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An App to Test Apps: Telerik’s Latest Move Into iOS
App development solutions maker Telerik unveiled its latest project: a beta testing tool for iOS that can be downloaded directly from the App Store. The goal of the application is to drastically simplify beta testing and customer feedback by making it a much more straight-forward process for developers and end users alike. Test Studio for ...
The Genius Behind Foodie Data: Q&A with Food Genius CEO Justin Massa
If you know anything about Walmart, you know their in-store cameras track your every move, feeding the mega-store enough data to help them design aisles, strategically place products and even play the right music. There’s an enormous amount of data in the grocery industry alone, and moving down the line, from supply and demand to ...
Applicasa Rolls out Backend-as-Service for Android
Applicasa is a new mobile startup that is trying to address an area that is being targeted increasingly nowadays: server-side scripting. The creation of an app that connects to the web doesn’t end at just coding – it also means setting up the environment that will support a range of functionality. It’s a tedious task ...
Dell Speaks On Dividend Payout, Cost-Cutting and Fresh Focus on Data Centers
In a meeting with analysts, Dell Inc., one of the largest personal computer makers remaining in the market, founder Michael Dell stated that the company would focus more on data center gear, cutting costs, and paying dividends starting this year. Dell shifts focus on the data center Dell is currently a seller of other vendors’ ...
18 Months Later Microsoft’s Metro Still Advancing
Throughout the past 18 months Microsoft has been carving out a new niche in user experience with its Metro interface. It’s used by Windows Phone 7 and will be the default UI setting in the upcoming Windows 8 release, but it hasn’t started to snowball just yet. Last month Metia’s Rich Blackwell wrote up a ...
The Future for IBM Storage is All About Leveraging Flash
With its debut this week, the IBM Edge conference in Orlando, FL is Big Blue’s opportunity to trumpet its storage offerings in an increasingly competitive market. With EMC’s acquisition of Xtreme-IO rounding out the storage giant’s own flagship event last week at EMC World, IBM is finding itself in the necessary position to better market ...
BumeBox CEO on the Impact of Real-Time Data for Social Marketing [Q&A Series]
Real-time interaction is something that can be applied to just about any industry, creating a hub of connected activity that works for sporting events, fashion shows and even movie premiers. In fact, if you’ve been following the marketing around Charlize Theron’s latest flick Prometheus, you may have come across BumeBox’s live social stream, pooling the best ...
Zooz Rolls Out HTML5-Compatible Mobile Payment SDK
Zooz is one of the newest up-and-comers in the mobile microtransaction space, an area that is growing rapidly now that developers are monetizing their apps with more flexibility, and far more successfully. An application that offers paid add-ons needs a way to process purchases both effectively, supporting a broad range of payment options, and conveniently ...
Piecing Together Facebook Mobile: Acquisitions, Rumors, Ads and Android
Since going public, news surrounding Facebook has focused on mobile: how will Facebook roll out its mobile strategy? How will Facebook justify its recent string of acquisitions, namely Instagram for $1 billion? How do ads fit into Facebook’s rumored smartphone? Is Android the right platform for the rival’s play? No one has an answer to ...
What Non-Nerdy Skills Do Data Scientists Need?
Communication and personality. These are two of the skill sets you’ll need to develop if you’re thinking about becoming a data scientist, according to two industry veterans from Greenplum. Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly sat down with Derek Lin and Noelle Sio, two data scientists currently working on big data solutions with EMC subsidiary Greenplum. During ...
