Microsoft Executive Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith (left) and Cameron Kerry discuss the future of global technology, privacy, and regulation at The Brookings Institution on June 24, 2014. Yesterday, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith addressed a packed room at Washington’s Brookings Institute on the future of [...]
It was reported last week that certain Android phones manufactured in China are shipping with pre-installed malware. Worrisome enough are the risks associated with downloading apps from uncurated stores, but pre-loaded malware presents a whole new set of anxieties to privacy concerns in the mobile space. The devices are infected with [...]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced their decision in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, which invalidated the patents at issue. There's a "big picture" here, but there's some smaller, more intriguing parts of the decision that are going to keep our brains working for the next few days. On the big picture side, [...]
Today, ACT President Jonathan Zuck traveled to Brussels to speak about the mobile health landscape in Europe at the 2014 European mHealth Conference. Ray Pinto of Microsoft and leaders from the European mobile medical industry joined Jonathan on a panel about developing standards for coordinated, interoperable and universal mHealth solutions, [...]
Last week, NPR's Morning Edition featured a story about a Queens school for children within the autism spectrum that use iPads in class and to play in their high school band. It's the type of story we're accustomed to hearing at ACT | The App Association. Most of the country first learned about the incredible impact apps have had educating children with autism from Leslie Stahl's Sixty Minutes segment on apps for autism in 2011.