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29 October 2013
How-Tos: 10 Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

Consumers are increasingly using their mobile devices to connect to businesses of all shapes and sizes. From optimizing your website to capturing holiday sales on mobile devices, these tips will help improve your mobile marketing strategy.
News: Splunk launches Hunk for Hadoop

Analytics software provider, Splunk, has released a new platform which allows anyone to explore, analyse and visualise data in Hadoop.
28 October 2013
News: Microsoft's Big Data Service Available After a Year in Preview

After a year of in-the-field testing, the Windows Azure HDInsight Service, which allows customers to spin up Hadoop clusters in the cloud, gets the green light for release into general availability.
News: Oracle moves aggressively to poach SAP Business ByDesign customers

Oracle has joined the ranks of ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendors hoping to capitalize on uncertainty among customers of SAP's Business ByDesign software, offering to waive one year of subscription fees to those who migrate to Oracle's competing products.
News: ERP Comes to the Cloud and (Finally) Smaller Businesses

Trek Global claims that its cloud-based ERP service can help midmarket and small businesses leverage ERP to create efficiencies.
Buying Advice: New Mac Pro release date, specs and price

Here we have full Mac Pro release date and price information, plus specifications.
News: Buffer encrypts access tokens after spammer hack

Buffer, a service for scheduling social media posts, said Sunday it has strengthened its security after spammers gained access to its network.
26 October 2013
News: LinkedIn's Intro tool for iPhones could be a juicy target for attackers

Some people think a lot can go wrong if you have your emails pass through LinkedIn's servers with the company's new Intro technology.
25 October 2013
News: Internet Archive, fearful of spying, boosts its encryption

The Internet Archive, the online repository of millions of digitized books, wants to shield its readers from other's prying eyes -- like the government's.
News: Startup offers hefty storage with pay-per-use pricing

The model of buying cloud computing resources is different from that of buying traditional hardware and software. Instead of buying licenses and investing in equipment, in a cloud computing model, users pay for the resources they use – no more, no less. That model has been proven out extensively on the compute side, with services like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and a variety of other IaaS offerings on the market. But storage has been slow to catch up.
News: Data protection essential to digital economy, say EU leaders

European Union leaders have given themselves room for manoeuvre in implementing new data protection laws, while pledging to introduce them in a “timely” fashion.
News: Lukewarm Global IT Outsourcing Market Heats Up in Third Quarter

The first half of the year was relatively quiet for global IT outsourcing deals, but activity has picked up considerably in the third quarter. Outsourcing consultancy ISG examines why and predicts how the IT outsourcing market will finish out the year.
News: Permanent employment model hampering business innovation: Entity

Companies need to be more flexible in the search for talent, as well as broaden the way they look for and engage people.
24 October 2013
News: New Relic to mine performance data for business insights

Software provider New Relic is extending its system administrator tools for monitoring the performance of applications to help business managers as well.
News: Oracle gears up to battle Salesforce.com, IBM with Eloqua update

Oracle is rolling out a series of new features for its Eloqua marketing automation suite, hoping to get a leg up on rivals such as Salesforce.com and IBM in the red-hot software segment.
Opinion: Microsoft plunks a 17-foot-tall Surface tablet down in London's Trafalgar Square

Who says tablet marketing isn't any fun?
23 October 2013
News: Jive sharpens social collaboration suite's expertise directory, task management

Jive revamped the employee directory of its enterprise social-networking suite to make it easier for users to find colleagues whose expertise they can tap.
News: Teradata Turns to the Cloud, Offers Data Warehouse as a Service

Aiming to give customers the flexibility to store, process and leverage their data on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment, Teradata is making its portfolio of platforms and services available via the cloud, including Data Warehouse as a Service, Discovery as a Service and Data Management as a Service.
News: Pivotal bulks up big data software portfolio

While EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal prepares to launch its While EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal prepares to launch its [business intelligence PaaS (platform-as-a-service), the new company has also been busy building its portfolio of data mining and analysis software.
News: Hortonworks Makes Hadoop More Versatile in New Distro

Built on Apache Hadoop YARN architecture, HDP 2.0 changes Hadoop from a single-purpose Web-scale batch data processing platform into multi-use operating system for batch, interactive, online and stream processing.