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Tweet Comments made by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggest the social network would like to recruit new members from the under-13 crowd. Doing so could require a change in federal law. Zuckerberg touted the Internet’s educational benefits for young kids, but it’s uncertain whether parents and lawmakers would support a change in the law — […]
Tweet Just weeks after Firefox 4 arrived in its final version, Mozilla has released a beta version of its next-generation browser, Firefox 5. Firefox 5 targets Windows, Linux and Mac desktops as well as Android mobile devices. It includes both a location awareness feature for mobile users as well as a do-not-track function for privacy-minded […]
Tweet A new round of patching has begun for Android phones, the vast majority of which were found to be vulnerable to hackers if the owner was using it on an open WiFi network. The flaw affected 99.7 percent of all Android smartphones running Android 2.3.3 and earlier versions because they don’t use a secure […]
Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.activevos.com), the process automation company, announced today that one of Europe’s leading telecommunications operators, Tele2, has gone live with a ActiveVOS™ process application that integrates its core billing and provisioning applications.
Tweet It seems Facebook can’t make up its mind about privacy. Last week, it tried to hang Google out to dry in an inept effort to blast its Social Search for invading users’ privacy. This week, it’s cozying up with Bing, allowing the Microsoft search engine to draw on its user data to do the […]
Progress Software has always been a little larger that it looked. Founded around 30 years ago, it was one of the early 4GL/database companies and one of the few that made a life for itself as software moved from mainframe/minicomputer deployments to the client server world and then to n-tier browser-based architecture
WSO2, the lean enterprise middleware company, today announced that it has closed $6.5 million in growth financing. The funding round was led by Quest Software, Inc. and joined by existing investor Intel Capital. WSO2 will use the funds to expand its global operations; grow its Silicon Valley-based marketing, sales and support teams; and extend its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings to support the rapid increase in global demand for WSO2’s open source middleware platforms.
The past year has seen business process management (BPM) achieve tremendous growth in the enterprise, but there continues to be a good deal of misunderstanding about BPM itself. At its core, BPM is about automating and streamlining manual processes. These processes may represent a diverse range of tasks, from citizens renewing their passports via online Web applications to an employee requesting paid time off from the HR department.
Tweet Every time you turn around another company is reporting a serious data breach. Last week it was the LastPass online password management service that lost some e-mail addresses and master passwords, as CNET’s Seth Rosenblatt reported in The Download Blog. A couple of weeks before that, hackers broke into the servers of German software […]
Tweet For me, using multiple browsers is part of my work style. On all of my computers, I switch among several browsers, and I keep finding reasons to come back to SeaMonkey. This latest version is a drastic retooling. Even though its innards are revved up with the Firefox engines, SeaMonkey still has its own […]
Tweet Google revealed on Wednesday a Chrome OS-based notebook, a device it’s been talking about for several months. Called “Chromebooks,” the laptops will initially be available from Samsung and Acer June 15 through Amazon and Best Buy. The devices were unveiled at Google I/O, the Internet search giant’s annual conference, held this week in San […]
Verizon has won in the Superior Alternatives category of the 2011 Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards competition. The award, announced during the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World on May 6 in Boston, recognizes Verizon for “the most successful migration from proprietary solutions to open source alternatives.”
Once again, enterprise architecture (EA) leader MEGA is expanding business development in Europe and Africa through a partnership with SAFIRA, a well-known IT solutions company that serves leading financial, insurance, telecommunications, and media companies.
Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving over 70,000 customers, announced the launch of Infor’s next generation financial management solution – Infor FMS SunSystems Enterprise in India. The product was unveiled in India at the Intercontinental TheLaLiT in Mumbai on 3rd May, 2011, wherein the key note address (Contemporary CFOs expectations from IT solutions) was given by Mr. RajanDivekar, Regional, Senior Director, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India Pvt Ltd.
The European software industry is mostly clustered in the largest European countries—Germany, the U.K., and France, according to the latest report from IDC. Titled “Europe’s Software Industry: Where Are the ISV Clusters in Europe?” the study reveals that in 2009 top 100 independent software vendors (ISVs) from Europe had market shares in excess of 20 per cent of the global market
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced that Banif Corretora, a leading Brazilian brokerage, has selected the Progress® Apama® Algorithmic Trading platform to build and deliver high-frequency trading strategies (HFT) to its corporate customers. As part of its HFT strategy, Banif Corretora will migrate at least 50 percent of its operations to the low latency model through the Progress Apama platform within the next three years.
Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process services, recently published a new guide to help federal agencies and other organizations become leaner, more agile, and more competitive. Guide to Good Governance succinctly explains the important role enterprise architecture plays in pursuing good governance practices and proposes an effective approach.
Tweet Scareware has apparently made its way to the Apple Mac platform. Intego, which specializes in creating antivirus software for the Apple Mac platform, warned Monday that a fake antivirus program called “MACDefender” is attacking Apple Macs. Scareware in general is a common tactic used by online scammers, and it’s been seen many times in […]
Though predictive analytics (PA) tools have been around for decades—with a strong uptake historically in telecommunications and banking—demand has risen dramatically in the past couple of years. In fact, any CRM vendor focusing on a business-to-customer-facing client base must incorporate some PA into its offerings in order to build staying power.
Bank IT execs don’t have to be control freaks to worry about the rapidly multiplying risks that result from the use of mobile devices outside the firewall by both executives and consumers.
FuseSource Corp., the experts in open source integration and messaging, announced that the company was among a select group of leading vendors invited to participate in the April 2011 report, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Bus, Q2 2011.
Tweet Software AG announced on Thursday two major product releases that for the first time offers what one executive describes as “true deep level integration” of its Webmethods and ARIS platforms, got from acquisitions in previous years. However, one analyst thinks this is more of a “catch-up” release that mimics capabilities others have already brought […]
BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) solutions, today announced that it has been included in Gartner Inc.’s “Cool Vendors in Business Process Management, 2011” report by Michele Cantara, John Dixon, Janelle Hill, David McCoy, Ned Frey and Jim Sinur.
During my brief interaction with Raghuraman Ramamurthy, who heads Operations Excellence in Barry-Wehmiller International Resources P Ltd, Chennai (http://bit.ly/F4TRaghuR), the topic of discussion is ERP migration. A decision to go with an ERP needs to be paralleled with that of deciding your life-partner, begins Raghu. “Enough thought should be given to decide on your first ERP, and more thought needs to be given to decide if you want to migrate.”
Alfresco, the open platform for social content management, today announced the industry’s first preview of the Activiti Business Process Management (BPM) workflow engine integrated with Alfresco.
IBM has customized its new BPM (business process management) software to help small and midsized organizations set up their own automated workflows just like big businesses do.
Software AG (SAG) has announced the launch of a new partner programme to build its presence in the Middle East.The programme will aim to extend the company’s reach in the region, while developing partner’s skillsets.
Tweet Being a social networker doesn’t necessarily mean a person is tech-savvy, and that can be a problem when it comes to how Facebook handles security. The site offers a new feature that improves its HTTPS setting for example, but to benefit from it, users are required to know that the setting exists — or […]
Genpact Limited , a global leader in business process and technology management, and SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) specialist, today announce a partnership to combine Genpact’s finance and accounting (F&A) services expertise with SmartStream’s new TLM Account Reconciliation solution to bring unparalleled levels of visibility and control to CFOs, while shortening the financial closing process.
Tweet Disaster recovery is a term often used in Information Technology (IT) circles to describe the necessity for backup technology systems to safeguard an organization’s data. While this type of safeguard is absolutely a necessity to protect valuable data, and also reduce the amount of time your organization will need to recover from an incident, […]
