Climbing at 14,000 feet? Sailing in Sydney harbor? You never know when access to your computer will come in handy. Some say the iPhone & iPad aren’t for business. But LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone and iPad users disagree. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
Beef up your iPad’s capabilities with LogMeIn Ignition. With just a simple touch, you can control your work or home computer –- including your applications, files, emails and databases, even programs not supported by iPad or iPhone — turning such devices into powerful business tools. Read More »
Fox Mobile is rolling out its subscription mobile video service BitBop, making a wide range of TV content available on Blackberry mobile phones. The service, which costs $9.99 a month, includes full-length TV shows available for streaming or download on WiFi or 3G networks. Read More »
Amyris disclosed in a filing this week that it has hooked up with French oil giant Total, which bought a 17 percent stake in the biofuel developer and could help deliver a lot more confidence with investors for its upcoming IPO. Read More »
IBM isn’t looking very far to find opportunities in cloud computing. In its first year offering cloud services, the company has been helping existing businesses in health care and other industries move towards service models for their infrastructure and products. Read More »
Data — massive amounts of it — are emerging more quickly than ever before thanks to always-on networks and sensors, and companies are increasingly turning to new tools to help make sense of it. But how do you know if your company has hit “big data?” Read More »
The big cloud computing opportunity for Rackspace is in providing services for a wave of new applications, according to the company’s president and chief strategy office, Lew Moormon. Read More »
Salesforce Chatter brings the best of Facebook and Twitter to businesses, and it’s completely secure and private — making people more productive and companies more competitive. We’ve seen it in action ourselves: Chatter fundamentally changed how we collaborate on product development, customer acquisition and content creation. Read More »
According to new data from MeFeedia, viewers watched about 25 percent more HTML5 video than Flash-based video. More importantly, HTML5 video viewers were much less likely to abandon a video, with a 70 percent lower bounce rate when compared to video delivered in Adobe Flash. Read More »
The Federal Trade Commission said today it had settled with Twitter over security lapses last year that led to hackers accessing accounts on the service including that of President Barack Obama. The terms seem to be a slap on the wrist and a strong scolding. Read More »
Looking to make free international calls? Rebtel can help with that thanks to a new application that works between two Android devices in 50 countries. Callers are charged for voice minutes on their cell plan, but for unlimited voice customers, Rebtel’s service won’t cost a dime. Read More »
Does the rise of cloud computing mean that traditional SQL databases and solutions are dead, or dying? Not according to a panel of database companies at the Structure conference. Although the “noSQL” movement is gaining steam, most agreed there is still a place for traditional SQL. Read More »
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