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To add to last month's new Google Local service enabling people to connect
to information from their mobile phones or wireless device, Google has now
launched what it's calling "search in the palm of your hand."
Google Mobile, says the search giant, "makes it easy to access online
information — over 8 billion pages and a billion images — on your
cell phone or mobile device." You can also search more than a billion images
and get the one you need on your phone with Google Image Search.
The technology works only with sites that use XHTML, rather than traditional
HTML, to create slimmed-down mobile versions of their site specially adapted
for the mobile screen.
Using Google to search on your cell phone or mobile device gives you access
to over 8 billion Web pages and 1.1 billion images, says Google. You enter a
query into the Google search box on your cell ph... (more)
First it was the US, and now its Europe. Online commerce is picking up across
Europe - especially the parts in Western Europe - naturally at different
rates in different countries - with not only internet and broadband
penetration rates but also cultural factors playing a role in e-commerce
adoption, writes eMarketer. France, where broadband has surged, has
registered e-commerce growth of more than 40 percent last year, with similar
gains expected this year. The more mature U.K. market is nevertheless still
registering 30-percent gains annually. Moreover, online shopping and is up in
countries where retail sales are otherwise down.
"E-commerce should continue to grow at a healthy pace this year and next
throughout Western Europe, as more people go online more frequently, and at
greater bandwidth," said Jeffrey Grau, senior analyst at eMarketer. In 2004,
Internet pe... (more)
“The main reason for me to leave is that eBay does not absorb
innovation at the pace I enjoy, and its focus is narrower than Google. So
rather than chewing on variations of e-commerce for the next few years,
I’m very tempted to play with radically new stuff: satellites images,
machine translation, ways to extract knowledge from giant bodies of data,"
said Louis Monier (pictured), when asked in an interview recently why he was
jumping ship and leaving eBay for Google, Inc.
"And frankly," Monier continued, "I’m dying to peek under the hood and
see the infrastructure they have created. For someone like me, it’s the
ultimate Christmas toy.”
When asked, by interviewer John Battelle, whether Google recruited him,
Monier answered:
"I have known Larry and Sergei forever, I want to believe that I had a
standing invitation. All it took was one e-... (more)
"Ericsson and Napster are uniquely suited to offer mobile operators a simple,
cohesive and personalized digital music experience for their consumers," said
Chris Gorog (pictured below), Napster's chairman and CEO, as Napster and
Ericsson announced today a global partnership to offer what they are calling
"the first complete, fully integrated digital music service available for
mobile operators."
"Ericsson's world-leading wireless and telecommunications solutions
experience, along with their exceptional client base, make them the ideal
partner to deepen Napster's presence in the global mobile arena," Gorog
continued.
The new service - which will carry the Napster brand - will support
coordinated wireless and PC downloading of digital music in both subscription
and a la carte models, and phone-based initiation will ensure convenient and
easy music library access for ... (more)
"We still need to integrate the technology and roll out a product, and we
haven't disclosed those details," Yahoo Inc company spokeswoman Joanna
Stevens told the Associated Press earlier this week, as Yahoo announced its
acquisition of DialPad Communications, whose VoIP technology converts
conversations into data packets that can then be transmitted across the
Internet using today's widely prevalent broadband connections.
The 6-year old company has more than 14 million users. It is expected to
serve as Yahoo's newest springboard into the world of VoIP.
"As of June 14th, Dialpad and Yahoo have joined forces," reads the laconic
announcement at the very top of the Dialpad web site this morning.
In a Q&A; at the site, the company states:
"Since our inception back in 1999, Dialpad has always strived to offer low
cost, high quality Internet telephony service to users around t... (more)
Today I received my free registration coupon code for the upcoming SOA World
Conference & Expo, June 23-24, 2008, in New York City. I have a limited
number of VIP tickets which can be obtained here.
Enter the coupon code: speakerguestVIP (case sensitive) to redeem your pass
as my guest. See you at the conference!
The Most Distinguished SOA Faculty at the Upcoming
June 23-24, 2008 Conference in New York City
SYS-CON’s upcoming “3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo”
faculty includes such distinguished speakers as: Al Aghili (Managed Methods),
Alan Chhabra (Egenera), Andi Mann (Enterprise Management Associates), Andrew
Conte (APC), Andy Astor (EnterpriseDB), Ariel Cohen (Xsigo Systems), Bill
O’Conell (IBM), Bob Lozano (Appistry), Bob Quinn (3Leaf Systems), Brian
Martin (IBM), Carlo Innocenti Ph.D. (DataDirect Technologies), Chris Shayan
(Ashna Samane), Chris ... (more)
Sun Microsystems has announced its Open Media Commons initiative.
Parasoft says that its WebKing 5 can now automatically perform "hacker like"
attack scenarios.
LinuxIT has developed a new strategic partnership with Arkeia Corporation to
deliver backup and data recovery solutions.
Adobe has added four new royalty-free image collections available through
Adobe Stock Photos.
... (more)
A third-generation chef takes advantage of her alternative training to carry
out her talents on a midsize sailing yacht.
Strong breezes met us on our way out of the Yacht Club Marina in Antigua.
Although dark clouds portside indicated rain in nearby Montserrat, our
afternoon of comfortable sailing onboard the 2004, 82ft Oyster Darling was
free of bad weather.
A young crew with two Olympic sailors raised the sails with a thrilling
thwack and steered from the double helms as drinks and light snacks were
served. We skimmed across the waves, with a cool spray on our faces, headed
towards a little deserted bay said to be a favorite hideaway for crew
members. Once there, several guests dove off the boat and swam, while others
took advantage of the snorkeling gear and explored the crystal clear waters.
On the return to port, we relaxed on deck with freshly blended pina coladas... (more)
This just in from Tokyo - "adult" video will be released for the Sony PSP
starting next month. This will be "authorized" content, too, in the sense
that it will not need to take advantage of the recent hacking of the system's
firmware version 1.5.
The reason is that the PSP uses a Universal Media Disc, allowing movies and
video content to be played in addition to games. "We regulate the development
of games with adult content by adopting our own format. But as for videos,
the responsibility for content is left to the developers,'" said an unnamed
Sony exec in a Japanese newspaper.
Handheld games have become far more sophisticated in recent years, and are
now able to deliver high-quality graphics on a par with traditional video
systems. Sony, in an apparent bid to extend the PSP's popularity beyond a
core, mostly young game-playing audience, included the video disc on... (more)
Kapow, the company that gave UK its first SMS text gateway, announced a
partnership with Seiko UK. Seiko UK is the watchmaker’s UK subsidiary.
Seiko is using Kapow’s services to provide a SMS text-alert service
that would enable fast and efficient contact with customers and Seiko’s
sales teams.
Seiko found that it needed Kapow’s SMS services, when it was unable to
provide up-to-date customer service after doing repair or service. It was not
feasible on Seiko’s part to let customers know that their job (service
or repair) had been done. Seiko plans to use Kapow’s SMS database and
gateway and notify its customers.
Seiko would immediately notify the customer via SMS that their watch or clock
is in good shape now. This ensures that the customer knows that the work has
been carried out properly and they need to contact Seiko only if the... (more)
"If Apple decides to open the Mac OS to others, we would be happy to offer it
to our customers," said Michael Dell (pictured) in an e-mail to Fortune
magazine reporter David Kirkpatrick.
Is the PC industry back where it was in 1981? That is, when IBM first
introduced its PC, assembled with a non-IBM operating system and a non-IBM
micrprocessor (running at the screamingly fast rate of 4.33Mhz), the world
held its breath for months waiting first for someone to "clone" it, and then
to see IBM's reaction. Compaq lept into the fray, no suits were filed, and an
industry was born, with several hundred serious competitors at one time.
Meanwhile, Apple CEO John Sculley was resolutely criticized for not opening
up the Apple Macintosh, freeing its OS from the hardware, allowing clones,
and letting the market decide which OS was truly better. As the years wore
on, the Mac's marke... (more)
Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics  By Esmeralda Swartz As we enter a new year, it is time to look back over the past year and resolve to improve upon it. In 2014, we will see more service providers resolve to add more personalization in enterprise technology. Below are seven predictions about what will drive this trend toward personalization. Reads: 10,816  By Andi Mann IT organizations face a growing demand for faster innovation and new applications to support emerging opportunities in social, mobile, growth markets, Big Data analytics, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and more. This is great news because it shows that IT continues to be a key stakeholder in delivering business service innovation. However, it also means that IT must deliver new innovation despite flat budgets, while maintaining existing services that grow more complex every day. Reads: 16,158  By Elizabeth White Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for businesses that adopt this game-changing computing model. In this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Rex Wang, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle, discusses and dispels some of the common myths about cloud computing that still exist today.
Reads: 22,295  By Elizabeth White Despite the economy, cloud computing is doing well. Gartner estimates the cloud market will double by 2016 to $206 billion. The time for dabbling in the cloud is over!
The 14th International Cloud Expo, co-located with 5th International Big Data Expo and 3rd International SDN Expo, to be held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, N.Y. announces that its Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all aspects of providing or using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet technologies (see suggested topics below).
Cloud computing helps IT cut infrastructure costs while adding new features and services to grow core businesses. Clouds can help grow margins as costs are cut back but service offerings are expanded.
Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The Cloud, Big Data and Software-Defined Networking: submit your speaking proposal today! Reads: 11,943  By Jim Kaskade What do you get when you combine Big Data technologies….like Pig and Hive? A flying pig?
No, you get a “Logical Data Warehouse.”
In 2012, Infochimps (now CSC) leveraged its early use of stream processing, NoSQLs, and Hadoop to create a design pattern which combined real-time, ad-hoc, and batch analytics. This concept of combining the best-in-breed Big Data technologies will continue to advance across the industry until the entire legacy (and proprietary) data infrastructure stack will be replaced with a new (and open) one. Reads: 23,638  By Gene Dragotta and Sachin Agarwal While unprecedented technological advances have been made in healthcare in areas such as genomics, digital imaging and Health Information Systems, access to this information has been not been easy for both the healthcare provider and the patient themselves. Regulatory compliance and controls, information lock-in in proprietary Electronic Health Record systems and security concerns have made it difficult to share data across health care providers. Reads: 17,403  By Liz McMillan Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Vanessa Alvarez has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo® 2014.
14th International Cloud Expo will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 15th International Cloud Expo® will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.  By Elizabeth White 12th International Cloud Expo, held on June 10–13, 2013 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. Reads: 18,096  By Liz McMillan Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 19,175  By Howard Brown It's a simple fact that the better sales reps understand their prospects' intentions, preferences and pain points during calls, the more business they'll close. Each day, as your prospects interact with websites and social media platforms, their behavioral data profile is expanding. It's now possible to gain unprecedented insight into prospects' content preferences, product needs and budget. We hear a lot about how valuable Big Data is to sales and marketing teams. But data itself is only valuable when it's part of a bigger story, made visible in the right context. Reads: 10,692  By Elizabeth White Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Larry Carvalho has been named Tech Chair of Cloud Expo® 2014.
14th International Cloud Expo will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 15th International Cloud Expo® will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Reads: 19,272  By Sal Visca Everyone talks about a cloud-first or mobile-first strategy. It's the trend du jour, and for good reason as these innovative technologies have revolutionized an industry and made savvy companies a lot of money. But consider for a minute what's emerging with the Age of Context and the Internet of Things. Devices, interfaces, everyday objects are becoming endowed with computing smarts. This is creating an unprecedented focus on the Application Programming Interface (API) as developers seek to connect these devices and interfaces to create new supporting services and hybrids. I call this trend the move toward an API-first business model and strategy. Reads: 9,807  By Karl Van den Bergh We live in a world that requires us to compete on our differential use of time and information, yet only a fraction of information workers today have access to the analytical capabilities they need to make better decisions. Now, with the advent of a new generation of embedded business intelligence (BI) platforms, cloud developers are disrupting the world of analytics. They are using these new BI platforms to inject more intelligence into the applications business people use every day. As a result, data-driven decision-making is finally on track to become the rule, not the exception. Reads: 8,032 |
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