San Jose, CA, November 04, 2010 --(PR.com)-- ISCS, a provider of insurance automation software for the property and casualty insurance markets, sought a brand facelift befitting its explosive growth, increased market visibility and highly positive analyst coverage. To accomplish this task and elevate the brand to the level of its elite clientele, ISCS looked to its long-time creative agency and tasked dystrick with the job. dystrick’s process meant keeping in touch with, and understanding, the ever-moving markets of its clients. This included revisiting ISCS’s lines of business and market philosophy while conducting a series of workshops, brainstorming sessions, and interviews. dystrick’s User Experience and Creative Services teams spent time revisiting with key stakeholders to understand new opportunities and analyze the constraints and success fa... (more)

Content Marketers Must Read Book of the Week!

Content Marketers Must Read Book of the Week! Name: ‘Content Rules,’ How to create killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, and Webinars (and more) that engage customers and ignite your Business. Authors: Ann Handley Blog   Twitter    Facebook   C.C Chapman Blog Twitter Facebook   Blogs, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms are giving organizations an enormous opportunity to engage direc sap Normal sap 1 1 2012-07-18T13:37:00Z 2012-07-18T13:38:00Z 1 191 1093 personal 9 2 1282 10.2625 Clean MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New ... (more)

Keeping business security wrapped up this Christmas

London, 26 November 2012 - In the run up to Christmas, businesses need to ensure that they have checked their list twice when it comes to IT security. Not only do employees browse for Christmas gifts online during their lunch breaks, but an increasing number of people work remotely over the festive period. Employees can unknowingly put their business at risk from the inside by inadvertently opening the door to a virus or spyware, which can have devastating consequences to a business and its customers. Jeff Finch, head of security at Interoute, reveals some top tips to help businesses think more laterally about how to protect themselves this time of year: Shop around Whatever the size of your business; you don't have to plunder the Christmas party fund to afford proper protection during the festive season. Smaller businesses can be an easy target because they are le... (more)

CPX Interactive is a Finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award

New York, NY, May 17, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Digital media company, CPX Interactive, announced today it had been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region. Red Herring has been selecting the most exciting and promising start-ups and "scale ups" since 1995. Finalists are still evaluated individually from a large pool of hundreds of candidates based across North America. Twenty major criteria underlie the scoring and process. They include, among others: the candidate company's addressable market size, its IP and patents, its financing, the proof of concept, trailing revenues and management's expertise. Each company goes through an individual interview after filling out a thorough submission, complemented by a due diligence. T... (more)

Labor Day Rewind: Larry Bonfante, CIO USTA

In honor of the ongoing US Open (and its emphasis on the smart use of technology to reach new audiences) Gathering Clouds proudly re-presents our Cloud Player Interview with USTA’s CIO larry Bonfante. We recently had the pleasure of having an extended conversation with the United States Tennis Association’s Chief Information Officer, Larry Bonfante. Our discussion covered a range of topics, including the evolving CIO role, how cloud is changing the way businesses function, and cloud migration challenges.  This is the first of two parts. Part 2 is available here. As always, let us know your thoughts on Twitter @CloudGathering. Gathering Clouds: How has the CIO role changed in the last 10 years? Larry Bonfante, CIO USTA Larry Bonfante: I think if you look at the role of the CIO 10 years ago, the primary function was to run the utility. We were really focused on deliver... (more)

The Indie Farmer Sets Out on Indiegogo Crowdfunding Road Trip to Help Independent Farmers and Small Food Producers

Wednesday 30 July, 2014 Nigel Akehurst, farmer's son, photographer and founder of startup online magazine indiefarmer.com, based in Hackney London, is going on a six week UK road trip on his 125 Vespa scooter 'Veronica'. The aim of the trip is to connect a growing audience of people who care where their food comes from, with independent farmers and small producers. Nigel will visit and showcase these 'indie farmers' via a series of interviews and picture stories on his blog and a special print edition of Indie Farmer launching in late autumn. Crowdfunding campaign To help support the trip and the first print edition of Indie Farmer Nigel is crowdfunding £5,000.00 via the world's largest crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo , to help cover some of the road trip costs, creating the first print edition of Indie Farmer and growing the community. He has put together a number... (more)

Alfresco Extends Leadership with Major Customer Deals

BOSTON, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Alfresco Software, Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that its recent release of Alfresco 2.0 has garnered major customer deals and is broadening its community and partner network. The milestones advance its market position as the open source alternative to other Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. "Alfresco 2.0 is delivering on our open source promise to ECM customers in every market," said John Powell, CEO, Alfresco. "Large customer deployments demonstrate the success of our strategy to make it simple for users to undertake an open evaluation process against proprietary offerings. Our growing community and expanding roster of partners prove that we are disrupting what was once hallowed ground for our competitors." Among its newest customers are the Federal A... (more)

Fast, Simple and Free CushyCMS Now Powers 30,000 Websites

Stateless Systems, a web development company focused on the user experience and creators of the popular coupon site RetailMeNot.com, today announced several new features for CushyCMS, a fast, simple and free Content Management System (CMS) that addresses the specific needs of web designers. CushyCMS has received an enormously positive response from the web designer community since it launched in April 2008 and is now used to power 115,000 pages on 30,000 websites. The new features are a direct response to requests made by the CushyCMS user community and include edit capabilities for XML and expanded language support. With CushyCMS, web designers can delegate basic content editing to non-technical users, without giving up control over a website’s information architecture, making their work more efficient and productive. Unlike other CMSs that take days to install an... (more)

Polycom Honored by Prestigious InformationWeek 500 List for Second Consecutive Year

MONARCH BEACH, CA and PLEASANTON, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/15/09 -- Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice communications solutions, today announced that it has once again been named to the 2009 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. Polycom has earned this recognition for two consecutive years. This year, InformationWeek editors honored Polycom for its next-gen Web project, which involved retooling the company's online presence including a number of intranet and extranet sites. "The goal of our project was to radically change the online experience for Polycom's customers, partners and employees," said Polycom CIO Glenn Noga. "Since launching the project, we've seen significant cost savings due to streamlined and improved globalization practices. Additionally, our... (more)

REPEAT/Barnes & Noble Introduces nook™, its Wireless eBook Reader with E Ink® Display & First Color Touch Screen for Navigation

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced today the launch of nook, the Barnes & Noble eBook reader, which marries innovative technology and sleek minimalist design with access to the company’s digital store of over one million eBooks, newspapers and magazines. nook features many industry firsts as it is the first Android™-based eBook reader and the first to offer a color touch screen for navigation along with a best-in-class E Ink display for an immersive, enjoyable e-reading experience. For fast connectivity, nook is the first eBook reader to provide, at no additional costs to customers, both 3G wireless access on AT&T;’s mobile broadband network and access to Wi-Fi for Barnes & Noble in-store browsing and enjoyment. And to help friends share their joy of reading, nook is the first eBook reader to offer digital lending for a wide ... (more)

FaceTime Adds Squid Proxy Support to Unified Security Gateway to Extend Enterprise Security for Web 2.0 Platforms

BELMONT, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/02/09 -- FaceTime Communications (www.facetime.com) today announced support for the Squid proxy server in its secure Web gateway, Unified Security Gateway (USG) v 3.1. This enables organizations using Squid proxies to manage and control content posted from the corporate network to blogs, wikis, webmail and social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. FaceTime's USG is the first secure Web gateway to combine content monitoring, management and logging of social networking, instant messaging and Unified Communications, with URL filtering, malware and Web antivirus protection. FaceTime launched support for Blue Coat proxy servers in September 2009. USG also includes a comprehensive application signature database of more than 4,000 applications of concern to IT managers. Created by FaceTime's Security Lab, the database... (more)