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Posted on November 24th, 2013 by admin
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Forrester Research says that more than half of the enterprises in North America and Europe are implementing official BYOD programs so that companies do not find themselves with hundreds of security leaks because workers are demanding better smartphones and tablets, and simply bring their own in when all they get from IT are three year-old […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2013 by admin
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Two developers who met at Harvard University 15 years ago, are the winners of the Salesforce.com $1 million hackathon for its service to create mobile reports for sales people using the Salesforce.com platform. The app, called Upshot, was developed by Thom Kim and Joseph Turian. The service parses data in plain english, connects via API […]
Posted on November 22nd, 2013 by admin
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Microsoft took a big step into enterprise collaboration when it acquired Yammer, and an equally big step into VoIP when it bought Skype. Now it’s taking an investment in Zula, a new startup that is offering a solution for how those two kinds of services might potentially work together. The Israel-based mobile collaboration app co-founded […]
Posted on November 18th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon today announced a new service for mobile developers at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. Amazon AppStream, which uses the company’s recently launched g2 EC2 instances, allows developers to easily stream their applications in high definition from the cloud to any mobile devices. Amazon is specifically marketing this for mobile developers, but […]
Posted on November 18th, 2013 by admin
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Runscope, which develops tools that monitor API traffic, has launched a new automated API and backend service testing tool to improve the quality of mobile apps. The new Runscope Radar service, launched here at AWS re:Invent, is designed to alleviate the concerns that comes with changing backend APIs. It allows app maintainers to verify that […]
Posted on November 15th, 2013 by admin
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Amazon today announced a new service for mobile developers at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas today. Amazon AppStream, which uses the company’s recently launched g2 EC2 instances, allows developers to easily stream their applications in high definition from the cloud to any mobile devices. Amazon is specifically marketing this for mobile developers, but […]
Posted on November 13th, 2013 by admin
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Swiss mobile cloud-based field service app maker Coresystems has raised $15.5 million in Series A funding – its first external funding round, despite being founded in 2002. The investment comes from a consortium of private Swiss investors and well-known German tech investor Peter Zencke, a former SAP executive board member and head of research and […]
Posted on November 7th, 2013 by admin
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Posted on October 15th, 2013 by admin
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Mobile security company Lookout is all about protecting user’s mobile devices against malicious threats, a business that today has 45 million customers. Today it’s raising its own profile a little bit more. The startup is announcing another $55 million in funding, led by strategic investor Deutsche Telekom, parent of T-Mobile. This will be used to help […]
Posted on October 12th, 2013 by admin
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