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Juniper Networks VP on Cyber Epidemics Awareness, Mobile Security

“Why aren’t we educating people?” – Bob Dix, the vice-president of Juniper Networks, made a parallel between the need of making population aware of the cyber threats, just as the U.S. government succeeded back in 2009 with the H1N1 pandemic flu. At that stage, both private and public sectors were involved in putting over the ...

Will Nintendo Need Great Expectations from a 3D Hand-Held Device?

The last peak in terms of profit for Nintendo was back in 2009, when it was reported a rise of 30.2% in operating-profit margin. That was due to the increased popularity of the gaming system Wii. But that was a moment is history, now that Nintendo reported a halving in earnings in comparison with the ...

Appcelerator and PayPal Platform: Easy Mobile Commerce

The enhancement of the PayPal is the aim of the coalition between Appcelerator and iPad applications using web technologies. The partnership includes the integration of PayPal system on a mobile platform, entitled Titanium+Commerce, to ease the online merchants’ purchasing process. The first step for Titanium+Commerce is to include PayPal’s Mobile Payment Library on top of ...

Compellent Meets Qatalyst Partners and Stock Rises 13%

Close sources informed the press that Compellent is seeking for solutions, inclusive a sale option. Compellent Technologies Inc. – the leading data storage provider met Qatalyst Partnets for assistance. The former ones are known for the 2009 integration of 3Par Inc into Hewlett-Packard. In the rumor appears also Morgan Stanley, which was due to the ...

VeriFone to Integrate Mobile Payments with PayPal

Within PayPal X Innovate 2010 it has been announced that VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile card encryption will fusion with PayPal payment. The following steps upon the informed integration will be the VeriFone’s efforts and sustainability to promote PayPal and Bump acceptance and promotion. Moreover, PayPal announced that in the subsequent implementation it will use VeriFone’s PAYware ...

Cloudera Open Cloud Wins Big: $25M in Funds

The providing company of Apache Hadoop software and services took part, among its current investors (Accel Partners and Greylock Partners) in a $25 Million funding in Series C. The funding operation was managed my Meritech Capital Partners. The today’s event succeeds the previous Series B investment of Greylock Partners of $6 million, back in June ...

Digital Media Faces Increasing Profits

Pearson, the international media company, registered an increase of 50% digital subscriptions and 11% increase in sales for the Financial Times subsidiary in 2010. At the same time, the Penguin subsidiary was almost entirely digital, also facing a 5% increase in eBook sales, offering 16,500 eBook titles, as reported. It’s a significant jump, showing that ...

AIO Printer Apps Calling from Lexmark

Today Lexamrk made public its intention for developing all-in-one apps for the printer devices. The conference where the announcement has been made – Adobe MAX conference,  gathered seekers of third-party developers familiar with Adobe Flash technology. Lexmark invites all the interested developers to publish their methods on Lexmark’s SmartSolutions Center, with goals to offer apps ...

What Are the Industry Trends Driving Mobile Ad Increases?

According to eMarketer, in 2011 the American mobile advertising expenditures will reach or even exceed $1,1 billion, mostly due to the changing trends that are taking place in the mobile industry. To be more specific, the most influential role is attributed to Apple and Google, both of them having redesigned mobile device models and advertising ...

IBM Now Offers Mobile Metrics for iPhone, BlackBerry

Cognos 10, the new software created by Cognos Inc. for IBM, aims to bring new analytics tools for mobile metrics.  And there could be a big win in it for IBM, as it places big bets on the mobile market. IBM has invested over $14 billion on instruments for the introduction of this analytics software ...