Cotap, a startup that strives to be the GroupMe of the business world, has launched its mobile messaging service designed for corporate customers. The service, available as an iPhone app and later on Android, allows users to invite people into managed, group conversations. It is similar to GroupMe, the mobile messaging service that has become popular for texting with […]
Posted on October 4th, 2013 by admin
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Once upon a time, if you wanted your own website, you either had to speak fluent Internet, or write a large check to someone who did. However, thanks to the laundry list of companies and services that have sprouted over the last five years — like Weebly, Wix and Squarespace, to name a few — […]
Posted on September 29th, 2013 by admin
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15Five, a startup backed by the likes of 500 Startups and Yammer’s David Sacks that provides a platform to help the working world communicate better with its managers, has had a dose of its own medicine. Taking feedback collected from its users since its exit from beta in August 2012, the company is today rolling […]
Posted on September 20th, 2013 by admin
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NASA’s newest robotic explorer rocketed into space in an unprecedented moonshot from Virginia that dazzled sky watchers along the East Coast of the U.S. LADEE, which is the size of a small car, is expected to reach the moon on Oct. 6. Scientists want to learn the composition of the moon’s ever-so-delicate atmosphere and how […]
Posted on September 9th, 2013 by admin
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Timed to coincide with VMware’s conference this week in San Francisco, one of its bigger rivals, Parallels, today is unveiling a new app that takes its own virtualization software to a new screen: the iPad. More than a year in the making, Parallels Access for iPad is not the first tablet-friendly product released by the […]
Posted on August 28th, 2013 by admin
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Gamification — the idea of adding gameplay elements into services to get people to interact more with them — has been one of the more buzzy features in the last few years of social media services, but it’s also been one of the more problematic. Last year, Gartner estimated that some 80% of apps with […]
Posted on August 27th, 2013 by admin
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MobileIron is launching Anyware, a service that gives Salesforce administrators the ability to manage devices, provision them and give users access to a personal app store. With Anyware, a CRM administrator configures devices through an interface that MobileIron has made simple enough to use without needing IT to implement. Once configured, the user has the […]
Posted on August 27th, 2013 by admin
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VMware announced its network virtualization platform today based upon its own internal technology with Nicira, which it acquired last year. NSX is a network hypervisor that abstracts the server. It exposes virtual networks, but they have the capability to be programmed, similar to virtual machines. But it’s also still very new. In 2009 and 2010, […]
Posted on August 26th, 2013 by admin
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Thanks to the JOBS Act and the rise of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the parade of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding has gone mainstream. However, according to the minds behind Crowdtilt — the Y Combinator-incubated platform that caters to the many types of “group fundraising” that fall outside the purview of Kickstarter — […]
Posted on August 24th, 2013 by admin
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Zendesk has unveiled Help Center, a business app that resembles standard WordPress or Tumblr themes and serves as a knowledge base in a format similar to Quora: It becomes more refined as people add comments. According to its own benchmark data of 16,000 customers, Zendesk customers are four times more likely to use self-service systems than calling […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2013 by admin
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