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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)

AJAX World - The Rise of RIAs and Reshaping User Expectations

Today's online experiences often fall short of user expectations. For many consumers and business users, it is no longer enough to simply interact with static pages of information. Instead, a growing number of users want Web applications that deliver the responsiveness, performance, rich media and interactivity typically found in desktop applications. The shortcomings of today's online experiences lie in how traditional Web browsers function. Built on an early paradigm - the request/response page metaphor - Web browsers include forward buttons, back buttons, and stateless communication protocols that fail to retain input once users leave a screen. The reality is that much of the demand and potential for Web services today has outgrown the capabilities of existing browsers and applications. The rise of rich Internet applications (RIAs), a term Macromedia coined in 20... (more)

Rich Semantic Internet Applications with Flex

Holger Knublauch's Blog Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) run inside web browsers and provide a much more dynamic user experience than conventional web pages. While traditional HTML-based pages require a full reload of the page when the user clicks on a link, many modern web pages only reload parts of the page and provide animations to dynamically navigate through an information space. There are several platforms to implement such dynamic web pages, for example AJAX, Flash, Java FX, Microsoft Silverlight, OpenLaszlo, XUL. These platform all share a similar programming model that mixes declarative (XML) elements to describe the layout of user interfaces with some imperative scripting to define the application's behavior. For our newest Semantic Web tooling platform TopBraid Live we had to pick one of these technologies. The goal of TopBraid Live is to serve as developm... (more)

TravelMob

"Travel site meets Evite." Lets you create a trip homepage, invite people, manage RSVPs, upload important files, create a photo gallery, see top tours for your destination, and plan via message board. There's a Facebook-style newsfeed that shows what everyone on your trip's doing. Also, there's an integrated air, hotel, car, tour booking into the site via web services. URL: TravelMob. ... (more)

Amgen Tour of California Leverages Adobe Flash Platform to Deliver America’s Largest Cycling Event Live on the Web

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and AEG announced today that the 2009 Amgen Tour of California, the largest cycling event in America, will stream the race live on the Web using the Adobe® Flash® Platform. A Tour de France-style cycling event presented by AEG from Feb. 14-22, 2009, the race challenges the world’s top professional cycling teams and the most talented riders—including seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong—to compete along a demanding 750-mile course from Sacramento to Escondido, Calif. This marks the third consecutive year that AEG selected the Adobe Flash Platform to bring the race to cycling fans worldwide in streaming video, with real-time rider tracking and live commentary. Follow the Race with the Live Tour Tracker The Tour Tracker was developed using Adobe Flex® Builder™ and Adobe® LiveCycle®, and is meant to be an immersive ... (more)

Double-Take® Software to Participate in Investor Conferences

Double-Take Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: DBTK) announced today that the Company’s Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Dean Goodermote and Chief Financial Officer, S. Craig Huke, will participate in the following conferences in the second quarter of 2009. The Company’s presentation will highlight Double-Take Software’s business model, market opportunities, and recent financial results. The Eighth Annual JMP Securities Research Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 19, 2009 at 8:30 AM PT. Cowen and Company’s 37th Annual Technology Media & Telecom Conference in New York, NY on May 28, 2009 at 8:00 AM ET. The Company's presentations at both conferences will be webcast live and archived for 90 days on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at http://investor.doubletake.com/events.cfm. The company has filed a Form 8-K which contains a slide present... (more)

HDMI Licensing, LLC Announces Features of the Upcoming HDMI Specification Version 1.4

HDMI Licensing, LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface® (HDMI®) specification, today announced the features that will be incorporated in the upcoming HDMI 1.4 specification. This latest version of the HDMI specification will, among other advancements, offer networking capabilities with Ethernet connectivity and will add an Audio Return Channel to enable upstream audio connections via the HDMI cable. The HDMI specification 1.4 will be available for download on the HDMI LLC website no later than June 30, 2009. The HDMI 1.4 specification will offer the following enhanced functionalities: HDMI Ethernet Channel The HDMI 1.4 specification will add a data channel to the HDMI cable and will enable high-speed bi-directional communication. Connected devices that include this feature will be able to send and receive data via 100 Mb/sec ... (more)

Franklin Electronic Publishers Board Receives Acquisition Proposal

BURLINGTON, N.J., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (NYSE AMEX Equities US: FEP), a worldwide leader in providing language and related technology solutions, today announced that it has received a copy of a Schedule 13D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a non-binding proposal by Saunders Acquisition Corporation for an all cash acquisition at $2.35 per share. According to its Schedule 13D filing, Saunders is a newly formed Delaware corporation founded by existing management of the Company who, together with existing shareholders who are members of the Saunders group, beneficially own shares or options to purchase shares representing 43.7% of the voting power of the Company. Taking into account only options expected to be exercised at the time of any vote on their proposal, such persons will own 39.9% of t... (more)

CES: Intel, Industry Partners Unveil App Store Plans for Popular Netbook Computers

Intel Corporation: NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel unveils beta program for Intel AppUpSM center, an application (app) store aimed at the popular category of netbook computers found at www.intelappup.com. First applications -- that will ultimately span business, education, entertainment, games, health, socializing and other categories -- now available for free download and purchase. Many more apps will be added to beta store over time. Intel store unique in offering developers a choice of software via Microsoft Windows* and Moblin™-based operating systems; support for multiple runtime environments coming later this year. Over time, Intel and industry partner stores could host applications for Intel® Atom™ processor-based handheld devices, smartphones, consumer electronic appliances, TVs and more. OEMs Acer, Asus, Dell, and Samsung collaborating with Intel to bring innovativ... (more)

ProtonMedia Introduces ProtoSphere 2.0: the Immersive, Social, Learning & Collaboration Software for the Enterprise

ProtonMedia has introduced ProtoSphere 2.0, the company’s immersive business collaboration environment for the enterprise. ProtoSphere 2.0 is an innovative approach in immersive, social, learning and collaboration for global, multi-national enterprise organizations in life sciences, health care, insurance, consumer products, high-tech, energy/manufacturing, and other vertical markets. Organizations can now create an always-on virtual workspace where, at any moment, they can bring together the right people from around the globe and their content to increase the speed and effectiveness of knowledge transfer, learning, and social engagement and provide context to business-critical information. ProtoSphere 2.0 includes major new features, including: Deeper integration with Microsoft Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) offerings – Lync Server 2010 and SharePoi... (more)

JNBridge Celebrates Ten Years of Java & .NET Interoperability

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), a leading provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, today announced the 10-year anniversary of the company. Since 2002, JNBridge has grown from a start-up providing support for accessing Java classes from .NET to an award-winning interoperability tool provider for customers ranging in size from small independent software vendors to large global enterprises. JNBridge boasts some of the world's foremost companies as customers: including financial services, insurance, telecom, media, government, healthcare and manufacturing industries. To celebrate the company's 10-year milestone it will be looking both backwards and forwards: showcasing some of its current customer applications and inviting the developer community to create and share new use cases that ... (more)

IoT & Smart Cities Stories
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
Digital Transformation is much more than a buzzword. The radical shift to digital mechanisms for almost every process is evident across all industries and verticals. This is often especially true in financial services, where the legacy environment is many times unable to keep up with the rapidly shifting demands of the consumer. The constant pressure to provide complete, omnichannel delivery of customer-facing solutions to meet both regulatory and customer demands is putting enormous pressure on...
IoT is rapidly becoming mainstream as more and more investments are made into the platforms and technology. As this movement continues to expand and gain momentum it creates a massive wall of noise that can be difficult to sift through. Unfortunately, this inevitably makes IoT less approachable for people to get started with and can hamper efforts to integrate this key technology into your own portfolio. There are so many connected products already in place today with many hundreds more on the h...
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on and otherwise work with these specifications. Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addr...
Digital Transformation: Preparing Cloud & IoT Security for the Age of Artificial Intelligence. As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) power solution development and delivery, many businesses need to build backend cloud capabilities. Well-poised organizations, marketing smart devices with AI and BlockChain capabilities prepare to refine compliance and regulatory capabilities in 2018. Volumes of health, financial, technical and privacy data, along with tightening compliance requirements by...
Charles Araujo is an industry analyst, internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and author of The Quantum Age of IT: Why Everything You Know About IT is About to Change. As Principal Analyst with Intellyx, he writes, speaks and advises organizations on how to navigate through this time of disruption. He is also the founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation and a sought after keynote speaker. He has been a regular contributor to both InformationWeek and CIO Insight...
Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a mul...
To Really Work for Enterprises, MultiCloud Adoption Requires Far Better and Inclusive Cloud Monitoring and Cost Management … But How? Overwhelmingly, even as enterprises have adopted cloud computing and are expanding to multi-cloud computing, IT leaders remain concerned about how to monitor, manage and control costs across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. It’s clear that traditional IT monitoring and management approaches, designed after all for on-premises data centers, are falling short in ...
In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential. Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...
Dynatrace is an application performance management software company with products for the information technology departments and digital business owners of medium and large businesses. Building the Future of Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence. Today we can collect lots and lots of performance data. We build beautiful dashboards and even have fancy query languages to access and transform the data. Still performance data is a secret language only a couple of people understand. The more busine...