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Facebook Turns On Safety Check Following Orlando Slaughter

Safety Check will probably "get a big spike initially. Then, as time goes on -- three or six months or a year later -- people will get complacent," suggested Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics Issues With Safety Check...

Microsoft Curbs Cortana in Windows 10

"This stuff sounds like a bunch of 5-year-olds having a fight in the sandbox: If they're not going to work with us, we're not going to work with them," suggested Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics "To a certain extent, Microsoft has a point, but this is a t...

Nokia Buys Into Digital Health

The IoT healthcare market "is the biggest growth market over the next seven years in terms of revenue," pointed out Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics Healthcare is bigger than the other two major markets for IoT -- the financial and industrial sectors, she...

Google Calendar Offers Life-Coaching Goals Feature

"At what point does it cross over from being a helpmate to being a nuisance?" asked Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics Privacy issues are a red flag, she told TechNewsWorld. "Sometimes it does get to be that you give [apps] too much information and they hav...

Male Snubbing Ride-Sharing Service Postpones Launch

However, "in a city like Boston, which is not a huge city and not a high-crime city, you wonder about the idea," remarked Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics. "I'd think a service like this would be better targeted to a larger city with a higher crime rate,...

Reddit’s Blocking Tool Balances Free Speech With Right to Ignore

"You have cyberbullies on all social media forums," remarked Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics However, the trolls and cyberbullies appear more likely to take action on Reddit than on other social media sites....

Microsoft Guns for Cloud Devs at Build 2016

Microsoft's IoT services and the Azure App Service "will be absolutely essential because companies have to learn what is IoT, what they need to implement it, how much it's going to cost, what their staff need to learn," commented Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics...

Marketers Make Customer Experience More Personal

"If you're not analyzing the data, how can you market it?" asked Laura DiDio, a research director atStrategy Analytics. "From my own survey, only 8 percent of organizations are using predictive analytics and big data analytics on a regular basis." However, customers may be con...

Facebook Warned to Toe France’s Privacy Line

"The Europeans take a tough stance, and it makes sense," commented Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics. Today, in a world where everything's interconnected, the question about who owns the data becomes very muddy," she told TechNewsWorld.

Suggestion Glitch Crashes Safari Browser

At this point, the issue is a nuisance, said Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics. She didn't have a problem with her two MacBooks and her iPhone The glitch will see most users switching off Safari Suggestions, Troughton-Smith opined. "Few will re-enable, too...

Microsoft Prods Skylake Users to Take the Windows 10 Plunge

Microsoft's move is necessary because "increasingly, people don't have static environments; increasingly, they're using their computers for a myriad of things," said Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics Both business users and consumers "are putting greater ...

ProPublica Launches News Site on Dark Web

"I happen to agree with ProPublica that you have to be poking around in the dark Web for your own protection," said Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics "We are in a day and age when everyone's becoming more and more extremist," she told TechNewsWorld....

China Levels Antitrust Allegations Against Microsoft

"Microsoft has always been a favorite target worldwide for antitrust action, some of it well deserved and some of it not," said Laura DiDio, a research director atStrategy Analytics. "The EU, for instance, has repeatedly gone after them." Is It Politics, or Just Business?...

Atlassian Surges in Eye-Popping IPO

Atlassian did well because "they're printing green ink and lots of it," ventured Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics "The company's profitable ... in stark contrast to many other highly touted IPOs from the dot-com era to the present day," she told the E-Com...

Mozilla Launches Free Ad Blocker for iOS 9

"The Mozilla Focus ad blocker is free and it claims to improve performance, so that's a win-win for users," said Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics "It can also reduce mobile data usage," she told the E-Commerce Times, "so it's all good."

Cortana for iOS Enters Beta Territory

Microsoft decided to release the limited beta "so they can get a feel for what's going on," said Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics. "They don't want to get overwhelmed. It makes sense to get feedback from the installed base or from folks who want to beta ...

App for Rating People Draws Withering Scorn

"I think [Peeple] is going to crash and burn pretty quickly," Laura DiDio, a research director at Strategy Analytics, told TechNewsWorld. "This is a really bad idea." ...

Internet of Things Makes Enterprise Headway

"It won't happen that way," said Laura DiDio, director of IOT, enterprise research and consulting at Strategy Analytics Companies will partner with each other to fill the gaps in their offerings, and "you'll see very targeted mergers and acquisitions," she told the E-Commerce ...

Evernote Aims to Bring All the Loose Bits Together

"Evernote is doing what a lot of companies are doing. The company is diversifying its product offerings and adding new features to the flagship product. You have to keep upgrading and evolving the initial product, assuming that they are still viable," Laura DiDio, principal at ITIC, told the E-Commerce Times...

Hacker Gives Google a Hand With Chrome-Android Compatibility

"This is a huge development for Android. You do not want a Tower of Babel. Users just want things to work," Laura DiDio, principal at ITIC, told LinuxInsider The end game is that you want people to be able to use these APKs. In no way should Google try to rein in a rogue deve...

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