A report by Goode Intelligence investigates the market for incorporating biometrics into mobile phones and projects that the current global user base of four million mobile biometrics users will grow to 39 million by 2015. Although biometric technology in mobile phones has existed for over ten years, the market has …
Read More »SAP 4.0 Portfolio Globally Available Allowing Enterprise Collaboration
SAP announced the global general availability of the 4.0 releases of business intelligence and enterprise information management solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, including the 4.0 release of SAP BusinessObjects Edge BI software. The solutions demonstrate the future of analytics with real-time, mobile and social capabilities to help organizations better understand their businesses and make confident, data-driven decisions. …
Read More »GeoEye and TerraGo Partner to Innovate Digital Imagery
TerraGo Technologies and GeoEye, Inc. are partnering to increase the access and application of digital imagery. The partnership enables GeoEye to offer TerraGo’s GeoPDF production capabilities in the next EyeQ online access platform version. EyeQ is the first of its kind allowing users to produce and share interactive georeferenced products that are compact, …
Read More »Neustar Aids Universal Business Listings to Promote and Measure Customer Interactions via Mobile
Neustar’s barcode registry service to be used by Universal Business Listing in creating and distributing advanced 2D barcodes as part of its business profile syndication service. 2D barcodes can be scanned by mobile devices and direct consumers to a webpage, video, message, call, promotion and other online experiences the business …
Read More »Gartner Puts McAfee in the Leaders Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection
Gartner, Inc. placed McAfee in the Leaders Quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection.” Gartner’s report evaluates 14 vendors offering mobile data protection products and chooses leaders based on products that work for Garnet clients in both small and large deployments. The ability to execute a full vision and to …
Read More »McAfee Providing Anti-Theft Solution for Ultrabooks
McAfee and Intel are collaborating to develop anti-theft software for Ultrabook devices leveraging unique, Intel chip-level technologies providing device and data protection for consumers. With users increasing mobility and the rapid growing numbers of laptops and mobile computing devices purchases, the risk of theft and loss is increasing too. This …
Read More »Intel and Google to Optimize Android for Intel's Atom
Intel Corporation and Google Inc. will work to enable and optimize future versions of Android for Intel’s lower power Atom processors allowing future versions of Android to support Intel technology. This joint effort should speed time-to-market of Intel technology for Android smartphones and enable mobile device OEMs and wireless operators …
Read More »SAP and Sybase Fuel Mobile App Development With Sybase Unwired Platform
SAP AG and Sybase, Inc., a SAP company, announced Sybase Unwired Platform 2.1 which will enrich mobile application development with an enhanced development kit and new developer resources for the more than 2 million members of SAP Community Network. Sybase Unwired Platform is one of the first fully integrated mobile enterprise application platforms …
Read More »McAfee and Intel Unveil DeepSAFE Better Protecting PCs and Devices
McAfee unveils DeepSAFE to provide a new approach to security within the ever-changing world of cyber threats. DeepSAFE was demonstrated by McAfee at Intel Developer Forum during Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini’s keynote. “This is a tremendous shift for McAfee and one of the biggest innovations in the security industry’s history,” …
Read More »Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff to Kick Off CloudForce 2011 London
Salesforce.com announced that chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will kick off Cloudforce 2011 London to be held Sept. 14 -15. Benioff will be joined onstage by Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, and Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry. With a record 5,000 registered to attend and more than 50 lead cloud computing companies in …
Read More »Telcordia Highlights Next-Gen OSS at Futurecom
Telcordia will showcase Revenue and Service Innovation, Next Generation OSS and Mobile OSS solutions at this week’s Futurecom trade show in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Additionally, Telcordia will discuss successful proof-points with tier 1 Communications Services Providers in the region to deliver innovative services to drive profits with highly scalable solutions. …
Read More »Cisco's ASR 9000 System Goes Mobile Advancing the Next-Generation Internet
Cisco announced major advancements in Internet networking through three new platforms in the Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers System. The systems are built to drive growth in mobile internet traffic, devices and cloud services. The new routing platform, fueled by nV, will allow service providers to noticeably increase …
Read More »VMware Partners with Samsung to Virtualize Mobile Devices
Earlier this week at VMworld 2011, VMware announced its strategic collaboration with Samsung to deliver virtual desktops to mobile devices and enable a new class of dual persona devices. The companies intend to integrate VMware View and VMware Horizon Mobile with Samsung mobile devices including Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9 creating a mobile virtual platform. …
Read More »A Snow Day’s Work
In case you haven’t heard, snow is approaching. As the area braces for its first major winter event, companies struggle to maintain a balance between productivity and safety concerns. Companies know dangerous driving conditions, impassable roads, stalled mass transit systems and school closings threaten to keep employees home and halt …
Read More »Too Hassled to Go to the Mall? Many Holiday Shoppers Using Phones Instead
Nearly one in four cellphone users plans to use mobile devices to do holiday shopping this year, according to a survey by the Mobile Marketing Association and Luth Research. With a busier-than-normal Black Friday predicted this year, mobile technologies might be a good way to avoid crowds. The survey, October …
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