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HomePipe Adds Security, Facebook and iTunes Sharing to Android App
There’s a lot of talk about online backup and recovery, especially at the enterprise level these days. What’s worse than losing your information, especially when you entrust it to a service that’s supposed to keep it safe? A company called HomePipe is saving those troubles for someone else, focusing on access instead of cloud syncing, ...
Pegmo’s Creative Soup to Soul-cial Media Marketing
During my last trip back home I got to catch up with Pegmo, a company I’ve been following for a little while now. They’re brand new, entering the social goods market on a few different fronts, and have the quintessential startup office in a giant loft space, overlooking Chicago’s loop. I stopped by Pegmo’s office ...
Lookout Uses Big Data to Predict Malware Threats, Protects Entire App Stores
Android smartphone users are really fond of downloading apps, and why not? Everything you want or need is already rolled up in an app. There’s an app for quick exercise, low calorie diets, gamers favorites, speedometers, horoscopes… the list goes on and on. The booming market has encouraged a deluge of marketplaces to crop up, ...
Live Gamer Acquires GamerDNA, BrandPort to Rocket Launch New Monetization Options
Ads make the world go round. Well, actually money does, but with advertising comes money – so it’s kind of the same thing. More online gaming companies, from the developer to the publisher end, have come to the decision that they need to have ads for varied monetization options. Live Gamer, an online market where ...
ViralHeat Scales Out to Handle the Data of Human Intent
Big data is a big buzz word, but holds little meaning if you don’t know what to do with it. In today’s technology culture, we’re all about data, from the tweets we send to the videos we stream. And every piece of data holds intrinsic information about us, our preferances, and our intent. Determining how ...
We’re Already Raving About Spotify: Hands-On Review
With the recent availability of Spotify to the US, it’s already getting great reviews from first-time users. We’re pretty impressed by it from the moment of download to the point when you’re actually listening to its massive music library. We went ahead and signed up for the unlimited version, filling out the necessary details (username, ...
VMware Launches vSphere 5: What You Need to Know
WATCH LIVE! And view our live blog here. Wikibon has been closely watching VMware’s pivot from being “just a hypervisor” company to becoming a leading contender in the race to own the new cloud computing economy. Today, VMware CEO Paul Maritz and CTO Steve Herrod will be hosting a webinar “unveiling of the next ...
Video Chat Summer Revival Inspired by Social, Mobile Tech
Video chat is seeing a big boom again, with social networks and mobile technology driving new points of integration for established services. Skype, Google, Facebook and AOL are gaining new opportunities to extend video chat services in refreshing ways, with Facebook and Google’s latest video chat integrations marking a new era in social computing. Within ...
Will Skype on Facebook Scale to 750M Users? A Look Under the Hood.
Facebook announced video chat integration powered by Skype yesterday, introducing a new way to communicate on the global social network. It’s a major point of integration for both services, especially for Skype. When it comes to integrating with such a stringently formatted network like Facebook, there’s some challenges and opportunities on Skype’s part, and we ...
VMware Furthers Mobile Social Enterprise with Zimbra for Android
Things have been very quiet at Zimbra of late, but the recent announcement of the availability of VMware Zimbra for Android (VZA) is perking things up. Initially the app has been described as just a fling, since it was a short term offering; it was not only a short term thing, but a fun project ...