How to Succeed in a World With Over 1 Billion Websites

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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…

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Symantec Unveils New Advanced Threat Protection

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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…

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Before Amazon, There Was Pizza Hut’s PizzaNet

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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…

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Microsoft rushes to fix two critical flaws

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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…

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Error Messages Are Evil

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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…

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Enterprise Applications Must Be More Agile in the Digital Age

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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…

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

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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…

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Mastercard helps startups accelerate to success with Mastercard Start Path

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Company plans to accelerate up to 8 startups in Dublin as part of the first intake; applications accepted through May 16 For startup companies, success is a journey that requires collaboration and innovation. Today, MasterCard is launching MasterCard Start Path, a commitment to help accelerate startups toward long-term success by offering customized support, operational mentorship and the potential to secure pilots with key global players. In Europe, MasterCard is launching a commerce-focused accelerator for innovative early stage European startups with direct involvement from leading partners including ASOS and Capital One, amongst…

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How to Negotiate a Collaborative Outsourcing Deal

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IT outsourcing customers say they want more from their service providers. Yet they often use the same old negotiating tactics to set up their outsourcing deals. If you want a more collaborative relationship with IT service providers, it has to start at the negotiating table, says Kate Vitasek, author of “Getting to We: Negotiating Agreements for Highly Collaborative Relationships,” based on research conducted at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. CIO.com talked to Vitasek about what’s driving the need for more collaborative outsourcing relationships, how traditional negotiating tactics destroy value, and…

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EMC World 2014: Enterprises Must Use Software-Defined IT to Achieve Scale and Results

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IT leaders from EMC believe the software-driven transformation of the data center will redefine enterprise IT. Virtualizing server technology was only the beginning. The race to transform the entire data center into a lean, mean, software-defined machine is on. “Fundamental change is needed. A new approach is required,” said VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger during a keynote address at EMC World. The need for a shift in the way IT resources are generated, stored and distributed is part of a much larger trend happening in technology in general. Throughout much of EMC World, experts…

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