It amazes me all the time how big data and the broadening social graph are being utilized to reform business models and discover new products and services.  Couple these two trends with mobility and proprietary technology, and you get the updated Visual Caller ID, courtesy of Youmail.  The mobile applications and services provider introduces an innovative ...

It’s quite surprising to know that despite increasing levels of unemployment, finding skilled people for the role and retaining asset employees are as difficult as ever.  There are a few reasons for this: stiff competition brought by overflowing demands for certain skills, scarce human resource in the market, or poor employee retention or rewards program. ...

Twitter is already becoming an extension of my usually unspoken thoughts.  Sometimes my tweets are borne of a sudden gush of emotions.  In most cases, I retweet information from those I follow, which I find really interesting and useful for my own followers. But never did I imagine that a tweet could get you 30 ...

Netflix is an industry mover and has become a trendsetter in the online entertainment scene. But, its business model is looking to be the main source of their misfortune at this point. Netflix has a parallel paradigm as Amazon.com, but what sets them apart is that it does not own anything. Their profit relies on ...

The four-day VMworld 2011 conference finished with the uproar of the industry’s brightest stars. With more than 19000 attendees, it could very well claim a seat as of one of the most sought after occasions in the tech community.  In between are resounding consecutive days of successful launches in the cloud and virtualization.  And it ...

As mobility becomes a significant parcel of the human race’s daily professional and personal lives, ocean of opportunities open up across the industry. One of which is mobile apps development,which has kicked off strong and is now luring businesses into the $6.8 billion market.  For this reason, mobile strategies now center on app advancement. Moreover, ...

The global popularity of the iPad has ushered the tech community into a new era.  The success that Apple’s tablet has reached since its inception has lured competition to either create their own version of an iPad-killer, or enhance their current line-up and reinvent technology in an attempt to gain market leadership.  Perhaps one of ...

IBM is glaring hot right now. In terms of innovations, acquisitions and financials, the global leader in software solutions has been very aggressive in tossing strategies and implementing enhancements. It is evident in the company’s impressive second quarter revenues report, which beat Wall Street expectations. Social, mobile, hardware, software, big data, storage, cloud computing, business intelligence ...

With forecasts of the social CRM market reaching $1 billion in revenue by 2012, innovations in apps stores and solutions are spurring at a record pace.  Thanks to the immense influence of 750 plus million Facebook users and 200 million tweets a day, present-day business intelligence centers on social media data.  Social enterprise is gaining solid footing, ...

Just when I thought that the digital music industry has reached its pinnacle with iTunes, here comes another contender; Spotify. When it landed on the US soil in July, it never looked back.  The company has recorded several milestones already, and will soon be implementing innovative concepts that could plague the market, and probably spell ...