Monday December 23, 2024

WWDC Keynote Shows Apple Means Business

 Apple’s WWDC keynote had a message for cloud service providers. Apple knows it has the devices inside the enterprise, whether iPhone, iPad and even Macs, and it wants more than just the hardware business. It wants everything. And it’s coming for you. Read More Tweet This Post

Mitro Access Lets You Give Someone Temporary, Limited Access To Your Online Accounts

 Mitro, a company that helps corporate companies and SMBs manage shared passwords, has recently introduced a new extension of their platform called Mitro Access, which grants temporary access (with restrictions) to your various online accounts. Here’s how it works: Read More Tweet This Post

Apple Introduces CloudKit, An ‘Effectively Free’ Toolkit For Making Cloud Apps

 While Apple has a reputation for building beautiful hardware and powerful software, recent forays into the cloud, including MobileMe, iCloud, and Siri, have been found wanting by many. At today’s WWDC event, Apple demonstrated that it’s making significant headway on the cloud front with the announcement of iCloud Drive, advanced photo storage and syncing, and […]

On The Eve Of SAPPHIRE Conference, Vishal Sikka Puts SAP In The Rearview

 It’s been a month of Sundays since Vishal Sikka resigned from SAP, and I spoke to him a couple of days before the start of his former company’s SAPPHIRE user conference that begins Monday in Orlando. The conference will be going on without him for the first time in 12 years, and Sikka is fine with […]

In A Bid To Be The MS Word Of The Mobile Generation, Quip Adds Better Search, URL Links

 Quip, the mobile-friendly word processing app co-founded by the ex-CTO of Facebook Bret Taylor and ex-Googler Kevin Gibbs, has picked up some 5,000 companies as users since it launched last August, with the list of customers ranging from tech early adopters like Taylor’s alma mater Facebook (where there are “thousands” of users, Taylor tells me), New Relic and Taser… Read […]

Microsoft And Salesforce Announce Broad Product-Integration Partnership

 This afternoon, Microsoft and Salesforce announced a broad partnership that will bring their respective software and service products closer together. Salesforce will support Windows, Windows 8.1, build “interoperability Salesforce and Office 365,” Microsoft’s subscription-based productivity suite, and integrate OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, And Outlook in… Read More Tweet This Post

ExactTarget Co-Founder Scott Dorsey Leaves Salesforce, McCorkle New CEO

 A changing of the guard at ExactTarget, the email and digital marketing company that Salesforce acquired last year for $2.5 billion, its biggest acquisition to date. ExactTarget co-founder Scott Dorsey is stepping down as CEO, while Scott McCorkle, president of technology and strategy and COO, is stepping up. Sources tell us that emails went out to staff […]