I was reading a blog post entitled "Confessions of a Ulitzer Addict" by John Funnel this morning as I arrived in the office. Then Nancy forwarded me the following email she received from Joe Austin on Friday. Nancy was at the Jersey shore for a long weekend and she is going through her in box this morning. Joe has been a long-time Ulitzer author and has created a number of Ulitzer topics including Cloud Backup and Recovery Journal, Email Archiving Journal, GRC Journal, Green Storage Journal, Infrastructure On Demand, and SharePoint Archiving Journal. Here is Joe Austin's email to Nancy. Another late night development work at Ulitzer, Inc. headquarters, testing the platform on popular browsers and their most used versions From: Joe Austin Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:10:57 To: Nancy Valentine Subject: Quote for Ulitzer Hi Nancy, Here's a quote for the main Ulitzer site... (more)

Is Ulitzer a New Trend or the Ultimate Death of Journalism?

I must confess I am very new to Ulitzer as an online channel of social communication media. But I am delighted about its raison d'être. However, I cannot but ask these questions: Is Ulitzer the beginning of a new trend or the ultimate death of journalism? Or is it the glorification of e-journalism? The realization of new journalism practice in the age of Web services and Internet Technology? These series of questions are being answered everyday as the new social media moguls and barons and baronesses of the Internet Media launched another online media channel, one after another. We must give kudos to the visionaries among us who realize the powerful role of Internet technology and quickly seized on its powerful promise by giving voice to every kind of idea and thought under the sun. And what has technology not redefined yet? Think about it, from e-retailing to e-democr... (more)

Social Perspectives for the CTO: Engaging Tomorrow = Leadership Today

By BryanDouglass Editor’s note: We first saw this blog at WayIn and asked Bryan Douglass to repost here. We believe the conclusions in this post are relevant to most organizations today, especially federal government organizatioins. – bg. Times have been tough. Consumers lack comfort in spending and businesses are struggling for comfort without them. As a result, professional environments across the globe are experiencing new levels of stress, pushing those discomforts into the workplace… bringing the true damage of these struggles full circle as business owners and leaders find faith is failing not only amongst those they hope to serve, but also amongst the staff they hire to serve them. The challenges of today have brought the importance of employee engagement – and the lack of knowledge surrounding this hot-button issue – back to the main stage. A recent study p... (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)

MMR Information Systems Enters Into Five Year Marketing Partnership for More Than One Billion Consumer Impressions

LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/22/09 -- MMR Information Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: MMRF) (the "Company"), which through its wholly-owned operating subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. ("MMR"), provides consumer-controlled Personal Health Records ("PHRs") (www.mymedicalrecords.com) and electronic safe deposit box storage solutions (www.myesafedepositbox.com), announced today that it has entered into a five year agreement (the "Agreement") to license an existing 80 million person direct marketing database of street addresses, cellular phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other comprehensive data (the "Database") with E-Mail Frequency, LLC (the "Licensor"). The Agreement allows the Company to market, through the use of the Database, its MyMedicalRecords Personal Health Record, MyEsafeDepositBox virtual vault, and MMRPro document management system to physicians and their... (more)

Expedia, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2009. "Quarter in and quarter out, Expedia is consistently proving its leadership and multiple business models for travel are unsurpassed," said Barry Diller, Expedia, Inc.'s Chairman and Senior Executive. "Travelers are clearly responding to our improving value proposition, as we broaden our fee cuts and increase the depth and breadth of our global supply," said Dara Khosrowshahi, Expedia, Inc.'s CEO and President. "While we're pleased with our financial and operating results in the third quarter, we are busy planning for a 2010 that will prove every bit as competitive and challenging as 2009." Financial Summary & Operating Metrics (figures in $MMs, except per share amounts) Three Months Three Months E... (more)

IGC Resources Inc.: Sale of Shares

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/07/09 -- (TSX VENTURE: IGC) (PINK SHEETS: IGCGF)(FRANKFURT: I6G)(WKN: A0HGX4) IGC Resources Inc. ("IGC" or the "Company") is pleased to advise that 10 million shares of Atomic Resources Limited (ASX Code: ATQ "Atomic") was sold for AU$1,050,000 (CDN$1,015,000). The company continues to own 6.5 million shares of Atomic Resources. About IGC Resources Inc.: IGC Resources Inc.'s principal business activities are the exploration, development and mining of gold, copper and uranium prospects, while continuing to investigate other mineral resource prospects for potential acquisition globally. The Company trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "IGC" (IGC.V for yahoo.com quotes) and Frankfurt symbol "I6G". Website: http://www.igcresources.com Statements in this release may constitute forward-looking statements whi... (more)

Himfr.com: Dell's Second-quarter Net Profit Increased 63%

Beijing, Aug 17, 2011 - (ACN Newswire) - According to the recent research of Himfr.com Dell's latest quarterly earnings report was released on Tuesday. Its second-quarter net profit is $ 890 million, an increase of 63% compared with the same period of last year. Dell's second-quarter revenue is $ 15.6 billion, an increase of 1% compared with the same period of last year. The analysts of Himfr.com (http://www.himfr.com/company/) analyze that Dell's second-quarter revenue from enterprise solutions and services business grows 4%. Dellemploys approximately 14,000 employees in the center of Texas. Dell's officials said in June that the company will focus on mid-market customers. A number of products will be specifically designed for them to help them manage information technologynetworks. A year ago, Dell(http://www.himfr.com/cs-dell/) announced it would focus on higher-ma... (more)

Best Web Sites to Be Named by Web Marketing Association

HARTFORD, Conn., April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Web Marketing Association is pleased to announce the call for entries for its 16th annual international WebAward competition.  The WebAwards are the standards-defining competition that sets industry benchmarks based on the seven criteria of a successful Web site.  It recognizes the individual and team achievements of Web professionals all over the world who create and maintain outstanding Web sites.  The deadline for entry in the 2012 WebAwards is May 31, 2012.  A complete list of past winners and this year's entry form can be found at www.webaward.org. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110322/NY68948LOGO ) "The goal of the WebAwards is to both recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective Web sites on the Internet today and also provide valuable feedback to en... (more)

OC AMA Hosts GigaSavvy to Present SEO in Plain English to OC Marketing Professionals

COSTA MESA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/05/12 -- The Orange County Chapter of the American Marketing Association (OC AMA) will host SEO In Plain English: Online Marketing and Search Engine Optimization - Demystified on June 20 at The Hotel Hanford in Costa Mesa as part of its Signature Speaker Series. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. Joel Tanner and Sven Johnston of GigaSavvy will present the program. The presentation and workshop will provide a plain-English explanation of online marketing and SEO -- offering tangible, real-word applicable take-aways for marketing managers through C-level executives. Attendees will gain a broad-based understanding of how their potential customers are searching for their products and services, and will learn how to identify the keywords that are most relevant to their business, and then how to best use that knowledge to drive traff... (more)

Shazam Exceeds a Quarter of a Billion Users Worldwide and Expands Shazam for TV in the U.S. to Include Any Show, Any Channel

Shazam®, the world’s leading media engagement company, today announced that it has achieved the major milestone of exceeding a quarter of a billion users globally. Shazam also announced that it has expanded its Shazam for TV™ second-screen service in the U.S. to support TV programming on any channel, anytime of day. Now, Shazam fans can use the app as a “TV companion app” with any TV show in the U.S. to access cast details and photos, music in the show, celebrity gossip, trivia, celebrity tweets, and links to additional information, plus the ability to instantly share and comment on the show or episode on Facebook and Twitter. Shazam fans can use the app as a "TV companion app" with any TV show in the U.S. to access cast details and photos, music in the show, celebrity gossip, trivia, celebrity tweets, and links to additional information, plus the ability to instan... (more)