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DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real
time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors,
log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of
vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.
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"Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies,
Industry Verticals & Forecasts"
Key Findings:
In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware,
software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further
expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually
accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for
acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between
IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)
Microsoft has joined the FIDO Alliance, an industry group attempting to craft
industry standards that reduce reliance on passwords, long regarded as a weak
point in Web security. Launched in July 2012, FIDO, which stands for Fast
IDentity Online, is hoping its specifications for security devices and
browser plugins will be widely adopted across the technology industry. Such
efforts depend on voluntary adoption by many companies and organizations. So
far, those participating in FIDO include heavyweights Google, MasterCard,
Lenovo, Infineon, LG Electronics and a variety of smaller companies.
Authentication hardware and software widely varies, with many proprietary
clients and protocols. FIDO hopes that standardizing authentication
technologies will lead to better interoperability and innovations in
biometrics, PINs (personal identification numbers) and secondary
aut... (more)
GoodSharks.com, a web-based legal marketplace that presents tough, fearless,
talented and ethical lawyers, is offering a public beta. For a limited time,
attorneys can list themselves on the GoodSharks.com directory at no charge
and no obligation as part of a beta program. After GoodSharks.com reaches its
goals for attorney listings, the beta will close and attorneys will have the
option to list their services on the high-traffic site at $149 per month. The
website will always be free to consumers and small businesses looking for
good lawyers.
GoodSharks.com was founded by San Diego attorney Alicia Dearn, who saw the
need for what she calls “law without fear.” Potential clients use a
proprietary web-based survey system to enter up to 20 search categories for
an attorney. Search criteria choices range from geographic proximity to the
lawyer's skills, specialties, fe... (more)
NEW YORK, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Time Out New York announced the 2012
Food & Drink Award winners tonight at an annual industry awards event
honoring the city's best restaurants, chefs, bars and barkeeps. Over 100,000
votes were cast to determine the ten winners in the Readers' Choice category
in addition to the ten Critics' Picks winners. Seamus Mullen of Spanish
restaurant Tertulia took top honors as Chef of the Year, while The Dutch won
Best New Restaurant and Maison Premiere won Best New Cocktails.
The event, hosted by Time Out Food & Drink editor Jordana Rothman, included a
first-ever Foursquare Award, a nod to not only the quality of restaurants,
but their popularity as well, measuring the nominated restaurant with the
most check-ins on the popular social media site during the voting period. The
award marked the second win for The Dutch, and was pres... (more)
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SLI Systems
(www.sli-systems.com) today announced that an innovative, new "floating
search box" on AmericanBridal.com has generated a substantial increase in
revenue per visit and an incrementally larger conversion rate, among visitors
who use the website's search box. The floating search box, a concept that was
thought up by AmericanBridal.com, hovers over content as a site visitor is
scrolling down a webpage, making the search box continuously accessible and
encouraging greater usage of search – which leads to more purchases.
American Bridal, an online retailer of wedding supplies that has been using
SLI site search since 2007, developed the idea for a floating search box
while experimenting with various enhancements to its site search box to
increase usage.
"We've seen many positive results of our use of SLI's full... (more)
SANTA MONICA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/30/12 -- David Maharaj, 41, has been
named vice president of technology at strategic digital agency BLITZ. Maharaj
brings 15 years' experience in software development across a variety of
industries and solutions including digital media, online video streaming
applications, ecommerce, content management, and open source, to his new
position. Maharaj comes to BLITZ from similar positions at Razorfish in San
Francisco and FOX Digital Media in Los Angeles.
"BLITZ is building digital platforms and ecosystems for brands, connecting
multiple screens, content management systems, analytics, social utilities,
DRM content and ecommerce," said Ivan Todorov, BLITZ CEO. "Dave (Maharaj)
brings the enterprise level platform experience and knowledge to drive our
digital product development and technology offering to the next level as we
partne... (more)
HOUSTON, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 05/15/12 -- Houston law firm Lorance &
Thompson, P.C. announces that it recently launched a completely redesigned
website. The new website is designed to provide visitors with a better
overall user experience while also being search engine friendly.
Visitors to the Lorance & Thompson, P.C. website can take advantage of
simpler navigation to easily access information about all of Lorance &
Thompson, P.C.'s areas of practice, including:
Energy, including oil and gas lease and operational disputes, death and
bodily injury claims, etc.; Insurance, including coverage opinions, bad
faith, Texas Insurance Code, and contract disputes; Trademark registration,
monitoring, licensing, and litigation; Products liability, defending
manufacturers in claims alleging products are dangerous and for violating
warranties, making misrepresentations, etc.; ... (more)
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/blc484/android_devices_da) has
announced the addition of the "Android Devices Database: Activations by
Vendor, Handset Model & Region Q1'2012" directory to their offering.
While Android growth is slowing down, the Google backed operating system
still maintained triple figure Year-on-Year (YoY) growth of 126 % in
Q1’2012. With nearly 85 million shipments in Q1’2012, Android Smartphones
maintained market dominance within the Smartphone segment of the market, with
a global market share of 59 % and an installed base of 331 Million legitimate
Android device (handset) activations, up from 250 million in Q4’2011. The
results were released as part of Signals and Systems Telecom's "Android
Device Database: Activations by Vendor, Handset Model and Region Q1'2012".The
database tracks Android activations by indiv... (more)
DeNA Co., Ltd. (TSE: 2432) and Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) have entered into an
exclusive three-year agreement to develop and publish mobile games based on
the TRANSFORMERS™ franchise. The first TRANSFORMERS game from DeNA will be
released on the Mobage™ social gaming platform for iOS and Android mobile
devices worldwide, with the exception of Japan, later this year.
“Our global platform has continued to thrive and grow, and we’re now
investing in major entertainment IP,” said Neil Young, Director of DeNA and
CEO of DeNA’s U.S. subsidiary ngmoco, LLC. “TRANSFORMERS is a highly
beloved brand, with dynamic characters that are universally cherished by
fans. We are excited to bring the TRANSFORMERS world to life for mobile
gamers.”
“DeNA is a proven global leader in mobile social games,” said Mark
Blecher, GM and SVP, Hasbro Digital Media and Marketing. “We’re delighted
to t... (more)
DALLAS, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* today announced plans to offer
Xperia TL, the latest Sony smartphone bringing Sony's best HD experiences,
easy connectivity with 'One-touch' sharing enabled by NFC (Near Field
Communications) and award-winning** arc design. This 4G LTE smartphone takes
connected entertainment to the next level with new Sony media applications.
Photo enthusiasts will delight in the impressive images taken with Xperia
TL's 13-megapixel primary camera that brings even the smallest of details to
life. This high resolution camera captures quality images swiftly with its
quick launch feature, going from standby mode (sleep) to first shot in just
1.5 seconds,1 making sure life's unexpected moments are not missed. Plus,
both the rear and front-facing cameras deliver HD recording capabilities for
vivid video capture on the go.
Xperia TL gives you t... (more)
LEICESTER, England, October 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
A brand new, fashion focused Next close to Ipswich city centre will open at
10am on Thursday 18th October. The store located on the Suffolk Retail Park
will provide a wide range of women's, men's and children's clothing, plus a
small selection of homeware.
This new city centre based store will provide a increased range of Next
clothing to the centre of Ipswich, standing at 10,185 square foot, and
creating 65 new jobs. Next recently opened a new Home and Garden store on the
outskirts of Ipswich, in Martlesham Heath. The out of town store brings a new
concept that offers a wide range of garden and DIY products, something that
is very new for the retail giant.
To celebrate the opening of the new store, Next are giving away a free gift
for the first 100 customers! However, the celebrations do not end there, in
additi... (more)
CloudEXPO Stories By Liz McMillan  Is advanced scheduling in Kubernetes achievable?Yes, however, how do you properly accommodate every real-life scenario that a Kubernetes user might encounter? How do you leverage advanced scheduling techniques to shape and describe each scenario in easy-to-use rules and configurations? In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Oleg Chunikhin, CTO at Kublr, answered these questions and demonstrated techniques for implementing advanced scheduling. For example, using spot instances and cost-effective resources on AWS, coupled with the ability to deliver a minimum set of functionalities that cover the majority of needs – without configuration complexity. Feb. 20, 2019 05:45 AM EST Reads: 4,643 | By Zakia Bouachraoui  At CloudEXPO Silicon Valley, June 24-26, 2019, Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with expanded DevOpsSUMMIT and FinTechEXPO programs within the DXWorldEXPO agenda. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout enterprises of all sizes. Feb. 20, 2019 05:00 AM EST | By Liz McMillan  Using serverless computing has a number of obvious benefits over traditional application infrastructure - you pay only for what you use, scale up or down immediately to match supply with demand, and avoid operating any server infrastructure at all.
However, implementing maintainable and scalable applications using serverless computing services like AWS Lambda poses a number of challenges. The absence of long-lived, user-managed servers means that states cannot be maintained by the service. Longer function invocation times (referred to as cold starts) become very important to track, because they impact the response time of the service and will impose additional cost. Additionally, the transition to smaller individual components (much like breaking a monolithic application into microservices) results in a simpler deployment model, but makes the system as a whole increasingly complex. Feb. 20, 2019 05:00 AM EST | By Liz McMillan  "There is a huge interest in Kubernetes. People are now starting to use Kubernetes and implement it," stated Sebastian Scheele, co-founder of Loodse, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps at 19th Cloud Expo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Feb. 20, 2019 04:30 AM EST Reads: 6,027 | By Yeshim Deniz  Atmosera delivers modern cloud services that maximize the advantages of cloud-based infrastructures. Offering private, hybrid, and public cloud solutions, Atmosera works closely with customers to engineer, deploy, and operate cloud architectures with advanced services that deliver strategic business outcomes. Atmosera's expertise simplifies the process of cloud transformation and our 20+ years of experience managing complex IT environments provides our customers with the confidence and trust that they are being taken care of. Feb. 20, 2019 04:15 AM EST |
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