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After years of waiting, Microsoft Office has finally hit iOS. Available for iPhone, “Office Mobile for Office 365 Subscribers” lets you create and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on your phone, just as you would on your computer. The app is free but requires an Office 365 sub...
Do you have multiple allowed websites on your Lockdown Device?  Want Auto Redirect to SureFox Home Screen or one of the allowed websites after an idle timeout? Use SureFox's Idle Timeout option to force the screen to redirect itself to SureFox Home Screen or a website.   Follow me...
By Bob GourleyFrom: http://ctolink.us/16GZFF7 SpaceCurve Raises $10M Series B Financing Brings Unmatched Performance to Big Data Applications and Services SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 18, 2013– SpaceCurve, the creator of a new big data platform designed to meet the in...
During the recent Kalido webinar on data science, I was asked a number of questions about data science, which have since been published as a Kalido Expert View. Here's my take on the first question: Q: In your opinion, what is a data scientist? I find it most useful to explain what a d...
I recently had the luxury of sitting on a beach for a while to unwind, de-stress, and recharge my batteries. Even though I really shouldn’t have been thinking about work, the IT performance geek inside of me is always lurking. He can’t be switched off so I allow him to ente...
I’m going to show you how to build and publish a jQuery Mobile app in under 5 minutes. Building the app Sign up for Appery.io Starter plan Create new app by entering its name and clicking Create: Build the mobile UI by dragging components form the palette into the page: Note the ...
Johannesburg, South Africa, June 18, 2013 --(PR.com)-- “South Africa, in particular, requires a media monitoring company that can offer immediate access to two things, advertising and editorial. This monitoring has to extend across all media. It is with this vision in mind that ...
Last week, amidst all the “WHO WON E3?!?” talk, all eyes were on Sony and Microsoft. Whether you think that Sony won the next-gen console war already or that Microsoft will be victorious in the end, chances are good you probably weren’t thinking about Nintendo. The big N decided NOT to...
My new book on SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 is about to be released and this post provides a list of links referenced in the book, sorted chapter wise. Hyperlinks provide a gateway to the extensive literature that can be accessed on the Internet. They provide information (...
While Amazon’s AWS is the undeniable public cloud leader and VMware the undeniable private cloud leader, Microsoft’s Azure can certainly be considered a hybrid cloud leader, at least at this point in the evolution of the cloud as well as Azure. I was in Redmond last week for a couple d...
SAP and Technical University Munich in Germany have developed a new database that is built to identify proteins in an effort to map more than 18,000 human genes, or 90 percent coverage of the proteome. ProteomicsDB is available to customers free of charge and is also intended for rese...
It certainly has been a wild ride thus far for 2013 as we head into the second half.  Breaches, hacks, exposures, leaks, along with things like BYOD and SDN should make the next 6 months interesting.  From the many headlines in 2012, you’d think organizations would be l...
California Businesses now have the $0 option for the updated Ezcheckprinting software thru Trialpay. Visit www.halfpricesoft.com to see how easy it is to write checks on blank stock. Check printing software company halfpricesoft.com announced the summer saving offer of ezCheckPrintin...
Baltimore- and Washington-area economic groups have launched a task force aimed at growing the mid-Atlantic region's cybersecurity workforce as companies, agencies boost their efforts. Marjorie Censer writes that the Greater Washington Board of Trade, Greater Baltimore Committee and t...
One of the very most prominent renovation experts, Steven D Bullock says, “A tub is really a tub and a Jacuzzi won’t ever make or break a sale”. Neutral colors like white and lighter colors like pastels are ideal since they can reflect more light making the space appe...
If not too, the dwelling is going to be a makeshift trailer. A car dealer license is often needed but the documents necessary to obtain it is going to alter from one state to another (country to country). We can always make use of a little extra money, so why wouldn’t you begin e...
So if the dealer acquire a dealer open lot coverage with $150,000 per site, that policy may limit coverage per vehicle of $25,000. The author suggests millions of dollar like a combined single limit. The final price of the vehicle is determined based around the results of the tests. Us...
Good news for companies struggling to bring their massive data sets online: Google has announced the launch of Offline Disk Import, a service which lets Google Cloud Storage users send Google physical hard drives for manual uploading. Sadly, this feature is only available to US users a...
Speaking to a congressional committee Tuesday morning, General Keith Alexander revealed that government surveillance efforts have thwarted “over 50” possible terrorist threats since 9/11, including plans to bomb the New York Stock Exchange and NYC subway system. Alexander, who heads th...
I’ll admit it — I am terrible at remembering birthdays. There’s no excuse, really, considering that practically every major Internet company offers some form of calendar with built-in integration to notify you of your friends’ birthdays. (It’s Facebook’s forte.) E-retailer giant Amazon...
AT&T announced it will set up 25 solar-powered charging stations for mobile devices throughout New York City. For this project, dubbed Street Charge, AT&T partnered with solar power company Goal Zero and Brooklyn-based Pensa Design, which pioneered the concept a couple months b...
If you are trying to get Netflix and use Verizon’s broadband, then there is a good chance that your video performance is less than optimal. Some Verizon customers might even go as far as calling it a crappy Netflix experience. The reason: a behind-the-scenes power play between Verizon ...
Yahoo has spoken up to clarify claims made over the US government’s PRISM program two weeks after the news broke. CEO Marissa Mayer said Yahoo received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests from US law enforcement agencies between December 1, 2012 and May 31 2013. However, the requests ar...
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed a bill giving Texans more privacy over their inboxes than anywhere else in the United States. On Friday, Perry signed HB 2268, effective immediately. The law shields residents of the Lone Star State from snooping by state and local law enforcement witho...
On Monday, Microsoft announced a new program that will see schools around the world able to purchase the company’s Surface RT tablet hybrid in bulk at a reduced per-unit rate. The program is quite simple: Surface devices will be sold to schools at low prices. The restriction is that on...
Before June 29th, 2007, if you asked someone what kind of phone they had they would likely have answered with a manufacturer's name or brand: Motorola, Blackberry, Nokia. In September 2008, Google unleashed Android on the world and everything changed. Today, phones are primarily identi...
 By: Dan Kurschner, Senior Marketing Manager, SP Mobility, CiscoNext week over 3000 of our closest friends will be gathering in Amsterdam June 25 and 26 to focus on making Mobile LTE Broadband a revenue generating engine.  This is the 9th year of the event and there will be 1...
By Bob GourleyIf you are an enterprise technologist the driving factors in your technology selections are probably the discriminating functionality of the technology you are looking at mixed with factors like cost, simplicity, ability to work with your legacy environment, and overall a...
Interview with CEO Brad Bostic - hc1.com is committed to improving the quality of healthcare while reducing costs. We believe a critical ingredient to averting the current healthcare crisis faced by the US can only occur by improving the way healthcare professionals across the continu...
Torrance, CA, June 18, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Celestron, the world’s number-one telescope designer and manufacturer, announced today that its CEO, Joe Lupica, is retiring after 26 years with the company, effective immediately. Lupica first joined Celestron in 1987, and by 2000 had b...
Our update of QuickBase in May included improvements to charting and reporting. These changes will help you view and manage your data more efficiently. An overview of these changes are below,... Follow The Fast Track on Twitter: http://twitter.
Wi-Fi networks seem to now be everywhere.  Once primarily confined to the home or office, we now expect Wi-Fi access [...]
Industry's Only Unified Data Transmission Platform Equips Banks with Built-in Workflow & Other Features to Support Compliance Efforts, Providing Added ROI for IT ModernisationNEW YORK, NY (June 18, 2013) - Global business integration software provider SEEBURGER today announced that...
Reykjavik, Iceland, June 18, 2013 --(PR.com)-- TM Software’s popular Tempo Timesheets add-on for JIRA has led the way in time tracking, resource planning, and project management functionality for organizations around the globe. With its recently added features, including flexibl...
#TechViews TweetChat: 1: 00 PM ET – Tuesday, June 25, 2013 The industry is abuzz with a philosophy that promises to speed application release times, improve software quality and optimize application performance in production: DevOps. The concept isn’t new, but there is a renewed inte...
People often take their ERP selection criteria for granted. They gather functional requirements put them into an organized list and then blast it out to ERP vendors as a Request for Proposal (RFP). The problem is that while they have collected the shopping list of requirements for thei...
San Francisco, CA, June 18, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Shared Media, (https://www.shared.com) today announced the open beta of the company’s new cloud storage service, Shared.com. Question: How many songs can be stored with 2 terabytes of storage? Answer: Approximately 400,000. That&#...
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Creates 'Single Pane of Glass' to Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud, VPS Hosting, Backup, CDN, DNS and Other Services Across U.S. and Canada HostingCon, Austin, TX - June 18, 2013 - Leading cloud and managed services provider, Cartika, has built and launched a new range of enterprise c...
The dotMailer 'Hitting the Mark: Email Intelligence Report' ranks top UK and US online retailers on email marketing performanceMacy's ranks number one retailer in US, while House of Fraser tops UK and global rankingsOverall improvement in scores, but retailers still underperforming at ...