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Brazil: On the Brink of a Smartphone Payment Revolution

March 27, 2014March 28, 2014 enews

Munich, March 26, 2014 – Starting in the first half of 2014 Brazilians will be able to use their smartphones to carry out contactless payment transactions when shopping. In the first commercial project of its kind in Latin America, Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is working together with Claro and one of the country’s largest banks, Bradesco,. The mobile payment project will kick off in the state of São Paulo and will later be expanded to other parts of the country, generating a total countrywide customer base of over 85 million…

Check Point Collaborates with VMware to Provide Network Security for the Private Cloud

March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 enews

Check Point Automates Network Security for VMware Virtualization and Cloud Environments Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that the company is collaborating with VMware to automate and simplify the provisioning and deployment of network security in private clouds. Check Point will make its security protection solutions interoperable with VMware infrastructure. As today’s data center moves quickly down the path of virtualization, it is important for security to keep pace with virtual environments. Virtualization has greatly increased the speed at which applications…

The women who created the technology industry

March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 enews

The original computer scientists The first computer programmers and most celebrated mathematicians throughout history were women. In honor of Women’s History Month, here are the oft-forgotten, influential tech pioneers. In this photo from 1946, two of the first programmers, Esther Gerston and Gloria Gordon work with the ENIAC computer. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer Ada Lovelace, born in 1815 to famed poet Lord Byron and his wife, is known as the first computer programmer. When renowned mathematician Charles Babbage began working on his “Analytical Engine,” she served as the key interpreter,…

CEE pubcasters team up

March 26, 2014March 27, 2014 enews

The Croatian and Slovenian public broadcasters HRT and RTV Slovenije have signed an agreement on cooperation in the exchange of programming – both radio and TV – produced by the two parties. According to SEEbiz, it spans content on culture, entertainment and the arts, along with children’s documentary and informative content. This is the first agreement that formally regulates cooperation between the two broadcasters since the dissolution of the Yugoslav national broadcaster JRT in the 1990s. However, they have already worked closely together for many years on many levels. Most…

Cloud Operating Model Transformation

March 26, 2014 enews

In my previous blogs I have discussed setting up a Self Service Portal and what aService Catalog and Chargeback model look like. Let’s now look at the implementation of an IT operating model to support the Cloud way of delivering IT services. Both EMC and VMware have published articles on transforming IT organizations, processes and skills in preparation to deliver IT as a Service. Both articles are good references for the topic we are discussing here: Capitalizing on Cloud: Preparing people and processes for IT’s organizational challenge Organizing for the Cloud: Providing additional value to the business…

From the Internet to the Outernet: Living in digital reality

March 25, 2014March 26, 2014 enews

Guest commentary by Sven Gabor Janszky, trend researcher and Scientific Director of 2b AHEAD ThinkTanks The digital natives of our society, in other words those who have grown up with digital technologies, such as computers, the Internet, cell phones, and MP3 players, are now becoming adults, much like the technologies that have shaped this generation. This digital maturity becomes even more obvious when we take a closer look at Augmented Reality (AR). Additional information on people or buildings within computer games was available long before this term ever became popular.…

No, Silicon Roundabout isn’t dying: But it might be growing up

March 24, 2014March 26, 2014 enews

London’s tech startup scene is bigger than just one neighbourhood now – and that’s a very good thing. It’s suddenly fashionable to say that Silicon Roundabout is on its last legs, so it was with impeccable timing that last week London’s mayor Boris Johnson swung by the neighbourhood last week to talk up the capital’s tech prospects. “We are seeing extraordinary things happen particularly here in London. We’ve got more tech businesses here in London than any other city in Europe,” he said at the event to launch a new office…

Cisco’s $1 billion cloud computing plan

March 24, 2014March 25, 2014 enews

Networking giant unveils plans to end Amazon dominance in cloud. Cisco launched plans to offer cloud computing services, pledging to spend $1 billion over the next two years to enter a market currently led by the world’s biggest online retailer Amazon, the Wall Street Journal reported. Cisco said it will spend the amount to build data centers to help run the new service called Cisco Cloud Services, the Journal reported. Enterprise hardware spending is dwindling across the globe as companies cope with shrinking budgets, slowing or uncertain economies and a…

Gartner Says European CRM Budgets Remain Strong Despite Economic Uncertainty

March 24, 2014March 25, 2014 enews

Lack of a Clearly Defined CRM Strategy is the Biggest Threat to Successful Customer Initiatives. CRM Trends to Be Discussed at the EMEA Customer Strategies &Technology Summit 2014, April 28-29 in London Despite continuing economic uncertainty, customer relationship management (CRM) budgets remain strong, according to a recent survey of European organizations by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 50 percent of the 102 respondents planned to increase spending on CRM initiatives in 2014, with an average increase of 2.5 percent over 2013 budgets (see Figure 1). The survey, conducted in…

The Future of Enterprise Mobility

March 24, 2014March 25, 2014 enews

A pair of mobility experts from 451 Research and Yankee Group talks about what’s in store for the enterprise in terms of mobility trends and developments. To better understand the immediate future of enterprise mobility, CIO Insight recently spoke separately with Chris Hazelton, research director of mobile and wireless technologies at 451 Research, and Chris Marsh, a principal analyst of enterprise mobility at Yankee Group. The pair discussed mobility trends, device vendors, mobile ROI, and related developments for the enterprise in 2014 and beyond. Here is an edited version of the one-on-one…