33Across Launches Real-Time Personas
33Across collects social data, lots of it, and sells it to publishers. It operates a ‘social graph’ that tracks the activities of 1.25 billion internet users worldwide, and the sheer size of this data…
Can Smart TV Gaming Replace Game Consoles?
Television manufacturers are now focusing on making smart TVs as methods of connecting to the web and delivering content directly. Smart TVs open up a whole new world of entertainment. It allows you to…
Top iPhone and Android Apps Can Be BYOD’s Biggest Threat
By Saroj Kar
San Francisco-based mobile app security provider Appthority has released its App Reputation Report that unveils the hidden security risks for top mobile apps. The report discloses security issues raised by the BYOD movement, along with…
This Week in the Cloud: Files, Alliances and $10M in Funding
A number of cloud updates cross the wired this week, and the ones coming from the direction of Google were among those that stood out the most. The search giant launched a partner program…
Social Enterprise for Social Improvements
If Coca Cola were a person, would it be your friend? Or better yet, if it could talk, what would it say? Well, the truth is, companies such as Coca~Cola are very much like…
Top NFC Vulnerabilities: Your Smartphone’s Best Friend and Worst Nightmare
At the Black Hat convention, researchers discussed how NFC tags can be used to exploit smartphone vulnerabilities. It’s a serious topic, as more and more devices are being shipped with NFC chips standard, and…
Box Plays Nice with Microsoft, Comes to Windows Phone 7
Popular cloud storage service Box has not had many nice things to say about Microsoft or its popular Sharepoint platform. However, it seems Box likes the company enough to add support for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.…
VMTurbo to Bring Workload Management to OpenStack
VMTurbo recently announced that it has joined the OpenStack community and plans to integrate its intelligent workload management solutions with the open source cloud platform. By becoming a member of OpenStack, VMTurbo joins approximately…
Oracle Finally Adds the Elastic to Exalogic
This week Oracle announced the second generation of its cloud in a box, Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0. The newest release of the platform introduces several improvements, most notably, more virtualization capabilities. Oracle’s improvements…
Pentaho Extends Cloudera Big Data Partnership
Pentaho has announced plans for tighter integration of its Business Analyticis 4.5 with Cloudera Enterprise 4.0 and CDH4. This extension of its partnership with Cloudera is designed to create a complete solution for Hadoop-based…