Twingly, the social blog search engine that prides itself in being completely spam-free, has launched BlogRank as a way to identify the 100 most important blogs in 12 different languages based on a proprietary ranking system. It’s very similar to what Technorati has been trying to achieve with their Authority ranking, i.e. creating a Google PageRank for blogs. The biggest difference is that Twingly breaks down the most popular blogs by language, which they claim is worth much more for local blogs than competing with others at an international level. I tend to agree with that. It’s rather similar to what Wikio is doing (disclosure: TechCrunch France writer Ouriel Ohayon is on Wikio’s board). To demonstrate the technology, Twingly is debuting its Top 100 today, taking another page from Technorati in that regard. We may be a little biased, but we like Twingly’s Top 100... (more)

SafeNet Showcases Data Security Solutions for Virtual Environments at VMworld® 2012 Europe

Spotlights new VMware Ready™ ProtectV data encryption; StorageSecure for storage security; KeySecure for robust digital key management; and SafeNet Authentication Service for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure LONDON - 01 October, 2012 - SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in information security, today announced its participation as a silver sponsor at VMworld® 2012 Europe, which will take place in Barcelona from 9th-11th October 2012. SafeNet is a VMware Technology Alliance Partner. SafeNet will be present in two locations on the show floor: firstly in its own booth S102, SafeNet will be showcasing how its data encryption and authentication solutions address complex data security issues for virtualised environments, while delivering control and governance of data in the cloud. SafeNet will also be present in the NetApp Partner Pavilion, booth DD1, where it will be showcasin... (more)

Mobile Health News Weekly – Week of February 2, 2014

The Mobile Health News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to mobile health that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read M2M News Weekly Also read Mobile Commerce News Weekly Also read Mobility News Weekly Looking for an enterprise mobility solution?  Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here! Claiming to have heard from sources briefed on Apple’s plans, 9to5Mac claims iOS 8 is going to come with an app called Healthbook which will monitor and store stats related to the user’s fitness, such as calories burned, steps taken as well as total miles walked.  Read Original Content Mobile health applications have not taken off like many in the health tech world had anticipat... (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)

E-ONE Announces Acquisition of 'Water Master(TM) - Vacuum Tankers'

OCALA, Fla., April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- E-ONE acquired the "Water Master - Vacuum Tanker" product line from Southern Fire Equipment in Hattiesburg, MS, on Tuesday. The unique, self-filling vacuum tankers were developed by Reggie Ridgway, a volunteer Fire Chief who spent years researching and designing the Water Master tankers after his own frustrating experiences losing homes to fires in rural areas with limited water supply. "The inadequate conventional tanker water shuttle that my department was using required too much equipment and too many firefighters," said Reggie Ridgway, Chief of the Central Lamar VFD and co-owner of Southern Fire Equipment, LLC. "I looked around for a better way, saw how industry was moving their water with efficient vacuum technology, designed a vacuum tanker to suit the needs of the Fire Service and the Water Master was born." "Water Ma... (more)

NFC Forum Global Competition 2009 Announces Winners

The NFC Forum (http://www.nfc-forum.org), a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, today announced the winners of the NFC Forum Global Competition 2009 (http://www.nfc-forum.org/competition). The winning entries were named at an awards ceremony held last night at WIMA in Monaco (http://www.wima-nfc.com). In the competition, developers in a Commercial Track vied for the honor of having their solutions named “The Best NFC Service of the Year 2009,“ while a Research Track recognized “The Most Innovative NFC Research Project of the Year 2009.“ First-, second-, and third-place winners in each track were chosen by a jury composed of senior professionals and recognized experts from academia and sponsoring companies. The winners were selected from 20 finalists, who were selected earlier from 52 entries from 21 cou... (more)

USADATA Unveils Sales Leads On Demand Platform for DICE Members

Today at the DICE 2009 Annual Meeting, USADATA, the leading provider of Sales Leads On Demand.™ for customer acquisition and customer relationship management, unveiled its Sales Leads On Demand Platform (at http://dice.usadata.com) for DICE members. DICE, the Digital Imaging Customer Exchange is the independent users group, open to companies owning a Hewlett Packard Indigo, Kodak NexPress, Xerox Digital Press or those utilizing Presstek imaging or plate technology. Through this platform, DICE members have an easy-to-use web-based application for ordering the highest quality, privacy-compliant mailing lists and sales leads on behalf of their customers. The DICE Sales Leads On Demand Platform affords its members an easy way of expanding or opening a new revenue stream. Through a simple 5-step process, members have access to five types of sales leads online – Consumer, ... (more)

HP Drives Business Growth for Customers Through Virtualization Innovations

At VMworld 2009 today, HP (NYSE:HPQ) announced innovative management and service solutions that extend the benefits of virtualization beyond servers to the entire infrastructure. As a result, customers can maximize resource utilization, improve administrator productivity and drive business growth. HP also announced the first virtual desktop infrastructure solution for under $1,000 per user seat.(1) The solution was demonstrated during VMware Chief Executive Officer Paul Maritz’s keynote presentation today. Virtual desktop infrastructure is a server-based computing model that gives users a PC desktop experience, while securing all applications, management and processing in the data center. The HP Virtual Desktop Reference Architecture for VMware View specifically addresses the performance bottlenecks and management complexities of other offerings. Customers can test... (more)

PHD Virtual Expands Engineering Team, Doubles R&D Capacity as Company Scales to Meet Customer Growth

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- During VMworld 2009, PHD Virtual Technologies, provider of the pioneering esXpress data protection and recovery solution for virtual machines, today announced that it has expanded its engineering team to meet aggressive product enhancement schedules for esXpress, the award-winning, fault-tolerant backup and restore solution which enables the virtual infrastructure to back itself up. To help lead this expanding team, which has doubled in overall R&D; capacity in the past month, Vladimir Hrabrov has joined the company as vice president of engineering and Alex Mittell has been named director-senior virtualization architect. "Under the vision of Vlad and Alex, the PHD Virtual engineering team will work to extend the reach of our award winning technology into new hypervisors, platforms and operating systems," said Joe Julian, execu... (more)

Research and Markets: Worldwide Mission Critical Middleware Messaging Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts 2009 to 2015

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/278df4/worldwide_mission) has announced the addition of WinterGreen Research, Inc.'s new report "Worldwide Mission Critical Middleware Messaging Market Shares Strategies, and Forecasts 2009 to 2015" to their offering. Worldwide mission critical middleware messaging is poised to achieve significant growth as this software is used to achieve transport of information between applications. The markets start to expand to provide productivity improvements for Internet transactions. IBM WebSphereMQ is the defacto message transport standard. WebSphereMQ becomes a significant aspect of SOA because it is so good at managing decoupled messages. WebSphere MQ is at the centre of the IBM middleware offerings because it provides the structure for the bus. SOA depends on web services message transport. SOA is an API... (more)

HP Expands Networking Portfolio

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today expanded its networking portfolio with new HP ProCurve offerings integrated with HP BladeSystem infrastructure solutions that enable customers to increase performance, security and management of both physical and virtual environments. The new offerings include the HP ProCurve 6120 series designed to leverage the award-winning HP BladeSystem infrastructure and an expansion of the HP ProCurve 8200 and 5400 Ethernet switch portfolio. Also included in the announcement is a firmware upgrade to HP Virtual Connect that allows users to change bandwidth on the fly to respond to fluctuations in application requirements. “The integration of HP ProCurve Networking blade switches with the HP BladeSystem infrastructure is a pivotal change for HP as the company aggressively diverges itself from the competition,” said Nick Lippis, president of analyst firm Lip... (more)