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The Interface Financial Group (IFG) Encourages Small Businesses to Employ Invoice Factoring for Health Care Reform Costs

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:19:48 EDT

The Interface Financial Group (IFG), North America's largest alternative funding source for small businesses, announced that the company's alternative financing solutions including invoice factoring can assist small businesses who are facing the impending costs surrounding the health care reform bill.

Majority of Physicians Express Unfavorable Opinions of Health Care Reform Plan

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:57:49 EDT

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New ZOOZbeat Jackson 5 Remix iPhone App and Contest With Over $6,000 in Prizes Launched Today on Apple iTunes App Store

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:15:48 EDT

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Capital G Hosts Steve Forbes at Private Wealth Conference in Bermuda

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:18:59 EDT

Picturesque Bermuda is the landscape for the 1st Annual Capital G Private Wealth Conference, to be held on April 13, 2010, at the Tucker's Point Resort & Spa in Tucker's Town, Bermuda.

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:44:54 EDT

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SpotMixer Drives New Business Revenue and Reduces Production Costs With Two New Services Tailored for Cable and Broadcast TV

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:05:03 EDT

SpotMixer (http://www.SpotMixer.com), the industry-leading web-based video and TV advertising solution, announces its SpotMixer.tv services designed specifically for local TV ad sales and production:

Cloud Expo New York, Prague, and San Francisco Sponsors

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Cloud Computing in 2010 will be a paradigm shifting technology trend and Cloud Expo is where the Cloud change will form as the single most significant industry event we enter a new decade. Since we announced Cloud Expo three years ago in 2007 and launched it in March of 2008 in New York City, I have been personally working with the companies that are in leadership positions as the Cloud technologies form. We recently presented the 4th International Cloud Computing & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The expo floor was packed for three days. Today, we have close to a 100% resign rate among our sponsors for the upcoming Cloud Expo, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. I would like to take this opportunity to share some tips with all our valued sponsors, exhibitors, our rock start faculty, as well as our delegates.

PALAZZO Appoints Brad Brinegar, McKinney Chairman and CEO, to Board of Advisors

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:37:18 EDT

Rob Solomon Joins Groupon As President and Chief Operating Officer

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:07:53 EDT

Groupon (http://www.groupon.com), the social commerce website that offers a daily deal on the best local goods, services and cultural events in more than 40 cities nationwide, is pleased to announce that Rob Solomon has joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer.

Wavefront Hooks CNN Contributor Up With VeriCorder Mobile Journalism App

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:06:44 EDT

Citizen journalist and CNN's leading iReporter Chris Morrow travels the world, camera in hand, documenting stories for the international news network. A mobile phone is possibly the second most essential piece of equipment for Morrow. During her 17 days covering the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver last month, Morrow relied heavily on a smart phone sponsored by B.C.'s mobile technology commercialization center Wavefront while producing more than 30 iReports for the network with the majority aired on CNN and HLN.

Virtual Storage and Social Media: What Did EMC Not Announce?

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:45:00 EDT

Synopsis: EMC made a vision statement in a recent multimedia briefing that has a social networking angle as well as storage virtualization, virtual storage, public and private clouds.

Basically EMC provided a vision preview of in a social media networking friendly manner of a vision being refereed to initially as EMC Virtual Storage (aka twitter hash tag #emcvs) which of course sounds similar to a pharmacy chain.

The vision includes stirring up the industry with a new discussion around virtual storage compared to the decade old coverage of storage virtualization.

The underlying theme of this vision is similar to that of virtual serves vs. server virtualization including the ability to move servers around, so to should there be the ability to move data around more freely on a local or global basis and in real or near real time. In other words, breaking the decades long affinity that has existed between data storage and the data that exists on it (Figure 1). Buzzword bingo themes include federated storage, virtual storage, public and private cloud along with global cache coherency among others.

Figure 1: EMC Virtual Storage (EMCVS) Vision

The rest of the story

On Thursday March 11th 2010 Pat Gelsinger (EMC President and COO, Information Infrastructure Products) held an interactive briefing with the global analyst community pertaining to future EMC trajectory or visions. One of the interesting things about this session was that it was not unique to industry analysts nor was it under NDA.

For example, here is a link that if still active, should provide access to the briefing material.

The vision being talked about include those that EMC has talked about in the past such as virtualized data centers, or, putting a spin on the phrase data center virtualization, along with public and private clouds as well as infrastructure resource management virtualization (Figure 2):

Figure 2: Public and Private Clouds along with Virtual Data Centers

Figure 2 is a fairly common slide used in many EMC discussions positing public and private clouds along with virtualized data centers.

Figure 3: Tenants of the EMC Virtual Storage (EMCVS) vision

Figure 4: Enabling mobile data, breaking data and storage affinity

Figure 5: Enabling teleporting and virtual storage

Thus setting up the story for the need and benefit of distributed cache coherency, similar to distributed lock management (DLM) used on local and wide area clustered file systems for maintain data integrity.

Figure 6: Leveraging distributed cache coherency

This discussion around distributed cache coherency should ring Dejavu of IBM GDPS (Global Dispersed Parallel Sysplex) for Mainframe, OpenVMS distributed lock management for VAX and Alpha clusters, Oracle RAC, or other parallel and clustered file systems among others. Likewise for those familiar with technology from Yotta Yotta, this should also ring familiar.

However while many are jumping on the Yotta Yotta familiarity bandwagon given comments made by Pat Gelsinger, something that came to mind is what about EMC GDDR? Do not worry if that is an acronym or product you are not up on as an EMC follower as it stands for EMC Geographically Dispersed Disaster (GDDR) solution that is an alternative to IBMs proprietary GDPS. Perhaps there is none, perhaps this is some, however what role if any including lessons learned will come from EMCs experience with GDDR not to mention other clustered file systems?

Figure 7: The EMC vision as presented

One of the interesting things about the vision announcement and perhaps part of floating it out for discussion was a comment made by Pat Gelsinger. That comment was about enabling the wild Wild West for IT, something that perhaps one generation might enjoy, however a notion another would soon forget. Im sure the EMC marke3ting team including their new chief marketing officer (CMO) Jeremy Burton can fine tune with time.

More on the social networking and non NDA angle

As is often the case with many other vendors, these types of customer, partner, analyst or media briefings (either online or in person) are under some form of NDA or embargo as they contain forward looking, yet to be announced products, solutions, technologies or other business initiatives. Note, these types of NDA discussions are not typically the same as those that portray or pretend to be NDA in order to sound more important a few days before an announcement that has already been leaked to get extra coverage or what are also known as media embargos.

After some amount of time, usually the information is formerly made public that was covered in advanced briefings, along with additional details. Sometimes material covered under NDA is done so in advanced such that third parties can prepare reports, deep dive analysis or assessment and other content that is made available at announcement or shortly there. The material is often prepared partners, vars, media, analysts, consultants, customers or others outside of the announcing company via different venues ranging from print, online columns, blogs, tweets videos and more.

Lately there has been some confusion in the broader IT as well as other industries as to where and how to classify bloggers, tweeters or other social media practionier. After all, is a blogger an analyst, journalist, free lance writer, advisor, vendor, consultant, customer, var, investor, hobbyist, competitor not to mention how does information get feed to them?

Likewise, NDAs and embargo have joined the list of fodder topics that some do not like for various reasons yet like to complain about for others. There is a time and place for real NDAs that cover and address material, discussions and other information that should not be shared. However all to often NDAs get watered down particularly on the press release games where a vendor or public relations firm (PR) will dangle an announcement briefing a couple of days or perhaps a week or two prior to an announcement under the guise that it not be disclosed prior to formal announcement.

Where these NDAs get tricky is that often they are honored by some and ignored by others, thus, those who honor the agreement get left behind by those who break the story. Personally I do not mind real NDA that are tied to real confidential material, discussion or other information that needs to be kept under wraps for various reasons. However the value or issues of NDA is whole different discussion, for now, lets get back to what EMC did not announce in their recent non-NDA briefing.

Different organizations are addressing social media in various ways, some ignoring it, others embracing it regardless of what it is. EMC is an example of a vendor who has embraced social networking and social media along with traditional means of developing and maintaining relations with the media (media or press relations), customers, partners, vars, consultants, investors (e.g. investor relations) as well as analysts (analyst relations).

For example, EMC works with analysts in traditional ways as they do with the media and other groups, however they also recognize that while some analysts (or media or investors or partners or customers or vars etc) blog and tweet (among other social networking mediums), not all do (as is also the case with media, customers, vars and so forth). Likewise EMC from a social media and networking perspective does not appear to define audiences based on the medium or tool that they use, rather, in a matrix or multi dimensional approach.

That is, an analyst with a blog is a blogger, a var or independent consultant with a blog is a blogger, or a media person including free lance writers, journalist, reporters or publisher with a blog is a blogger as are vars, advisors, partners and competitors with blogs also treated as bloggers.

Some of the 2009 EMC Bloggers Lounge Visitors

Thus at their EMCworld event, admission to the bloggers lounge is as simple and non exclusive as having a blog to join regardless of what your role or usage of a blog happens to be. On the other hand, information is communicated via different channels such as for traditional press via public relations folks, investors through investors relations, analysts via analyst relations, partners and customers through their venues and so forth.

When you think about it, makes sense as after all, EMC sells and attaches storage to mainframes, open systems Windows, UNIX, Linux as well as virtual servers that use different tools, protocols, languages and points of interest. Thus it should not be surprising that their approach to communicating with different audiences leverage various mediums for diverse messages at multiple points in time.

What does all of this social media discussion have to do with the March 11 EMC event?

In my opinion, this was an experiment of sorts of EMC to test the waters by floating a new vision to their traditional pre brief audience in advance of talking with media prior to an actual announcement.

That is, EMC did not announce a new product, technology, initiative, business alliance or customer event, rather a vision and trajectory or signaling what they may be doing in the future.

How this ties to social media and networking is that rather than being an event only for those media, bloggers, tweeters, customers, consultants, vars, free lancers, partners or others who agreed to do so under NDA, EMC used the venue as an advance sounding board of sorts.

That is, by sticking to broad vision vs. propriety and confidential or sensitive topics, the discussion has been put out in advance in the open to stimulate discussion in traditional reports, articles, columns or related venues not to mention in temporal real time via twitter not to mention via blogs and beyond.

Does this mean EMC will be moving away from NDAs anytime soon? I do not think so as there is still very much a need for advanced (and not a couple of weeks prior to announcement) types of discussion around sensitive information. For example with the trajectory or visionary discussion last week by EMC, the short presentation and discussion, limited slides prompt more questions than they address.

Perhaps what we are seeing is a new approach or technique of how organizations can use and bring social networking mediums into the mainstream business process as opposed to being perceived as niche or experimental mediums.

The reason I think it was an experiment is that EMC practices both traditional analyst/media relations along with emerging social media networking relations that includes practioners that span both audiences. For some the social media bloggers and tweeters are a different audience than traditional media, writers, consultants or analysts, that is, they are a separate and unique audience.

Thus, it is in my opinion and like human knees, elbows, feet, hands, ears as well as, well, you get the picture I think that there are many different views or thoughts not to mention interpretations of social media, social networking, blogging, analysts, consultants, advisors, media or press, customers, partners, and so on with diverse roles, functions and needs.

Where this comes back to the topic of last weeks discussion is that of storage virtualization vs. virtual storage. Rest assured in the time since the EMC briefing and certainly in the weeks or months to come, there will be penalty of knees, elbows, hands and other body parts flying and signaling what is a particular view or definition of storage virtualization vs. virtual storage.

Of course, some of these will be more entertaining than others ranging from well rehearsed, in some cases over the past decade or more to new and perhaps even revolutionary ones of what is and what is not storage virtualization vs. virtual storage, let alone cloud vs. cluster vs. grid vs. federated and beyond.

Additional Comments and thoughts

In general, I like the trajectory vision EMC is rolling out even if it causes confusion between what is virtual storage vs. storage virtualization, after all, we have been hearing about storage virtualization for over a decade now if not longer. Likewise, there has been plenty of talk about public clouds so it is refreshing to see more discussion and less cloud ware or cloud marketecture and how to actually leverage what you have to adopt private cloud practices.

I suspect that as the EMC competition starts to hear or piece together what they think this vision is or is not, we should also start to hear some interesting stories, spins, counter pitches, debates, twitter fights, blog slams and YouTube videos, all of which also happen to consume more storage.

I also like what EMC is doing with social media and networking as a means or medium for building and maintain relationships as well as for information exchange complimenting traditional means and mediums.

In other words, EMC is succeeding with social networking by not using it just as another megaphone to talk at or over people, rather, as a means to engage, to get to know, to challenge, to exchange regardless of if you are a so called independent blogger, twitter, analyst, medial, constant, customer, var, investor, partner among others.

If you are not already doing so, here are some EMC folks who actively participate in two way dialogues across different areas with @lendevanna helping to facilitate and leverage the masses of various people and subject matter experts including @chuckhollis @chrisleblanc @cxi @davegraham @gminks @mike_fishman @stevetodd @storageanarchy @storagezilla @Stu and @vcto among many others.

Note that for you non twitter types, the previous are twitter handles (names or addresses) that can be accessed by putting http://twitter.com in place of the @ sign. For example @storageio = http://twitter.com/storageio

Additional Comments and thoughts:

Some comments and thoughts among others that I posted via twitter last week during the briefing event:

Here are some twitter comments that I posted last week during the event with hash tag #emcvs:

Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call NDA material = Negative
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call a product announcement = NOpe
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call a statement of direction = Kind of
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call a hint of future functionality = probably
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to be shared with general public = R U reading this?
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to be discussed further = Yup
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to confuse the industry = Maybe
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to confuse customers = Depends on story teller
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to confuse competition = probably
Is what was presented on the #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call going to provide fodder/fuel for bloggers = Yup
Anything else to add about #emcvs #it #storage #virtualization call today = Stay tuned, watch and listen for more!

Some additional questions and my perspectives on those include:

What did EMC announce? Nothing, it was not an announcement; it was a statement of vision.

Why did EMC hold a briefing without an NDA and yet nothing was announced? It is my opinion that EMC has a vision that they want to float an idea or direction, thus, sharing a vision to get discussions going without actually announcing a specific product or technology.

Is this going to be a repackaged version of the Invista storage virtualization platform? I do not believe so.

Is this going to be a repackaged version of the intellectual property (IP) assets that EMC picked up from the defunct startup called Yotta Yotta? Given some references to, along with what some of the themes and discussions center around, it is my guess that there is some Yotta Yotta IP along with other technologies that may be part of any future possible solution.

Who or what is YottaYotta? They were a late dot com startup founded in 2000 that went through various incarnations and value propositions with some solutions that shipped. Some of the late era IP included distributed cache coherency and distance enablement of large scale federated storage on a global basis.

Can the Yotta Yotta (or here) technology really scale? That remains to be seen, Yotta Yotta had some interesting demos, proof of concept, early adopters and big plans, however they also amounted to Nada Nada, perhaps EMC can make a Lotta Lotta out of it!

Other questions are still waiting for answers including among others:

Will EMC Virtual Storage (aka emcvs) become a common cure for typical IT infrastructure ailments?

Will this restart the debate around the golden rule of virtualization being whoever controls the virtualization controls the gold and thus vendors lock in?

Will this be a members only vision where only certain partners can participate?

What will other competitors respond with, technology, and marketecture, FUD or something else?

What are the specific details of when, where and how the vision is implemented?

What will all of this cost, will it work with existing products or is a forklift upgrade needed?

Has EMC bitten off more than they can chew or deliver on or is Pat Gelsinger and his crew racing down a mountain and out in front of their skis, or, is this brilliance beyond what we mere mortals can yet comprehend?

Can global data cache coherency really be deployed with data integrity on a global and large scale without negatively impacting performance?

Can EMC make Lotta Lotta with this vision?

Here is what some of the EMC bloggers have had to say so far:

Chuck Hollis aka @chuckhollis had this to say

Stuart Miniman aka @stu had this to say

Summing it up for now

Lets see how the rest of the industry responds to this as the vision rolls out and perhaps sooner vs. later becomes technology that gets deployed and used.

Im skeptical until more details are understood, however I also like it and intrigued by it if it can actually jump from Yotta Yotta slide ware to Lotta Lotta deployments.

Cheers
Gs

Greg Schulz - Author The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
twitter @storageio

Open Mobile Solutions Announces Panel and Speaker Line-up for OMS Developer Pitch Sessions at International CTIA WIRELESS 2010®

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:00:00 EDT

Kenmore, WA, March 18, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Today, Open Mobile Solutions (OMS), the business to business marketplace for the mobile application lifecycle, announced its panelist line-up for the first OMS Developer Pitch Sessions series being held as part of “Apps World” at International CTIA WIRELESS 2010®. In each of the hour-long pitch sessions, five selected mobile app creators will present their mobile application to a distinguished panel of industry experts, who will provide meaningful feedback in one of four functional areas:

· Raising Money: March 24, 4-5pm
· Monetizing Apps: March 24, 11am-12pm
· Gaining Distribution:
- Panel A: March 23, 2-3pm
- Panel B: March 24, 3-4pm

The Gold Sponsors for the OMS Developer Pitch Sessions are Qualcomm Ventures and Symbian Foundation, and Silver Sponsors are GetJar and Flurry. The Panelists for the event represent a wide range of companies that are key stakeholders in the mobile application ecosystem - Symbian, Qualcomm, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion and GetJar. Other panelists come from the advertising agency and venture capital worlds representing – Qualcomm Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Seapoint Ventures, Madrona Ventures, Redpoint, Velti, Ansible Mobile, Mindshare and Razorfish.

The OMS Developer Pitch Sessions also feature a great line-up of presenting app creators whose businesses represent a wide range of business models, target consumer segments and mobile platforms, distribution plans, monetization strategies and stage of the business. The apps represented are – Soundtrckr, Mobisante, TextArrest, Nearbynow, Anttenna, Right Deal Right Now, Caregiver, Live Colony, Micello, Lumosity, Asurion Mobile Addressbook, Glympse, Rhythm New Media, Yap, Xtop, Fring, Flirtomatic, Pageonce, Snapfinger from Kudzu Interactive and Inrix Traffic.

“Open Mobile Solutions is proud to bring the OMS Developer Pitch Sessions to CTIA,” said Jai Jaisimha, CEO, Open Mobile Solutions. “We are huge believers in the need for a dialog between distribution platforms, brands and app creators to create compelling and enduring apps that serve consumers and enterprises. We are so excited about this space that we are building this event and a new company around it. OMS aims to serve the go-to-market needs of app creators and enable the overall success of the ecosystem.”

“Developers represent CTIA’s third largest attendee demographic and have been coming to CTIA events since 1994. Open Mobile Solutions has a terrific line-up in place for the developer community,” said Robert Mesirow, vice president and show director for CTIA. “Our conference programming will bring together some of the most influential players in the mobile ecosystem today and provide a platform for attendees to learn how new wireless technologies that will impact their bottom line.”

About Open Mobile Solutions
Launching as a Beta at International CTIA Wireless 2010, Open Mobile Solutions is the premier web-based marketplace for mobile app creators to be connected to the best mobile app builders to bring their ideas to life. OMS’s stringent app builder evaluation process, guided workflow and bidded marketplace environment enable the best ROI, highest quality and fastest time to market. OMS is founded by Jai Jaisimha, a mobile industry veteran who previously served as VP of Mobile Platforms at AOL.

About CTIA Shows
Celebrating 25 years as the premier global mobile marketplace, International CTIA WIRELESS 2010® brings together all industries advanced by wireless technology for three days of intense business, learning and networking in Las Vegas, March 23-25. CTIA WIRELESS IT&E 2010 takes place in San Francisco, October 6-8. Visit www.ctiashow.com.

CTIA-The Wireless Association® is the international association for the wireless telecommunications industry, representing carriers, manufacturers and wireless Internet providers. CTIA is also recognized as the producer of two annual expositions. For more association information, visit www.ctia.org.

For more information:
E-mail info@openmobilesolutions.com or call 206-290-2314

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Hult International Business School, Committed to Training the Leaders of Today's Digital Age, Launches Innovative Master of Digital Marketing Program

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:02:48 EDT

The rapid replacement of classified ads and traditional media by Facebook, Twitter, blogs and video sharing sites has created a severe shortage of talented professionals who can think innovatively and capitalize on the marketing opportunities presented by digital channels.

Coming to a Screen Near You – iCON

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:15:00 EDT

Dan Lyons, the modern American Clark Kent known, loved and loathed as the Fake Steve Jobs, has been signed by EPIX, the online TV and film network, to create a half-hour Silicon Valley comedy series with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles called iCON, “a study of ego, power and greed.” Charles claimed in a press release that it will be “nothing less than a modern Citizen Kane.” The composite centerpiece of the “scabrous satire of Silicon Valley and its most famous citizen” is a guy named Tom Rhodes. iCon, by the way, was the name of that unauthorized biography that Jobs ordered off the shelves of Apple stores.

Music Services Partners With RightsFlow for Blanket Mechanical Licensing and Royalty Services

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:21:14 EDT

Kamar Shah of Vortex Mobile Set to Speak at International CTIA Wireless 2010® in Las Vegas

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:31:06 EDT

Vortex Mobile today announced that Kamar Shah, Managing Director will speak at the educational conference program during International CTIA WIRELESS 2010^®, taking place March 23-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

North Bridge and 24 Open Source Leaders Announce 2010 ‘Future of Open Source’ Annual Survey Results at Computerworld’s OSBC

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:00:27 EDT

Today at Computerworld’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), a panel of top experts in the commercial open source industry, including executives from Acquia, Black Duck, North Bridge Venture Partners, Red Hat, and SugarCRM, announced the results of the North Bridge Venture Partners' annual ‘Future of Open Source’ survey. The survey results, collected from over 550 respondents including both vendors and non-vendors, highlight a range of significant issues continuing to impact the open source software landscape. Economic conditions, key market drivers and forecast for the coming year are among the topics taking center stage. The session will also gather real-time feedback from attendees via live text votes throughout the panel.

Augme Expands Mobile Health Division Capitalizing on Major Growth Trend in Pharmaceutical Mobile Marketing

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:54:39 EDT

Augme Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:MDVX), a leading technology and services leader in interactive media marketing platforms, announced today that the company is expanding Augme Mobile Health as part of its business development strategy to capitalize on major growth trends in pharmaceutical mobile marketing and advertising. Augme Mobile Health, based on Augme’s patented AD LIFE™ platform, is the first and only comprehensive, patented, Web-based platform that gives pharmaceutical marketers and their agencies the ability to create, manage and track two-way HIPAA-compliant communications between traditional media and mobile phones.

NSDesign Creates Bespoke Social Networking Business Site

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:18:00 EDT

Social networking expert NSDesign has launched a bespoke business social networking platform for the International Business Technology and Innovation Exchange (IBTIX) - www.ibtix.com. The £25,000 contract is one of the largest NSDesign has secured to date and is another significant addition to the company’s growing portfolio. The network will allow innovative businesses to showcase their products and services and connect with new customers using state of the art business social networking tools. Managing Director of NSDesign, Gary Ennis, said: “We are delighted to have been working with IBTIX as this network can offer companies like ourselves the opportunity to acquire new business and grow. Not only has this been one of our biggest financial contracts to date but working with IBTIX has given us the opportunity to be introduced to major international companies.”

Cox Business Spreads Data Security Across All Markets Through Online Backup

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:00:14 EDT

Business-Class Online Backup Service Free for Cox Business Internet Customers

Who Was First to Anticipate New Media's Coming Importance?

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:15:00 EDT

It is often said that becoming an entrepreneur is the modern-day equivalent of choosing to be a pioneer on the old frontier. Only people with certain strength of fiber decide to found companies. They tend to be forward thinkers by nature, natural born pathfinders. But in age that loves metrics, how do you measure the extent to which the true trail-blazer is ahead of the pack? How prescient does a go-getter's prescience need to be to qualify for the label of business 'visionary'? Well let us take the current new-media movement as one example. The precursor to that, undeniably, was the rapid popularization of Internet itself - without which New Media would not ever have been possible.

CyberLink Launches PowerDVD 10

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:12:24 EDT

CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), innovative solutions provider for the connected media lifestyle, today released CyberLink PowerDVD 10, an advanced universal media player for the PC that upgrades and delivers the best playback experience via a range of TrueTheater technologies.

Fisher Communications Promotes Randa Minkarah to SVP Business Development

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:35:38 EDT

Fisher Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSCI), a leader in local media innovation, announced today that Randa Minkarah has been named Senior Vice President Business Development for Fisher Communications, responsible for developing revenue generating initiatives through strategic alliances and partnerships.

Sonicbids Helps Bands Get Gigs at South By Southwest

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:16:33 EDT

Sonicbids, the website that helps bands get gigs, is enabling bands from around the world to play the South by Southwest music conference this week in Austin.

2010 ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Competition Winners Announced

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:01:28 EDT

Two aspiring game designers take home first prize

Americans Wants News, Not Newspapers

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:45:00 EDT

Pew Internet has released its contribution to Pew’s annual report on the state of the news media. My take on the results: Online users generally want news, but we don’t much care where it comes from. 71% of us get our news online, but only 35% of us have a favorite site. Of those 35%, only 65% check it every day. And only 18% of us are willing to pay for online news (a percentage that includes those of us who already do pay). Most of us which would switch sites if they began charging.

Spring Design Launches U.S. Web Store for Ordering Alex eReader

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:17:05 EDT

Spring Design today announced that the dual screen multimedia Alex™ eReader will be available online at www.springdesign.com today for $399. Customers may visit the online store to pre-order their Android-based Alex eReader supporting eBooks in EPUB, PDF, HTML and TXT formats. With Alex's full Internet browsing using WiFi connectivity, users can read and download books, access online audio and video content including YouTube videos, communicate using Gmail and chat and use a number Google Android applications. Due to localization of international versions with partners, pre-orders placed on the Web in the U.S., will be shipped no later than mid-April.

Dove Foundation Launches Mobile App for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:40:10 EDT

Cox Hampton Roads Launches New Facebook Page

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:00:40 EDT

Your Friend in the Digital Age becomes Your Facebook Friend

New Conference at BroadcastAsia2010 to Prepare Businesses in Asia for Thriving Content Creation Market

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:23:02 EDT

The rapid growth of the new media landscape, with its explosion of delivery fronts on the latest consumer technology, has opened limitless market opportunities in content production and distribution. This inclusive media ecosystem supports the entryof smaller new players as it is now possible for development of good, innovative content that appeals to wide audiences on modest budgets.

Demand Media Appoints Joanne Bradford as Chief Revenue Officer

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:01:25 EDT

Demand Media™, a leading content and social media company, today announced that Joanne Bradford joined the company as its Chief Revenue Officer. In this newly-created position, Bradford will oversee the growth of brand advertisers on the company’s top 20* owned and operated websites, as well as the adoption of the company’s professional content and social media platform by business partners. She will report to CEO and co-founder, Richard Rosenblatt.

Financial Social Media Firm Advisōlocity to Develop New Site Content

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:46:00 EDT

Pat Parkin, Principal of S.P. PARKIN & CO. Wealth Advisors, contracted this week with financial social media firm, Advisōlocity, to develop fresh content and a Search Engine Optimization strategy (SEO) for the firm’s new web site. “Additionally, we will evolve the firm’s graphic standards and improve the site’s navigation,” said Zach Hedges, Advisōlocity’s technology director. Mr. Parkin said the goal of the effort is to convey a high-quality, professional identity that is tied in with the firm’s comprehensive client service model. “We are building a legacy of relationships,” he added. “I think the digital world will help me provide additional value to my clients and their families.” D. Bruce Johnston, who recently co-founded the Advisōlocity agency with Mr. Hedges and John Drachman, said, “We offer a comprehensive menu of financial social media solutions to financial advisors like S.P. PARKIN & CO. Wealth Advisors. As they grow their business, our services can grow with them too.”

Universal Motown Republic Group (UMRG) Promotes Wayne Chernin to Senior Vice President of Sales and Field Marketing

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:00:14 EDT

Does Social Media Really Work for Business?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EDT

In West Texas, we have wind gust that match no other; we love our football; sunsets are at their best with no trees to block your view; oil means a lot to us and Tuesday is for Mexican Food tacos! Kent Dean, Director of Field Marketing, with Rosa’s Café recently spoke to our local chapter of the American Advertising Federation. They are so well known for their Taco Tuesdays that when he throws out the statement, “It’s Tuesday” on their Facebook pages hundreds of responses come in immediately with fans chiming in that it’s “Taco Tuesday”. His topic focused on social media – does it really work for business?

Higher One Partners with EverFi to Enhance Financial Literacy Among College Students

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:00:48 EDT

Administrators say they need an interactive financial literacy product to engage students

Second Cup Launches Innovative Way to Help Smart Phone Users Navigate to Second Cup Cafes With Winvolve Inc./Layar B.V.'s Augmented Reality Browser Layar

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:44:12 EDT

Second Cup - Canada's largest specialty coffee franchisor - has launched a cafe locator using the Augmented Reality Browser Layar. Android and iPhone 3GS users can now go to the marketplace or 'apps' store, download Layar and search for the Second Cup Locator. Users can navigate to Second Cup cafes by choosing between a Reality View, a (Google) Map, or List view.

Innovative Food Holdings Announces Launch of Premium Gourmet E-Commerce Web Offering

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:39:48 EDT

Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: IVFH), a marketer and purveyor of over 3,000 high quality gourmet food products throughout the United States to professional chefs and to the gourmet consumer market, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, For The Gourmet Inc., has launched its flagship online retail e-commerce site: www.forthegourmet.com

ViewCast CEO David Stoner Issues Open Letter to Shareholders

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:00:36 EDT

United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria Announces the Social Media Envoy Group

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:00:20 EDT

To Blog or to Tweet?

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EDT

Lately it seems like writing blogs is getting out of fashion, what with the rise of microblogging star Twitter. Something about Twitter is intriguing. I guess the simplicity of writing your thoughts within 140 characters is a force larger that anyone expected. Reminds me of the early days of Google, a sparse screen of white space with ten words. The sheer excitement of entering any word and hitting the enter key and seeing pages of results was a trip, whether the result set was of any use or not.

GOVERNING Is Honored for Editorial Excellence by American Business Media

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:55:47 EST

GOVERNING, a division of e.Republic, Inc., was awarded two Jesse H. Neal Awards from American Business Media for editorial excellence yesterday. The magazine took home honors for Best Single Issue of a Magazine (July 2009) and Best Commentary ("Assessments" by Alan Ehrenhalt).

In Memory of Turhan Selçuk

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:45:00 EST

The last time I saw Turhan Selçuk (88) was at a dinner at his brother İlhan Selçuk's house in 1982 that I attended with my boss Doğan Hızlan. Turhan Ağabey came to dinner with his wife Füruzan and daughter Aslı Selçuk. He loved his daughter Aslı very much. There were six of us that evening at İlhan Ağabey's house. Aslı was a college student at the time, majoring in cinematography. This morning I received an email from Doğan Hızlan. Doğan Ağabey wrote that the funeral will take place at Cumhuriyet headquarters on Saturday at 2 pm. I will try to attend. He will be buried at Hacı Bektaş the same day.

TODAY: Nat'l AHF/Magic Johnson HIV Testing Tour Arrives in Norfolk

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:00:05 EST

Managed Cloud Hosting Contracts Drive iomart Hosting's Growth

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

iomart Hosting the managed hosting and cloud hosting services company, is pleased to announce the recent signing of three new managed hosting contracts which are expected to generate total revenues of approximately GBP1.6M ($2.4M) over the next three years. These complex hosting contracts, with both public and private sector organisations, reflect the emerging and fast growing trend among companies to outsource all or part of their IT services to cloud computing. Examples of cloud managed service contracts won recently include a three year deal to host and manage the web and email platforms for Doctors.net.uk. This is the largest, most active online medical network in the U.K., currently supporting 160,000 registered doctors.

Cox Communications Ranked 21st on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity(R) List

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:43:20 EST

Mike The Pike Productions Growth & Progress Notes in Prep for CEO Q&A

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:34:42 EST

(PINKSHEETS: MIKP)- Mike The Pike Productions, Inc. CEO Mark B. Newbauer announces the 2nd Investment Nation CEO Q&A for 2010 to be hosted by Jeff Montagne at www.InvestmentNation.com on Thursday, March 18th at 6pm EST. All existing and prospective shareholders are encouraged to attend and ask away! The Q&A will feature Newbauer addressing questions which can be posted as of today on www.investmentnation.com by anyone and everyone in regards to the company, its business model/structure and anything past, present or future.

Beyond Commerce, Inc Announces New Website and Business Strategy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:09:19 EST

The newly redesigned website of Beyond Commerce, Inc is live today on the World Wide Web and provides the latest news and information about the Company, its products and technologies.

Dev Ittycheria Joins Bazaarvoice Board of Directors

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:38:35 EST

Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today announced that Dev Ittycheria has joined the Bazaarvoice Board of Directors. Ittycheria, who co-founded BladeLogic and led the company's successful IPO in 2007, most recently served as president of the Enterprise Service Management (ESM) division of BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMC) where he was responsible for a business with $1.2 billion in annual revenue. He brings unparalleled leadership ability and deep experience in building high-growth technology businesses that excel at acquiring customers, delivering outstanding financial results, and building long-term sustainable value.

Showtime Networks and Disney Enter Into Exclusive Output Agreement for DreamWorks Studios' Feature Films

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:07:46 EST

Deal calls for SHOWTIME to air up to 35 DreamWorks Studios' Theatrical Films released between 2010 and 2015