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Net Nanny to Launch on Android, iOS at CES
Net Nanny, a provider of online parental activity control and monitoring tools, is adopting mobile trends in the consumer electronics space. The company revealed Android and iOS versions of its product, featuring a long line-up of features specifically designed to handle mobile traffic. CES is a prime opportunity for Net Nanny to debut its mobile ...
NewSQL Will Prevail in 2012 says MIT’s Michael Stonebraker
This week’s Snapshot interview was well-fated, as we learn about Professor Michael Stonebraker’s vision of 2012 for big data and relational databases. Stonebraker’s been an influential element in database research, and offers insight on big data’s future along with some lessons learned from years of prototypes and startups that span academia to the commercial space. Currently running ...
Success Factors Appeals to Millennials in Social, Mobile Era
This month SAP acquired Success Factors, a provider of HR software-as-a-service, for $3.4 billion or a 52 percent premium that investors promptly covered the following trading day. The company will be integrated into SAP’s strategy of achieving significant revenue boosts by 2015, which focuses on expanding in the cloud, mobile and analytics industries. The business ...
Citrix Incubator Says the Science of Startups Gets Better
In celebration of the 15 year anniversary for its IPO, virtualization solutions maker Citrix launched the Citrix Startup Accelerator on December 8, last year. Martin Duursma, VP of Citrix Labs and Chair of the CTO Office, was put in charge of the initiative, and they’ve since invested in 11 startups, matching well with their goal ...
Without Skill, Data Can Lack Value in the Information Era says Jaspersoft CEO
What are the pilars of prosperity? According to traditional ideals of the factors of production, there’s land, labor and capital. But given our advanced global economy, isn’t it time to re-think this theory? Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile cites contemporary data tech trends in his updated version. He points to time, information and capital as the ...
The Biggest IT Challenges of 2011: Infographic
The job of an IT admin is a sundry string of tasks, managing enterprise networks, protecting employee devices, monitoring applications and weighing the pros and cons of an imposing cloud industry. The biggest challenge for today’s IT admin is maintaining network uptime, according to a recent report from Ipswitch. Surveying a portion of its 100,000 ...
AT&T Gives up on T-Mobile Buy. Will They Partner Instead?
In a move reflective of AT&T’s troubles in acquiring T-Mobile, Ma Bell’s reportedly dropped its bid for the UK-based telecom provider. The deal’s been a questionable one from the very first day, sending AT&T on a difficult mission to prove its honorable motives behind the massive acquisition. In recent weeks, the acquisition has come under investigation by ...
A Dreamy Big Data Dinner Party for IBM VP Anjul Bhambhri
I was thrilled to first meet Anjul Bhambhri because of her longevity in the big data space. As Vice President of Big Data Products at IBM, she has a unique perspective on big data as well as her company, and Bhambhri’s passion for her area of expertise shows through. Bhambhri’s one of my most anticipated profiles ...
YouSendIt Secures Mobile Cloud Sharing with New iPad, Android Apps
YouSendIt, an early leader in business content collaboration service to offer an integrated approach for sending, sharing and signing documents online, announced a major advancement in delivering secure cloud content sharing for business users. This launch allows YouSendIt users to securely send files, share folders, synchronize devices and digitally sign documents from smartphones, tablets and desktops, ...
Bottlenose Launch: A Smarter Way to Skim the Stream (Invites)
Another memorable startup from Nova Spivack and co-founder Dominiek Ter Heide hits the interwebs today, called Bottlenose, this time in the form of a stream reader. Spivack feels the current market for stream readers doesn’t solve the issue of content overload, and he’s applying some natural language technology (one of those areas he’s keen on) to ...