As the importance of IT, the Internet, SmartPhones, and email has grown, its legal status has changed with far-reaching consequences. A variety of laws and regulations have been extended to cover all business records, including email and all communications in both public and private sectors. Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other mandates requirements touch almost every facet […]
Posted on April 20th, 2010 by admin
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Talend, a global provider of open source data solutions, this morning announced it has raised another $8 million in Series D financing. Their previous funding round was closed in January 2009, when the company raised $12 million. Existing investors Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners all chipped in again, bringing Talend’s total of […]
Posted on April 19th, 2010 by admin
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It’s taken this long to attempt to write something on the iPad. I took some notes at Google’s Atmosphere event just to try out the system, but quickly discovered that the newly realtimed Google Docs were only available in read only mode. A Google PR guy told me they were waiting on a “real browser” […]
Posted on April 19th, 2010 by admin
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Google encourages web hosting companies to integrate Google services, like AdSense, Web Elements, or Custom Search, into their platforms for easy access to their customers. Today, Google is announcing that Parallels, a provider of control panel software for hosting companies, has integrated Google Services for Websites into Parallels Plesk Panel, used by millions of website […]
Posted on April 18th, 2010 by admin
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Enterprise giant Oracle will acquire healthcare software firm Phase Forward for $685 million. Of course, this is small change compared to Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which was approved recently. The deal is expected to close mid-year in 2010. Phase Forward’s software is used by drug companies for clinical trials. The company’s software […]
Posted on April 18th, 2010 by admin
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Editor’s Note: The following guest post is by Ed Robinson. He is the CEO of Aptimize, a company that produces software to accelerate websites. A week ago, Google announced a change to how its search rankings are calculated. This change will affect every business with a web presence. At the highest level, the change means that a […]
Posted on April 17th, 2010 by admin
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authorSTREAM.com, a PowerPoint sharing platform, is rolling out an iPad compatible version of its platform. Similar to SlideShare, authorSTREAM is a web-based free platform for sharing PowerPoint presentations through blogs, websites, and on sites like YouTube or an iPod. As authorStream’s Jagdeep Pannu tells us, the device’s lack of Flash support is an obstacle to […]
Posted on April 17th, 2010 by admin
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(Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are likely to get their first taste of live 3D viewing during this year’s World Cup, the vast majority of them in cinemas rather than at home, according to football body FIFA. Together with partner Sony, FIFA plans to supply 25 World Cup matches in the immersive […]
Posted on April 15th, 2010 by admin
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Thousands of developers rely on Twitter’s APIs to build their apps and Websites. In time for this week’s Chirp conference for Twitter developers, Apigee is coming out of public beta and launching a special dashboard to keep track of the Twitter API. Apigee is a Google Analytics for APIs. For developers who rely on data […]
Posted on April 15th, 2010 by admin
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The controversial Digital Economy Bill has passed its third reading and will pass into law, after just two hours of debate in the Common. The bill passed with a majority of 189 votes to 47. Under the legislation, ISPs will be forced to send letters to alleged file-sharers threatening to suspend their internet connections. It […]
Posted on April 15th, 2010 by admin
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