Advertising Yelp Begins Offering Local Deals Local search and business review service Yelp is offering a sneak peak today of a new feature it is calling "Yelp Deals". The new feature will enter Yelp into a growing market of local-deal providers, with companies like Groupon and LivingSocial, by offering deals to what Yelp users spend most of their time looking for - local businesses. Mobile Mike Melanson View comments
mobile Who Will Win the Mobile Payments Battle: Gadgets, NFC or Apps? As news breaks this morning about the Intuit/Mophie partnership that aims to bring a complete credit card solution to the iPhone, the focus has been how this new product - an attachment that snaps onto the bottom of the phone - competes directly with the startup Square, co-founded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey. Like Square, the new solution allows… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis Why Large Hadron Collider Scientists are Using CouchDB The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) will deploy the NoSQL database CouchDB into production this summer, CouchDB corporate sponsor Couchio announced today. CMS's Data Management and Workflow Management (DMWM) project has been testing NoSQL solutions for the past year. Simon Metson… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Apple At Last! Netflix Comes to iPhone Netflix has finally launched its highly anticipated free mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch and it's available now for download in the iTunes App Store. Like its iPad counterpart, the app lets subscribers stream TV shows and movies straight to a handheld device, either over Wi-Fi or 3G. Membership plans for Netflix start at… Play Sarah Perez View comments
RWCloudSponsored Weekly Case Study: How Virtualization Helps the Water Flow We take for granted the ease with which we can get water: Turn a handle and the water comes out of the faucet. But go to any municipal water agency and you will see how complex it can be to manage a water supply. Tampa Bay Water is a Florida agency that supplies water to nearly 2.5 million people in the Tampa Bay Area - the 19th largest… Alex Williams View comments