Pedro Hernandez

As a device class, the smartphone is taking the technology market by storm and it is showing few signs of slowing down. Worldwide, vendors shipped 237.9 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2013, a whopping 52.3 percent gain over the same year-ago period, reported IDC. Compared to the previous quarter (1Q13), shipments rose by […]

Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple is riding high on sales of its iPhone smartphone, but a slowdown in the company’s other business units portend some challenges ahead. Apple announced fiscal 2013 third quarter earnings on July 23. Revenues for the period, which ended on June 29, 2013, hit $35.3 billion, a modest 1 percent increase over the […]

Despite declining PC demand and a $900 million write-off due to the company’s underperforming Surface RT tablet, Microsoft continues to post strong sales. In a July 18 statement announcing Microsoft’s financial results for the fourth quarter and its entire 2013 fiscal year, chief financial officer Amy Hood noted the relative strength of her company’s business […]

iPhone and iPad users can finally get Outlook on their mobile devices, provided that they jump through a major hoop. Microsoft’s new Outlook Web Apps (OWA) for the iPhone and iPad are a sign that its reluctance to release iOS versions of its productivity software offerings is slowly eroding. Yet like its Office Mobile App, […]

Surface RT prices are plummeting. Is the tablet’s fate headed in the same direction? In a sign of slack demand — or that a product refresh is imminent — Microsoft has drastically slashed the price of its Surface RT tablet by $150. Formerly sporting a price tag of $499, a 32 GB Surface RT tablet […]

Many workers don’t trust their employers not to take peek at their personal mobile data, according to a new report from Aruba Networks (PDF). Not only is this distrust undermining “bring your own device” (BYOD) initiatives, it’s putting business data at risk. A global survey of 3,014 employees, conducted by Shape The Future, revealed that […]

Tablets like the iPad and Nexus are keeping the market sizzling, but white-box manufactures are turning up the heat. Chinese manufacturers of unbranded hardware are snapping up tablet displays, prompting Englewood, Colo.-based research outfit IHS to revise its 2013 outlook for displays upward by 6 percent. Instead of the previous forecast of 246 million tablet […]

iOS 7 won’t just sport a radically redesigned interface, it will also feature new mobile device management (MDM) capabilities that are meant to make it easier for enterprises to bring iPhones and iPads into their IT mix. New additions to Apple’s popular mobile operating system, which runs on the company’s popular iPhone handsets and iPad […]

Microsoft and Oracle today announced a cloud computing partnership that will bring the latter’s database and software offerings to the former’s Windows Azure cloud computing platform. Oracle first teased news of an impending partnership with Microsoft after reporting its fourth quarter fiscal 2013 earnings last week. Amid talk of flat revenues, but an uptick in […]

In the wake of the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) PRISM scandal, tech heavyweights are scrambling to respond to allegations that U.S. government agencies have privileged access to user data. Apple shot down the notion in a statement that addressed the recent controversies surrounding U.S. intelligence gathering. Apple was caught up in the widening PRISM […]