Marshall Kirkpatrick

International management consulting firm Accenture released findings about different attitudes around the world regarding mobile and connected health. Doctors in the United States were found by the company to be …

Turn-by-turn directions service provider Telenav announced this morning the availability of a new offering called Scout for Apps, which makes it easy for developers of any native mobile or web …

Addy Osmani, an author who helped popularize Backbone.js, the javascript framework used for fast-growing mobile apps by Foursquare, Soundcloud, 37Signals and others, has been recruited away from AOL and will …

Tens of thousands of geeks were in Austin, Texas, this week for the South by Southwest Interactive conference (SxSW or SxSWi if you prefer) and mobile was a big part …

Mobile apps that notify you when something or someone of interest is nearby, offline, are seeing a big wave of excitement leading into this weekend’s kick-off of the SXSW Interactive …

Digi International, a leading connectivity provider in the world of Machine to Machine communication, made two big announcements today at Mobile World Congress. First, the company announced that its device-to-cloud …

Network-connected cars are fast becoming the subject of both excitement and controversy. As the public awareness of everything from value added services through self-driving cars expands, M2M publication Connected World …

Connected devices built into automobiles would have to turn themselves off when the car was in motion under new voluntary guidelines proposed by the United States National Highway Traffic Safety …

Read the 2013 update to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. Cisco released new estimates today regarding the size and speed of mobile data in 2016; the five year forecast is dramatic …

Airlines will lead the charge in bringing near field communications into airports, according to a new survey from airline IT company Sita. As reported by NFC World’s Sarah Clark, 80% …

Biological data will crush what’s commonly called Big Data when it comes to making use of Cloud Computing, world-renowned cloud security executive and “biohacker” Dave Asprey wrote last week on the …

The near-term market for machine-to-machine communication technologies is strong, particularly in Europe, according to Frost & Sullivan telecom analyst Yiru Zhong. That opinion is contrary to short-term skepticism from Gartner …

IBM is opening up beta availability of a new service called  IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices.  Built on the Tivoli Big Fix technology that IBM acquired in the Summer of …

Grandma and grandpa grew up without jet flight and TV, much less mobile internet and sensor-loaded fitness devices. Children of today are likely to grow up into a radically new …

Prospective customers of Machine to Machine (M2M) service providers are pushing back, a Gartner analyst surveying the field says, because they are concerned about unclear ROI and vendor promises that …

Travel and mobile applications ought to go together like peanut butter and jelly, but the cost of international data consumption generally stands in the way of using your phone to …

Walmart has acquired Portland, Ore.-based Small Society, a mobile application development firm that has created apps for the 2008 Obama campaign, Starbucks, Zipcar, Amazon.com, Whole Foods, Live Nation and others. …

SensorLogic, a leading machine-to-machine (M2M) cloud application development platform, has been rumored for weeks to be the subject of an acquisition by Paris-based mobile and digital security giant Gamalto. The …

In a sign that the Web and mobile e-commerce are now meaningfully affecting even the most mundane parts of our lives, Domino’s Pizza said Dec. 8 that it received more …

Wireless technology innovators and other RCR Wireless community members gathered in San Francisco this week to discuss the future of the world’s most exciting industry. The event was held at …

Northern Kentucky University students are complaining that their cell coverage on campus is effectively unusable. According to the school’s student paper, the 15,000-student university is considering installation of a distributed …

Mobile phone users in Egypt are using American location-based social network Foursquare to “check in” throughout that country, including the tumultuous Tahrir Square, site of repeated and ongoing protests first against the …