Posts Tagged ‘News’
Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
NGINX delivers commercial support for the popular open-source NGINX web server. - NGINX, pronounced “Engine-X,” has announced commercial support options for companies using its open source web server in production.
This is the first commercial offering of Nginx Inc., which was founded in July 2011 and launched in October. The company is offering three technical support packages ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Xamarins new MonoTouch 5.2 speeds up and simplifies iPhone and iPad application development. - Xamarin, a maker of development software for building cross-platform mobile apps for phones and tablets, has announced MonoTouch 5.2, a new version of its software for developing iPhone and iPad apps.
MonoTouch 5.2 delivers new capabilities to improve application performance, streamline the develop...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Amazon's popular Kindle Fire is missing in action outside the U.S., angering consumers in Canada and the U.K. and costing the company some money. -
As Android tablets go, Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire is absolutely killing it in the U.S., where
industry analysts estimate the e-commerce company sold 4 million to 6 million
of the 7-inch slates at $199 a pop for the holiday quarter.
Yet each report of the Kindle Fire's success adds some...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Sprint reported a fourth-quarter loss, but also the end to a four-year period of recovery. The next few years will instead be about growth and of course the iPhone and LTE. - Sprint, during its first full quarter with the Apple iPhone,
reported a net loss of $1.3 billion and a diluted loss of 43 cents per share
during the fourth quarter of 2011. Which was the bad news.
The good news was that Sprint, which announced its
fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 8, sold 1.8 millio...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
While business owners indicate plans to hire in the next 12 months, they demonstrate some concern around hiring today. - Americas small business owners are the most optimistic since July 2008, according to the latest findings from the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey for the period Jan. 9-13, 2012. The Index now stands at positive 15 for January, compared to minus 3 in October and following two previous ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Verizon and Health Evolution Partners are looking to enable development in real-time care coordination and mobile data services. - Health care IT investor Health Evolution Partners and Verizon Enterprise Solutions are collaborating to foster innovation in mobile health, telemedicine and health data management. The partnership, which both companies announced Feb. 6, will leverage Verizon's IT infrastructure to spur innovation in...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Adobe has taken another step to secure Windows users from malicious Flash code by releasing a beta plugin of Flash Player with a built-in sandbox for Firefox. - Two of the three major Web browsers now offer some form of Flash Player
with built-in sandbox protection. Internet Explorer is not one of them.
Adobe has been modifying its popular Flash Player to include
the sandbox technology that would block malicious code before executing. Adobe released a ...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
Updated: Google is preparing its Chrome Screenwise program to gain more information about Web surfers. The move comes as concerns over the company's privacy policy changes abound. -
Updated: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is willing to pay online surfers to browse
the Web and share data about their
travels with the search engine giant.
The company has begun soliciting users for its
Screenwise program, in which it will pay Chrome users in Amazon gift cards to
surf Websites. User...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
A CPPI report highlights the fact that cloud computing and mobile technologies have lowered the cost of entry for smaller firms. - Small businesses have the power to revive the nations economy, they just need the opportunity, technology and the right government policies to help them succeed, according to a report from the Center for Public Policy Innovation (CPPI) and the Digital Dialogue Forum (DDF). The report also notes smal...
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Posted in E-Week on February 8th, 2012 by E-Week
SSL Inspector allows organizations to identify threats hidden within SSL-encrypted communications. - Fidelis Security Systems, a
specialist in network visibility, analysis and control solutions, announced a
cloud-security solution designed to provide visibility and control to decrease
risks associated with using software as a service (SaaS). The solution is
deployed at the enterprise network ed...
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