Another new feature is the ability for users to push a button to encrypt all app data and browsing traffic — to offer an additional layer of "industry-standard TLS/SSL protection" when using unencrypted apps on a public Wi-Fi or mobile network.
With more building going on there is even more layers of industry experience than before, especially in mobile and technology.
So even though Apple and Microsoft are maintaining a tighter grip on their own smart-phone operating systems, this layer of the industry hamburger seems bound to become a commodity.An Intel-like monopoly in chips also seems implausible.
The addition of Timbaland to the EXPO adds an additional layer of music industry success.
Deal-making in these countries involves local connections, long courtships of governments and industry titans, as well as a double layer of due diligence.
And the closeness of nuclear power generation to weapons programs in some countries casts a whole different layer of issues over the industry.
The bigness, in every sense, of Smith's pictures was also the bigness of Pittsburgh, with its rivers at the bottom, its steep inclines leading to vertical layers of houses, and its clouds of industry.
And much of the antitrust case centered on Microsoft's tactics to ensure that Netscape's browser and Sun Microsystems Javaa technology -- a layer of "middleware," in legal and industry terms -- did not erode the power of Microsoft's Windows monopoly.
In such a messy gold-rush, Phantom's platform acts as a layer of connective tissue to the industry, simplifying and automating the life of security teams.
So far, there is no sign of a Microsoft or Intel-like monopoly in any of the new horizontal layers of the handset industry; the most important standards are open, and exist at the network layer.
Which is why you could almost hear a sigh of exasperation from the geekier layers of the mobile industry late last month when they heard about hackers finding a way to break into iPhones and remotely control every aspect of the device.
