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Mobile augmented reality users to approach 200 million by 2018

Posted by | Dec 2, 2013 | , |

New findings from Juniper Research (www.juniperresearch.com) shows that the mobile Augmented Reality (AR) market, is set to increase dramatically from 60 million unique users this year to nearly 200 million in 2018.

The market will expand from the early adopting gaming segment and navigation based utility to becoming an integral part of the consumer’s ecosystem, according to the research group. Despite initial trepidation and single use applications of the technology, Juniper forecasts AR to become a key future platform for communication and commerce.

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Kool Tools: Mailplane 3.1.1

Kool Tools: Mailplane 3.1.1

Posted by | Nov 26, 2013 | , |

Mailplane is an application that gives you a combined Google Calendar and Gmail experience separate from your web browser. With this OS X app no separate calendar set-up is required. Plus, accepting an invitation intuitively switches to the correct calendar tab.

Mac users will find that Mailplane integrates seamlessly into the OS X environment. It supports Apple Mail-like keyboard shortcuts and can, in fact, act as the default mail client. You can mail PDFs from the Print dialog, access OS X Services, and more.

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Northern Spy: Surf’s Up

Northern Spy: Surf’s Up

Posted by | Nov 1, 2013 | , |

By Rick Sutcliffe

The wave of Apple’s future was supposed to be a simplification of the user interface, a de-skeuomorphism of visual elements, and a unification of MacOS and iOS. The most recent version of the latter went a long way toward this mark

However, MacOS 10.9, a.k.a. Mavericks, is, on the whole, a stay-the-course mild enhancement of Mountain Lion 10.8, nothing radical. Thos who want radical change will have to wait for MacOS 11.

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Most organizations running cloud apps — even if they don’t know it

Posted by | Nov 1, 2013 | , |

More than 55% of organizations are running Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications on their corporate devices whether they know it or not, according to new research by Softchoice, a North American technology solutions and services provider.

The challenge isn’t necessarily that these apps are being used predominantly for file sharing, storage, and remote access. It’s that many of them are being used without proper oversight by IT departments, posing a serious threat to the security of corporate data, according to Softchoice.

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