Sport Tracker, a veteran application of the Symbian world has made its way to the big screen. Yes the big screen in this case being the Nokia N9. With this version you are able to login to your account to be able to: Share - Workouts and Photos...
No, that's not a typo in the headline. You've heard of virtual sprawl already, no doubt, and you may have experienced it in your own company. But virtual stall or VM stall refers to a concept coined by CA Technologies, from a landmark white paper published in August 2010.Essentially, the...
The recent three-day service outage of Research In Motion's Blackberry email service caused a chill felt across the world. And I'm not just talking about the affected customers. The chill was also felt by practically every IT network service professional watching the headlines in mid October, who know that if...
3 key points you need to know about Facebook Timeline, gleaned from two previous "lifestreaming" products: FriendFeed and Memolane.Facebook's new Timeline, currently in a limited developer release but set to be unveiled to its hundreds of millions of users any day now, is going to shake up the social networking...
As we wrote about earlier this week, Klout has reworked its algorithms, and your scores have changed. Some have gone up, some down. Despite claiming more transparency with their algorithms, they are still mostly opaque and mysterious. As one of our readers commented, "Klout just pulled a Netflix, taking trust...
There's a notable absence of (conclusive) studies comparing the current acceptance rate of Heroku, the fast-growing cloud platform for dynamic language-based apps, to that of Windows Azure, DotCloud, CloudFoundry and the numerous other players in the suddenly stormy PaaS space. Perhaps only now are these players beginning to be seriously...
In the late 90s, Tom Peters famously declared that we were all CEOs of our personal brands. In Fast Company he wrote: "Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs...
We live in an era where it is feasible to manufacture things that seem like truths, and someone is always in the business of trying. If someone were to leak the entire contents of my active e-mail file, all 4.5 GB of it, onto some public wiki for the inspection...
The so-called tablet revolution in computing may still be young, but early research into how the devices are being used can tell us a lot. About 11% of American adults now own a tablet, according to recent data from Pew's Project For Excellence in Journalism. A large majority (77%) of...
Jelastic.com, the Java PaaS similar to Heroku, has compiled an interesting market share analysis of their more than 1,000 developers. Since their service is built on standard application servers and databases, their developers can choose which of four major open source databases they want to use: MySQL, Postgres, MariaDB and...
This morning, Fraser Howard and the security researchers of Sophos Labs are reporting this discovery: The recent wave of Web site defacement attacks, including one against the outreach site for the National Cyber Security Alliance, appear to have a common source: Something is injecting malicious <IFRAME> elements into the front...
Cloud-based business services are becoming commodities. As such, applications, storage, bandwidth, and now even analysis are marketable items with fluctuating values, almost by the day. As enterprises' hybrid clouds extend their boundaries to encompass not only their native data centers but multiple public cloud providers, cost management becomes an everyday...
The three most important things for SEO are content, content, and content. To drive that point home, Brafton has put together an infographic that should be hanging on the wall of every marketing department. The "Why Content for SEO?" infographic looks at the effect of Google Panda and how content...
Up until the point where data starts making sense, by definition, it doesn't make much sense. Information requires analysis. And despite its name and its mission, the Web presents more unstructured, unrelated data than any information source ever created.So it shouldn't surprise anyone that the biggest trend in data management...
Since last August's move by the U.S. Justice Dept. to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of competing wireless carrier T-Mobile from parent Deutsche Telekom (DT), there has been renewed debate in Congress and in the public discourse over the role of government in regulating the affairs of private enterprise. Last month,...
Two recent studies about how companies use social media for customer support have concluded that for the most part they don't do a very effective job at responding to complaints. And while some companies are better at listening and responding to their customers, many do a miserable job, still. It...
Not long ago at all, Oracle laid claim to building the systems that managed a majority of the world's data. This year, the group making the same claim is a spinoff from Yahoo.The onset of Internet-size databases and cloud architectures brought about architectural quandaries about the nature of relational databases...
Link shortening and social web analytics provider Bit.ly announced today the first Enterprise product built on top of its new search platform, a reputation tracking alert system. Unlike other social media monitoring services, Bit.ly says it will predict which brand-new pages online will receive a lot of traffic in the...
Of all the software technologies that are least suited to getting a makeover that's "about the experience," you'd think databases would rank pretty far down. The database experience, if there is one, is typically about accuracy, reliability, and speed. Certainly Oracle's frequent measurements ("5x," "10x," "20x" and so on) are...
Last week Facebook launched an iPad app, along with improved versions of its iPhone app and mobile browser site (m.facebook.com). The mobile site is based on the latest, interactive version of HTML (HTML5). If browsed on the iPad, it looks almost identical to the iPad app. However, there is still...
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