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BY IDG ENTERPRISE

December 02, 2013

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How cars will make better use of the data they collect every time you drive

Each new generation of cars comes with more sensors. Eventually those sensors will yield useful information for everything from preventative maintenance to how you tune your radio.

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The New Mobile Business Communication Landscape

The traditional challenges that CIOs and IT Managers face to procure solutions with optimal business value are being met with new demands. Today, IT departments need to also deliver technologies that are easier to use, deploy and implement – similar to consumer technologies. This phenomenon is known as the "consumerization of IT." Learn More

Why Delta gave 19,000 Windows Phones to its flight attendants

The Nokia Lumia 820 smartphones are now used for in-flight purchases as well as to provide on-board customer service using the Gogo Wi-Fi systems in Delta's aircraft fleet.

The New York Times has lessons for others making the slow transition to digital

The New York Times faces a classic innovator's dilemma. They need to maintain their core print audience and deliver quality news while finding ways to transition to an increasingly mobile future.

Forget B2B: Business buyers want the consumer treatment

Much like their consumer counterparts, business buyers simply don't want to be preached to anymore. They want to control the process.

Consumerization means huge challenges for unemployed IT pros

Consumerization isn't just changing the technology at work. It's also changing the entire social contract between employees and the IT departments that serve them. That requires more emphasis on "soft" skills that IT workers typically didn't emphasize.

Three ways companies can benefit from coworking spaces

A recent study from the Netherlands offers proof that coworking spaces deliver business and networking advantages to their members, including jobs, contracts, and business partnerships that might never occur otherwise. Here are three ways for larger organizations to capitalize on the coworking trend.

Google Now voice search will make your desktop PC more fun to use

By extending Google Now's impressive capabilities to the desktop via Chrome, the search giant is a step closer to its goal of creating an integrated, interactive universe of devices and features fully adaptable to the next wave of digital technology.

Are Chromebooks useless as a brick when offline? These apps prove otherwise

The knock on Chromebooks is that users have to be connected to the Internet to get anything done. But the Chrome web store features a number of productivity and entertainment apps for desktops that work offline and outside the Chrome browser. And nearly all of them are free.

Voxer wants to "obsolete Skype" with its walkie-talkie app for businesses

Call it the walkie-talkie, evolved. That's the push-to-talk hook that has helped Voxer carve itself a strong niche in the ever-growing consumer messaging app space. Now, Voxer aims to attract more business users with its Voxer for Business service.