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Google Launches In-Page Analytics. More Detail, Up Close.
Google announced today in its Analytics blog the launch of the new In-Page Analytics beta, enabling site owners to overlay the service on their web pages and evaluate traffic data more capably. “To make this visualization easier, some users keep the website open in another browser tab so they can reference it while looking through ...
In-App Purchases Doing Better than Mobile Ads for iOS
The dawn of the Smartphone era has given marketers a huge opportunity for mass profit generation, predictably via advertisement revenue. Contrary to this however, Flurry has uncovered that despite of mobile ad revenue’s prospected potential, virtual goods revenue had overwhelmingly surpassed it on the iOS arena, at an exponentially growing rate. This is based on ...
Over 10 Million Users of Google Apps Education, Will Only Grow with Android
This month, 4 year-old Google Apps for Education marks a milestone in Google’s growth throughout the education, cloud-computing arena. Universities, colleges and alumni, as well as a great number of other educational establishments, now make up a list counting over 10 million people using the tools, further anchoring Google in this sector, and setting it ...
Juniper Networks Launches New and Powerful Content Streaming App
In light of the mobile boom and tablet and PC video streaming, Juniper Networks has just announced the launch of new Media Flow Controller application Media Flow Publisher, which enables content providers ranging from IPTV to cable companies, streams smooth HQ video across a wide range of devices using numerous formats, streaming protocols and more. ...
IBM Acquires Software Company PSS Systems
IBM today announced its acquisition of the privately held PSS Systems, a company which develops software to help enterprises and organizations to analyze, mechanize and implement data management policies on vast amounts of crucial business information, as well as dispose of information responsibly in a secure and simplified, cost-efficient way. With a current and ongoing ...
Amazon’s Hard Push for Kindle, Pre-Installs on Verizon’s Androids
Android has cut a fresh deal with Verizon, the ever-popular wireless voice and 3G data network provider serving over 90 million customers, to get the Kindle e-reader preinstalled “…on many Android devices…” running on their wireless network. With 92 million people signed-up with Verizon, this is one chunk of the market that practically guarantees to ...
Apple Patents New Censorship Technology: Encore to Big Bro Status?
Apple, quite notorious for having a bit too much control over its products’ content than some would favor, has recently patented technology which would enable an even more advanced means of filtering communications on its devices. As reported here, this anti-sexting multifunctional parenting ‘innovation’ will be able to measure a message’s propriety in relation to ...
Windows Phone 7 Plus Apple iOS: Pitting Against Android’s Chaos
Wired seems to think Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS, launched in the sea of Android, will make Android itself look all the more chaotic. That could very well be the case, and it’s really the only logical way for Microsoft to go. It’s always held a higher level of control with integrated apps and device ...
Turns Out, Schools Cannot Spy on Students at Home via Webcam. PA District Settles for $610k
A recent U.S school system scandal involving a Pennsylvania district spying on students’ off-school activity throughout a program installed on their Mac laptops just ended in a $610K settlement in favor of the plaintiffs. Quoting PCMag: “The Lower Merion School District will pay a total of $610,000 to settle cases filed by students Blake Robbins ...
Cloudera’s Major Update for Hadoop CDH3
Hadoop-based data management software and services provider Cloudera has announced today its conclusive major update to CDH3, AKA Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop. The wide-ranging, Apache licensed platform that enables customers to gain profit from their data has gotten several notably significant features, meaning a lot of added publicity along with its hot-out-the-oven update. “The focus ...