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May 3, 2012

Daily Mobile Computing Feed – May 3, 2012

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.

  • RIM CEO vows to wow with BlackBerry 10

    • PC Advisor By John Cox | Network World US | 02 May 12 In brief remarks to reporters
    Wednesday, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins revealed little of RIM’s specific plans for the future but confirmed his determination to rebuild RIM as a “mobile computing” powerhouse, … (more)

  • TSMC’s 28nm Based ARM Cortex(TM)-A9 Test Chip Reaches Beyond 3GHz

    • MarketWatch (press release) Using various design signoff conditions, ARM A9 at TSMC 28HPM delivers performance speed range from 1.5GHz to 2.0GHz, suitable for mobile computing, and up to 3.1GHz for high-performance uses. With its wide performance-to-leakage coverage, … (more)

  • VMware to offer enterprise application portal for BYOD

    • ComputerworldUK Collectively, these programs should better allow employees to use their preferred devices to do their jobs – a practice known as BYOD (bring your own device) – while still giving IT administrators the ability to control the user environment, … (more)

  • Symantec bets on BYOD for revenue

    • ZDNet Australia Part of the company’s attack strategy was its purchase of two mobile device-management companies in response to the growing trend of customers bringing their own devices to work (BYOD). These two companies are Nukona, which allows customers to manage … (more)

  • IBM Creates Foundation for Mobile Computing

    • Combination of multiple products and services targets mobile computing opportunities – Looking to give solution providers a leg up in the mobile computing … (more)

  • A Rugged, Mobile Computer Blog: Mobile Computing Comparison …

    • If you have more specific questions or are not completely sure of which system works ideally with your goals, please contact one of our mobile computing … (more)

  • Visage Mobile Secures Strategic Series C Funding From Motorola Solutions

    • MarketWatch (press release) SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Visage, the leader in enterprise mobility management (EMM) that enables businesses to take control of rapidly expanding mobile computing environments, announced today it has secured Series C … (more)

  • Fy12 Federal IT Budget on Track With immixGroup Predictions; Fy13 and

    • Fy14 … MarketWatch (press release) The FY12 IT budget remains close to $80 billion; both civilian and defense agencies continue to focus on telework/mobile computing, cloud computing/virtualization, and cyber security as long term strategies. These predictions are particularly relevant … (more)

  • Juniper joins the BYOD management fray

    • InfoWorld Products for mobile device and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) management include updated Junos software for the Juniper SRX550 Services Gateway and SRX110 Services Gateway; new wireless LAN access points; and additions to Junos and Junos Pulse software. (more)

  • What Is the Difference Between NAC and BYOD?

    • InternetNews.com By Sean Michael Kerner | May 03, 2012 Where is the intersection between the
    current BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend and the NAC trend of a few years ago? According to Juniper Networks, their new policy approach helps enterprises evolve NAC, … (more)

  • Enterproid Named A Time Inc. “Startup to Watch” In 2012 And A “Cool Vendor”

    • By …
    MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Enterproid(TM), maker of the Divide(TM) platform for securely enabling and accelerating “bring your own device” (BYOD) mobility was named to Time Inc.’s second annual list of the “10 NYC Startups to … (more)

  • BYOD wont save you money says Blackpool ICT chief | Guardian …

    • Councils considering implementing bring your own deviceBYOD initiatives should not think of them as a money saving exercise Tony Doyle head of ICT services … (more)

  • Sierra Wireless posts profit on improved gross margins

    • Reuters May 3 (Reuters) – Mobile modem maker Sierra Wireless Inc posted a first-quarter profit, helped in part by higher gross margins and increased strength at its mobile computing unit. For the second quarter, the company expects to earn 18 cents to 21 cents … (more)

  • Sierra Wireless Reports First Quarter 2012 Results

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) The year-over-year revenue increase was driven by growth in both our M2M and Mobile Computing lines of business. M2M revenue was $77.0 million, up 6% compared to $72.7 million in the first quarter of 2011. Mobile Computing revenue was $73.3 million, … (more)

  • BYOD may stimulate job growth in the mobile security industry

    • CenterBeam Despite concerns over security and mobile device management solutions, the BYOD trend has been picking up steam in both businesses and government agencies. According to a recent Bank Info Security article, BYOD may also stimulate job growth in the … (more)

  • BYOD and Mobility Shape Big Data, Cloud Revolution | SiliconANGLE

    • By John Casaretto
    Mobile devices and the BYOD movement are elements of a significant wave of proliferation of a whole new infrastructure paradigm. Virtual offices and remote employment scenarios continue to take hold in the enterprise. The ubiquitous … (more)

  • BYOD policy embraces personalized technology

    • Vancouver Sun As a result, there have been increasing demands for companies, including Best Buy, to implement BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programs. Makes sense, right? How often are our personal devices better than those offered on the job? (more)

Daily Big Data Feed – May 3, 2012

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.

  • Sears Competes On Big Data and Loyalty Programs

    • Forbes Sears has a very intensive big data program to drive customer loyalty; the sophistication surprised me and should interest investors. I interviewed Dr. Phil Shelley, CTO at Sears Holdings Corporations about Sears’ use the open-source Hadoop analytics … (more)

  • Is There Big Money in Big Data?

    • Technology Review Few ideas hold more sway among entrepreneurs and investors these days than “Big Data.” The idea is that we are now collecting so much information about people from their online behavior and, especially, through their mobile phones that we can make … (more)

  • Datachick gives ‘big data’ a verbal beat down at Enterprise Data World

    • TechTarget ATLANTA — The much-hyped concept of “big data” and all the tools that fall under the big data heading got seriously roasted Monday night at the Enterprise Data World conference. The humorous verbal shellacking of big data — which generated plenty of … (more)

  • Data Science Summit

    • InformationWeek Join us again this year for new perspectives and lively debate on the state of data science, PLUS: Engaging content for both executives and practitioners such as “The Secrets of Data-Driven Business Transformation” and “Navigating the Road from … (more)

  • Microsoft Research opens New York City lab

    • InformationWeek We’ve long noted the need for data science types who can bridge between us. And now, to my utter delight, a new lab is emerging to complement our lab. The folks who are going to serve as the founding members of the new NYC lab are computer scientists, … (more)

  • Revolutions: Yes, you need more than just R for Big Data Analytics

    • By David Smith
    This is a great illustration of why the data science process is a valuable one for extracting information from Big Data, because it combines tool expertise with statistical expertise and the domain expertise required to understand the problem and … (more)

  • Tim Hwang Isn’t A Lawyer, But He Plays One Online

    • Fast Company People like author/Onion digital media maverick Baratunde Thurston, Greylock Data Scientist DJ Patil, Microsoft Senior Researcher danah boyd, and GE’s Beth Comstock. This series continues to explore the new values of GenFlux. Find more Fluxers here. (more)

  • Launch of the Kaggle Data Science Wiki | No Free Hunch

    • Our new Kaggle developer, Adam Kennedy, introduces the new Kaggle Wiki: The Kaggle Public Wiki launches today in Beta. We have built it from the ground … (more)

  • Data Science Hackathon

    • Participate in DS12-Data Science Chicago Hackathon! The aim of the hackathon is to promote Data Science and show the world what is possible today … (more)

  • Yes, you need more than just R for Big Data Analytics.

    • Smart Data Collective This is a great illustration of why the data science process is a valuable one for extracting information from Big Data, because it combines tool expertise with statistical expertise and the domain expertise required to understand the problem and the … (more)

  • No Such Thing As “Big Data,” But It Will Change Your Business Anyway

    • PC Magazine By Michael J. Miller Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about “big data;”
    there are various new applications from Hadoop and NoSQL and all sorts of new analytics software. I’ve spent a lot of time talking to people and thinking about these trends … (more)

  • DataSift Takes Big Data Analytics of Social Networks to the Next Level

    • SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) Is Your Business 100% Ready for the New Era of Cloud Computing and Big Data? Come to New York and get yourself up to date with the Big Data revolution! As advanced data storage, access and analytics technologies aimed at handling high-volume and/or … (more)

  • Welcome to the Real World

    • Forbes In my last blog I defined Big Data as any body of information that is so big it cannot be analyzed directly for profitable use in its raw form. Since I wrote that I’ve had a number of conversations with Big Data providers, tool-makers and users, … (more)

  • Wireless Big Data in the Cloud | The Health Care Blog

    • By Joseph Kvedar
    The term Big Data is a colloquialism referring to the power of collecting and analyzing large data sets. The companies that provide storage and super-computing services are salivating at the opportunities to bring this technology to healthcare. (more)

  • Strata Week: Google offers big data analytics – O’Reilly Radar

    • By Audrey Watters
    In this week’s data news, Google’s BigQuery opens up to everyone, the Data Journalism Handbook is released, and the open data movement is called to the mat. (more)

  • The Linked Data Underlying Big Data – semanticweb.com

    • By Angela Guess
    Philip Fennell of O’Reilly recently commented on Tom Koulopoulos’s keynote speech at the recent MarkLogic World conference. (more)

  • Big data, cloud and Smarter Cities | Thoughts on Cloud Blog

    • By KyungSoon Um
    To manage massive amounts of various data types generated rapidly every day, big data technology is essential for the Smarter Cities environment. Whereas smart sensors and equipment, detecting huge volumes of data, are the sensory … (more)

  • Revolutions: Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop

    • By David Smith
    The open-source RHadoop project makes it easier to extract data from Hadoop for analysis with R, and to run R within the nodes of the Hadoop cluster — essentially, to transform Hadoop into a massively-parallel statistical computing cluster … (more)

  • Kyruus Takes Big Data Approach to Identify Qualified Physicians

    • Xconomy Angel investors Jonathan Bush, Ed Park, John Goldsmith, and James Golden also participated in the deal for Kyruus, which is working at intersection of two booming slices of the Boston technology scene: health IT and big data. Kyruus co-founder and … (more)

Daily Cloud Feed – May 3, 2012

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Daily Log News Feed – May 3, 2012

Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

Daily ITIL News Feed – May 3, 2012

Daily aggregation of ITIL news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.