Guaranteeing school safety is increasingly more difficult. But tech expert Scott Schober has some important points to keep in mind. Even though parents may feel they have no control over their children’s safety once they leave home, he says, technical advances applied with old-fashioned common sense are one way to feel more prepared.
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Read more... [New Technology Keeps Kids Safe In Schools: Parents Breathe A Sigh Of Relief]
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Federal agencies are under increasing pressure to reduce costs while maintaining services. While there are many ways to cut costs, such as contractor cuts, data center diminution, and even the reduction of key services, many IT departments are overlooking a pivotal savings opportunity – diversity. According to a new study by MeriTalk, the government IT network, underwritten by Brocade, moving to a multi-vendor environment reduces capital expenditures while only minimally increasing operating expenditures. The new report, “Infrastructure Independence: Set My IT Free” examines the benefits of a multi-vendor environment and what is holding agencies back from realizing infrastructure independence.
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Read more... [Infrastructure Independence Increases Network Performance, Reduces Operating Expenditures]
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Alliances with Microsoft and Integration with Samsung KNOX Provides Extension of Enterprise Software to iOS, Android and Windows 8 Devices
AgreeYa Mobility, a mobile-engineering product and service firm headquartered in Mountain View, California, has introduced Onvelop, a first-of-its-kind intuitive, unified collaboration and communication platform. Onvelop utilizes licensed Microsoft protocols to provide secure access to enterprise server software such as SharePoint, Lync, Office 365 and more from smartphones and tablets across multiple operating systems like iOS, Android and Windows 8 devices.
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Read more... [ONVELOP UNIFIED COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION PLATFORM BRINGS ENTERPRISE MOBILITY AND ENABLES BYOD FOR SHAREPOINT, LYNC AND OFFICE 365 CUSTOMERS]
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Using a building’s analytics and mobile gamification by employees to save energy and money for companies
Intelen, the leading start-up in building analytics and game mechanics applications for energy efficiency, has announced its participation in the one of the largest exhibitions worldwide, CeBIT 2013 in Hanover, Germany.
The company is one of the top-50 winners from the Code_n global digital innovation contest for innovative CleanTech startups (http://www.code-n.org/cebit/startups) and will present in Hanover an updated building analytics product enhanced with a special engagement platform that puts the consumers and employees of big commercial buildings in a continuous social gamification process to save energy by changing their collective behavior.
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Read more... [Intelen announces the new version of Building Analytics v2 with an enhanced Engagement platform for behavioral analytics]
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The divorce process is often muddied with a number of issues -- all of which are saturated with heavy emotions and stress. Property division, child custody and visitation rights are just a few subjects that are a part of the process.
In the midst of it all, many individuals fail to consider how angry comments on Facebook or Twitter might affect their divorce. If you are dealing with the end of your marriage, you may want to reflect on the online social presence of you and your former partner.
According to the president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, managing an online footprint is becoming a regular part of divorce conversations as social networks become mainstream ways of communicating information about life.
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Read more... [How does your online social media presence affect your divorce?]
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Entrepreneurial drive comes naturally for two high school boys in Chicago who launched a start-up DJ business a year ago. One of them is a first-generation Mexican with a 4.0 GPA who takes honors Calculus and Physics. He is going to college to be a Doctor. The boys built their company from scratch, bought their own equipment, and have engagements every week. The business is cash-flow positive and the boys are saving their profits for college.
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Read more... [Two Boys Launch Entrepreneurial Start-Up, Then Invited to DJ Their High School Turnabout]
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Bit Refinery today announced that it has joined the Zerto Cloud Disaster Recovery Ecosystem (ZCE) to offer clients cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) services powered by Zerto's award-winning hypervisor-based solution, Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR). As a member of the ecosystem, Bit Refinery is able to provide unparalleled, real-time cloud DR services, enabling businesses of all sizes to cost-effectively protect production applications both to the cloud and in the cloud.
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Read more... [Bit Refinery Joins Zerto Cloud Disaster Recovery Ecosystem]
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SuChef, LLC announced today the launch of its new website Su-Chef.com, in preparation for the upcoming launch of the innovative SuChef mobile recipe app for iPhone and android. SuChef helps users save money and time on groceries, shopping, meal planning and cooking by instantly searching the database of more than 100,000 recipes to find recipe options for ingredients already on hand.
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Read more... [What to Cook: SuChef Launches Website for Soon-to-be-released Money and Time Saving Recipe App]
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AQB, an Austin-based small business consulting firm, today announces new corporate blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts to increase customer engagement on the latest Intuit Quickbooks offerings and SMB news. Well-known for offering comprehensive QuickBooks training videos, AQB will now offer the blog, Facebook and Twitter weekly to feature upcoming training videos, as well as company and client news, press releases, system updates and Intuit news.
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Read more... [QuickBooks Consulting Firm Engages Small Business Owners with New Social Media Platforms]
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SugarOutfitters, a SugarCRM module discovery service and marketplace, today announced the launch of its platform. Dedicated to SugarCRM modules, themes, integrations, and other similar solutions, SugarOutfitters has built an ecosystem around the popular customer relationship management (CRM) application.
“We take the hit-and-miss experience with finding solutions for various needs and turn it into a can’t-miss experience backed by our Satisfaction Guarantee,” said Chad Hutchins, Co-Founder of SugarOutfitters. “With every product on SugarOutfitters being automatically scanned, manually reviewed, and peer verified, users are assured to the quality of each product.”
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Read more... [SugarOutfitters Launches Third Party App Store for SugarCRM]
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Glassbeam Inc., the leading provider of Big Data applications for machine data analytics, is launching a new product at the O'Reilly Strata Conference, that simplifies analyzing log and other multi-structured data. Glassbeam Search enables IT and Business users to search on application and machine logs with powerful metadata derived from combining its patent pending SPL™ language with a distributed search platform.
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Read more... [Glassbeam Launches a Cloud Based Unified Search and Log Management Application]
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The new Lilitab Counter iPad Kiosk swivels, tilts and rotates for easy customer interactions in retail, restaurant, hotel, medical and tradeshow settings. Engage and educate customers across the counter using the versatile and customized features.
Customers prefer to do it themselves, and the new Lilitab Counter iPad Kiosk puts them in control for the best touch screen interaction. The Lilitab Counter pivots freely or with hard stops set at 90˚ or 180˚ to allow for multi-angle viewing. The convenient tilt feature lets staff and customers achieve best viewing angles for individual height and maximum glare reduction. Provide customers with control to set the tilt to their best angle, or fix the angle with an easy turn of a screw in this versatile self service kiosk.
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Read more... [Engage More Customers With Touch Screen Access And The Flexible Lilitab Counter iPad Kiosk]
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