Good Technology CEO: "We focus on the data, not the device"

How Bezos could apply big data and other Amazon tactics to the news business | The secret, failed plan to save Blackberry Follow CITEworld BY IDG ENTERPRISE August 15, 2013 InCITE Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT Good Technology CEO: "We focus on the data, not the device" Here's our full interview with Good Technology CEO Christy Wyatt, in which she explains the company's philosophy on containerization, user experience, and why customers trust Good for security. How Bezos could apply big data and other Amazon tactics to the news business Amazon pioneered the use of big data analytics in e-commerce, web personalization, multivariate testing of product offerings, and inference engines to predict consumer preferences. Jeff Bezos has a chance to bring these technologies to the Washington Post. The secret, failed plan to save Blackberry An investor tried to convince BlackBerry last year to abandon its proprietary operating system, embrace Android, instead focus on its core assets -- enterprise security and messaging. But the company didn't listen. Windows 8 users are averaging only 2.5 app downloads from the Windows Store By way of comparison, the iOS App Store averaged almost 40 downloads per user in its first year. Microsoft shipped only 300,000 Surfaces last quarter, says IDC And Surface Pro sales seem to be even worse than Surface RT sales. Big data will be mostly hype until it looks like this For big data to transform business, it has to be presented in a way that end-users can manipulate and understand, without the help of data scientists. These web sites show how it can be done. Google Glass is sprouting a nice little app ecosystem The latest platform update includes integration with Evernote and Path, and a bunch of new third-party apps have cropped up as well.   Follow CITEworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to citeworld_weekly_update as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Copyright (C) 2013 CITEworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 **Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@citeworld.com.**