To boost its Wi-Fi capacity in packed lecture halls, Georgia Institute of Technology gave up trying to cram in more access points, with conventional omni-directional antennas, and juggle power settings and channel plans. Instead, it turned to new high-gain directional antennas, from Tessco's Ventev division.
Citrix has added several features to its mobility management software to make it easier for mobile users to authenticate and jump into online meetings, and easier for IT groups to set up large-scale device deployments.
Egnyte today released iOS and Android apps that let mobile employees work not only with files stored in the vendor's cloud file sharing service, but also now with private files behind a corporate firewall.
Soti is about to go live with an expanded version of its MobiControl mobility management software. Version 11 offers full support for Samsung KNOX Android security, a user-based licensing option, new self-service features for bring-your-own-device end users, and support for iOS 7, Windows Phone 8.1 and other platforms.
As the weather cools, the iOSphere's hopes are kindled by rumors that the summer of '14 will bring the iPhone 6.
Along with new iPads, MacBook Pro notebooks and the donut-shaped Mac Pro announcements, Apple quietly released an update for iOS 7, with a range of improvements and bug fixes.
Apple Tuesday announced its "biggest step" with its tablet line, but took only about 20 minutes out of its hour-plus presentation to do it: a years-in-the-making slimmed down version of the 9.7-inch iPad, now dubbed iPad Air, and a high-resolution display for the 7.9-inch iPad mini. The biggest shock: a $70 price increase for the smaller tablet, to $399.
Rumors are still rife before Apple's announcement tomorrow afternoon where the company is widely expected to reveal two new tablets, successors to the full-sized iPad and the smaller iPad mini.
A month after its release, iOS 7 is running on almost three-quarters of active iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. But its adoption is still somewhat slower than that of iOS 6.
Nine million new iPhone buyers can't be right. They should have waited until January or June or September 2014 for the big-screened iPhone 6.
The wait for iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 seems nearly over. This week, Apple sent out press invitations for a San Francisco event Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
Here’s an alphabetic sampling of products; prices as of October 10, 2013, based on data from Google Shopping and Amazon.
Unsubstantiated opinions about the size of iPhone 6 were transmogrified into "solid reports" by iOSpherians who think rumors are information.
Business interactions with customers who increasingly rely on mobile devices are especially complex. The new version of Kofax's TotalAgility has been extended to let businesses create and manage so-called "customer facing" mobile apps.
The eco-friendly iOSsphere has already begun recycling lapsed iPhone 5S rumors for the iPhone 6. There's a comforting familiarity to it all.