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Billboards can track your location, and privacy advocates don’t like it

Clear Channel Outdoor launches a new geolocation tracking service as a way to deliver targeted ads

By Grant Gross

Mar 3, 2016 3 mins

Mobile Security Small and Medium Business

The votes are in: Which mobile data provider is best?

Find out which carrier gets the most cheers -- and which the most jeers -- from our 2015 survey respondents.

By Preston Gralla

Mar 3, 2016 27 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business

Why it’s OK for social collaboration to encourage shadow IT

The benefits of using social collaboration apps in the enterprise can outweigh the associated security risks if IT professionals strategically monitor and manage them.

By Matt Kapko

Mar 3, 2016 5 mins

Collaboration Software Mobile Device Management Small and Medium Business

Uber, Ola compete to take users on motorcycle rides in India

The motorcycle is cheaper conveyance in the country than even the three-wheeler auto rickshaw

By John Ribeiro

Mar 3, 2016 2 mins

Internet Smartphones Software Development

Arrest of Facebook exec, now freed, stirs debate in Brazil

Executive was jailed overnight after WhatsApp failed to turn over info requested by police

By Luiz Mazetto

Mar 2, 2016 4 mins

Mobile Mobile Apps Small and Medium Business

Decision against Apple would give FBI ‘dangerous’ power

Friction between law enforcement and tech sector on full display as FBI makes its case for tools to allow it to break into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone.

By Kenneth Corbin

Mar 2, 2016 5 mins

Apple Mobile Small and Medium Business

U.S. saw 6% overall drop in smartphone sales last quarter, research firm says

Market is saturated with high-end smartphones, and customers are keeping them longer

By Matt Hamblen

Mar 2, 2016 3 mins

Android Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Apple formally appeals judge’s iPhone unlocking order

The company asks a higher court to rule against the FBI request, just in case its motion to vacate wasn't the right move

By Grant Gross

Mar 2, 2016 3 mins

Security Smartphones

BYOD continues to add challenges for IT leaders

A recent study shows that more workers are turning to personal mobile devices to get work done, but businesses need to consider not only the security threats, but also the effect on company culture.

By Sarah White

Mar 2, 2016 6 mins

Careers Consumer Electronics Small and Medium Business

9 tantalizingly techie TED Talks

Responding to a spammer, teaching kids to code & putting the Internet where it belongs among top tech TED Talks of late

By Bob Brown

Mar 2, 2016 3 mins

Google IBM Small and Medium Business