I believe it is time to discuss the effect of the Operating Systems in the mobile space. To date, for the majority of users the operating system in the mobile device has been an indistinguishable part of the device; in fact, for many people, it is hardly noticeable that the usual stack we are accustomed […]

A few days ago Palo Alto Networks, a leading manufacturer of enterprise firewall solutions, released its latest semiannual end-user application usage report. The report is based on the analysis of the network traffic that passes through Palo Alto Network’s firewalls deployed on the edge of corporate networks. In other words, the study reflects objective application usage […]

As is evident from a recent article in The Economist (as well as several of the past posts on this blog), cloud computing is becoming very prominent in the information technology world. Companies are scrambling to provide new cloud-based services, and people are doing more tasks in the cloud as more cloud systems become available. However, […]

You may have seen the recent announcement of the Google Maps Navigation application. And you may have thought: Hey, just another navigation device! But you may want to have a closer look at the whole thing, since what they are proposing is something that may be the killer application of the Navigation industry. Why? Let’s […]