"Companies have invested a significant amount of money in SOA – and continue to do so," says Jeff Haynie, Co-Founder & CEO of Appcelerator, in this exclusive Q&A; with SYS-CON's AJAX & RIA Journal in the run-up to Appcelerator's session on October 20 at AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, California (October 20-22, 2008). "One of the keys to unlocking the full return on investment in SOA is the ability to build service-oriented UIs (SOUIs) – clients designed to consume services, regardless of language or platform," Haynie continues. "We believe Appcelerator's approach truly zeros in on the need for a clean separation of the application from services in an agile development model," he adds. Read the interiew in full below... About Jeff Haynie Jeff Haynie is co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator, an open source software company that develops products and services... (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)

@ThingsExpo Reaches 5,000 IoT Twitter Followers in Five Months

Internet of @ThingsExpo reached 5,000 Twitter followers in five months. Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 15th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. @ThingsExpo billboard on Highway 101 in Silicon Valley is viewed by 1.3 million motorists per week The first and the largest Internet of Things (IoT) event i... (more)

Ajit Jaokar's Mobile Web 2.0 Blog: "The Dawn of the Widget Widget Web"

The World Wide Web, as we know it, is exploding. From its fragments emerges a new "container-based" Web based on Widgets. For the lack of a better term, I shall call it a "Widget Widget Web." I have long advocated the power of Widgets to transform the Web as we know it. Hence, I am starting a new set of blogs on the future potential and evolution of Widgets. Recently, Om Malik also wrote a great article Suddenly everything's coming up widgets. The goal of the Widget Widget web series of blogs is to discuss the evolution of the Web using the Widgets philosophy. Modularization of software and applications is not new. The idea is simply "moving up the software stack." I remember the time when Object Oriented Software was a such a big buzzword (and as a slight diversion, I also remember someone telling me then that - their software was "Object Oriented" - whatever they ... (more)

Introducing AskBing The PowerShell Bing Twitter Proxy

Last week I posted a PowerShell function library for Microsoft’s newly introduced search engine at Bing.com.  The function library was appropriately named PoshBing. There was a log of interest in the script so I quickly moved it off my blog and onto a CodePlex project under PoshBing. Working on the command line is fun and all, but since I spend a good portion of my time accessing my twitter account, I figured it would be a bit of fun to integrate it with my previously released PoshTweet PowerShell twitter library. So, after an hour or so of coding it up and creating the @askbing twitter account, I’ve got it up and running. Using it is as simple as posting a message mentioning the @askbing account.  The Usage is as follows: @askbing [sourcetype [options]] question_or_search_terms If you omit the sourcetype it will default to “web”.  The following sourcetypes and opt... (more)

How To Earn Money Selling Your Photos on Internet

Stock Photography on Ulitzer Got a digital camera? Now you can earn money selling your pictures on the Internet! If you have a good eye and if you are a creative person, you can generate very nice monthly income by selling your pictures on stock photography web sites. In a month or two you will start collecting monthly PayPal transfers for few hundreds bucks from any agency you decided to work with. You probably can not live from a few hundreds bucks a month, but come on – at least it pays you back for all that nice and expensive photographic gear you have purchased last year, and pays back quit fast. I truly love online stock photography phenomenon, since it is the first in the world and probably the only business model which allows amateur photographers like you and me to earn some money from they lovely hobby. In fact, if you are a talented photographer and you ... (more)

F5's New UNITY Programme Rewards EMEA Partners That Offer Measurable Value to Joint Customers

New partner programme establishes more open, integrated partnerships with value-added resellers and distributors CHERTSEY, UK, APRIL 1, 2010 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today launches "UNITY", a new programme for F5 partners in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. UNITY aims to create openness in the F5 value-added partner community by establishing clear success criteria to reward partner investment, and ultimately to facilitate a world-class customer experience. UNITY Programme Benefits: Improved margin support: Makes it easy and rewarding to do business with F5 by defining clear, measurable expectations that create added value for end-users. New entry criteria: Establishes clarity and balanced treatment within the partner community in terms of the participation benefits and requiremen... (more)

Issues Facing Businesses in An Accountant’s Perspective

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) After the Enron debacle, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) assumed a leadership role in the rush toward an international set of accounting standards (IFRS). The long and proud independent standard setting process in the United States of America is being phased out in favor of an international standard setting process with an international governing body, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). So what’s the big deal? Confusing Standards? So will we have a single, simple, principles-based global set of accounting standards? Not so fast, my friend! Initially, public companies will be required to convert to IFRS while private US companies could choose to adopt IFRS for small- and mid-sized entities or could, along with not-for-profit organizations, continue to report under g... (more)

Media Release: Media Advisory – The Canadian Potential for ‘BPaaS’ Innovation

The Canada Cloud Network (CanadaCloud.net) is identifying ‘BPaaS’ as an important step forward for cloud computing and an uniquely exciting growth opportunity for Canadian Cloud start-ups. Furthermore, CanadaCloud.net is announcing BPaaS as a major focus area for its collaborative industry R&D; program – the Canada Cloud Roadmap. WireService.ca Media Release – October 9th, 2012 Business Process-as-a-Service is clearly defined as: · Encapsulating an offer for all or part of a business model · Adding mature industry practices onto SaaS solutions layer · Adding IP value directly without the costs of development · Implementing changes to work/document flow dynamically BPaaS builds an additional layer on the NIST defined IaaS/PaaS/SaaS layers for cloud computing. BPaaS offers the ultimate scenario for customers seeking to be freed from all IT-level issues of dealing with sof... (more)

Zuora Unveils Z-Business for Media, Helping Media Companies Use Paywall 2.0 to Win in Today’s Digital Age

News International, Fairfax Media, Pearson Continue to Lead the Industry London, UK- March 20, 2013 Summary Zuora, the leader in subscription commerce, billing, and finance, today announces Z-Business for Media, a relationship business management (RBM) solution that enables publishers to implement Paywall 2.0: a shift from advertiser-centric to subscriber-centric business strategies that enable growth in the digital age. Z-Business for Media and Paywall 2.0 enable media companies to reinvent themselves in today's digital age through strategies such as broadening their geographical reach, offering cross content bundling, delivering multi-device experiences, and providing creative pricing. The result is more predictable, growing revenue streams built on long lasting subscriber relationships. Reinvention of the Media Industry Will Be Driven by Paywall 2.0 A few years a... (more)

Mobile Strategies Top 55 Articles

For those of you who are employed, and perhaps actually have a family and social life, you will have purposely avoided reading many of the articles I have written over the past 24 months.  That is to be celebrated!  However, some of the articles you missed may actually be worth a read so I have compiled a list of the top 55.  Enjoy! The Best of Mobile Strategies: Thoughts on Mobile Strategies and Social Collaboration Time-Space Compression Speed, Mobility and Online Sales Connecting the Strategic to the Tactical - Enterprise Mobility Mobility, Business Transformation and the 5th Dimension Infonomics and Enterprise Mobility M2M, Enterprise Mobility and Healthcare M2M and Enterprise Mobility - The Convergence M2M, SAP and Enterprise Mobility SAP's Mobility Vision - Any Way You Want It SAP's Sanjay Poonen Discusses Mobile Strategies with Kevin Benedict Learning about the... (more)