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Social Apps Get Licensing Agreements Too: the New Distribution of Software
Hip Digital Media, a social marketing firm, has entered into a licensing agreement with Appitalism operator Mobile Streams. Appitalism is a marketplace similar to the App Store and Android marketplace that offers over 200,000 apps for both platforms, according to the company. Hip Digital will now resell these applications in the U.S, Canada and U.S. ...
Zenprise Hires New ‘VP of Customer Success’
Zenprise, a provider of mobile device management software and services, announced its latest major hire today. The firm named Chris Doell as its vice president of customer success, a newly created role that will put him in charge of client services, customer support, account management and a number of other administrative duties. “Doell brings over ...
SaaS Gains Enterprise Help Desk with Zendesk Update
Zendesk today announced that its popular help desk offering, which is used by Sony and Twitter among others, will become more worthwhile for large organizations with an enterprise plan scaled up for the company’s heavy-weight customers. The price tag on it is 99$ per customer support agent per month, and it comes with several major ...
JailBreakMe Developer Talks Apple and Security
Comex, the person behind the JailBreakMe iPhone software that lets users get bypass Apple’s notoriously strict Digital Rights Management and install any app of their choosing, has been revealed by Forbes thanks to some social media research. The individual who seems to be one step ahead of Apple’s security team at all times turns out to ...
Topify Shuts Itself Down because Twitter Doesn’t Care about the Little Guys
Arik Fraimovich, one of the developers behind Twitter tool Topify, announced in a blog post he will be shutting down the free service on August 5. Topify enabled users to manage their Twitter accounts from their inboxes, rather than having to receive the rather clunky default notification emails. The service leveraged the X-Twitter* headers that ...
IPO Season Gets Another Boost with Palo Alto Networks’ New Executive
Palo Alto Networks, a company that develops a firewall offering that filters web traffic based on the type of application generating it, announced its latest hire as it’s starting to prep for an initial public offering. Mark McLaughlin, who served in various positions at VeriSign throughout the past decade, most recently as the CEO of ...
AppleTV Gains Momentum, Google TV Lags Behind
Online video is taking up more and more bandwidth, as both demand and quality rise exponentially and companies are quick to catch up with this growing market. Some have managed to do so, while others are still looking to gain a name for themselves in this arena – two examples of the latter ones are ...
VCE Joins CLOUD2 Commission to Standardize Govt. Clouds
The the Virtual Computing Environment Company, a joint venture by Cisco, EMC and VMware announced the release of TechAmerica Federal CLOUD2 Commission report in the National Press Club. The TechAmerica CLOUD2 Commission is a group of over 70 industry veterans from both the private and public sectors that aim to accelerate cloud adoption in the ...
Nintendo Sales Drop as Competition Overshadows Main Offering
The gaming industry is being shaken by a drastic shift in user demand, and Nintendo along with B&M game stores has taken a hit. Sales of the Nintendo 3DS hand-held console, which comes with a no-glasses 3D gimmick, have dropped significantly in spite of strong early demand. The Japanese firm sold only 710,000 3DS in Q2 ...
BlueCross Adds Encryption After File Theft Incident
The explanation behind the long string of hacks we’ve seen lately that stretches back all the way to last year may show that hackers are getting smarter, but some cases can also be attributed to organizations’ failure to protect themselves. One clear example is that of Sony, which was hacked multiple times and let customer ...