Desktone has gotten trademarks on the expressions "desktops as a service" and
"DaaS" from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Senior director of strategic development Jeff Fisher says the company will
enforce the trademarks if it can - which may not be the most judicious thing
to do considering Citrix throws the terms around a lot and Citrix is one of
Desktone's investors - but Desktone wants it clearly understood that desktops
as a service (DaaS) specifically describes an outsourced subscription service
for server-hosted desktops powered by its Virtual-D Platform and delivered ... (more)
StrikeIron Inc., a provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), facilitating the
consumption and distribution of live data over the Web, has announced its
sponsorship of the Business Mashup Challenge for developers attending Mashup
Camp 4. IBM is the main sponsor of the Challenge alongside secondary sponsors
StrikeIron, Dapper, AccuWeather, and Kapow Technologies.
Mashup Camp 4, produced by Mass... (more)
As www.ProgrammableWeb.com points out, there are about two services or Web
APIs added every week, and that rate continues to accelerate. There seems to
be several types of providers. First are those that produce an API as an
afterthought, such as a SaaS provider. Next there are the larger Web makers
such as Google, Amazon, and Yahoo that are moving toward APIs as a strategic
direction. W... (more)
I’ve been in several meetings recently that have hit on the topic of
Data.gov. Data.gov will become a repository for all the information the
government collects, and that information will be in turn available to anyone
who needs it. Pretty positive move, if you ask me. However, the
existing data-as-a-service providers that traffic in government data could
find that they are soon suf... (more)
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