Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true

Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true

Prince told investors the UP Phone is built by “engineers with deep experience in lawful interception, surveillance, and spoofing capabilities.”  While taking various privacy and security enhancements from open source projects, Unplugged president Ryan Paterson told MIT Technology Review via email, Unplugged’s proprietary operating system developed their own “enhancements” including “based on knowledge not available…

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Want a Value-Priced Gadget? Good Luck.

Want a Value-Priced Gadget? Good Luck.

By choice or necessity, Americans have fallen for fancier smartphones, televisions, laptops and cars. The companies that make this stuff are trying to assess whether the shift to luxury is a temporary phenomenon or a new normal. Some relevant stats from 2021: More than one of every four smartphones sold globally last year were higher-priced…

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Millennials Aren’t Always About the Digital Experience. That’s Good News for Your Marketing Department.

Millennials Aren’t Always About the Digital Experience. That’s Good News for Your Marketing Department.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It turns out that millennials’ digital-first reputation might be getting misinterpreted. And that could be a very good thing for your business’s marketing department. As a generational cohort, the majority of millennials are at the height of their consumption power, according to Morgan Stanley. This makes them…

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