloud

2012-03-05T13:00:00Z

These are tough times for general practice doctors. With health reimbursements declining and overhead soaring, it's hard to run a profitable operation. And for solo practitioners, the prospects are bleaker.

That's exactly the problem a fledgling New York City-based startup is trying to solve. Launched by a long-time Larchmont, NY, ...

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