Marcus Nelson, co-founder of customer service startup UserVoice, left his role as head of social media at Salesforce.com back in April to start a company called Addvocate — and now he’s starting to talk about what he’s up to. When I met with Nelson yesterday, he gave me a quick demo of the initial product […]
Posted on July 7th, 2012 by admin
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Dell has a skunks works project underway to offer a Linux-based laptop made for developers. Now it is offering a beta program that will allow a small group of the to get one of the laptops and join what it calls the Sputnik Beta Cosmonaut program. Project Sputnik signals Dell’s changing focus to offer open-source […]
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British Airways is using Google Images to develop passenger dossiers for checking people out as they come through the gate. Now that’s what you call customer service. At least that’s British Airways spin. Privacy advocates have a different take. According to The Evening Standard, the airline is facing considerable backlash today after it announced a […]
Posted on July 6th, 2012 by admin
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According to the TIOBE Index, Objective-C is now more popular than C++, showing proof that mobile development is surging ahead as we enter the post-PC era. Objective-C is the object-oriented programming language used by developers for iOS. It had its start in 1983, the same year C++ was created. C++ proved far more popular over the […]
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As we all know by now, Amazon Web Services (AWS) had an outage on Friday. It would not have been much of a big deal except that it was AWS. And the fact that the outage took down big consumer properties like Netflix and Instagram. AWS is usually quite silent about what it does but […]
Posted on July 5th, 2012 by admin
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Now that there’s Google Compute engine, there is yet another infrastructure service that IT managers and startups have to consider. So how do IT managers decide to how to efficiently spend on cloud services? A Dublin-based startup called Cloud Vertical is stepping in with analytics that measure everything from everyday spending to EC2 instances, Amazon S3, […]
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In April, IBM rolled out a big new machine called IBM PureApplication Systems, a member of the PureSystems technology family. At the time, I called IBM out for calling it a “PaaS in a Box.” It reminded me of Larry Ellison calling Oracle’s hardware a “cloud-in-a-box” back in 2010. Well, IBM is continuing its PaaS washing. […]
Posted on July 4th, 2012 by admin
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A very smart project is underway by a 21-year-old design student in Los Angeles. The goal: update Microsoft’s branding and messaging in three days. Judging by the reaction, Andrew Kim has hit a tap root of opinions out there. So far, there are more than 188 comments on Hacker News about his speculative design project. […]
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It used to be that you could go to the Google Apps front page and easily sign up for a free account. But now it is a bit different. The Google Apps choice is not available anymore on the Google Apps home page. You can still get a free Google Apps account. But the only […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Here’s a timely funding announcement: Apica, a company that offers a solution enterprises can use to keep their cloud-based apps running smoothly — even when there are problems in the clouds — has just raised $5 million to continue expanding its services. The news comes after a weekend that saw several popular services like Instagram […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by admin
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