Saturday April 27, 2024

Encoding.com Adds HTTP Live Streaming For SaaS Video Encoding Platform

With the apparent lack of Flash on the iPad, video hosting platforms like Brightcove, Ooyala and Kyte are throwing their support for HTML5 playback on the device. Encoding.com, , a SaaS video encoding platform, is also announcing its support for HTTP streaming, to enable streaming of its video on iPhone and iPad devices. HTTP streaming […]

Open Source Enterprise Company MuleSoft Raises $12 Million From SAP And Others

MuleSoft, a startup that develops open-source technology integration services, has raised $12 million in Series C funding from SAP Ventures with Bay Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating. This funding brings the startup’s total funding to nearly $30 million. Founded in 2006, MuleSoft, provides software, support, and services […]

Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2.

Editor’s note: What does the iPad have to do with cloud computing? Glad you asked. In this guest post Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, explains how liberating the iPad will really be. The first piece of software I ever wrote was on the TRS-80 Model 1. It was called “How To Juggle”, and […]

Eight Days A Week

Only 8 more shopping days to be completely wrong about the iPad. By this time a week from tomorrow, those of us who are confident that the iPad will be the same sort of enormous disruptive event will be busy enjoying the birth of a new millenium. Everybody else will just have to buy a […]

Five Reasons OpenSocial Will Change the Enterprise

This guest post was written by Jay Simons. Simons is Vice President Sales & Marketing for Atlassian, the developers of JIRA, and issue tracker for IT project management, and Confluence, an advanced enterprise wiki. Previously he was a marketing executive for BEA Systems and Plumtree Software. A year ago Atlassian decided to make a substantial […]

Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments and technologies

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Lecia Barker: Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Women & IT, Leading Educator, and Top Thought Leader. Lecia shares her insights into unconscious bias, attracting diversity into computing, maximizing educational environments […]

JumpBox Helps Non-Techies Navigate Open Source Technologies

JumpBox is an under-the-radar server software management company that helps IT departments deploy open source technologies. JumpBox essentially makes collaborative technologies easier to use by making them easier to install on servers. Today, JumpBox is launching a new way to run open source server applications, allowing IT administrators to treat server applications collectively as a […]

Dr. Maggie Johnson: Distinguished Researcher, Educator, Executive, and Top Thought Leader shares her insights into trends, IT benchmarking, computing education, teaching, and corporate training

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I interview Dr. Maggie Johnson: Distinguished Researcher, Educator, Executive, and Top Thought Leader shares her insights into trends, IT benchmarking, computing education, teaching, and corporate training. Enjoy, Stephen Ibaraki Maggie Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in […]

Collaboration Platform Socialwok Now Integrates With Facebook, Twitter And Buzz

Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, was just integrated as a partner in Google’s recently launched Google Apps Marketplace. At last year’s TechCrunch50 conference, Socialwok made a big splash, winning the award for best demopit startup and launching its enterprise-friendly, FriendFeed-like layer for Google Apps. The web-based […]

Health related information technology – growth area

The federal government’s emphatic push into health-related information technologies is likely to generate a wave of new work for IT contractors.     The deployment of health IT systems - most notably electronic medical records that can be exchanged among patients, doctors, specialists and other health care providers - is high on President Barack Obama’s priority list. […]