Maria Deutscher
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Big Data and Customer Service: Analysis & Optimization
Big data is one of the fastest growing trends in the IT industry, simply because of its potential. That potential stretches beyond just ad campaigns and also encompasses customer service and experience and loyalty. A lot of companies are jumping on this bandwagon, and generate demand as well as a host of more and more ...
QLogic Optimizes 3GCNA for Cisco Data Center Fabric, Puts Emphasis on Security
Storage and networking company QLogic has announced the optimization of its 10GbE converged network adapters for the Cisco Data Center Fabric. QLogic’s 3GCNA products deliver an “extremely secure data” cloud environment when combined with the Cisco Data Center Fabric, and QLogic is planning to monetize this support on a global scale. “QLogic’s 3GCNA products, in ...
ABI Reiterates Android’s Stellar Forecast. But What of the Other Platforms?
Technology market research firm ABI Research released a forecast today suggesting that in 2016, Google’s open-source Android platform will capture 45 percent of the global smartphone market. This comes a little while after IDC released its own forecast, which predicts about the same stats: Android will capture 45.4 percent of the market by 2015. These ...
Following Milestone Acquisition, Salesforce Expands Toolkit with Intuit Integration
Salesforce.com CRM offering and Intuit’s business accounting QuickBooks Online service are 2 of the most prominent SaaS products out there, and now they’ve teamed-up to further boost the customer flow. Intuit will resell Salesforce.com’s CRM solution, which will integrate with QuickBooks Online and sync customer data between the 2 platforms. Indeed, this seems to be ...
Business Apps for iPad, Android Tablets: QuickOffice Tops This Week’s Best
Tablets are sweeping through the office space at an accelerating rate, but it’s all not all hardware which contributed to the rise of the business tablet. Apps are another factor to this, and we’ve rounded up this week’s top 5 IOS and Android tablet business apps. iPad QuickOffice Connect Mobile Suit (v2.1.0) for iPad App ...
This Week in the Cloud: New Products, Acquisitions and Everything Between
This past week has seen a lot of announcements both from start-ups and the biggest players in the industry, further strengthening the cloud’s position on the global scale. Two of the best examples of that are Cloud.com and Gluster, who brought cloud adoption to a whole new level overseas. Cloud.com announced that its open source ...
Fusion-io Teams with StoneFly, Gets Some Extra Buzz
Integrated IP storage area network (SAN) systems manufacturer StoneFly announced it has signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement (OEM) with high performance I/O solutions provider Fusion-io. Through the agreement StoneFly’s SCVM and ESS Windows virtual SAN software appliances will be bundled with Fusion-io’s ioMemory product line, and the new platform will be offered to joint ...
RIM Moves Up a Notch: Highlander, and a Screenless Phone
RIM has had a few of very notable updates today, starting with the licensing of over 30,000 patents from Intellectual Ventures, a company founded by former Microsoft veterans. The deal probably comes in light of the recent tech industry court clashes over alleged copyright infringements, but it doesn’t come as a surprise considering what RIM ...
Online Video Advertising Makes Big Strides with New Tech, TidalTV Reaps Rewards
Video ad optimization platform vendor TidalTV announced it has raised a massive $30+ million in its latest funding round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from Comcast Interactive Capital and Valhalla Partners, and brings the Baltimore-based company’s total funding to $61 million. TidalTV was launched back in 2007, and had already ...
Mobile Games Continue to Drive Social Innovation, and Resources
Social gaming has been a huge tactical interest for second and third tier social networks in the past 3-5 years including Friendster, hi5, MySpace and Facebook, and now myYearbook joined the club in the mobile arena. The social network freshly acquired 5 popular Android games –Toss It, Tic Tac Toe, SpringDroid, Minesweeper and Line of ...
