Another dispatch from the post-PC era: Forrester’s latest report on mobile adoption in the enterprise found that 66% of employees now use two or more devices every day, including desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets. A smaller, but notable 12% percent said they now use tablets at work. That’s still far fewer than the 50% who […]
Posted on October 14th, 2012 by admin
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We last caught up with HD Trade Services in August, when the company, part of Y Combinator’s summer class, released a tablet app to help smaller enterprises manage the process of buying and shipping goods from one country to another, by offering visual inspections (by way of photos and HD video) of goods to minimize […]
Posted on October 13th, 2012 by admin
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Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google’s vast infrastructure. Cloudscaling, a San Francisco startup, is one of the pioneers in building open, distributed clouds in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) style. The company will provide engineering and code development to implement […]
Posted on October 13th, 2012 by admin
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Jive Software is hovering below its post-IPO low after an investment bank lowered its rating on the company, citing research that shows enterprise companies are taking a cautious view of private social networks that we see from Salesforce.com, Yammer and a host of other competitors. BMO Capital Markets said the market potential for social business […]
Posted on October 12th, 2012 by admin
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Big Switch, one of the hottest startups in the fast-growing software defined networking (SDN) market, has named Jason Matlof as its new vice president of marketing after he left Battery Ventures as a partner in September. The move is noteworthy, because it illustrates how fast the new networking space is emerging, as data becomes ever more difficult to manage on […]
Posted on October 12th, 2012 by admin
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A mobile back-end as a service (MBaaS) called Kii Cloud officially opened for developers today, boasting 25 million end users and a group of distribution partners, including NTT docomo. Kii Cloud, in development for the past two years, marries APIs and SDKs with a proprietary back end that abstracts the complexity of building servers. MBaaS is more often a […]
Posted on October 11th, 2012 by admin
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BlackBerry-maker RIM demoed another pre-release build of BlackBerry 10 in London today – including showing the camera Timeshift software working in real-time, and detailing a feature which allows BB10 users to switch between a personal and work mode. The latter sandboxes all corporate content and apps, meaning this portion of the phone’s data can be controlled […]
Posted on October 11th, 2012 by admin
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On stage at CTIA’s MobileCon keynote today, RIM’s Jeff Gadway gave an on-stage demo of the upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. It wasn’t any more revealing than what we’ve already seen from RIM on stage at their own developer conference events (and in Natasha’s preview earlier today), but it did emphasize that RIM’s goal with […]
Posted on October 10th, 2012 by admin
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If you get the opportunity to hear Clayton Christensen hold court, seize it. Christensen is a Harvard Business School professor and renowned author and innovation expert, perhaps best known for his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” which had a profound influence on many thinkers and business leaders, including Steve Jobs. Speaking at BoxWorks in San Francisco […]
Posted on October 10th, 2012 by admin
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On stage today at Boxworks, Box CEO Aaron Levie and his team unveiled service that will allow people to “like” and edit documents within the Box environment. It’s a smart move by Box, a company known more for its file storage than its social features. But it makes sense. Box hired Writely Founder Sam Schillace as […]
Posted on October 9th, 2012 by admin
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