Provides the latest RSS feeds for Web Site Development News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Irish Sun.com http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/cat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22/ en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 17:10:11 -0400 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:10:11 -0400 30 this afternoon reported quarterly earnings per share of $0.10 on revenue of $893 million. That's in line with analyst expectations of earnings of $0.10 per share on revenue of $887.1 million. Numbers to know: Subscription and support revenues: $842 million, an increase of 29 percent over the same period a year ago Professional services and other revenues: $50 million, an increase of 25 ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214723886/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:00 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214723886/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The launch of Windows 8 has led to the birth of a new computer category: the tabletop PC. Whether the idea of using what's essentially a 20-inch touchscreen tablet on a flat surface will be successful is still very much to be determined, but HP is joining Sony and Lenovo in the nascent market with the new Envy Rove 20. The Envy Rove is notable compared to ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214723887/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:59 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214723887/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Computerworld - A majority of consumer and small business Windows 8 PC users launch fewer than one "Modern" app a day, signaling that they're spending most of their time on the classic Windows 7-style desktop, according to data released Wednesday. According to Soluto, an Israeli PC management service provider, just 39% of owners of desktop PCs powered by Windows 8 launch a Modern ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214723888/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:10:29 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214723888/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 When it comes to a Web content management system, there's no end to the amount of features and services customers want or may need in the near future. Bridgeline Digital has released version 5.0 of ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214723889/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:51:27 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214723889/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The enterprise cloud storage firm, which is currently hurtling towards an initial public offering, has snapped up French firm Folders and its ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722384/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:09:41 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722384/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Facebook engineers describe how the social network can serve as a "horizontal tier" that connects its global user base with third-party ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722383/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:09:40 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722383/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The PC is, at its heart, a gestalt of components that come together to serve a purpose. Lose the ability to choose what goes into a PC, then a PC becomes nothing more than a black box, like a DVD player or a games console. And that's not a ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722382/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:09:38 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722382/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: HTCpro, the company's business-ready platform, has added the HTC One to its portfolio. It's plug-and-play with the enterprise, and ready to take on the iPhone's ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722385/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:09:36 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722385/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Microsoft is readying two new mice, both of which feature buttons designed to help Windows 8 users find their way back to the Start ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722386/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:09:35 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722386/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 disrupting the customer experience . Think about it — for every link you provide to your product, you’re letting the customer leave the page that they deliberately sought out. While you might think it’s a win for you, unless it leads to something the customer actually wants, it’s probably not working as well as you ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722389/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:11 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722389/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 What is a portal or intranet? The line is blurred as companies evolve their collaborative tools and purposes, and platform is the catchall phrase many favor today. ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722388/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:11 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722388/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Discussing the customer journey is never boring. And this month’s CXMChat was no exception. We learned that the customer experience can be wiggly, there are no obvious answers and that it always helps to "get out of the building" to experience new perspectives. Let's take a closer look at how the discussion ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722390/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:10 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722390/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Founded in 2009, Thumb Labs is a start-up company which has worked on designing a variety of apps for iOS and Android devices, including ReadyforZero, a debt management tool; txt-book, an IM conversation PDF convertor and Behance, an online portfolio and creative project sharing app that was bought ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722392/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:10 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722392/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Online marketers spend a ton of time and money collecting visitor data under the pretense of figuring out who their customers are and what they’re looking for. Armed with these insights, they have all they need to make significant strides in improving the customer experience. Instead, many make a couple of tweaks here, a couple of updates there and feel they've sufficiently managed the ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722391/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:10 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722391/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 IBM SmartCloud. This time, the result is an increase in the speed of reporting and analytics as well as the availability of SAP’s in-memory database the SAP High Performance Analytics Appliance (SAP HANA), and at the core of the announcement, its new BLU Acceleration ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722393/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:09 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214722393/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: A new Kinect for Windows sensor which shares many of the same technological underpinnings as the just-announced Kinect for Xbox One sensor, is due out in ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214720800/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:51:07 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214720800/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Microsoft's Bing is morphing from a 'mere' search engine into more of a service that will power next-generation devices Windows Blue PCs and tablets, as well as the Xbox ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214720801/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:51:06 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214720801/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Ariba Vice President Chris Haydon explains the company's latest news and offers insights into how Ariba will be broadening its services porcurement management value, mobile push, and AribaPay ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214720802/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:51:05 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214720802/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Customers won’t give you money unless you ask ', Downie questioned the modern tendency to give away a product for free in order to grow the audience quickly. He said that, although this is sometimes a viable route to success, it’s more often sensible to start charging immediately, securing a smaller but more loyal user base. Downie dismissed common notions that freemium models ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214720803/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:18:29 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214720803/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 , the company decided to celebrate by dropping App Engines HRD and Cloud Datastore prices up to 25 percent. For stored data in the Datastore, the new price will be $0.18 per gigabyte per month. That's down from $0.24. For operations, write will cost $0.09 per 100,000 operations (down from $0.10), read will cost $0.06 (down from $0.07) and small will remain unchanged, at ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719176/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:35:01 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719176/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 After almost two weeks with the latest iPad, I walked back to the Apple Store in Grand Central, New York and handed it back to the blue-blazoned staff hipster who greeted me at the top of the stairs. "Was there something wrong with it? And, do you need a replacement? We can get you a replacement, no problem," signaling to holler over a fellow colleague. But I declined. ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719177/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:35:00 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719177/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Building cloud native applications requires companies to get out of the way of innovation by unshackling developers, according to Adrian Cockcroft, director of architecture for Netflix's cloud systems team. In terms of setting developers free, Cockcroft said the company does a number of things. "[Netflix] makes our Wi-Fi faster and faster," he said. "It gets developers going ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719178/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:34:59 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719178/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Since its quiet premiere in 1998, Adobe Fireworks has grown into the go-to tool for many. With cross-state layers, easy handling of symbols, great image compression and nimble vector handling, it’s a flexible and essential gem in the web designer’s toolbox. A gem, you say? Some designers, including this particular writer, would perhaps call it a gem with rough edges. Or maybe a ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719179/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:02:14 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719179/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The rollercoaster success story of Mailbox, acquired by Dropbox after barely a month in existence, should get heavy email users excited as the iPad version of the app arrives to save their ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719180/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:01:22 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214719180/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The rumour that HTC might launch a new "vanilla" version the HTC One that uses stock Android instead of its Sense 5 UI refuses to die, but I just can't work out why. In lots of situations, I'd be one of the first to agree that a Google Edition of many handsets would've been a good idea, ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717546/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:20:46 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717546/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Mark Zuckerberg suddenly appeared in Warsaw on Wednesday on what the Facebook founder and CEO said was a spontaneous one-day holiday. But the meaning of the word "spontaneous" would need to be stretched to explain his late afternoon meeting with the Polish minister for administrative affairs and digitisation, Michal Boni. Officially, Zuckerberg and Boni talked about the significance of ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717548/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:20:45 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717548/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Nokia is known for their optics and it is great to see them heavily promoting it in some new commercials for the Verizon Lumia 928. Will these commercials and targeted marketing plan resonate with ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717547/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:20:44 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717547/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Arguing that "Europe cannot be left behind" in chip investments, the EU Commission plans to double chip production to take a one-fifth slice of the global production ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717549/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:20:43 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717549/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 As part of Citrix's Synergy conference this week, the company is now pushing its mobile and remote worker efforts even further with new XenDesktop, XenMobile and ShareFile ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717550/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:09:59 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717550/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 F5 is converging its application and WAN optimization solutions into a new unified offering, known as the BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717551/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:09:58 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717551/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 There was a time when DAM was the dominion of marketing departments, but today every area of a business creates and needs access to digital assets. Unfortunately, the way most enterprises implement DAM Systems are falling short of meeting employee's ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717552/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:48:22 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717552/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 : Define and drive Jive's mobile product and business strategy. You will be at the forefront of changing how people work inside the enterprise and with their customers and partners. Lead the way for this fantastic design and development team. Leverage the suite of existing rich native and mobile web apps, Jive iOS SDK, and significant partner relationships and budget to amplify current ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717553/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:48:22 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717553/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 HP’s Q2 results to be anything other than poor, but no one really expected an earnings dive of 32% with a fall-off in revenues of 10 percent. However, CEO Meg Whitman didn’t seem fazed, insisting that the figures were all part of the "multi-year journey" to ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717554/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:48:21 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214717554/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: 4G mobile operator EE will host a hackathon in London next month in order to spur development of apps that make use of the higher networking speeds offered by its 4G LTE ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214715984/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:07:40 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214715984/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Highlights from the refreshed notebooks include a version of the Envy TouchSmart 14 Ultrabook with 3,200x1,600 screen and the $399 Pavilion 11 ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214715983/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:07:39 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214715983/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 To keep its Google Code developer community "safe and secure", Google will prevent developers publishing downloads on the service and is pushing the functionality to Google Drive instead. Google Code offers developers a collaborative space to host open source projects that come with member controls, Subversion/Mercurial/Git repository, issue tracker, wiki pages and a downloads service. ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214715985/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:07:38 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214715985/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The AngularJS framework greatly simplifies frontend development, making it easy and fun to write complex web apps. Brian Ford explains how to use it to build a contact ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214715986/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:35:59 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214715986/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 It's been a disappointing year so far for Movistar and Vodafone, Spain's two largest mobile operators. Between them they account for well over 50 percent of Spain's mobile subscribers, but their market share is shrinking as cash strapped consumers switch to cheaper alternatives. This week in particular has been a bad one for the two companies. First came Vodafone's financial ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714564/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:55:03 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714564/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Adding Microsoft's Windows Azure to the mix means university data will no longer have to traverse over the public Internet. But with it comes its own ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714565/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:54:59 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714565/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 was awarded Preferred Partner status in early May by ServiceNow, a pioneer in cloud-based IT service management solutions. "Fruition Partners brings a suite of services that complements and extends our platform's capabilities while meeting customers' needs," said David Schneider, global head of sales at ServiceNow, in the press release about this recognition. "As a ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714566/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:54:58 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714566/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: This is the second of a three-part series where our own David Gewirtz tests and installs a full-perimeter, Internet-centric, mobile-enabled video surveillance system. In this installment, David spotlights a neat new ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714569/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:54:57 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714569/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: AppGuru, available in a preview edition, offers a centralized dashboard for provisioning and configuring cloud services across ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714567/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:54:57 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714567/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The Lenovo Group has managed to post strong fourth quarter numbers in a market generally down for PC sales. The company's PC line with its diverse form factors that take advantage of Windows 8 is an apparent ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714568/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:54:56 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214714568/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: SkyDrive Pro for businesses can now be installed on Windows running older versions of Office after Microsoft released it as a standalone ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713189/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:56 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713189/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Travel booking site operator lost US$20.3 million in its fourth quarter, but is confident of continuing recent efforts to increase its share of the lucrative hotels and packages ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713191/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:55 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713191/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Google's latest Web browser, Chrome 27, enables you to say, as well as type, your queries. Alas, its first version doesn't work that ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713190/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:55 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713190/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: With the aim to make a difference in India's education sector, Meritnation wants to help K12 students learn more effectively through online learning. It has a student base of over 4 ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713192/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:54 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713192/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Blue Coat this week announced the acquisition of privately-held Solera Networks in an effort to bolster its Big Data security intelligence capabilities for malware and threat ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713194/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:34:34 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713194/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 At the Ethernet Innovation Summit this week, Bob Metcalfe explained how Ethernet came to be, why it beat IBM, and where he hopes the future will take his ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713193/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:34:34 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713193/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 After the big Spring launches comes the bragging and the competitive advertising. Samsung is seeing rocketing sales, and Microsoft is using Siri to have a dig at Apple's iPad with its own Windows 8 ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713195/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:11:51 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214713195/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Being an entrepreneur comes with a lot of risks. That's a given. Here are some tips to minimize the dangers and boost the survival rate of your ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711933/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:43 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711933/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The Kindle Fire represents a real threat to the Android tablet landscape not because of the Amazon logo, but because of its highly disruptive ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711932/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:43 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711932/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed it will assemble a line of Macs in Texas, but whether that's the MacBook Pro or Mac Mini remains ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711934/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:42 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711934/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 SoftBank plans to give the U.S. government control over Sprint's board of directors should the takeover bid for Clearwire go ahead. First reported ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711935/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:41 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711935/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: AMD debuts new silicon, including the world's first 28-nanometer, quad-core x86 SoC APU aimed at small touch-enabled notebooks, tablets and ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711936/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:40 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711936/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Swisscom is to raise the top speed of its LTE network to 150Mbps. The move is a 50 percent speed boost for the Swiss incumbent's customers: previously its LTE download speeds topped out at 100Mbps. Swisscom, which accounts for over 60 percent of the Swiss mobile market, will begin increasing speeds from next month in "high-traffic locations". Its 4G network currently covers 50 ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711937/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:39 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214711937/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Google India is reducing the prices for Google Apps to attract smaller businesses in what appears to be a response to Microsoft's marketing blitzkrieg for its Office 365 ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710920/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:03 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710920/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Government hopes to introduce telemedicine and turn these zones into testbeds for new health services, so as to attract more foreign investors into the ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710921/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:02 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710921/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Head honcho of eBay's India outfit quits after two years at the helm, to pursue "entrepreneurial" ambitions and will be succeeded by a local Microsoft ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710923/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:01 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710923/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Mobile data traffic in India is growing at a fast pace. According to Nokia Siemens Networks' MBit Index study, mobile data traffic generated by 3G services increased by 196 percent between December 2011 and December 2012, while mobile data traffic generated by 2G services increased by 66 percent over the same period. Each 3G user on average currently consumes close to 300 percent more data ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710924/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:00 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710924/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Lenovo has released its financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter and full-year ending March, 2013. The world's second largest PC maker posted full-year sales of $34 billion -- up 15 percent year-on-year -- as well as earnings of $635 million post-tax (up 34 percent year-on-year), despite "a challenging macro-economic environment and ongoing PC industry transformation." In ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710922/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:26:00 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214710922/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: In response to U.S. Congressman allegations, European member state Ireland says it will not bow down and become America's "whipping ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709931/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:54 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709931/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The Tasmanian government plans to create a AU$28 million Information Communications Technology Fund to overhaul department and agency IT across the state. Detailed in the state's budget released today, the government said that historically agencies have managed their own funding and planning for IT projects, but the government was now looking at taking a more coordinated approach for IT in ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709930/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:53 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709930/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Employees at NAB were saving up their annual leave days and costing the bank a mint. NAB's people and culture head of consulting, Stuart Moseley, decided to put a stop to that with the help of human resources ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709932/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:52 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709932/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Australia remains an unlikely target of a nation-state attack, according to Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky, but the country could get caught up in the collateral damage from other warring nations. Speaking to ZDNet, Kaspersky said that it was more likely that Australian infrastructure would be attacked by ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709933/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:16:51 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709933/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 "The vCloud Hybrid Service is about bridging the gap between lines of business and IT needs in a unique and powerul way," Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware said in a media launch ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709934/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:05:15 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709934/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The 802.11ac WiFi standard is being rolled out in two phases, known as Wave 1 and Wave 2. Wave 1 devices are now being introduced by multiple vendors and offer the promise of up to 1.3 Gigabits per second of wireless connectivity. The future Wave 2 rollout of 802.11ac has the potential to scale WLANs up to 6 Gigabits per ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709935/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:05:15 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214709935/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Local regulator will call for tenders worth S$1.2 billion this financial year, with emphasis on cloud computing and deriving insights from government data to improve organizational ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214708780/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:05:43 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214708780/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 South Korean firm Samsung says the Galaxy S4 smartphone has surpassed the ten million sales mark in response to high retail and carrier ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214708782/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:05:42 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214708782/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 banned from construction of the National Broadband Network (NBN), the company pulled in AU$368 million in revenue from Australia. In the company's local corporate report, Huawei Australia said it saw a 61 percent year-on-year growth in revenue in 2012 in Australia. Despite the NBN ban, Huawei reported working with a number of other major telco operators in Australia in 2012, including ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214708781/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:05:41 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214708781/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Figures released last week showed that NBN Co passed 22,100 brownfield premises with fibre in the first three months of 2013, but can the company make up the gap to meet its targets by the end of ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214706975/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:48:59 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214706975/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Indian CIOs say they are struggling to securely manage personal devices employees use to access corporate networks and applications, reveals a new ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214706977/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:48:58 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214706977/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Like many large enterprises, Germany-based Siemens AG had been suffering from numerous complexities and inconsistencies with managing its gargantuan workforce across the world. Finally putting its German practicality to good use, the electronics engineering company decided to seek out a technological solution to its human resources (HR) management woes. Siemens AG embarked on its HR ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214706976/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:48:57 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214706976/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: A new Windows video (presumably a TV commercial) knocks the iPad over multitasking, its lack of a PowerPoint app and the price of the 64GB ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214705827/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:45 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214705827/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Former McAfee Threat Research vice-president Dmitri Alperovitch has called for greater powers for private companies, saying that they should be allowed to make citizens' arrests and limited retaliatory action against ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214705828/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:43 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214705828/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 A new survey of 2,000 chief information officers finds only three percent believe their organization's innovation potential has been fully realized. This is even worse than last year's five ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214705829/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:42 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214705829/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Indonesian official says Taiwanese manufacturer will team up with local mobile phone distributor Erajaya Swasembada to offer locally-made handsets, and it will start constructing its factory later this ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214705830/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:41 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214705830/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Central and local-level governments in the country has spent a total of 2.16 billion yuan on legal copies of software in the past three years to combat ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214704869/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 22:28:31 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214704869/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Highlighting the fact that there are security vulnerabilities in your organisation sounds like common sense, but there is such a thing as doing it too fast, according to Foxtel CISO Kevin ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214702755/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:09:17 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214702755/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Telstra will undertake a restructure of its operations division in what is being called the 'most substantive change' to the group in 10 years, which will likely see jobs ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214702754/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:09:17 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214702754/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: For those that need a ruggedized smartphone, the Cat B15 may be a decent competitor priced at a reasonable $350 with no carrier ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214702756/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:09:16 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214702756/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The last few days have been big in terms of mobile payments in Brazil as the government takes the very first steps towards regulating the model, with a new provisional act including a framework for products and services enforced yesterday (21). According to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Communications, it is expected that the number of mobile phone lines able to make payments will reach ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214701385/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:26 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214701385/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Whether you attended last week's Sapphire event or not, you might have missed the real story there - the story SAP should have communicated. There was lots of talk about HANA, analytics and the cloud but why should customers care and care now? Here's the rest of the story you should have ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214701387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:25 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214701387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Several people have recently departed HTC, but that doesn't mean the company is shutting the doors. There may be marketing strategy changes, a focus only on Asia, or some other strategy we do not yet know ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214701386/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:24 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214701386/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 HP's Whitman reiterates 'multi-year journey' amid Q2 revenue miss But for the moment, she described that the problem is balancing the "power of the past" with the "power of the future" for every enterprise unit from servers to storage. According to ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214699996/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:51:45 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214699996/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) - By now, it's become a tired old tech industry bromide: CIOs need to be business-savvy. But while that sentiment remains true, technology trends, generational shifts in the workforce and changing demands from end users are forcing CIOs to go further and fundamentally rethink their roles, according to members of a panel at the Massachusetts Institute of ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698999/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:19:52 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698999/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 : Behance, an online social media platform for creative professionals to showcase and share their work. It looks like Thumb Labs resources (talent and products) will be merged with the unit for collective work under Adobe's Creative Cloud software suite. Here's more from Kern and ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698643/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:35 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698643/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The Microsoft-Google feud continues, with Microsoft meeting some -- but not all -- of Google's terms-of-service demands around the Microsoft's recently developed YouTube ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698646/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:34 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698646/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 reported first quarter 2014 losses per share of $0.15 on revenue of $91.6 million, handily beating expectations of $0.18 losses per share on revenue of $87 million. Shares (WDAY) were up slightly in after-hours trading. That's a total revenue increase of 61 percent over the same period a year ago. Subscription revenues were $68.4 million, an increase of 85 percent from same period a year ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698645/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:33 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698645/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 ). Non-GAAP earnings were 87 cents per share on a revenue of $27.6 billion. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 81 cents a share on revenue of $28.08 billion for the second quarter. Out of the six core segments highlighted in the second quarter report, only the software group posted a positive revenue mark as the support team was up by 12 percent annually. The rest of the software unit along ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698644/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:32 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698644/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 is finally stepping up its game. The microblogging business is adding the option for two-factor authentication. It's quite similar to the models employed by Google and Facebook. Twitter users can simply access their security settings to find the new feature and opt-in to require a verification code to be sent via SMS each time they sign in. Jim O'Leary from Twitter's product ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698647/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:31 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698647/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Despite apps such as Bump on the market, there has yet to be a suitable replacement for calling cards. Perhaps Google Drive can fill the ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698648/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:41:30 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214698648/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: It's funny to look back on my personal history with Linux and remember how subversive and alternative it once was. These days, it's just another operating system. That original subversive spark is ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697164/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:07 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697164/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: In last week's ZDNet "Great Debate," Robin Harris and I faced off on the question of whether "we need data scientists to make sense of this tidal wave of information." I think data scientists are important, but they're not the solution. What follows is my argument, in essay ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697165/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:06 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697165/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Xbox One operating system that is based on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor technology -- some developers and users were left wondering whether Microsoft is going to enable any Metro-Style Windows 8 or Windows RT application to run on the next Xbox. Microsoft officials aren't talking about the Xbox One developer story yet; it sounds like they are planning/hoping to hold off until ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697166/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:31:05 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697166/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Unless data security is a fundamental concern that is considered and communicated at the start of each e-Discovery project, any small gap can quickly become a serious information management ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697167/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:22 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697167/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 In the first quarter of 2013, Acquia reported its bookings grew by 52% compared to the same quarter in 2012, the company announced at the biannual DrupalCon event this week. Acquia noted much of the growth came in the life sciences, high tech, media, government and higher education industries.Analyst firm ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697168/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:22 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697168/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 ClickTale Mobile has evolved the mobile usability and analytics program into ClickTale Touch, which allows businesses to view their mobile customers’ "True-to-Life User ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697170/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:21 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697170/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Enterprise social networking in business is relationship-based and favors high context communication. Western style business is rule-based and favors low context communication. When relationship-based business social networking is introduced into rule-based business communication it has the ability to produce major conflicts.The key to successfully introducing a social business network rests in ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697171/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:21 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697171/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don’t hesitate ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697173/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:20 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697173/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 This week there were quite a number of releases for mobile including new printing possibilities for mobile users from Accellion and Ricoh. SkyDrive Pro is now available for Windows, while Adobe is offering Photoshop Express for Windows 8, and Cognidox releases XtraNet for document ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697172/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:20 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697172/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Google has turned the taps on its update stream after last week's I/O event. You can now talk to your PC's Chrome browser for Google searches, while mobile users get a new version of Google+ to play with that's more in line with the card-based update of the recent PC browser ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697174/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:57:20 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214697174/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Providing workers with Standard Issue(TM) devices and software represents an antiquated paradigm. Instead, segmenting your workforce into different classes of workers - honoring the needs of each type of worker - can help ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695677/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:36 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695677/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 in Anaheim this week with the announcement that its Grid vGPU appliance now supports integration for Citrix's XenDesktop 7 application delivery platform. Nvidia reps boasted this brings the performance, stabilitity and compatibility of hardware-accelerated graphics to virtual desktop environments. With such high-definition graphics and capabilities on tap, some of the more obvious uses ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695676/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:35 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695676/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Yesterday Microsoft lifted the lid on the next Xbox gaming console - the Xbox One - so it's time to take a look at what powers this next-generation hardware. There's no doubt that the Xbox One is a games console, but it's a games console with a twist. Here's what we know so far. 8-core AMD APU based on the Jaguar architecture AMD Graphics Core Next GPU 8GB DDR3 RAM Wi-Fi ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695678/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:34 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695678/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: By adding its DB2 database software to SmartCloud, IBM boasted that both corporate and government customers could see up to 25 times faster data ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695679/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:33 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695679/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: The PC maker boasts that these new product will cut the cost of VDI in half, adding that the portfolio includes the first dual-core and quad-core thin clients to offer virus immune endpoint solutions for enterprise ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695680/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:32 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695680/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Citrix is bring its mobile platforms to the front of its product portfolio, which revolves around collaboration, cloud and ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695681/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:31 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695681/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Problem solving McLellan noted that design changes are made to solve problems: "That problem may not affect you, but it’s very rare a site of Flickr’s size will make changes for change’s sake. Sites with a broad audience have so many different users' interests to balance that it's possible that something could even get worse for you in order to make things better ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695682/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:35 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695682/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The Mac version of Jive's updated Producteev Social task management for free. That’s the appealing price tag of a rebuilt version of Producteev, ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695683/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:48 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695683/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 SDL bought Fredhopper in January 2010 it has been developing the technology to optimize the online shopping experience offered by retailers. Today with the release of v7.5, it has tweaked the Fredhopper technology again to offer retailers the ability to adapt an entire product catalog to target specific ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695684/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:47 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695684/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Online content, in store: TigerLogic's Postano on a screen at Nine West. Consumers now have access to the Net wherever they go, and their customer experience extends from everywhere to almost everywhere. With online shopping blending into offline, CMSWire.com pinged customer experience management provider Empathica and enterprise data management/app development provider TigerLogic for their ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695685/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:44:47 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214695685/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 for a new scheme for promoting and advising sustainable investment strategies across emerging economies. Essentially, SAP has the tool set (thanks primarily to its flagship HANA in-memory database) while EMPEA will provide the brainpower. EMPEA already retains more than 300 fund managers and institutional investors from nearly 60 countries, representing over $1 trillion of managed assets. SAP ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693983/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:36 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693983/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: In light of the tornadoes in Oklahoma this past week, it is more evident than ever that ever second counts, and mobile offers more opportunities to reach more people in times of ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693984/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:35 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693984/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 touted to be the first commercial (and legal) platform for authors to pen fan fiction about their favorite pop culture characters and get paid for ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693985/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:34 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693985/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: This is the first of a three-part series where our own David Gewirtz tests and installs a full-perimeter, Internet-centric, mobile-enabled video surveillance system. In this installment, he details the approach that didn't ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693986/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:33 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693986/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: While Intel is enthusiastic about touch-enabled devices, even if it hits 25 percent market penetration by 2016, it will still be niche rather than a must-have feature, which doesn't bode well for Microsoft and its touch ambitions for ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693987/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:32 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693987/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 , we use PHP as part of our daily coding ritual. We all love to use many of the open source frameworks and code snippets to make our lives easier. However, we also feel it’s important that every developer has a full understanding of the core base PHP functions, classes and methods. Without knowledge of these, how can you begin to understand how all the frameworks out there operate? We have ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693988/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:30:45 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693988/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The last decade has seen major disruptions in software, completely reversing the power roles between vendor and user. It’s been said many times that the customer is king, and it couldn't be ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693989/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:29:56 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214693989/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 , the mobile signing and document storage company. A price was not disclosed. The value of the smaller company, which counts a million users ("and over half of the Fortune 500") in its database, plays into Barracuda's cloud data storage strategy. The company anticipates the adoption of electronic signatures--which are easier, faster and therefore cheaper--to continue to ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:51:00 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692387/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: A new study that measures app usage on Windows 8 PCs finds that Metro style apps are gaining traction slowly. But a surprising result suggests that app developers who deliberately break Microsoft's design guidelines are most likely to win users ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692388/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:59 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692388/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 . It took awhile, but now the device is ready to order -- and hopefully you've been saving up. That's because the Helix is priced higher than similar devices like ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692389/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:58 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692389/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 It’s safe to say that, for all its many joys, the internet also excels at doing things that aren’t particularly great for the wider world. It’s fantastic at making retail workers redundant. It’s great at moving the money out of individual countries and into the tax-avoiding coffers of American corporations. It’s given us spam, malware, unfunny Twitter parodies and ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692390/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:18:36 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692390/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Ever feel the need to use the apps already on on your mobile device instead of the work approved ones from your IT department? LogMeIn has developed a tool called AppGuru to help those IT teams organize ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692391/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:17:49 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214692391/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 PayPal has added a fourth datacenter to its operations network in response to what the company president described as a need for more machines, more capacity and more bandwidth to meet the rapidly growing needs of the business. Given the rate at which eBay has ben expanding their datacenters, it is unsurprising that PayPal, now owned by eBay and their primary payment processor, needs to grow ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690668/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:07 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690668/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: I never travel overseas without Truphone and businesses will appreciate their new global shared plan offerings that include calls, text, and ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690669/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:06 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690669/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 this morning that they will partner to offer machine-to-machine, or M2M, services in the Asia-Pacific market. M2M is the term that describes when Internet-connected ("smart") machines can communicate with each other. It has also been referred to as "the Internet of Things," and is of particular interest to telecommunications companies, on whose networks this communication ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690670/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:05 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690670/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Summary: Hitachi Data Systems claims that its cloud storage service will offer businesses better control and security than the consumer orientated ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690671/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:04 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690671/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 The cloud-based software vendor on Wednesday announced Rapid Response 311, a mobile application that citizens can use to log and track requests for service; Mobile Communities for Government; Government Social Command Center and Mobile Platform Services for ... http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690946/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:23:51 -0400 http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/214690946/scat/0e7ddbd8f5d0fa22