With smartphones outselling PCs and 1 in 4 mobile workers choosing a tablet as their mobile device of choice, many believe the post-PC enterprise is upon us. We’ll examine the implications of these changes on the enterprise in our free webcast on Wednesday, March 16. Read More »

Mobile operators are looking for dollars from the content producers– this time it appears that they want over-the-top providers to help fund the cost of building out their networks. But are Wi-Fi offload, congestion pricing and high-margin machine to machine services enough to maintain healthy margins? Read More »

SCVNGR is applying game mechanics and a new business model to daily deals in an attempt to strengthen the relationship between merchants and their customers. With LevelUp, merchants offer a series of three deals to consumers, who unlock each one as they try out a business.… Read More »

 
 

Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey responded to VeriFone’s much publicized and questionable attack on its security with an understated letter that defends his mobile payment system’s protections, saying VeriFone’s claims are neither fair or accurate and don’t reflect existing protections in Square and credit cards. Read More »

The first iPad 2 reviews are out, and by all accounts, Apple’s lead in the tablet space is likely to continue for some time. Does iPad 2 have the right specifications and software or is this a device that evokes emotions? The answer is both. Read More »

Rovio, the Finnish company behind the hit Angry Birds game has raised $42 million in venture funding to grow the business into different directions. Investors in the company include Accel Partners, Atomico and Felicis Ventures. Angry Birds maker hopes to become a many-media brand. Read More »

With an update to the Apple TV set-top box, sports fans can now stream live baseball and basketball games on the device. For sports fans like me, that gives us another way to track our favorite teams without having to pay for a cable subscription. Read More »

CBS has had a good run with its TV shows both on traditional broadcast and online, even without being on Hulu. But with a new boss taking over CBS Interactive and the general manager of CBS’s online entertainment division departing, will the company’s digital strategy change? Read More »

Stumbleupon CEO Garrett Camp

Stumbleupon, which was reborn as a recommendation-and-discovery service in 2009 after an earlier ill-fated acquisition by eBay, produced another tangible sign of that rebirth today with the news that the company has landed a Series B financing round of $17 million from a group of funds. Read More »

Opera Software isn’t sweating the recent ban of its browser in the GetJar app store, because the effort is just one part of a larger plan by Opera to become a major distribution point for native and web apps around the world. Read More »

More Must Reads

Can Wi-Fi draw potential shoppers into a traditional retail store? According to a survey of 1,088 consumers, yes it can: 80.5 percent say they prefer a store with Wi-Fi. That allows them to research products reviews without having to worry about mobile broadband data caps. Read More »

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei has plans to invade the enterprise IT market. A Deutsche Bank analyst expects the company to introduce a line of servers, low-end switches, security, VoIP and storage products designed for the enterprise before the end of this year. Read More »

The temperature’s heating up on the Web, but one advisory group suggests the state of suggests technology could have plenty to learn from the challenges currently facing the pharmaceutical industry. Read More »

A new iPad app called Zite is the latest entrant in the race to build the “Daily Me,” a personalized newspaper that learns what you like. No one has really won this race yet, although Flipboard appears to be leading — and where is Google? Read More »

Google has released a new Gmail Labs feature called Smart Labels that should help to keep your inbox more organized and free of clutter. It automatically labels and filters certain types of email, such as group mailing lists, social network notifications and newsletters. Read More »