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OpenGate Launches Report Builder for Microsoft Access
Today software and add-in developer OpenGate software announced the release of Report Builder for Microsoft Access, an add-in aim to simplify the creation of complex reports as well as related calculation and custom styles. The advantage of OpenGate’s approach is that it circumvents software licensing fees, taking an open approach to providing cloud services. “OpenGate’s ...
Googles Follows Mozilla’s Lead, Launches Privacy Options for Chrome
Today Google announced a new online privacy-focused Chrome extension named Keep My Opt Outs, or KMOO. The extension lets users to permanently opt out ad-tracking cookies from not only Google’s networks but also others, and follows an earlier announcement by Mozilla it’s adding a do-not-track feature directly into Firefox. From WSJ: “This new feature gives ...
BBC Online Experiences Cuts, Mainstream Media Facing Trouble
The BBC announced it’s making some budget cuts concerning BBC Online, its digital distribution outlet. BBC Online’s budget will be reduced by £34 million from its current budget of £137 million by 2013-2014, and the move will also involve among other things the closure of up to 360 proposed posts. “Under one unified strategy, BBC ...
Freelancer.com Expands, Outsourcing on the Rise
Outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com announced it has acquired another domain name, Freelancer.de, one of Germany’s top freelancing marketplaces. The sum of the acquisition was not disclosed, but this deal presents yet another landmark in Freelancer.com’s accelerating global expansion. “We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Freelancer.de, one of the top German freelancing sites,” said Matt ...
Facebook and Groupon: Our Social Media Bubble?
Every few years we see the media grow big-eyed at the signs of a bubble–a housing bubble, an investor bubble, or in this case, a social media bubble. And this isn’t the first time a social media bubble has taken over the line, with tech eras seeming to come and go with every buzz word. ...
Trapster Hacked, Compromises Millions of Users
Trapster, a crowdsourcing-based online service which warns iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Garmin and TomTom GPS owners of police speed traps, announced yesterday millions of e-mail addresses and passwords may have been compromised. Trapster suffered two security breaches; one after which it released a warning to users and a second, to which it responded saying it’s “not ...
Google Can’t Acquire, Launches Groupon Competitor
After Groupon rejected Google’s $6 billion bid, the search giant is taking a new approach to get into the discounts market. A “confidential fact sheet” from Google sent to Mashable revealed some information about Google Offers, an email-subscription based buy-in discount service in the making. “According to its sources, businesses will get 80 percent of revenue ...
Dell Announces VMware plug-in, Enhances Embedded Systems Management
Dell announced some enhancements to its systems management portfolio, including the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter. The plug-in follows after an integration of Dell’s hardware management capabilities into Microsoft’s System Center, and is reportedly capable of reducing time spent on systems provision to around 5 minutes a week. “And so Dell has done the ...
HP Replaces 4 Board Members, Investigating Mark Hurd
Today Hewlett Packard announced it is replacing 4 board members and adding an additional director to the board. Joel Hyatt, John Joyce, Robert Ryan and Lucille Salhany departure, and there to replace them are Shumeet Banerji, Gary Reiner Patricia Russo, Dominique Senequier and Meg Whitman. All 5 new directors will stand for re-election at HP’s ...
Tweets Take to Techmeme Headlines, Discussions
Dubbed one of the “100 essential websites …” by The Guardian, and one of NYT technology editor David F. Gallagher’s sites, Techmeme will now use noteworthy tweets of various sorts as full headlines of their own, but mostly as points of ‘Discussion.’ “First is the news-breaking variety, which directly offer new factual information… The second ...