Kristen Nicole
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Building a Mobile Future in the Clouds
Everyone’s building towards a more mobile future. That means more stuff in the clouds, more infrastructure to support the clouds, and even more infrastructure to support the development and business management around mobile devices and their respective services. For large companies, the time is ripe to invest and roll-out their own initiatives to ensure they’ve ...
Echo Real-Time Comments Making a Monetizable Niche for Publishers
Echo is tapping into the real-time web with its latest feature update; Echo Comments now displays comments in real time. The move is significant for Echo, as it bulks out features for its comments platform, particularly as publishers realize the need to capture as much fragmented feedback as they can. What the real-time comments feature ...
BearHug Invites for No-Excuse Customer Care Management Tools
The cloud, your clients, and streamlining business. That’s what BearHug is all about, with a new customer care platform built to offer a more hands-on approach to team-management and customer service. Created by the same team behind budURL, BearHug is part of a growing network of management tools from Live Oak 360. Centering its entire ...
Facebook Panic Button: Who’s Really in Charge Here?
I’m not sure we even care about Facebook for its networking capabilities anymore–we only seem to care about its privacy settings. The social network is now facing a class-action lawsuit, filed in Canada, and has caved to certain requests from the U.K.’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), adding a “Panic button app.” But ...
New Windows Azure Platform Focusing the Cloud on Businesses and Consumers
Microsoft announced its new Windows Azure platform today at the company’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference. Windows Azure is a turnkey cloud service aimed at providing access and tools, on-demand, for both enterprise and consumer use. Microsoft has a number of launch partners for the new product, including Dell, HP and Fujitsu. Windows Azure, which is ...
Apple’s Siri and Wolfram Alpha: Artificial Intelligence Driving Innovation
Artificial intelligence app Siri has teamed up with Wolfram Alpha to greatly improve on query returns. The Apple-acquired iPhone app was already considered the mother of all mashups, but the inclusion of data from Wolfram Alpha makes Siri’s problem-solving tools that much better. The result of the new deal is more straight-forward answers from Siri’s ...
MTV Networks’ Hopes to Monetize Social Express, Gaming Industry
MTV Networks has acquired Social Express, the social gaming community. In an area that’s heating up fast, MTV parent Viacom has found a new way of spilling over to the web. The days of television dominance may have started to wane in the 90s, but MTV is still determined to recapture its youth through online ...
Facebook Fined by German Group, Mobile Apps Will Worsen Privacy Concerns
Facebook can’t seem to get itself out of hot water when it comes to all this user privacy stuff. A German privacy group, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, is fining the social network for some of its practices, namely its methods around opt-in features that are becoming standards on Facebook. ...
Borders eReader Joins the Digital Fun, Must Deal with iPad Influence
I’ve longed for books to go digital for some time, despite my love for a good, fat, thick-paged novel in hand. And while Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices have helped revolutionize the printing industry overall, the real metamorphosis has just begun. Borders’ latest ebook store, available on the iPhone, Android and other electronic devices, has ...
Bill Cosby and Oprah on the iPhone, the Business of the New Media Niche
Bill Cosby has launched an iPhone app today (get it here). Pooling audio and video clips, along with images and other features, the Bill Cosby mobile app is available on the iPhone and iPad. An Android app is expected in the near future. Moving from a basic quotes app to a media-centric distribution channel, Bill ...
