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LastPass Password Manager Hacked, The Perils Of Having All Eggs In One Basket?

June 15, 2015

Business

Authentication, Email address, Encryption, IOS, IP address, Joe Siegrist, LastPass Password Manager, Password, Two-factor authentication, User (computing)

As modern internet users, one pain point that hasn’t yet been resolved is that of passwords. With all of us using a myriad of different websites and applications, using and remembering many secure passwords is difficult. Many people revert…

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Icenium Brings Cross-Platform Mobile Tools to .NET Developers

September 23, 2013

Business

Android, Icenium, Integrated development environment, IOS, Kendo UI, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Windows Mobile

One from the “making it easier for people” pages. Telerik is an application development tool vendor that powers the development operations of around 100000 organizations globally. Their Icenium product is a mobile-specific set of development tools that allow developers…

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Appery.io and More Mobile Development Democratization

September 4, 2013

Business

Android, Appery.io, Application programming interface, Facebook, IOS, JavaScript, Salesforce.com, Visual Basic

Let’s get one thing straight – delivering applications to mobile users is a non-negotiable requirement for enterprise IT. It’s for this reason that every man and his dog is now creating a mobile back end to enable this change.…

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GreenQloud – Because PRISM isn’t the Only Way for Non US Clouds to Differentiate

August 23, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Application programming interface, AWS, cloud computing, GreenQLoud, IOS, Netherlands, Paul Miller

Since the news broke of PRISM and the other big Government spying programs, there has been an almost deafening number of non-US cloud vendors use the news as a justification for their product. The highly opportunistic marketing spin goes…

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HTML5 versus Native Apps (Again)

August 7, 2013

Business

Android, Apple, Facebook, HTML5, IOS, Opera Mini, RedMonk, Windows

Excuse me for wading into a religious battle but I’ve often been puzzled by the zealotry displayed by those who are adamant that only native applications are worth looking at. Admittedly it’s a zealotry that is more often displayed…

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QuickBooks for iPad–Well Executed, But it’s all About the Ecosystem

May 24, 2013

Business

Customer, GoPayment, intuit, IOS, QuickBook, Small Business Web, techcrunch, twitter

Recently Intuit introduced a new mobile version of its QuickBooks application. In the past when a legacy vendor introduced a mobile application, they tended to do so by stripping out much of the functionality of the full version and…

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Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

April 30, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, blackberry, enterprise, IOS, oracle, Tibbr, Tibco, yammer

I’m a strong believer in the notion of social streaming tools for enterprise – I’ve seen how tools like Yammer can really drive productivity within small businesses. The problems come when these sorts of tools are rolled out into…

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Wave Takes on the Scanned Receipts Market

April 10, 2013

Business

Business, Customer relationship management, IOS, MYOB, Optical character recognition, Receipt, Server Message Block, Xero

Anyone who thinks small business have simple requirements in terms of software has never worked within an SMB. SMBs requirements are often just as complex as those of enterprise but they don’t have the resourcing that larger organizations do…

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Salesforce Goes All In on Mobile App Development

April 9, 2013

Business

Android, Capgemini, IOS, Mobile Computing, Mobile device, salesforce, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com

Over the past twelve months or so, Salesforce has extended its existing story around the social enterprise to strongly articulate its opinion that the future of the enterprise lies in a mobile-enabled workforce. The company is today announcing the…

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Telefonica Rolls Out a Storage Cloud-Hopefully it’s not Vapor

March 26, 2013

Business

backup, cloud computing, IOS, Mac, Network-attached storage, Personal computer, Server Message Block, Telefónica

A common theme in here is my prognosticating doom for traditional enterprises. If I look at which traditional sectors look the most ripe for disruption, it’s the compliance-heavy ones, often with a legacy of state ownership or control. Banks,…

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