Kristen Nicole
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Springpad iOS Updates Get Smart with Your Personal Cloud
People’s personal clouds are growing, and it’s largely due to smartphones. These gadgets are with us all the time, and have the power to store and access information, enable real-time communication on several levels, and make us more efficient with the time and places we do need to tap into our personal clouds. The result ...
Mobile Apps Gain Alternative Markets, Threaten Security: Lookout App Genome Report
Google and Apple are in an arms race, battling over global domination in the mobile sphere. Their app markets are at the center of this mobile war, delivering a direct line to the consumer. It’s promising for many reasons, from marketing to sales. But mobile marketplaces still have quite a ways to go, especially on ...
Adknowledge Heads to iOS, Rounding Out Platform Trifecta
Adknowledge is rounding out its platform offerings quite nicely, with the launch of its iOS software developer kit. Announced on day two of the Mobile World Congress on Barcelona, the new SDK comes on the heels of Adknowledge’s Android version launch, making the leap to mobile. The new iOS SDK, which supports Apple iPhone and iPad ...
MetroPCS’s Got the Spirit. Of Net Neutrality, That Is. Dares FCC to See for Itself.
Another formal response from MetroPCS, as the wireless provider appeals to the FCC and Free Press regarding the investigation positioned against it. This time, they dare the FCC to investigate, proving MetroPCS’s non-compliance against net neutrality regulations. It’s actually the “spirit” of net neutrality MetroPCS adheres to, and its extensive document to the FCC details ...
Syncplicity Expands Cloud Management as a Service with Reseller Program
Cloud management has been around for nearly as long as the cloud has been a viable business model, but it tends to perpetuate vendor lock-in, similar to a small town naming one man to be the judge, sheriff and mayor. As the cloud itself forms around a number of different services, from platforms to software, ...
Offices are Like Homes of the 1950s. Citrix Says it’s Time to Change.
The turn of the year brings a great number of prediction posts, conjecturing around what will come of 2011. I’ve never been a regular crystal ball gazer in that regard, but a recent chat with Kim Woodward, the VP of marketing at Citrix, added some fun contextualization to the biggest trends to look out for ...
Prioritize Tweets with My6sense Chrome Extension
The blessing and the curse of web content (especially social web content) is the sheer mass of it all. When YouTube first gained popularity, we quickly realized that, as freeing as a video network with embeddable widgets is, it’s also created a “dog pile” of content that requires patience, skill, and sometimes a strong stomach ...
EMC: The Silicon Angle on Cloud Growth, Partnerships and Acquisitions
This company profile is part of a new series at SiliconANGLE, where we detail trends, technologies and people. SiliconANGLE is about covering all the angles. This “SiliconANGLE” format aims to deliver the subject in an easily digestible form, covering all the angles that pertain to a company, its history, development and future. Here’s The SiliconANGLE ...
CardStar Takes on Groupon Deals, Leads Race for Mobile Loyalty-Based Marketing
Groupon’s growth as a platform has been astounding, demonstrating the potential behind location-based marketing on a large scale. It’s certainly something Google wanted in on, but through its open API offering, plenty of other businesses can benefit from Groupon’s established expanse as well. CardStar is one such business, integrating Groupon’s location-based deals into its mobile ...
FalconStor Energizes Backup and Recovery, Launches RecoverTrac
FalconStor is launching a new product today, designed to improve data recovery within the cloud. RecoverTrac offers DR automation for physical and virtual environments, and will be included as a standard feature for FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) clients. The release is among the first major product updates from FalconStor since officially installing its new ...
