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Dropbox for Business sales push overshadowed by vulnerability

May 15, 2014 enews

The week in cloud: Shared-link vulnerability overshadows Dropbox for Business push; Eucalyptus updates private cloud and Oracle v. Google reverberates. Last week, Dropbox wanted its news to be about its growing sales presence abroad — it’s expanding the partner channel for Dropbox for Business to the European Union, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. But that plan went sideways when news surfaced (thanks to rival Intralinks) of a vulnerability in the way Dropbox handled live URLs. In an email to reporters, an Intralinks spokeswoman said the issue surfaced in a “routine Google Adwords campaign” when referral searches led…

Mobistar goes live in Brussels with 4G

May 15, 2014 enews

Brussels – 14 May 2014. – Today, telecom operator Mobistar is officially launching its 4G network throughout the territory of all 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region. Mobistar guarantees an outdoor coverage of 96 %. In addition, Mobistar is also offering in Brussels a significant coverage of 53 % inside buildings. Mobistar confirms herewith its strategy of officially opening the 4G network in new cities only when an indoor coverage of more than 50 % can be guaranteed. The quality of the 4G network in the Brussels-Capital Region will progressively…

The REAL Deal with BYOD

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

During my visits with customers talking about end user computing (EUC) we will inevitably talk about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). BYOD is the idea that you can allow your user community (whether all or some subset), to bring their OWN device for use at the workplace. For example, EMC issued me a laptop and a mobile device, nevertheless, I also have my personal Kindle Fire HDX and the Dell Venue Pro 8 that I am writing this article on right now. Those personal devices have access to EMC email and…

How to Succeed in a World With Over 1 Billion Websites

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

Back in the day Back in the 1990s when I began doing business online I could put up a website and if I could get the website found I could bank on making money from it. I had some of the first health insurance websites there were up back then. Websites were a novelty. They were new. Search engines were coming into being. As we moved into the early 2000s then having a website and in particular a website that could do business online if ranked well on the search…

Symantec Unveils New Advanced Threat Protection

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

Integrated approach and roadmap of organic innovation produce unparalleled defenses and more value MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 5, 2014 – Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced an entirely new approach to advanced threat protection (ATP), unveiling a roadmap of integrated solutions that demonstrates the security innovation power that only it can deliver to help customers solve their most complex problems. This approach is fueled by two new offerings, Symantec Managed Security Services -Advanced Threat Protection and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection Solution, which correlate alerts and intelligence across a range of security…

Before Amazon, There Was Pizza Hut’s PizzaNet

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

Pizza Hut has seen sales from mobile devices grow 4,000 percent in the past three years. It now lets customers order from the Internet and six types of devices, with more options on the way. Here’s how one of the nation’s best known franchises stays atop evolving tech trends to capture new customers. Pizza Hut passed the $6 billion mark in all-time digital sales in 2013, just four years after the company introduced its first mobile app in 2009, and it continues to push hard in the mobile arena to keep up…

Microsoft rushes to fix two critical flaws

May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 enews

Eight bulletins for this month’s patch Tuesday Critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Sharepoint are to be fixed in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. The two critical updates cover flaws in IE7 and above as well as Sharepoint. The remaining six bulletins cover flaws marked as “important”. Three remote code execution vulnerabilities will be addressed; two of these are marked critical, meaning the flaws can be exploited by hackers without user interaction. The remote code execution flaw affects Internet Explorer from version 6 to IE 11 on all Windows platforms, according to…

Error Messages Are Evil

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014 enews

Error messages punish people for not behaving like machines. It is time we let people behave like people. When a problem arises, we should call it machine error, not human error: the machine was designed wrong, demanding that we conform to its peculiar requirements. It is time to design and build machines that conform to our requirements. Stop confronting us: Collaborate with us. I hate error messages. They are insulting, condescending, and worst of all, completely unnecessary. Evil, nasty little things. They cause us to do unneeded work, and often…

Enterprise Applications Must Be More Agile in the Digital Age

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014 enews

Applications are changing dramatically due to mobile and cloud pressures. This not only drives the need to change application development practices, but it changes the nature of what is delivered to users. Applications are changing dramatically due to mobile and cloud pressures. This not only drives the need to change application development practices, but it changes the nature of what is delivered to users. Ahead of the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2014, May 19-20 in London, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner Fellow, answered questions that are…

Augment is giving AR to salespeople so they can show, not just tell

May 12, 2014May 12, 2014 enews

Just visualize your product in this environment. That’s the basic pitch behind an augmented reality app for sales, which helped Paris-based startup Augment raise $1.5 million. “There is not really any other augmented reality platform targeted to sales people,” CEO and founder Jean-Francois Chianetta told VentureBeat. He added that other augmented reality platforms, like Blippar, Aurasma or Wikitude, are “focused on the marketing opportunity” instead of sales. The first target for the company: sales reps selling merchandising displays to retailers, such as the ones from the European division of L’Oréal Professional Products that are using the app. “This…