CloudEXPO | DevOpsSUMMIT | DXWorldEXPO Silicon Valley Will Take Place June 25-26, 2019 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara California Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorldEXPO within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout enterprises of all sizes. We are offering early bird savings on all ticket types where you can save significant amount of money by purchasing your conference tickets today. Speaking Opportunities ▸ Here This year we are presenting a MEGA faculty of 222 rockstar speakers. Submit your speaking pr... (more)

In 2014 Big Data Investments Will Account for Nearly $30 Billion - Eventually Accounting for $76 Billion by 2020 End

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)

Web Site Optimization Announces SEO Blog Marketing Service

Web Site Optimization, a leading web site optimization provider, is announcing the launch of its new "Multichannel Blogsite" marketing service. The new service allows web site administrators to create a turnkey blog for their web site that includes powerful search engine marketing features for increasing visibility, traffic and links on the Internet. Unlike traditional weblogging tools, MySmartChannels-powered blogsites integrate multiple weblogs into any company's web site, as well as syndicated guest weblogs, and other information sources that increase search engine rankings for hundreds of relevant search key-phrases. Blogsites also provide an array of content aggregation services designed to provide a simple and effective way to create and maintain a formidable Internet presence. (For the Blog Service, see: http://www.websiteoptimization.com or http://www.websit... (more)

Sex.com Acquired by Escom, LLC

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Escom, LLC, today announced the acquisition of the domain name Sex.com, from entrepreneur and Internet personality Gary Kremen, the CEO of Grant Media, LLC and founder of Match.com. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. It is believed to be among the most significant domain sale transactions in history. Financing for the acquisition was provided in part by Domain Capital LLC, a leader in the financing of Domain Names and Intellectual Property. The new Sex.com will transform into the market-leading adult entertainment destination by offering compelling, next-generation web interaction experiences to revolutionize the industry. The new Sex.com will leverage the millions of monthly unique visitors that are already coming to the site while it continues to roll-out a host of professionally produced products and services, inclu... (more)

SEO/SEM Journal: FrameFree Technologies Announces Integrated Digital Content Authoring System

FrameFree Technologies has announced the launch of the FrameFree United Networks (FUN), a groundbreaking new production and delivery platform that is the first to create and aggregate original digital content for efficient, worldwide distribution. Using a software subscription and Web Services model, FUN offers a delivery mechanism optimized for the FrameFree family of advanced digital motion imagery tools. FUN brings digital artists and publishers complete control over delivery, tracking and syndication of their work by providing a secure, global proxy network for quick and easy publication to any computer, anywhere in the world. Using FrameFree Studio digital authoring software, which also launched today, artists can create movies by starting with any-resolution digital still images, and through analysis, interpolation and morphing, automatically provide interacti... (more)

Firefox Strikes Deal with Chinese Search Engine Giant Baidu

Dr. Li Gong, co-chairman of the Chinese subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation, has announced a deal with Chinese search engine Baidu to help propagate the Firefox browser in the Middle Kingdom. From now on, China's domestic users who install the latest version of the Firefox browser (2.0.0.10) can enjoy the service. The Chinese name for Mozilla Online is Mou-Zhi (literally, "Seeking Wisdom" - reminiscent perhaps of Google's mantra about organizing the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Firefox adoption in China currently lags far behind the market-share leader, Marathon. But with this formal cooperation agreement that may all be about to change. Version 2.0.0.11 of Firefox was released on 30 November 2007. Firefox is a cross-platform browser, providing support for various versions of Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. According to Mozilla COO Jo... (more)

Did Wikia Search Go Live Far Too Early?

The release yesterday of an Alpha version of Jimmy Wales's new Wikia Search project underwhelmed critics. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch called it a "complete letdown" and even BusinessWeek.com noted that 'Preliminary testing of the site...produced disappointing results consistent with the widespread grumbles.' Another typical reaction is this one from Allen Stern of CenterNetworks.com: "I understand that it's in Alpha and things will improve and change as the plan moves forward, however I would have liked it to be a bit more polished before hitting the public eye." So, what went wrong? Perhaps nothing. Unusually for a launch, even an alpha one, Wales (pictured) explicitly warned that the quality of Wikia Search was "terrible" and stressed that it was going to take a minimum of two years before Wikia Search produces results as good as the major search engines. Ever p... (more)

10+1 Questions On Innovation to: Hector Garcia-Molina

This time I asked the 10+1 questions to a distinguished database colleague, Hector Garcia-Molina. Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He was the chairman of the Computer Science Department from January 2001 to December 2004. From 1997 to 2001 he was a member the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). From August 1994 to December 1997 he was the Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford. From 1979 to 1991 he was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests include distributed computing systems, digital libraries and database systems. He received a BS in electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Mo... (more)

Piquadro ecommerce store released

I'm very proud to announce that our first ecommerce initiative has been succesfully released and deployed.  Studioarch.com, a Piquadro boutique in Rome, Italy, is the heir of the long Studioarch tradition, a historical sales point in the sector of graphics, fine arts and designer objects, founded in Rome back in 1968. Piquadro is a  specialist producer of travel and business luggage, the company has always been characterised by a blend of traditional Italian craftsmanship, quality, design, innovation and technology. For the backend we've used the open source platform Magento (after spent 2 weeks on evaluating different paltforms) and we're very happy about our decision. This is a list of Pros and Cons of Magento we found: Pro: Free and opensource platform Feature-rich solution Based on Zend Framework Good SEO Good support for localization Fast-growing community Easy updat... (more)

Start-up To Commercialize Lucene Search

Eighteen-month-old Lucid Imagination rose above the covering ground fog Tuesday to announce its existence as the first open source company to commercially support the Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies. The Java-based Lucene search library is one of the top 15 open source projects in the world and one of top five Apache projects with installations at 4,000 companies. Downloads of Lucene and the Solr server that makes Lucene into a search platform for building search applications are currently running at the rate of 6,000 a day, a built-in marketplace that may explain how the start-up and its collection of key Lucene players managed to pick up a $6 million check from a couple of VCs in the bleak month of September last year. It's playing in a market space with 2007 revenues of $1.8 billion, according to IDC, that's growing at 28% a year. CEO Eric Gries, previousl... (more)

Intel & Dell Move to Protect the Word ‘Netbook’

Intel and Dell have moved to snuff out the trademark claims of Psion Teklogix, the Ontario-based Anglo-Canadian concern that has been sending cease-and-desist letters to PC manufacturers, retailers, the media and bloggers since right before Christmas maintaining that it owns the word "Netbook." Psion complained to Google on January 29, and ever since then Google Adwords has refused to handle any ads that include the word "netbook" in their text, effectively ending search advertising for the category. So Dell last week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to nullify Psion's netbook trademark, issued on November 21, 2000, for a laptop that pretty much anticipated a modern day netbook, on the grounds of abandonment, fraud and genericness. Dell's charges mirror the ones Intel made a few days before in a 12-page complaint filed in district court in California.  Ant... (more)