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Tweet There’s no doubt that Androids are swarming, but 300,000 activations a day, as Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin tweeted? “Seems like a stretch,” said Frost & Sullivan analyst Michael Jude, who added the figure “may represent the number of phones being shipped from manufacturers, many of which end up in warehouses rather than […]
Tweet Consumers worried about companies stalking them online will have a new way to keep their Web activities private when Microsoft makes IE9’s “Tracking Protection” feature available in 2011. If other browsers follow suit, the FTC’s proposal for a “Do Not Track” regulation may become irrelevant. “If the industry can do it, it’s better than […]
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the next generation Business Rules Management System, JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.1, as part of its comprehensive open source middleware portfolio, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Tweet When asked about pricing, Google engineer Andy Rubin quipped that the actual cost of the Motorola prototype tablet he demoed at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference was around $10,000. Consumers will probably get it for considerably less when it hits store shelves, but with the new Android Honeycomb operating system under its hood, […]
Tweet SOURCE: Progress Software Progress Software Corporation a leading independent enterprise software provider that enables companies to be operationally responsive, today announced new database drivers that will provide the ability to connect applications and off-the-shelf software to salesforce.com’s Database.com, the first enterprise database built for the cloud, announced today at Dreamforce 2010. Developers can access […]
Tweet SOURCE: SOA Software SOA and Cloud Services governance are more important than ever to enterprise IT organizations. During the Gartner Application Architecture, Development and Integration Summit (http://www.gartner.com/us/addi) in Los Angeles, November 15-17, 2010, more than half of the presentations focused on the importance of governance in helping to ensure the success of enterprise IT […]
Tweet SOURCE: SEEBURGER SEEBURGER Inc. today announced the expansion of its managed services portfolio with a new community management service that allows all supplier enablement processes – including supplier onboarding, message delivery, data integration and technical support – to be outsourced to SEEBURGER. The new service allows manufacturers and other enterprises to electronically integrate smaller […]
Tweet SOURCE: Marketwire Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and on-demand business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that it is a sponsor of the National Contract Management Association’s (NCMA) 29th Annual Government Contract Management Conference. The conference, being held December 9-10, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, is the leading […]
Tweet SOURCE: Pegasystems Pegasystems ,the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software solutions and a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, today announced that its customer, Farmers Insurance Group, has won two separate awards for the pragmatic approach it has taken to transform its claims operations. Farmers won the Gold Award for North […]
Tweet Now that Software AG has integrated the process design technology acquired from IDS Scheer, customers can next expect the German business process management vendor to enable the platform for the cloud, mobility and social collaboration. Software AG will offer its ARIS process modeling platform and WebMethods execution engine as cloud-enabled offerings so customers can […]
Tweet Wikileaks has hung out another load of dirty laundry, this time putting hundreds of thousands of U.S. State Department memos out on public view. It’s left many diplomats and governments red-faced, earned the leakers widespread condemnation, and called State Department security practices into question. Meanwhile, Level 3 chews out Comcast, the FTC gnashes its […]
Tweet SOURCE: Software AG Software AG announced that it has been named a Leader in the November 2010 report by Forrester Research, Inc., The Forrester Wave: Comprehensive Integration Solutions, Q4 2010, and is ranked the highest in the Current Offering category among 14 other Comprehensive Integration Solution (CIS) vendors against 137 criteria. In addition, Software […]
Tweet Oberthur Technologies, one of the global leaders in the delivery of high security solutions, is proud to announce the release of its newest middleware. This new middleware – AWP 4.4 – which will be presented during the Cartes 2010 exhibition, will be able to support our complete applications range. Smart devices are the safest […]
Tweet Devices ranging from home wireless routers to printers to major industrial systems often use hard-coded passwords and embedded credentials — built-in usernames and passwords that are sometimes publicly known. In some cases, admins close up these potential security holes by manually changing the credentials, but other times the step is overlooked. And in a […]
Tweet More than ever, customers are eager and ready to share their views with the companies they buy from. That can mean valuable intelligence regarding changes to products, a better understanding of buying patterns, insight into failures in service and an understanding of why you won or lost in individual cases. Read More…
Tweet Calling it “the next generation of realism” Google on Monday introduced the latest version of Google Earth, promising more seamless interactivity with Mother Earth and some unusual new features. “In Google Earth 6, we’re taking realism in the virtual globe to the next level with a truly integrated Street View experience — and 3-D […]
Tweet SOURCE: Red Hat Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has acquired Makara, a developer of deployment and management solutions for applications in the cloud. Makara’s technologies will accelerate the development of Red Hat’s comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations portfolio. Based […]
Tweet SOURCE: PRWeb The web is an enormously powerful tool for non-profit organizations. But rarely do they have the funds or the expertise to make the most of it. Webvanta, a web services company, is seeking a non-profit organization that the company can “adopt” for 2011. The company is looking for a non-profit that badly […]
Tweet Google Australia is offering free training in its products and free AdWords advertising to companies and individuals that offer web services to SMBs in a bid to get them promoting Google’s offerings to their customers. In a blog posting, product marketing manager, Richard Flanagan, said: “If you’re a webmaster, digital agency, freelancer, IT consultant, […]
Open source data management specialist Talend has acquired German service-oriented architecture (SOA) provider SOPERA.
In a recent post, the white house helps tweeters navigate the “8” official White House Twitter accounts. Each White House account provides a different view into the Obama administration.
Tweet SOURCE: MEGA MEGA, an industry innovator in risk management solutions, will demonstrate its enterprise risk management (ERM), operational risk management (ORM) and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions at RiskMinds 2010 in Geneva, December 6-10. For companies seeking to identify and control risks, the MEGA Suite offers proven tools that address critical issues in […]
Retail and distribution companies once viewed IT as a way to improve supply chain management and store operations. These days, they use technology solutions to manage relationships with customers, vendors and business partners.
Tweet For sites quickly growing to service hundreds of millions of users, risk control is vitally important. With megasites, the application doesn’t just support the company — often, it IS the company. Automation is also key. “There’s a tendency in hyperscale environments for small problems to grow larger almost inconceivably quickly,” said Pund-IT’s Charles King. […]
Tweet Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows users of its cloud computing platform to take advantage of the extra power graphics processing units (GPUs) can give. The company hopes the move will attract high-performance computing applications to its service. AWS has added a new Cluster GPU instance to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which […]
Tweet Adobe is in the process of optimizing Flash for the Mac, and the project has already reached the beta stage, CEO Shantanu Narayen announced at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco earlier this week. He indicated that Apple’s problems with Flash were Cupertino’s fault, saying that Adobe didn’t get early access to hardware […]
Tweet SOURCE: Progress Software Progress Software , a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced that InvestFlex, a leading trading systems software provider and systems integration consulting firm for the Brazilian financial services market, has selected the number one algorithmic trading solution — the Progress(R) Apama(R) platform — as the […]
We’re entering a period of conflict in the Web, a period of intense competition. We’re looking at new levels of M&A. We’re looking at the decision: do you partner, or do you compete?” conference organizer Tim O’Reilly said in his introduction to Web 2.0 Summit.
This report analyzes the Global market for Application Infrastructure and Middleware (AIM) Software in US$ Million.
Tweet SOURCE: Metastorm Metastorm a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced that Metastorm ProVision Version 6 has been certified for use on standard desktop systems connected to the U.S. Air Force Global Information Grid (AF-GIG) and placed on […]
