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Dec 31, 2009
End-of-the-Year Altruists
Altruism is a fascinating, nuanced, and (I would argue) wildly misunderstood practice. We have a chapter in SuperFreakonomics, “Unbelievable Stories About Apathy and Altruism,” which explores the issue in-depth. We make a few interrelated points: 1. Because it can be so hard to measure pure ... more »
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Dec 23, 2009
MontaVista Eyes Bigger Networking, Carrier Linux Wins
Linux player MontaVista Software is now officially part of chip vendor Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), concluding a rapid $50 million transaction that it hopes will see it better able to go after large networking and carrier customers. MontaVista is best known for its MontaVista Linux ... more »
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Dec 23, 2009
Internet Marketing 101: Why marketers need mobile video
Heads up, marketers, mobile video may still be in the adoption phase but you need to be on-board and in the medium. Experts estimate that mobile video will explode over the next five years as consumers adopt smartphones, as smartphones get even smarter and mobile devices are used by the ... more »
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Dec 20, 2009
As Phones Do More, They Become Targets of Hacking
SAN FRANCISCO - Mobile phones are becoming ever more like personal computers. That means they are also becoming more vulnerable to traditional computer menaces like hackers and viruses. This year, the Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Lab reported on a new malicious program that stole ... more »
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Dec 18, 2009
Cavium completes MontaVista acquisition
Semiconductor firm Cavium Networks announced the completion of its acquisition of embedded Linux software firm MontaVista Software, and named former MontaVista EVP Art Landro as the new MontaVista president. Meanwhile, LinuxDevices talked with MontaVista marketing VP Dan Cauchy about where he ... more »
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Dec 17, 2009
Rhythm NewMedia’s Smartphone Video Ad Network Growing Rapidly
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, December 17, 2009 —Rhythm NewMedia, the leader in mobile video advertising, today announced the rapid growth of RAMP—its smartphone ad network. RAMP (Rhythm Advertising Media Platform) has already reached hundreds of millions of unique impressions to mobile TV smartphone ... more »
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Dec 17, 2009
Rhythm NewMedia Updates Mobile Advertising with Brand Building
MobilizedTV spoke with Ujjal Kohli, CEO of Rhythm NewMedia about the status of mobile advertising, with an update on the progress his company has made in 2009. Here’s what he had to say: MobilizedTV: Against the backdrop of Google’s acquisition of AdMob, how would you characterize the ... more »
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Dec 15, 2009
Mobile Video Advertising Market Shows Strength
Mobile video advertising is showing strength, benefiting from consumer adoption of the "mobile Internet," strong growth in video-capable smartphones and improving availability of high-quality content for mobile devices. I gained further insight on the mobile video ad opportunity in a ... more »
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Dec 14, 2009
Betawave Extends Its Reach With Online Moms by Adding JuiceBoxJungle as Latest Publisher Joining the Brand Marketer Network
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - December 14, 2009 - Betawave (OTCBB:BWAV), the online media network that delivers highly attentive audiences to brand marketers, today announced JuiceBoxJungle has joined Betawave's network as its newest publisher. JuiceBoxJungle is a new media network that uses ... more »
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Dec 14, 2009
Electric Cloud focuses on relevant parts of builds to boost performance
Electric Cloud is trying to help developers eliminate unnecessary parts of software builds without sacrificing the quality of those builds. SparkBuild, released today, is a free software builder that is based on the concept of what Electric Cloud calls "build avoidance," which avoids parts ... more »
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Dec 14, 2009
Electric Cloud Launches SparkBuild
Electric Cloud announces the availability of SparkBuild, a free software build tool that the company claims makes developer builds up to 10 times faster than alternative solutions. Electric Cloud has announced the availability of SparkBuild, a free software build tool that makes developer ... more »
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Dec 11, 2009
Army's Go Mobile puts big computing power into soldiers' pockets
That effort reached a new milestone in late October with the approval of an initial set of smart phones that, with other pocket-sized accessories, offers a way for soldiers to access the Army Knowledge Online portal, a repository of online information, distance-learning tools, e-mail and other ... more »
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Dec 8, 2009
SparkBuild: A "How Developer Tools Surface" Story
It's long been my belief that the most useful developer tools come from "what I need" rather than "what if." You know the tools I'm talking about — the ones you use everyday. The ones that may not be pretty, that aren't (yet) a product, but were devised by developers to solve specific problems ... more »
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Dec 7, 2009
Finally, real security for iPhone and Android
I've been very frustrated by the lack of business-level security and manageability on most smartphones. The BlackBerry triumphs for being secure and manageable if you deploy the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), but the BlackBerry is not a good devcie for anything other than messaging. I ... more »
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Dec 7, 2009
An alternative to Research in Motion's enterprise e-mail? There's an app for that
Hardly a day goes by when our inboxes and feeds aren't flooded with messages from companies announcing that they have created a new iPhone application. They range from the disappointingly simple to the disconcertingly arcane, but as a whole skew more toward the consumer. So when a significant ... more »
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Dec 1, 2009
Improving the Performance of Display Advertising
In tight economic times, where the media planner tries to make every ad dollar spent count, online display advertising solutions seem to want to relate their message to a media proven to work: search. I recently heard from three relatively new and intriguing ad technologies with this kind of ... more »
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Nov 30, 2009
Behind the legend of Cyber Monday
Today is Cyber Monday, which is to the internet what Black Friday is to brick-and-mortar retailers. The past two years, there's been a bit of an unfair Cyber Monday backlash. People began labeling it a myth, pointing out that the web's biggest shopping day actually comes later in the month, ... more »
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Nov 23, 2009
Betawave Appoints Mark Oltarsh as New Chief Revenue Officer
NEW YORK CITY, NY - November 23, 2009 - Betawave http://www.betawave.com/ (OTCBB: BWAV), the online media network that delivers highly attentive audiences to brand marketers, today announced the appointment of Mark Oltarsh, former Vice President and Group Publisher of Bauer Publishing's In ... more »
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Nov 19, 2009
InsideView Disrupts Legacy Business Info Publishers Like Hoover's
When you hear that print publishers are in trouble these days, probably the first industry segments you think of are newspapers, magazines, and maybe books. But many different publishing niches that have operated profitably for decades are now coming under withering assault by new ... more »
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Nov 19, 2009
Gmail Users Better-Connected, More Likely to Tweet than Members of other Webmail Services
The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined and revealed some interesting findings...like the fact that Gmail has ... more »
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Nov 19, 2009
Mobile Video Advertising: The Awkward Teen Years
Newly gold-plated by Google, mobile network AdMob got us all thinking about mobile video advertising this week. The company announced a video ad unit that is promising more interactive bells, whistles and gee-whizzes than the content it is made to underwrite. Which is fine, I guess, if you can ... more »
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Nov 17, 2009
Tracking A Million Conversations
Social media allows anyone to say anything they want and have it broadcast across the globe. Most of the time our conversations simmer in obscurity and then drift off into the nothingness of digital archives. But some ideas boil over. Perhaps United Airlines broke your guitar or you had an ... more »
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Nov 16, 2009
Is Android ready for enterprise use?
With new features like turn-by-turn navigation and a self-correcting soft keyboard, Android 2.0 is enticing new customers who've never owned a smartphone. But is Android ready for business customers? With support for corporate e-mail and calendar accounts, Google Android isn't just for ... more »
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Nov 16, 2009
An Interview with Nathan Scripps of Rapleaf
2009 is starting to close, two years after talking about social media for car dealers, and I would like to talk about a new way to look at and leverage social media. No, I am not going to say build a Facebook fan page, nor am I going to talk about the value of Twitter. In fact, this is not ... more »
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Nov 16, 2009
How Rapleaf Is Data-Mining Your Friend Lists to Predict Your Credit Risk
They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. Joel Jewitt is inclined to agree. Upon reviewing your social networking friend list, Jewitt and his colleagues at the San Francisco-based data-mining firm Rapleaf say they can help predict which ads you'll pay attention to ... more »
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Nov 13, 2009
NetSuite, InsideView Pull Social-Networking Data into Enterprise
NetSuite and InsideView have paired to release an application that leverages social networking, including Facebook and Twitter, within both Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Resource Planning. NetSuite has attempted over the past year to expand from its small and midsize business ... more »
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Nov 12, 2009
Co-Developing Killer Apps
The growing complexity of hardware is taking its toll on the application software development world. While most hardware engineers think in terms of embedded applications, the real problem is in other parts of the software stack. The operating system still cannot take advantage of multiple ... more »
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Nov 12, 2009
Cavium buys MontaVista for carrier Linux play
MontaVista, the original big hitter in Mobile Linux, has been acquired for $50m by Cavium, maker of network processors, which looks set to make the smaller firm's Carrier Grade Linux a major contender, but with an uncertain future for its mobile and embedded OS. MontaVista was the first ... more »
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Nov 11, 2009
Cavium Acquires MontaVista Software
Digital chipmaker Cavium Networks CAVM announced that it has agreed to purchase MontaVista Software for $50 million, comprising $16 million in cash and the remainder in stock. The deal is expected to close in December. MontaVista provides embedded Linux software, which is used as the operating ... more »
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Nov 11, 2009
Trends: another embedded software supplier snapped up by a computer hardware company
Well, it's official: microprocessor hardware maker Cavium Networks is acquiring MontaVista Software. This is the second time in a year that a hardware company is acquiring an influential embedded software company. You might remember last June when Intel bought Wind River Systems. We're ... more »
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Nov 11, 2009
Sanrio Global Consumer Products Announces Launch of Limited Edition Hello Kitty(R) Coveroo in Celebration of 35th Anniversary
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of Hello Kitty's 35th Anniversary celebration, Sanrio Global Consumer Products is pleased to announce a new partnership with Coveroo, creator of high-quality custom cell phone covers for all major brands of phones. Debuting in early November with 15 ... more »
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Nov 10, 2009
Cavium to buy MontaVista Software for $50 million
SAN FRANCISCO—Cavium Networks has signed a definitive agreement to acquire embedded Linux software vendor MontaVista software for $50 million in cash and stock, the company said Tuesday (Nov. 10). Under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close in December, Cavium (Mountain View, ... more »
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Nov 10, 2009
Cavium to Acquire MontaVista Software for Embedded Linux
Cavium Networks agreed to acquire MontaVista Software for $50 million, comprised of $16 million in cash and $34 million in Cavium Networks common stock. MontaVista Software supplies multi-core embedded Linux operating systems, virtualization, development tools and professional services to ... more »
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Nov 10, 2009
Linux lies at the heart of another Silicon Valley takeover
Linux lies at the heart of yet another big takeover deal in silicon valley. Chip makers love Linux. That was why, in part, Intel bought Wind River. And it is very definitely the main reason behind Cavium Networks acquisition of MontaVista Software. A truism of today's processor ... more »
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Nov 10, 2009
NetSuite Merges Social Networking With CRM
Cloud computing firm NetSuite has teamed up with InsideView, a sales intelligence company, to create what they are calling a social intelligence platform. The firms said that InsideView for NetSuite would bring intelligence from social networking sites, such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook ... more »
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Nov 10, 2009
NetSuite and InsideView Partner to Create 'Social ERP'
A growing debate in Enterprise 2.0 circles focuses on what value new technologies have for people who do back office functions. Questions persist about how Enterprise 2.0 technologies are built into the processes of every day work and what upside they really have. In that regard, it's ... more »
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Nov 10, 2009
Socializing with NetSuite and InsideView
Social media continues to penetrate the enterprise -- and now, it's making its way into the back office with a joint announcement from on-demand business software solutions provider NetSuite and sales intelligence vendor InsideView. The new InsideView for NetSuite solution is not only the ... more »
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Oct 19, 2009
Radialpoint Named One of Montreal's Top Employers for Second Year
MONTREAL, CANADA -- October 19, 2009 -- Radialpoint, the leading provider of ISP-delivered, managed IT services and support for the digital home, has announced today that it was ranked as one of the top employers in Montreal for a second consecutive year by the editors of Canada’s Top 100 ... more »
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Oct 19, 2009
Home Account Inc. Launches New Marketing Partners And Sees Dramatic Increases In Number Of Borrowers
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 19, 2009- Home-Account Inc. (www.home-account.com) recently announced that they are working with marketing partners Homes.com, Trulia, Inc., Bills.com, LLC., Movoto, LLC., and Roost.com. Home-Account has partnered with Epic Marketing to run an exclusive affiliate ... more »
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Oct 14, 2009
Permuto Bringing All-Inclusive Ad Platform Says CEO Shamim
Shaukat Shamim is CEO & Co-Founder of Permuto. PermutoAdExchanger.com: Where did the idea for Permuto come from? And how about the name - what's the story there? SS: We are a company comprised of online advertising junkies, all of the founders been involved in online advertising from ... more »
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Oct 13, 2009
Ooyala Raises $10 Million In Third Round For Online Video Platform
Online video platform startup Ooyala has raised $10 million in a third round, which it says it will use to fund “aggressive growth.” New investor Rembrandt Venture Partners led the round; existing investors, including Sierra Ventures, also participated. Businesses use Ooyala’s Backlot platform ... more »
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Oct 8, 2009
Permuto launches ShopperConnect to tie online sales to display ads
Permuto Inc. has introduced ShopperConnect as an all-inclusive shopping network and advertising platform with built-in analytics and the ability to target ads based on shoppers' interests and measure the impact on sales. The ShopperConnect network is designed to encompass online retailers, ... more »
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Oct 8, 2009
Claims made that automation is the best way to cut risk and become compliant
A forum has declared that automation is the only way to cut risks and achieve compliance. At the recent Security Risk & Compliance Forum in London, organised by Skybox Security and BT, it was claimed that enterprises that do not have automated methods for finding network vulnerabilities ... more »
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Oct 6, 2009
Ooyala Releases Real Time Video Analytics
Ooyala Inc., the leading provider of end-to-end video platform applications and services, today announced the release of real-time analytics. This enhancement now renders Ooyala's Analytics Engine, one of the fastest in the industry. The speed improvement will allow Ooyala customers to make ... more »
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Oct 6, 2009
Service Provider Industry Expert Chris Rhodes Joins Radialpoint as Vice-President, EMEA
MONTREAL, CANADA -- October 6, 2009 -- Radialpoint, the leading provider of ISP-delivered managed services and support for the digital home, today announced the appointment of Chris Rhodes to the position of Vice-President of EMEA. Mr. Rhodes’ role at Radialpoint will be to support the ... more »
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Sep 29, 2009
Home-Account.com Partners with Mortgage Expert to Provide Consumers Individualized Home Loan Options and Lowest Cost Mortgages
NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO – September 29, 2009 – Home-Account, Inc., a pioneering mortgage information company and consumer advocate, today announced it has partnered with mortgage industry expert Jack Guttentag to help borrowers quickly and easily locate the best home loan rates ... more »
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Sep 28, 2009
New Advertising Solution For Retailers
Permuto launched during the Shop.org Annual Summit last week. WebProNews talked with Permuto CEO and Co-Founder Shaukat Shamim to find out about their flagship product ShopperConnect and how it helps retailers get the most ROI out of their ad spend. Online display advertising has, ... more »
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Sep 24, 2009
Ad Week Wining & Dining Hints Of Optimism
The Advertising Week conference will exit from New York tomorrow, and if the events tonight are any indication, the industry has got its swagger back. Among the events is a launch dinner for stealthy venture-backed advertising company Permuto Inc. Held at The Mott, a trendy restaurant in ... more »
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Sep 23, 2009
Digital Home Services and Support Leader Radialpoint Appoints SaaS Veteran William A. Kerrigan to President and CEO
MONTREAL, CANADA – September 23, 2009 – Radialpoint, the leading provider of ISP-delivered managed services and support for the digital home, today announced the appointment of William (Bill) A. Kerrigan to the position of President and CEO. Kerrigan succeeds CEO and Co-Founder Hamnett Hill ... more »
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Sep 23, 2009
Permuto Pushes the Advertising Envelope With New Launch
For a couple of years now I have admonished the advertising world to come up with "new age" technologies to match Web 2.0 tech advances. Until yesterday, not many have really captured even a part of the idea that online ads (or offline ones either) need another delivery methodology. Except for ... more »
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Sep 23, 2009
Permuto launches platform to track performance of display ads
Permuto, an online marketing company seeking to optimize display advertising for its client brands, has launched a new platform that measures the performance of this type of ad with the same precision that most search engine text-ads are evaluated. Called, ShopperConnect, the platform is ... more »
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Sep 23, 2009
Can Online Display Ads Work Harder?
Online display ads are the red-headed freckled kid of interactive advertising; present but not quite understood even though last year 4.5 trillion ads were served and each of us was exposed to nearly a hundred ads per person each business day. Marketers spent an estimated $5.9 billion in ... more »
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Sep 23, 2009
Betawave Reincorporates as a Delaware Corporation
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - September 23, 2009 Betawave Corporation (OTCBB: BWAV, www.betawave.com), a media company that delivers the most attentive audiences online to brand marketers, has completed its reincorporation from Nevada to Delaware. The reincorporation was approved at the September 17, ... more »
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Sep 22, 2009
Permuto Launches Intent-Based Targeted Ad Serving
Permuto, a new company bringing the same level of performance and measurability of search engine marketing to display advertising, officially launched today at the Shop.org conference. Shaukat Shamim, CEO and co-founder of Permuto, spoke with Doug for about an hour on Tuesday and you could ... more »
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Sep 22, 2009
Permuto launches with new ad tool for retailers
A company that promises the kind of success that advertisers usually see only via search launched its service Tuesday at the Shop.org conference in Las Vegas. Permuto focuses on connecting online retailers with product-comparison sites, media outlets, and other "highly profitable" ... more »
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Sep 18, 2009
Convio Named to Software Magazine’s 27th Annual Software 500
Austin, Texas (September 18, 2009) -- Convio today announced its inclusion on Software Magazine’s Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and service providers, now in its 27th year. Convio ranked 256 on the list in its first year of participation in the Software 500 ranking. ... more »
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Sep 17, 2009
A Perspective from Salesforce on today's Convio Common Ground™ launch
Guest post by N. Tucker MacLean, Senior Director, Nonprofits and Education at Salesforce.com. Today marks an important day in the nonprofit industry, as Convio Common Ground™ is now available to nonprofit organizations that have grown weary of the cost and complexity of traditional donor ... more »
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Sep 16, 2009
Good Technology addresses devices coming in the enterprise back door
Good Technology announced that its enterprise software will support Apple's iPhone, the Palm Pre and several Android devices--the typical devices that employees want to bring into the enterprise through the back door. Good said its software addresses the problems that arise when employees ... more »
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Sep 9, 2009
Betawave Speaks at Advertising Week 2009 and Roth Media Investor Event
September 9, 2009 - Betawave Corporation (OTCBB: BWAV, www.betawave.com), a media company that delivers the most attentive audiences online to brand marketers, is announcing its speaking engagements for the month of September. Advertising Week 2009 In the first of its kind, Betawave will be ... more »
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Sep 9, 2009
Cavium Intros New Family of Highly Integrated SoC Processors
Cavium Networks has announced the launch of the ECONA CNS3XXX family of highly integrated SoC processors featuring a rich set of integrated hardware accelerators and variety of I/Os for glueless voice, video and data connectivity. The company has designed the ECONA CNS3XXX family for ... more »
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Aug 25, 2009
Accertify and Rapleaf Partner to Deliver Enhanced Online Fraud Protection
CHICAGO and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Accertify (www.accertify.com), a leading provider of online fraud prevention solutions, and Rapleaf, the leader in email reputation services for transaction processing markets, today announced that Rapleaf's service will be added to ... more »
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Aug 20, 2009
Ooyala Powers NetMovies' New Online Movie Streaming Service
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & SAO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ooyala Inc., a U.S.-based online video platform provider, and NetMovies, the leading online movie rental company in Brazil, are announcing the launch of NetMovies Live, a new, web-based movie streaming offering. The service, powered by Ooyala ... more »
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Aug 19, 2009
Ooyala Names New Chairman
First a new CEO, now a new chairman of the board. Online video platform provider Ooyala Inc. announced today that investor Fred Warren is taking over chairman duties after two years of serving on the company's board. The new chairman has more than 30 years of experience investing in tech ... more »
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Aug 18, 2009
Not A Myth To Bust: Discovery Channel Hits The App Store
Discovery Communications has released a Discovery Channel application on the iTunes App Store (link to the program), bringing heaps of video content produced by the popular non-fiction media company to the iPhone and iPod Touch. In addition to video clips, the app also boasts a collection of ... more »
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Aug 14, 2009
Betawave Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - August 14, 2009 - Betawave Corporation (OTCBB: BWAV, www.betawave.com), the first attention-based digital media company, with a domestic reach of over 32 million unique users per month,* reported its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 today. Company ... more »
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Aug 14, 2009
Coveroo Partnership with MLB Means Cellphones Have You Covered
MLB continues to find new revenue streams to tap, this time with another cellphone based product. Coveroo announced Thursday a licensing partnership with Major League Baseball, allowing fans to put logos and artwork from their favorite MLB teams right on their personal cell phone or mobile ... more »
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Aug 11, 2009
Ooyala Appoints Jay Fulcher As CEO
Mountain View, CA-- Ooyala, the leading provider of end-to-end video platform applications and services, today announced the appointment of Jay Fulcher as President & Chief Executive Officer. Former CEO and Co-Founder Bismarck Lepe, who led the company since its inception in early 2007, has ... more »
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Aug 11, 2009
Review: Stargate Coveroos style your cell phone
This spring we told you about Coveroo, a company that is now offering officially licensed, Stargate-themed cover plates for your cell phone, iPod, or other mobile device (story). In the months since they’ve expanded their Stargate offerings, revamped their Web site, and sent us a couple of ... more »
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Aug 1, 2009
Coveroo: The new face of cell phone faceplates
At a recent holiday product preview in New York, representatives from Best Buy showcased the chain's biggest and brightest Christmas toys. Unfortunately, I am legally restricted from discussing some of the more exciting new gizmos (here's a hint: have you ever wanted to talk to your cat?), ... more »
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Jul 27, 2009
Chip Handles Deep Packet Inspection At 20 Gbits/s
Cavium Networks’ NITROX DPI CN17xx L7 Content processor is designed to deliver rule-based packet inspection and processing at full line rates from 4 to 20 Gbits/s. The scalable system can handle millions of flows while providing deterministic, low-latency operation. Its 8x PCI Express links ... more »
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Jul 21, 2009
Radialpoint Internet Security Services 8.0 Receives ICSA Labs’ Desktop/Server Anti-Virus Detection Certification on Windows Vista 64-bit
MONTREAL, CANADA – July 21, 2009 – Radialpoint, the leading provider of ISP-delivered, managed IT services and support for the digital home, has announced that Radialpoint Internet Security Services 8.0 (RPS) has been tested and certified in Desktop/Server Anti-Virus Detection on Windows Vista ... more »
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Jul 17, 2009
Electric Cloud floats into Amazon's EC2
Electric Cloud has modified its build-automation and performance tools to work natively in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment, opening the cloud to development and test teams. EC2 integration has been added to the feature set of ElectricCommander, a Web-based application that ... more »
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Jul 16, 2009
Home-Account Announces New Investors, Partners, and Industry First 100% Money-Back Lowest Price Mortgage Guarantee
SAN FRANCISCO – July 14, 2009 – Home-Account, Inc. (www.home-account.com), the web-based mortgage finding service, today announced that it closed on new investments from both Menlo Park CA-based Rembrandt Ventures (www.rembrandtvc.com) and San Mateo CA-based Freedom Financial Network Inc. ... more »
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Jul 15, 2009
Windstream launches Online Backup to help customers save and share valuable files
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Windstream Corp. (NYSE: WIN), a high-speed Internet, phone and digital TV provider, announced today its new online backup and file sharing service designed for residential and small business customers. In a recent Parks Associates survey, 43 percent of U.S. households ... more »
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Jul 14, 2009
Aptana scores $7.8M for open source web building tools
Aptana, maker of open-source software used to build, implement and manage web sites and applications, has raised $7.8 million in a second round of funding to scale its virtual environment offering, Aptana Cloud - a free service that allows users to deploy and manage their web applications from ... more »
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Jul 14, 2009
Electric Cloud Adds Amazon EC2 Support
Electric Cloud, provider of software build automation and testing software, has added pre-configured Amazon EC2 support to its full product line, which includes Electric Commander, Electric Accelerator, and Electric Insight. Electric Commander, the company's automated build-test-deploy ... more »
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Jul 14, 2009
Electric Cloud Announces Public Cloud Support
Electric Cloud has extended its developer tools in support of the public cloud. According to the company, software developers will be able to automate and accelerate the software production process on physical, virtual, or public cloud computing resources. The company's ElectricCommander ... more »
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Jul 14, 2009
Electric Cloud Announces Support for Building and Testing Software in the Public Cloud
Sunnyvale, Calif., July 14, 2009 - Electric Cloud® the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, announced the extension of its offerings to the public cloud. For the first time, it is possible for software developers to automate and accelerate the software ... more »
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Jul 14, 2009
Rhythm’s Apps Getting Noticed on the iPhone App Store
In a megastore as big as Apple's iPhone App Store, the secret to success is getting noticed. With more than 65,000 apps in 20 categories, app developers have come up with different strategies to accomplish that. One focus is getting on Apple's ranking lists, which people regularly comb ... more »
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Jul 10, 2009
For Effective Advocacy, Select "E" for "All of the Above"
My colleague Steve Rubel neatly lays out the challenge facing communicators today: with today's fractured and diffuse media, "life is nothing but a stream, and ad pages and feature placements become scarcer (and arguably captivate less attention)." And if this challenge frustrates ... more »
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Jul 8, 2009
Identifying The Elusive Influencer
Most companies internally assign a value to their customers that predicts how much money the customer will spend in the future, otherwise known as 'Total Customer Value' (TCV). Conventionally, the best way to determine a customer's TCV is to look at how much they have spent in the past: United ... more »
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Jul 6, 2009
Credit card issuers dip a toe into social media
Microsoft founder Bill Gates posed a question on LinkedIn and garnered 3,500 responses. Dunkin' Donuts has attracted more than 800,000 fans to its Facebook Fan page. And Dell offers deals and customer support through its primary Twitter page, which has collected nearly 700,000 ... more »
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Jul 1, 2009
For the Love of the Game
Gaming may well be the best brand medium in history. Games are a most unlikely modern medium -- one where consumers willingly spend huge sums of time, are relaxed, focused and eschew multi-tasking, and one where consumers are open to interacting with brands. Games are magical. For any ... more »
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Jun 29, 2009
When is Open Source not Enough?
Answer these 7 questions to quickly assess if you should upgrade to an enterprise-class CI environment Because of the fast evolution of Continuous Integration (CI), the first generation of enablement tools proliferated at lightning speed. Open source CI tools became widely used due to the ... more »
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Jun 23, 2009
Engineers Are The Best Deal - So Stock Up On Them
This guest post is written by Auren Hoffman, the CEO of Rapleaf and an active angel investor. Auren argues that productivity gains among software engineers far outstrips pay increases. His advice? Stock up on engineers, it's a competitive advantage. His advice reminds me of Joe Kraus' famous ... more »
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Jun 23, 2009
Ever Wondered What The Most Common Names On Facebook Are? Here’s A List
With well over 200 million registered users, Facebook is undeniably a giant on the web, and one that is sitting on an enormous amount of raw data about individuals and demographically selected groups at that. While private profiles are not even always as private as we'd like to assume - ... more »
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Jun 19, 2009
Convio Summit 2009 to Feature Keynote by Gilbert Tuhabonye
AUSTIN, TEXAS (June 19, 2009) -- Convio, Inc. - the leading provider of on-demand constituent relationship management software and services to nonprofit organizations - today announced that Gilbert Tuhabonye will be the keynote speaker for the fourth annual Convio Summit, November 16-18, 2009 ... more »
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Jun 19, 2009
MobileBeat 2008 Nomination for Rhythm
The countdown to MobileBeat2008 continues. Today we're adding nine companies to the list of nominees for best mobile company. They've been selected by an internal VentureBeat panel of experts that evaluated dozens of write-in candidates over the past couple of weeks. Our panel has kept the ... more »
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Jun 18, 2009
Electric Cloud Named to 2009 SD Times 100 Application Lifecycle Management Category
Sunnyvale, Calif., June 18, 2009 - Electric Cloud® the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, announced that it has been awarded a place in the SD Times 100 list of 2009, the seventh annual compilation of elite companies, organizations, and individuals ... more »
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Jun 17, 2009
Electric Cloud® and Coverity® Announce Software Integrity Partnership
Sunnyvale, Calif., June 17, 2009 - Coverity®, the software integrity company and Electric Cloud® the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, today announced a partnership to help companies improve the integrity of their business-critical software. This ... more »
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Jun 17, 2009
Fox and Rhythm team on 'Family Guy' Application
Homicidal "Family Guy" toddler Stewie is bringing his wicked ways to the iPhone. Fox Mobile Entertainment has launched its first-ever commercial application, a "Family Guy"-themed app for the iPhone. The "Freakin' Sweet Family Guy" app will include up to 20 show clips, as well as the ... more »
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Jun 16, 2009
Independent Analyst Firm, voke, inc. Names Electric Cloud as a 2009 voke Innovator
Sunnyvale, Calif., June 16, 2009 - Electric Cloud®, the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, announced that it has been named a 2009 voke Innovator by the independent analyst firm voke, inc., for making a significant impact on the application lifecycle ... more »
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Jun 9, 2009
Integration Watch: The quickly changing market for continuous integration
Continuous integration (CI) is a practice that, I believe, is very quietly gaining acceptance in IT. Two years ago, when I first wrote about CI, most folks who were not active in the agile community had never heard of it. Today, most everyone I speak to knows something about it. I am a ... more »
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Jun 1, 2009
Slimming Down in a Fat Market -- Ooyala Steps up with New Video Player
Last week, Ooyala, an online video platform that we’ve covered many times in the past, released a completely overhauled, “Slim” new version of their video player. The new player has been aptly named, “Swift” because it is designed to offer improved playback with a faster loading, reduced size ... more »
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May 28, 2009
Electric Cloud Named to Red Herring 100 North America List
Sunnyvale, Calif., May 28, 2009 - Electric Cloud®, the leading provider of software production management (SPM) solutions, announced that it has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring 100 North America Award for the second time in its 7-year history. The Red Herring list is a mark ... more »
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May 28, 2009
Proximetry and Wavesat Extend Collaboration On High-Performance 4G Wireless Solutions
May 28, 2009 - San Diego, CA and Montreal, Canada - Wavesat, Inc., a leading provider of 4G silicon solutions, today announced an expanded partnership with Proximetry, Inc. that will help wireless broadband operators and infrastructure providers enhance their service offerings and provide ... more »
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May 21, 2009
Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships
A question: If you have 347 followers on the Twitter microblogging service, what are the chances that they'll click on the same online ad you clicked on last night? Advertisers are dying to know. Or, say you and a colleague exchange e-mails on a Saturday night. Can managers assume that you ... more »
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May 12, 2009
Betawave Corporation Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 12, 2009 - Betawave Corporation (OTCBB: BWAV, www.betawave.com), the first attention-based digital media company, with a domestic reach of over 30 million unique users,* reported its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009 today. The company’s continued ... more »
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May 9, 2009
Radialpoint acquires Casero
Addition of Casero's online backup and sharing services to Radialpoint's portfolio enable the first fully integrated consumer suite of digital home IT services specifically built for ISPs and their subscribers Radialpoint, the leading provider of ISP-delivered, managed IT services and ... more »
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May 1, 2009
Radialpoint buys Casero, and Bell becomes the sandbox
Montreal-headquartered Radialpoint has acquired Toronto's Casero Inc., tying its ISP-delivered services and support with Casero's content storage and sharing technologies. Since the companies share BCE Inc. as a customer, what does this mean for Canadian ISPs? "There were tight synergies ... more »
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Apr 29, 2009
Coveroo Brings Superheroes and Basketball All-Stars to Your Personal Electronics
West Hollywood, CA – April 29, 2009 – At the AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference today, Coveroo continued to fulfill its vision to create a world where personal electronics are truly personal by unveiling unique additions to its line of custom replacement cell phone covers. Coveroo now officially ... more »
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Apr 22, 2009
TA-Backed Radialpoint Acquires VC-Backed Casero
Getting a foot in the door was one thing for Casero Inc. Getting a piece of the broadband customer pie was another. The venture capital-backed company was acquired by Radialpoint Inc., a portfolio company of TA Associates Inc. The sale price was not disclosed. Casero backers, including ... more »
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Apr 21, 2009
Radialpoint Acquires Broadband Solution Provider Casero, Establishing Itself as the Market Share Leader for Managed IT Services for Internet Service Providers
MONTREAL, CANADA - April 21, 2009 - Radialpoint, the leading provider of ISP-delivered, managed IT services and support for the digital home, today announced that it has acquired Casero Inc., the number one provider of online backup and media sharing solutions for Internet service providers ... more »
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Apr 21, 2009
Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2009
Funding: $10 million from Sierra Ventures and undisclosed private investors Just before he left his job at Google, Bismarck Lepe was assigned the task of helping wring profit from online video site YouTube. Though intrigued, Lepe was daunted by the prospect of the red tape he'd face within ... more »
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Mar 31, 2009
CBS Mobile Launches "Entertainment Tonight" Application Free For iPHONE and iPOD Touch users
CBS Mobile and Entertainment Tonight announced today the launch of its free "ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT" application, bringing the latest entertainment news headlines to iPhone and iPod touch users. Through these new mobile offerings, the #1 entertainment news magazine show "Entertainment Tonight" ... more »
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Mar 31, 2009
Betawave Corporation Reports Fiscal Year 2008 Results and Reports a 270% Increase in Total Revenues Compared To Prior Fiscal Year
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - March 31, 2009 - Betawave Corporation (OTCBB: BWAV, www.betawave.com), the first attention-based digital media company, with a domestic reach of over 25 million unique users*, reported its results for the year ended December 31, 2008 and announced a 270% increase in total ... more »
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Mar 24, 2009
Searching For The Next Google
The BBC's Matt Frei takes a tour of Silicon Valley in California to speak to the entrepreneurs vying to set up the next big internet companies. more »
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Mar 19, 2009
MTV Taps Into Mobile Wave with Rhythm NewMedia
Iconic American companies - ranging from the brick-and-mortar to the Internet-based - are paying more attention to their mobile offerings, often partnering with start-ups to reach on-the-go customers. "We want to move with this fast-moving tide," said Douglas Brown, senior vice president of ... more »
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Mar 12, 2009
Ooyala Reaching New Heights With Cloud Computing
Leading online video provider, Ooyala, is seeing record growth, in part due to cloud computing. In less than 2 years, the company has built up a portfolio of customers such as Bebo, Joost, Glam Media, TVGuide, IMG, and hundreds of online video businesses worldwide. Leveraging cloud services ... more »
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Mar 3, 2009
11 cool tech products at DEMO
Home-Account, a Web-based mortgage buying subscription service, is nothing if not timely. "Think of it as a Kayak.com for mortgages: The service grades and analyzes the homeowners and their mortgage, presents scenarios to improve their mortgage and then pinpoints the best realistic mortgage ... more »
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Mar 3, 2009
At DEMO 09: Meet Coveroo
Sometimes it’s the simplest of ideas that makes for a successful business. Among those presenting at here at the DEMO 09 conference in Palm Desert, Calif. to which this applies is Coveroo. If you’re the type of person who likes to put stickers on your notebook or tout your favorite band with a ... more »
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Mar 3, 2009
Personalize your gadgets with Coveroo
As the popularity of portable gadgets continues to grow and their usefulness expands, more and more people are carrying them around all day. But if you have the latest gadget, it just looks like everyone else’s version of that latest gadget, so why not personalize it? That’s where Coveroo ... more »
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Mar 3, 2009
Coveroo Offers Fancy Decals For Phones
Kiosks at malls selling iPod and phone covers, decals and accessories may be going out of business but there’s a new high-tech Silicon Valley competitor to take their place. Coveroo, a San Francisco-based company, is offering custom laser engraving and replacement cellphone covers for ... more »
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Mar 3, 2009
Coveroo Unveils New Unique Cell Phone Covers
At DEMO 09 today, Coveroo unveiled unique additions to its line of custom replacement cell phone covers. Coveroo now supports color, stainless steel, gold and glow-in-the-dark personalization, as well as new artwork categories from more of your favorite brands including Garfield, Family Guy, ... more »
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Mar 2, 2009
From Small Tech Show, New Ideas
A twice-yearly technology showcase has attracted a smaller group of entrepreneurs, but demonstrators this week are plowing ahead with new products and services -- most aimed at saving people time and money. A unit of Citrix Systems Inc., for example, is using the Demo conference in Palm ... more »
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Mar 2, 2009
DEMO 09: Home-Account is Trying to Replace Your Mortgage Broker
To my mind the most intriguing launch at this morning's session of DEMO was Home-Account.com, which is aiming to demystify the mortgage process and make it easy to refinance your home without a mortgage broker. Can a Web site actually replace a mortgage broker, and even if it can, will ... more »
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Mar 2, 2009
DEMO: Home-Account recommends mortagages, without sales motivation
Mortgage brokers, bankers and real estate agents marred their reputations in the past few years by recommending mortgages that many now-broke homeowners couldn't afford. Now Home-Account is unveiling a consumer service that recommends a mortgage solution that takes consumer interests to ... more »
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Mar 2, 2009
HomeAccount.com: Make Sense to Your Mortgage Process
[DEMO 09] This is the perfect product to launch in 2009… I wish it was created two years ago, it may have prevented the mortgage business insanity. HomeAccount.com is a web-based service helps consumer select the best options for their mortgage, just like Consumer Reports, does. ... more »
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Mar 2, 2009
Home-Account launches mortgage-finding service
Home-Account is a mortgage-finding service with a little twist. You tell it about your situation (value of home or amount of refinance you're looking for, location, income, etc.) and it gives you advice on looking better to banks, so you get the good rate--or these days, any rate at all. It ... more »
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Feb 26, 2009
Why BetaWave Has Madison Avenue's Attention
After a decade of experimentation, companies have yet to find a reliable way to burnish their brands online. Research shows barely more than 1 in 1,000 people click on banner ads. What's more, they rarely hang around long enough to absorb a brand message. Former Madison Avenue hotshot Matt ... more »
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Feb 26, 2009
Rhythm’s iPhone Video Apps Shine
I am just about ready to toss the damn plastic guitar and the bloody "Rock Band" game it came with through the frickin' 60-inch Sony HD display that is taunting me with my failure. Until I realize, this is a 60-inch Sony HD display. What am I, crazy? Just frustrated and...wait for it... ... more »
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Feb 25, 2009
Joost Taps Ooyala's Video Uploading Platform Technology
Mountain View, CA (February 25, 2009) - Ooyala Inc., a leading online video technology provider, and Joost, a global Web video service, today announced that Joost will use a new set of ingestion, transcoding and metadata management tools provided by Ooyala. Through this integration, Ooyala and ... more »
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Feb 24, 2009
Dramatic Reduction in Compliance Cost
Skybox Security, Inc, the leader in automated risk and compliance management software, announced recently the general availability of Skybox Assure version 4.1 composed of two products: Firewall Compliance Auditor and Network Compliance Auditor. The new release enables enterprises to automate ... more »
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Feb 4, 2009
Skybox Security First IT Risk and Compliance Management Vendor to Support Juniper Networks Network and Security Manager (NSM) API
Skybox Security, provider of automated risk and compliance management software announced the support for the Juniper Networks new Network and Security Manager (NSM) API. The combined solution enables enterprises to maximize their investment in Juniper firewall security to lower compliance ... more »
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Feb 2, 2009
Radialpoint Named One of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies
MONTREAL, CANADA - February 02, 2009 - Radialpoint, the leading provider of managed Internet security and care services to the world's largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs), is proud to announce that it has been selected a winner of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies award. The prestigious ... more »
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Jan 21, 2009
Fox Searchlight uses Rhythm’s vSNAX for Mobile Video Ads
Fox Searchlight's "Notorious" movie has launched a multichannel mobile campaign to promote the release of the film, which is based on the life of the rapper Christopher George Latore Wallace, popularly known as Biggie Smalls. The Hyperfactory is the agency that handled the mobile initiative. ... more »
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Jan 19, 2009
Up Next: Attention-Based Media
An impression shouldn't be called an impression if it doesn't make one. To date, digital media companies have generally competed with traditional media on the basis of reach. And in mimicking that model, digital media has underplayed the very magic that makes the digital world special: ... more »
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Jan 19, 2009
Under Matt Freeman, GoFish is Reborn as Betawave
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- When Matt Freeman left the CEO post at Tribal DDB last year to helm GoFish, the first thing many of his colleagues in the ad industry wondered was, "GoWhat?" And rightfully so. The tiny company's stock trades on the OTC Bulletin Board for 20 cents, and its pedigree ... more »
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Jan 19, 2009
GoFish Morphs Into Betawave
An announcement that GoFish Corp. is changing its name to Betawave in order to shift its emphasis to attention-based engagement metrics is expected today. Matt Freeman, 39, who joined digital media and entertainment company GoFish in June, remains CEO of Betawave. Company headquarters will ... more »
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Jan 1, 2009
Nokia WRT Plug-in for Aptana Studio
Aptana Studio is a popular web-development environment that offers integrated language support for HTML, DOM, JavaScript™, and CSS technologies, as well as embedded development platforms and databases for PHP, Jaxer, Ruby on Rails, and Python. Aptana Studio is available free of charge under an ... more »
