Cyber security standard lauched …Security techniques - Guidelines for Cybersecurity is also intended to protect computers when browsing. Janco’s Security Template meets all of the defined requirements in the new standard. The leader of the working group that developed the standard said, “Devices and connected networks that support cyberspace have multiple owners … from Janco Associates, Inc. - Nov 5, […]
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Free software leader Richard Stallman claims Ubuntu amounts to spyware with Amazon search integrated into the “dash” of its Unity interface. He is calling for developers to shun the open-source operating system. Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu. Stallman says the advertising search results amount to surveillance and argues that personal data is on Canonical’s servers. While Canonical […]
Posted on December 8th, 2012 by admin
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Julian Miller taught high school for four years, and like many teachers, he cared about his students’ learning outcomes — about getting them across the finish line. Unfortunately, current educational software and systems don’t make that easy. Teachers that want to follow student progress and understand which tools or methods are working and why are […]
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Openera, an Ottawa-based startup which automatically moves email attachments into cloud services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Salesforce and more, has raised $250,000 in seed funding, which the CEO Peter Lalonde jokes is “equal in significance to raising about a million if we were raising in the U.S.” He may be right – the company […]
Posted on December 7th, 2012 by admin
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Cloudera has raised $65 million to further fuel Hadoop adoption and expand its European operations. The new round led by Accel Partners, brings the total raised to $140 million. Existing investors Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and Meritech Capital Partners all participated in the round. Cloudera has established itself as one of the true leaders […]
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HootSuite, now at 5 million users, built its reputation as an enterprise tool to manage engagement on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ — with Twitter being an especially close partner for the Vancouver startup. But as it pursues its ambition to be a dashboard for business engagement across all of the […]
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Data visualisation startup Qunb just won the LeWeb Paris 2012 Startup Competition. Second placed was data-over-2G mobile startup Be-Bound, and third place went to mobile app Recommend. Qunb offers a platform for businesses and individuals to visualise their data sets – by creating charts and graphs — and compare them with other similar data sets. The startup […]
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Windows Azure Mobile Services has added push notification for developers so they can fire off updates that may include sounds, badges or SMS messages. Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president in the Microsoft Tools and Servers group, writes that the new push notification , using Apple Push Notification Services (APNS), is one of a series of updates […]
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Groupnotes, a Canadian startup with a team spread across Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario, was crowned the overall winner of Startup Weekend’s Global Startup Battle today. The international contest is all about launching a startup in just 54 hours, which the Groupnotes team managed with gusto, even signing on a number of customers willing to pay […]
Posted on December 5th, 2012 by admin
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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has closed Apps.gov, the once-heralded cloud storefront established in the first months of the Obama Administration by former Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. According to Fierce Government, the GSA said in a statement that it has phased out the storefront that it set up for government agencies to discover and […]
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