For wireless operators, the business apps could lead to more sales of devices, data plans and consulting deals to help companies manage their mobile work forces.
He also promoted the once-heretical idea of using mobile ground forces and a streamlined chain of command to "get inside the enemy's decision cycle" and hasten its collapse.
He has expanded the security forces by a third, to 270, 000, including a core of 80, 000 professional soldiers, some of them in mobile brigades and special forces.
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Scheduled for completion in October, Age of Context examines five technology forces: mobile, social media, big data, sensors and location-based technologies, which are converging into a superstorm of change.
NATO, it would need a quite different kind of armed forces: mobile troops useful for peacekeeping, for example, rather than a citizen army and secret arms dumps in forests.
Robert Scoble and I have been collaborating since July on Age of Context, a book about the convergence of five technology forces: mobile, social media, big data, location-based and sensors.
It reports on the convergence of five forces: mobile, social media, Big Data, sensors and location to create an entirely new technology era, one in which context will shape business, marketing, advertising, our health, entertainment and our relationships with connected devices.
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NATO, the army itself is keen to develop leaner, more mobile and higher-tech forces.
Now that the digital revolution is well underway, the movement to mobile is inevitable as mobile usage explodes, which forces advertisers to search for new approaches to finding eyeballs for their ads.
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The primary driving forces behind this mobile payment initiative by Starbucks is its ability for the Seattle-based coffee giant to not just to reduce the cost to process purchases, but according to Brotman, create a better experience for the customer.
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Britain is setting the pace in creating mobile, battle-ready forces, while Italy's army is still dominated by conscripts who use the experience to learn proper Italian (and to escape their families) but are not exactly bursting to fight in foreign wars.
There had been previous reports that Sprint (S) might combine forces with T-Mobile.
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Together with the complementary technology forces of social, mobile, the cloud, and unified communications, big data brings countless new opportunities for learning about customers and their wants and needs.
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Tim Heinemann is a retired Special Forces officer and a mobile training team leader for counter-terrorism professional development of American allies around the world for US Department of Defense.
In a world being remade by social media, mobile technology, and disruptive market forces, the way organizations, businesses, and government interact with one another and with consumers and citizens is shifting in ways that are impossible to anticipate.
Robert and I contend there are five rapidly converging forces: social media, mobile devices, sensor networks, Big Media and mapping that are forming a new contextual era.
At the same time she, and the police, prepared for trouble by a number of ingenious administrative changes allowing the country's different police forces to concentrate large and mobile columns wherever needed.
Government figures show forces who have used static and mobile speed cameras, have seen road deaths fall dramatically.
But now a group of Canadian and Tanzanian health innovators have joined forces to apply simple and safe mobile technologies to improve cervical cancer screening and thus potentially reduce mortality rates in the East African country.
He contends that the power of mobile to disrupt commerce is one of the most powerful forces in the retail business.
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That office paper usage will continue to be flat or slightly decline, with larger forces like the economy having more impact than mobile.
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The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces.
Unlike the single-player game, a mobile mothership, variations in maps, game types, starting forces and rules only make the game more intense.
The firm said urgent and compelling forces, such as cloud computing, social computing and mobile computing, are behind the spending.
The three men had worked together starting other companies and joined forces to create Boku when they saw a big opportunity in mobile payment.
"Opera practically invented cloud compression to improve mobile user experience, and the team at Skyfire is proud to join forces and advance cloud solutions together, " said Jeffrey Glueck, CEO of Skyfire.
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The ITV is also an important component of the Expeditionary Fire Support System, which allows a mobile mortar system to provide long-range indirect fire support to infantry forces as part of the Marine Corps' "Ship to Objective Maneuver" doctrine.
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As these forces combine, new leaders are going to emerge in digital data, mobile applications, technology infrastructure, business and government.
Intel continues gathering its forces for a push into processors for multimedia-friendly smart phones and other ultra mobile devices.
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The American Forces Press Service notes that more than 600, 000 DoD staff use government-issued mobile phones, mostly BlackBerry devices.
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