About half of business-to-business (B2B) marketers expect their marketing budgets to increase this year. Where will they spend those dollars? Employees will be the biggest expense, followed by marketing programs and campaigns. Source: http://www.emarketer.com

To get the most out of your smartphone, do you really need a cellphone plan? That’s the question a Wall Street Journal reporter tried to answer by relying only on Wi-Fi networks for a month. Source: http://www.npr.org

We can no longer think in terms of rifles vs. shotguns or push vs. pull. It’s not nodes that we need to target, but the networks. We can no longer coerce customers to do what we want, but must inspire…

Experience Mobile World Congress 2015 from the fast lane. Watch highlights of Microsoft news and events from Barcelona. For more information, please visit: http://news.microsoft.com/event/mobile… Source: http://www.youtube.com

Sony Corp.’s struggling mobile unit can’t be justified at a low profit margin and won’t tie itself to smartphones or even hardware, its new president says. Source: http://www.wsj.com

77% of companies plan to increase their digital marketing budgets, the highest rate since our Marketing Budgets survey began, and up from 71% last year. Source: econsultancy.com

The worst patent trolls bring weak cases and use the cost of defending a lawsuit as leverage to force settlements. A company called Joao Bock Transaction Systems LLC (“JBTS”) has elevated this business model to an art form. Source: http://www.eff.org

A trial set to begin in US District Court in Boston next Monday could finally resolve the nearly five-year-long conflict between Internet giant Google Inc. and a small local technology company called Skyhook Wireless Inc. Source: http://www.bostonglobe.com

The Chinese computer maker says the aim was to enhance the consumer experience, but the deeply hidden software also undermined protections for online transactions and communications. Source: http://www.nytimes.com

Today, our new frontiers lie in space, which humanity must eventually colonize for minerals, energy and new homelands. As Carl Sagan observed, “All.. Source: techcrunch.com