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)

New .NET and Java Logging Tool SmartInspect 3.2

Gurock Software just announced the new version of their advanced .NET, Java and Delphi logging tool SmartInspect 3.2. The new version includes dozens of new features, improvements and bug fixes and can be downloaded from Gurock's website. SmartInspect 3.2 now supports automatic replacing of variables in connection strings, allowing developers to modify and adapt log file paths for target systems more easily. With the new options to specify custom timestamp patterns and field widths, developers now have more control about how text log files are formatted. Other new features and improvements include the ability to run the viewer application from USB drives, specify the pipe name via command line parameters and log exception stack traces (new for Delphi). The introduction of a new string pool mechanism and various other techniques to optimize the viewer application ma... (more)

SYS-CON's Cloud Expo Adds Two New Tracks

Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered, and entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate. So it is no surprise that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength. The latest expansion of its wide-ranging technical program is the addition of two brand new tracks for its biggest-ever event, 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held November 2-4, 2009, in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. "SOA in the Cloud" - The convergence of SOA and Cloud Computing is now so clear a trend industry-wide that a new "SOA in the Cloud" track will make its first - but definitely not its last! - appearance as a new ... (more)

Ex-IBM Honcho Claims He’s Innocent

Early Bird at Clod Expo The rumor mill says that Apple could be out with that tablet it’s supposed to have up its sleeve in March or April. According to Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner, it’s supposed to have a 10.1-inch iPhone-style multi-touch screen and a $1,000 price tag. It would compete with Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader. Reiner says Apple’s been pitching book publishers on a non-executive deal giving them 70% of the money, more lucrative for them than Amazon, which is thought to demand 50% of the take. Reiner thinks Apple means to make a million of the widgets a month to start. Robert Moffat, the former high-ranking IBM executive arrested in October in the Galleon insider trading roundup, asked a New York court Wednesday to dismiss the SEC's civil charges against him. He claims he didn't pass material insider information on IBM and Sun earnings or AMD's sale... (more)

UC Cloud Replication Services

A really hot best practice we’re working on now is ‘UC Cloud Replication Services‘. This refers to the combination of Unified Communications (UC) and Cloud Replication Services, as defined in this introduction to the pioneering work Allstream is conducting in this area. As well as these new Cloud services for enhanced DR, Allstream also has a leading UC practice. Their expert product manager Thabang will be joining us to profile what they offer here, on our next webinar with them: Cloud BCP – PAYG Disaster Recovery Nortel 2.0 This focus area is key to one of our strategic themes of ‘Nortel 2.0‘. In short this idea is that Nortel may be gone but the people and therefore intellectual capital is still widely available in Canada, and therefore could be most effectively applied by keeping focused in the same area: Telecomms. But of course adapted for the modern Cloud world... (more)

Observations from Mobile World Congress 2012

  I attended the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The following are my personal observations and extrapolations from the show based on my conversations with operators, customer meetings, colleagues and walking the floor. 1. LTE- Where’s the Party? – Last year was the year of LTE.  Vendors were flouting it and operators were demonstrating how it would change the world.  Even Verizon Wireless (an operator which never shows up at these things) had a big display showcasing LTE.  I think that this year the cold reality is kicking in – now that we have built it (or building it) will people actually use it?  What is the killer app?  Will all of that projected mobile video really go over LTE or will it be accessed from Wi-Fi powered tablets?  And of course, the elephant in the room – what will Apple do?  Will it bless the industry with its ... (more)

Microsoft Office Puts Emphasis on Subscriptions with Office 365

Office 365 Microsoft just announced the next version of its Office productivity suite. If you were hoping that Microsoft would simplify how it delivers Office to its users, though, you will be sorely disappointed. The new Office will come in numerous online and offline versions, as well as the already semi-announced version for Windows RT tablets. In essence, Microsoft is taking an approach that’s somewhat similar to what Adobe is doing with its new Creative Cloud (though without making all of its tools available for just one subscription price): Office 365, which is currently just a set of online tools, will become a subscription service that will allow users to “stream Office 365 to any Windows 7 or Windows 8 Internet-connected computer.” At the same time, though, Microsoft will also continue to make Office available as traditional desktop software with a perpetu... (more)

ABBYY Announces New FlexiCapture Engine 10 Developer Toolkit

Next-Generation Data Capture SDK Adds Easy-to-Use Auto-Learning and Auto-Classification Technologies Theale, UK (9th October 2012) - ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software and professional services, today announced ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 10, the next generation data capture and document classification software development kit (SDK). The new toolkit combines ABBYY's best-in-class optical character recognition (OCR), imaging and data capture technologies with exceptional ease of use through the integration of innovative auto-learning technologies, enabling developers to create and train data capture and classification applications by simply pointing, and clicking. FlexiCapture Engine 10 enables developers, corporations and service providers to integrate award-wining data capture technologies for document processing ... (more)

Google Has “No Plans to Build Out Windows Apps”

In what can be considered a major dig at Microsoft, Clay Bavor, product management director at Google Apps told V3 that the company is not bringing native Gmail or Google Drive apps to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Bavor said Google has ”no plans to build out Windows apps” and that the company  is “very careful about where we invest and will go where the users are but they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8.” As we begin to see a shift toward users storing their data in the cloud, the lack of Google Drive on the newest Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 is an alarming concern. It’s true there are alternatives such as Microsoft’s SkyDrive, but no native Gmail app for either OSes suggests Windows is no longer a priority to develop for anymore. Instead, Bavor says that the company will continue to “make big investments in mobile in 2013 with the goal of having beautiful... (more)

RealtyJuggler Real Estate Software Upgrades with New Flyer Designs

Fort Collins, CO, January 10, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Today, RealOrganized, Inc. announced an upgrade to their flagship RealtyJuggler Real Estate Software product. This upgrade includes over 50 new real-estate flyer designs. The new flyers are the result of extensive feedback from our members who requested flyers for open houses, multiple listings, co-listings (2 agents on the same flyer), larger agent photos, commercial property flyers, flyers with QR codes, double-sided flyers, as well as more variety in realtor flyer designs. The total number of unique real estate flyer designs is now 101 flyers that represent the largest collection of real-estate flyer designs in the industry. RealtyJuggler can now automatically convert PDF and Microsoft Word documents into embedded images for convenient email delivery of flyers and newsletters. "Small changes like this can make a hug... (more)

Microsoft unveils Xbox One the all-in-one home entertainment system

Tuesday 21 May, 2013 REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2013 — A new vision for the future comes to life today as Microsoft Corp. unveils Xbox One , the all-in-one gaming and entertainment system created for today and the next generation. At Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the company showcased how Xbox One puts you at the center of all your games, TV, movies, music, sports and Skype. “Xbox One is designed to deliver a whole new generation of blockbuster games, television and entertainment in a powerful, all-in-one device,” said Don Mattrick, president, Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. “Our unique, modern architecture brings simplicity to the living room and, for the first time ever, the ability to instantly switch across your games and entertainment.” Introducing Xbox One With Xbox One, games push the boundaries of realism, and TV obeys your commands.... (more)