DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

Flump for Linux

I just uploaded a build of Flump (Flickr image downloader) that works with the Linux alpha of Adobe AIR. The issue was that the the Linux alpha is based on AIR 1.0, and I had packaged Flump as an AIR 1.1 app. You can find more information, as well as download Flump (and its sourcecode) from the Flump project page. ... (more)

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development book has a front cover and a foreword by an Adobe Evangelist

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development book is on the way and we fanally have a front cover image.  Moreover I'm very glad to have the foreword of the book written by Andrew Shorten, Adobe Platform Evangelist. The Flash CS4 AIR guide will be available to buy on December 2008 with the final page count set to 700 pages ! I'm now ready to post the final table of content of The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development: Chapter 1:  Introducing Adobe AIR Chapter 2:  Introducing Flash CS4 Chapter 3:  Building your first AIR application Chapter 4:  Setting AIR application properties Chapter 5:  Working with the Window APIs and the Screen Class Chapter 6:  Creating Menus for Flash Applications Chapter 7:  Accessing the File System Chapter 8:  Working with the operating system Chapter 9:   Adding Rich Media: PDF, Video, and Audio Files Chapter 10: Working with HTML Content ... (more)

Microsoft Announces General Availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0

REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics(TM) CRM 3.0, the highly anticipated new release of Microsoft's customer relationship management solution for small businesses, midsize companies and large enterprises. Microsoft CRM provides a complete suite of powerful marketing, sales and service capabilities, all with a familiar and consistent user experience based on Microsoft(R) Office and Microsoft Office Outlook(R). Extensive new configuration, customization and integration capabilities make it easy for customers and partners to deploy highly tailored solutions that drive measurable business results and offer a low total cost of ownership. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO ) The product is offered in a Professional Edition and a Small Business Edition, and ... (more)

Avistar Launches “Visual Insights” – Industry’s First Fully Comprehensive Suite of Embeddable Audio/Visual Communication Components

Avistar Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:AVSR), a leader in unified visual communications solutions, today announced the launch of “Visual Insights,” a program that allows application vendors to quickly and easily embed software applications with visual communications while promoting their brand and enhancing the value of their products in the market. Based on Avistar’s award-winning C3™ platform, Visual Insights comes equipped with a suite of embeddable components that provide a quick and seamless integration of desktop videoconferencing into any application. With Avistar’s “Prove Before You Purchase” License Credit Program, application vendors can now experience a new level of visual communications and can greatly expand the value of their current software offerings while using integration costs as a credit against future product licenses*. These Avistar components o... (more)

Forum One's DataMasher Receives First Place in 'Apps for America 2' Contest

Forum One’s DataMasher took first place out of 47 entries in Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest, a competition in which participants were challenged to build a web site or internet application that makes federal data more accessible, interesting, and valuable. Forum One was presented the award and the $10,000 first place prize at the O'Reilly Media's Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase on Sept. 8, 2009. Datamasher.org enables anyone to marry two sets of data representing information about U.S. states to create a custom "mashup." The site’s data is drawn from Data.gov as well as other federal web sites and related sources. Mashups are displayed on a state-by-state map or in a table format, which enables users to examine state markers and make quick comparisons between states. “I’m proud of our team and also honored to have beat out so many other great applications,” said F... (more)

Model Metrics Selected as Inaugural Member of Amazon Web Services Solutions Providers Program

CHICAGO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Model Metrics, Inc., the leader in enterprise Cloud Computing services, has been named an inaugural member of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Providers Program. As an inaugural member of the program, Model Metrics further validates its position as a Cloud Computing services leader with a focus on delivering world-class client solutions on the AWS and salesforce.com platforms. The AWS Solution Providers Program serves a growing community of Independent Software Vendors and Systems Integrators that offer a rich set of solutions and consulting services on AWS. The program helps companies expand the capabilities and marketing potential of their solutions and services through exposure by Amazon Web Services and through relationship building with other providers in the AWS ecosystem. Model Metrics already incorporates AWS tec... (more)

Brightkite Launches Ultra-targeted Advertising Solution after Successful Pilots with a Range of Brands

Brightkite, the Social Discovery Network, today announced the availability of a new ultra-targeted advertising solution after piloting it with more than 20 brands during the summer of 2009. The system is designed to give brands the ability to break out of traditional age and gender targeting and target according to a wider range of more relevant criteria including: Location and Place Behavior and Activity Conversational Context Time of Day Weather Demographics Media Usage In addition to the criteria listed, Brightkite provides three types of time relevance to their super-targeted campaigns: Historical (i.e. people who go to the movies more than twice a month) Current (i.e. people currently within a mile of a KFC restaurant) Future (i.e. people in places where it will rain during the weekend) Advertisers can learn more about ultra-targeted advertising at www.ultratarge... (more)

Onstream Media Signs Deal With Tarsus Group/TSNN.com - the World's Leading Online Resource for the Trade Show, Exhibition and Event Industry

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Onstream Media Corporation (Nasdaq: ONSM) a leading online service provider of live and on-demand internet video, corporate web communications and content management applications, today announced an agreement with the Tarsus Group plc (London Stock Exchange: TRS.L) to implement and market Onstream Media's virtual trade show and social network marketing platform MarketPlace365(TM) to Tarsus Group's more than 19,000 trade shows and 2,000 suppliers that are part of their Trade Show News Network (www.TSNN.com). TSNN is the world's leading online resource for the trade show, exhibition and event industry and the most widely consulted event database on the Internet. TSNN selected Onstream Media's MarketPlace365 solution, which will be officially launched in January 2010, after an extensive due diligence and review... (more)

Novarra Introduces oneweb Service with Mobile Apps and Web to a Billion Phones

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Novarra, the Internet Mobility(TM) company, unveiled its new oneweb service, accessible to consumers worldwide and designed to provide a personalized web experience with thousands of apps. The vision of oneweb is to remove fragmentation hurdles facing the mobile eco-system by seamlessly enabling web, apps and widgets across a broad range of handset platforms. oneweb enables mobile developers to cost effectively create apps by providing a rich and familiar web-application development environment. The cloud-based solution is easy for consumers to adopt, so service providers and internet brands can quickly expand reach and generate revenue. oneweb is immediately usable on thousands of smartphones and feature phones worldwide without requiring any software download. It uniquely offers simple, fast, always-on access to dail... (more)

Verimatrix Extends Multi-Network Solutions in the Real World Series to ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/28/12 -- ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium -- Verimatrix, the specialist in securing and enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services around the globe, today announced the continuation of its Multi-Network Solutions in the Real World series as a component of presentations during the ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium, 6-9 March 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Expanding on the themes of the forum series, Steve Oetegenn, chief sales and marketing officer at Verimatrix, will host a session on "Converging Networks: Creating a Multi-Network Security Solution" on 7 March 2012 from 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. During the session (#3), which is sponsored by Korean Broadcasting System, Oetegenn will explore why unifying the consumer's multi-screen experience across networks and devices is paramount to the success of advanced ... (more)