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Search, done. Ads, done. What next for Google? Domain registration

June 25, 2014June 25, 2014 enews

What? This surprises you? Google is poised to further its dominance of all things internet with a move into domain-name registration. Plenty of people find companies online by typing their names into Google Search, rather than typing their URLs into their browsers, but the launch of Google Domainswill mark the first time the online ad-slinger has dealt with DNS directly. So far, Google has done nothing to publicize the effort and the site itself is marked as an “invite-only beta”. You can’t even sign up unless you have a special code. Over…

What’s New in Mobile Marketing 2014

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

Mobile marketing put on an exceptional show in 2013 and experienced a growth of 75%. With marketing gurus predicting that the number of smartphone and tablet users will touch 2 billion in 2014, we are expecting to see some sweeping developments this year too. These days, more and more people are using their mobile devices for local searches, to look up everything from a soup recipe to directions to a car showroom nearby. With this increase in user base, companies are going to have a lot of scope to push…

Opera Developer version arrives on Linux

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

Oslo, Norway – June 23, 2014 – Have you been longing for Opera on Linux? The wait is over! Opera Software has today released the Developer version of Opera 24 for Windows, Mac and Linux. If you love trying out new Opera improvements before anyone else, download it from the experimental Developer channel at opera.com/developer/. The Opera desktop browser was re-built from scratch for the Windows and Mac platforms, based on the Blink rendering engine. Opera’s engineers put a lot of effort into fine-tuning the browser and giving it a better performance,…

Service Providers Need to Develop Different Core Competencies to Succeed in a Digital World

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

Organizations’ emerging transformation to digital business models is driving the need for greater IT agility to meet changing business strategies and requirements in a highly digitalized world. Traditional sourcing strategies that are either too centralized or not centralized enough, too customized or too industrialized, actually reduce, rather than enhance, agility. In today’s blog post, Susan Tan, research vice president at Gartner, explains how service providers need different core competencies to succeed in a digital world. Ms. Tan said: Businesses are embracing adaptive sourcing, which addresses shortcomings in existing traditional sourcing…

Google Play Movies comes to 21 more countries

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

Google Play Movies is now available in 21 new countries, bringing the total to 90 countries. Google Play Movies is now also available in Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. For a full list of all 90 countries, see Google support. The list of countries that gets TV shows alongside movies is still only five (US, Canada, UK, Japan and Australia). Google Play Movies can also be accessed on connected TVs…

18 per cent of SMBs Still Use XP, Face Security Risks, Bitdefender Warns

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

Almost one in five small and medium businesses worldwide are exposed to major security risks as they are still using Windows XP after Microsoft ended support for the operating system, according to a three-month study by antivirus software provider Bitdefender. The research, conducted in countries such as the US, the UK, Australia, Germany, Spain and Brazil, proved that businesses still rely on the legacy Microsoft OS despite security concerns. Millions of malware attacks target companies every month and hackers try to steal confidential data by taking advantage of the system’s…

Differences in Public-Cloud Versus Private-Cloud Security

June 23, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

Here are 11 security considerations that IT administrators should weigh as they approach that decision. When planning a cloud deployment, choosing a public-cloud or private-cloud model is one of the most important decisions to be made, especially from a security perspective. IT administrators should weigh 11 considerations as they approach making that decision. How significant are cost savings among the motivations for moving to the cloud? Generally speaking, greater cost savings can be achieved by moving to a public cloud; lesser savings are achieved in a private cloud. IT decision-makers should…

How farsighted is Microsoft’s Azure RemoteApp?

June 23, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

Microsoft is stepping on more vendor toes. At the TechEd North America 2014 keynote in May, the company announced the preview release of Azure RemoteApp, which appears to be a direct competitor – at least in part – to Citrix’s virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution. Running an application on any device sounds like it should be easy to accomplish, but it requires an all-encompassing solution from a reliable vendor, as well as rapidly deploying ways for all devices to access them. The introduction of the iPad highlighted this requirement. IT…

How to Compete with E-Commerce

June 23, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

By now it is old news that Amazon “killed” the bookstores. We all know that bookstores are closing left and right. It is easier to buy books on the internet. The banking industry is in trouble too. Mobile banking is on the rise and those banks that lag behind, which fail to become mobile, will inevitably disappear. But the impact of the internet is far greater, way beyond books and banking. I have only to look no farther than my family. My daughter buys all her food products in volume…

Deutsche Telekom aims to integrate Netflix

June 23, 2014June 24, 2014 enews

Germany’s national telco Deutsche Telekom is negotiating with global video-on-demand (VOD) market leader Netflix about a partnership when it launches in Germany by the end of the year. Telekom apparently wants to include Netflix into its offering despite the fact that it competes with its own platform Entertain, reports German magazine Manager Magazin with reference to people familiar with the situation. Recently, Telekom already added ProSiebenSat.1′s VOD service maxdome to Entertain as a third-party proposition. The conversations about a marketing collaboration between Telekom and Netflix are at an advanced stage, but haven’t been finalised yet, according…