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The Big Apple has long served as home to tech giants. Jacqueline Emigh shares her pick of up-and-coming top tech companies in New York City.
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Jacqueline leverages skills honed as a journalist to write informative and engaging content marketing pieces such as blogs, white papers, case studies, and social media posts, working with business and technology clients both directly and through agencies. Clients have included the following, and many more: Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Verizon, GroupOn, Dell, Oracle, Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA), Yorktel, Financial Information Management Association (FIMA), National Payment, eBay, AC Ventures, Carnival Cruise Line, Walmart, Functionize, and Software AG.
On the journalism side, she has worked full-time as a site editor at Ziff Davis; senior editor at BetaNews. and software editor for TechTarget's TechnologyGuide Division. As a freelance journalist, she's written news stories, features, and reviews for dozens of major sites and magazines. These include PC World, SD (Software Development) Times, eWeek, CIO, Computerworld, Waters Technology, Enterprise Storage Forum, Datamation, HPE Enterprise.nxt, Bankrate.com, Lifewire, Techwalla, Investopedia, Enterprise Storage Forum, Federal Computer Week, and Linux.com, to name a few.
In her three years at TechTarget, Jacqueline wrote, edited and assigned articles for the six TechnologyGuide sites: Notebook Review, Brighthand, Tablet PC Review, Desktop Review, Digital Camera Review, and Printer Comparison. She also assembled and managed a team of freelance writers. She was honored by TechTarget with editorial and "employee of the quarter" awards.
Earlier on in her career, she was named one of the world's "Top 25 Wired Women" by the Webgrrls (sic) industry association.
In 2023, she was awarded certificates of excellence from Authory.com in two content categories: "Experience Leader" and "Long-Form Professional."
She holds a B.S. in Mass Communications, with a journalism concentration, from Emerson College.
The Big Apple has long served as home to tech giants. Jacqueline Emigh shares her pick of up-and-coming top tech companies in New York City.
Embrace the hybrid workplace of the future by ensuring the well-being of employees in both office and remote environments
The rapid rise of e-commerce and an accompanying huge surge in government spending have spurred a tremendous increase in payment fraud.
Malaika Vaz has gotten up close to wild Asian lions, walked down jungle paths with the children of tiger poachers, and gone undercover in India, Hong Kong, and China to report on the illegal trafficking of manta rays.
Technology Magazine defines digitization as "the conversion of analog technology into a digital format." In contrast, digital transformation is characterized as "a cross-departmental effort to re-imagine how a company uses its people, processes, and digital programs to drive new business and revenue in light of changing consumer expectations."
Building an e-commerce site isn't just about listing products. It's about creating a friendly, intuitive shopping environment for the customer.
Finding an apartment used to mean reading ads in newspapers and driving around town to check out potential places to live. These days, apartment-finding websites make the search easy and convenient. Here are the top 10 apartment-finding sites that will help you select the perfect new dwelling at the right price.
If your company is like most others, you use Software as a Service (SaaS) applications all the time. Maybe that’s Microsoft Office 365 for creating office documents or DocuSign for digital document signing. Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps you’ve been using a SaaS app like GoToMeeting or Zoom for video calling. You might be deploying SaaS, too, for core business functions such as customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP). If so, should you...
Today, the process of purchasing insurance for jewelry items is cumbersome, costly, and time consuming. Traditional appraisal techniques require manual lookup of prices, comparables, and retail markups by the jeweler - a job that is typically done by the insurance company. Due to this tedious process, appraisal requests pile up and often leave customers without property insurance.
With global warming looming, investors expect tech startups to make good on the sustainability front, explains Upright's VP of Investor Business.
With the online retail space exploding, e-commerce businesses must differentiate themselves with innovative and engaging consumer experiences. If you're a software company that designs and creates BigCommerce solutions for retailers and you're not integrating the popular e-commerce platform with technologies powering the metaverse, now is the time to bring your clients into the future.
Financial losses by businesses to ransomware perpetrators are quickly on the rise. So, too, are the numbers of victimized companies. To help combat payments that could benefit what it calls "malicious actors," the US Department of the Treasury has put out an advisory about federal regulations and penalties for victims, financial institutions, and anyone else who might "facilitate" ransomware payments.
How can SMBs protect themselves from cyberattacks? One of the most beneficial approaches is to behave proactively, thwarting incidents before they happen by performing penetration ("pen") testing. As demonstrated by a raft of research, with less in-house security expertise on hand and fewer financial resources, SMBs are prone to cyberattacks.
Mobile real estate apps are simplifying the home buying process. Here's are six of the best home search apps for iOS and Android. While it only takes a few minutes to download and install apps, another approach you can try is using a virtual personal assistant like Google Assistant, Apple Siri, or Microsoft Cortana.
BCG is scaling its Jiva startup, while also partnering the World Wildlife Fund and Nespresso on more ventures that deliver profits to small farmers.
Decisions about what, when, and how to automate software impact a company's bottom line, either adversely or positively. This primer for software testing and QA teams brings you up to speed on business concepts that affect your projects. The decisions developers make about test automation and other aspects of software development can impact the company's bottom line, one way or the other.
The world of work is a hybrid place in the post-pandemic era, as depicted in this infographic. I researched the latest statistics and wrote the copy for the piece, created in collaboration with a digital design team to launch Hewlett Packard's new HP Presence lineup of conferencing products.
The December holidays happened just a few weeks ago, and now Valentine’s Day, another gift-giving fest, already looms right around the proverbial corner. Buying presents for people is a perennial experience anyway, what with birthdays, weddings, graduations and other events popping up throughout the year. Here are 10 apps that can help to make the whole shebang easier and more fun, from anywhere and at any time.
Fashion is a social thing, whether offline or online. More and more companies around the world are creating apps that let you “try on” clothes for friends, get advice, share your latest fashion finds, buy items suggested by “influencers” and sell stuff out of your own closet, all without being in the physical presence of other human beings. In fact, you never have to go shopping alone again, although you might end up hanging out online with fashionistas from England or China instead of folks...
Expert translation services are essential and largely required,in highly regulated industries such as law, financial services, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing. Non- and partially regulated industries operate in a less-mandated environment but nevertheless also necessitate accurate, timely, and culturally sensitive translation both in the U.S. and abroad.
Indonesian fintech startup Ayoconnect seeks to help local businesses by acting as the digital 'glue' that binds all their disparate financial services.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, the global pandemic has forced businesses worldwide to enable and support remote work options for their employees. A FlexJobs survey quoted by Forbes.com says that 65% of the over 2,100 people surveyed reported that they wanted to work from home full-time when the pandemic is truly over.
aNewDomain - Tick tock. If new smartwatches made the same sounds as old clocks, the dent made on the surrounding CES din would have been even stronger. It seemed as though a new smartwatch sprang up every time you turned around at CES.
To answer questions around topics ranging from human services to the stock market and beyond, data scientists often work with panel data. Like other forms of data, though, panel data has both pros and cons. Panel data can be very helpful for finding correlations between variables and predicting future trends.
On the whole, data scientists hold a wide variety of tools in their occupational bag of tricks. Five of the most widely used, however, include statistical programming languages, machine learning (ML) tools, SQL, data visualization tools, and even today, the humble spreadsheet.
While the more highly granular microservices has evolved from the earlier SOA, both approaches are still widely used. Where SOA is enterprise-focused, microservices is application-focused.
Unlike, say, socks or saxophones, headphones aren't one-size-fits-all. Choices range from lightweight, in-ear models to large cans that envelop your ears in sound, with many variations in between. As a result, it can be hard to choose the perfect set for your ears.
The cloud communications market is always on the move. The changes ahead over the coming year will be particularly dramatic based on input from the CCA's 2019-2020 provider research. Here are our top five predictions for 2021: 1. Collaboration Will Leap From a Luxury to a Necessity With 28% of providers already looking to differentiate...
With the Covid-19 pandemic waning, the hybrid work environment is fast becoming the wave of the future and many companies are scrambling to keep up with this new normal. Hence the emergence of solutions like the Cisco Webex Suite and managed services that can make a hybrid work environment work for everyone.
Fintech risk management systems are getting a makeover. By adding machine learning technologies to their traditional rules-based fraud management systems, banks hope that they can do better at catching real criminals while declining fewer legitimate credit card transactions. ML technologies, though, have their own gotchas. @Enterprisenxt
With a unique new business model, KLAR Smile is helping to address malocclusion and other dental care problems common throughout Indonesia.
There are several types of memory storage in computers, including RAM, ROM, magnetic HDD, SSD, and plug-in external storage devices like SD cards, Blu-ray disks, and USB drives. Two of these types, RAM and ROM, sound almost alike, yet these two types of memory have quite different definitions, characteristics and purposes.
Adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is increasingly rampant in financial services, across areas that include algorithmic trading (AT), fraud detection, customer service, and mortgage lending, to name a few. Yet glitches do happen, particularly in the wild and woolly world of AT.
Evidence is out there that digital transformation can help financial institutions reap heaps of advantages, ranging from revenue generating data analytics to customer pleasing mobile apps. Yet how should individual financial services firms best apply this buzz phrase? Bank of America, American Express, and BNY Mellon are each regarded by many as digital transformation leaders, but their strategies are quite different.
More and more enterprises today are starting to break free from the long-time stranglehold of buying, upgrading, and administering Windows PCs. Here are four great reasons why they're choosing Chrome devices instead. Chrome devices offer much better value for the money.
Chatbots (or digital assistants) are certainly nothing new, but lately, these AI-automated software robots are getting smarter and smarter while improving candidate experience. The bots are gaining increasingly better capabilities around job recruiting tasks like answering job seekers' questions, pre-screening candidates, scheduling interviews, and more.
A war is raging on the financial technology (FinTech) front. With consumers and businesses alike clamoring for faster loan processing, greater returns on financial investments and better overall customer experiences, entrenched financial giants are facing soaring competition from smaller and nimbler startups.
Workload automation (WLA) systems let you automate just about any business process under the corporate sun, including IT tasks. You can save time and money for your company by using a comprehensive WLA system to automate run-of-the-mill IT operations and processes, like password resets and software upgrades, freeing up your technical staff for more valuable endeavors.
By Jacqueline Emigh B2B Freelance Writer When it comes to the increasingly critical matter of cloud migration, choosing the right professional services company is essential to success. But what are the top characteristics of services provider that can meet the needs of an organization over both the short term and long haul?
Job recruiting in the healthcare industry is a particularly tough challenge, considering the ongoing shortage of qualified applicants for highly skilled positions. An applicant tracking system (ATS) can help human resource (HR) professionals to recruit and hire the best talent by facilitating remote video interviews, meeting applicants' needs for convenient scheduling, and providing a mobile hiring process.
A negative perception of what it's like to work in manufacturing is a big reason employers find it hard to fill their manufacturing jobs with qualified employees. To help attract and retain good workers, HR recruiters can leverage applicant tracking systems (ATS) to test applicants for problem-solving skills, educate job seekers about the realities of modern manufacturing, and help them advance in their careers once hired.
The retail industry remains the largest private-sector employer in the U.S., despite job losses early in the Covid-19 pandemic. Job seekers are looking for work, and an applicant tracking system (ATS) can help sort through the best while keeping the most promising new hires on board.
Pakistan faces some of the world's toughest environmental and climate disruption challenges, including extreme weather, air pollution, coastal erosion, species loss, deforestation, and the impact of melting glaciers. Over the past few years the country has indeed taken steps to confront these issues with government-sponsored "green" programs and increased involvement in United Nations-led international initiatives.
aNewDomain - With the December holidays inching closer, it's time to start thinking about what kinds of gifts you want to give to friends and family. I checked out the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular press event in New York City and saw six cool products you definitely should consider for your holiday-gift lists.
You wouldn't put together a band where all four musicians played the guitar. Somebody needs to drum and sing. Similarly, QA teams need specialists across a range of skill sets and experience. And that's just one of the rock-and-roll lessons that creative teams can learn.
seema.com, seema network, seema for South Asian women leaders looked at Parna Sarkar Basu's successful story. Entrepreneur and tech marketing whiz Parna Sarkar-Basu is busier than ever these days than usual. Sarkar-Basu is the founder and CEO of the US-based Brand and Buzz Marketing LLC, a consulting firm focused on corporate marketing, thought leadership, and branding.
Whether your manufacturing business is large or small, 24x7x365 uptime availability and secure, dependable operations are critical to success. Regardless of the cause, network equipment or software failures in the factory environment threaten productivity and competitiveness and could result in unnecessary and potentially devastating manufacturing delays.
You might be an expert in software testing techniques. But often, QA professionals require industry domain knowledge in order to respond to unique specifications, workflows, or technology adoption. Here's what to look for, as well as how to obtain domain knowledge in vertical markets, such as hiring talent, using consultants, and taking courses and tutorials.
With the rise of big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop and Spark, more and more enterprises are pouring enterprise information into data lakes and launching related initiatives around data quality, data governance, regulatory compliance, and more reliable business intelligence (BI).
Rather than avoiding organizations with cultural barriers that prohibit career advancement, seek businesses that show they welcome anyone dedicated to moving up the career ladder. These positive signposts are a healthy way to start. Far too many women working in technical careers are still crashing into glass ceilings.
The mHealth market is set to soar, reaching $26.6 billion in 2017. With these ResearchKit apps, Apple and its partners are gathering valuable information about how patients interact with mobile health apps, what makes an app 'sticky,' and what makes an app successful (or not).
It isn't necessarily hard to switch the languages you're using in Microsoft Word, once you know how. Yet procedures for making changes vary, based on whether you're using the Windows or Mac version of the application, or Word Online. So, too, do the numbers of languages supported and the degree of support provided, even among Windows editions of Office.
A business continuity plan (BCP) is a set of actions established by a company to make sure it can protect its personnel and assets and keep its operations going in case of a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or any other catastrophic event.
Learn how the many techniques used in predictive analytics can help companies to forecast the future from traditional databases and big data alike.
Learn why hybrid IT is used within most enterprises today, and how this computing model compares to cloud-only and cloud-free alternatives.
Agile is an umbrella term, not a monolithic entity. The Agile Alliance describes Agile as "the ability to create and respond to change in order to succeed in an uncertain and turbulent environment," while giving a longer and much more specific definition for Agile software development.
Samsung Cloud is a free backup and restore service available for most recent models of Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets. While it's capable of storing large amounts of data, Samsung Cloud isn't intended to be an online space for uploading, sharing, and downloading files.
A failover cluster is a set of computer servers that work together to provide either high availability (HA) or continuous availability (CA). If one of the servers goes down, another node in the cluster can assume its workload with either minimum or no downtime through a process referred to as failover.
Disaster recovery testing is a multi-step drill of an organization's disaster recovery plan (DRP) designed to assure that information technology (IT) systems will be restored if an actual disaster occurs. As part of a DR plan, companies typically hire a disaster recovery service.
Whether you need advice tomorrow or 10 years from now, keep these tips in mind. You probably haven't seen robots at your place of employment yet, but that scenario could easily change sometime over the next five or 10 years.
In the year 2018, how will companies use development processes, business practices, IT infrastructure, and technologies like artificial intelligence and IoT to help drive digital transformation? While many organizations are starting down the path, sometimes with an eye to improving the user experience (UX), progress levels, types of initiatives, and specific implementations vary a lot from one industry to another and even between individual companies.
In the fast-paced world of casino gambling, David J. Nehra, CIO of the MotorCity Casino Hotel, uses innovative solutions with the help of CBTS to meet the needs of casino customers, management, and his technical staff. MotorCity is one of three casino complexes in the Detroit metro area.
Subscription- and usage-based pricing are all the rage these days. So how are companies becoming even more creative in their software pricing and licensing? Although a lot of innovation is starting to happen, much more appears to be in store over the next couple of years.
A new phone hits the market every two weeks or so, according to industry estimates. So there's lots of temptation to switch phones. On the other hand, shopping for new phones can be time consuming, and getting used to them can be a bumpy ride.
To be truly agile, businesses must focus on user-oriented agile principles, not just on agile IT practices. That's the key reason why, seven months after the availability of Release Dynamix, almost 70 of Panaya's customers have already gone into production with the vendor's latest product.
When the State of Ohio wanted to upgrade its antiquated phone system and adopt a more innovative and collaborative communications technology, it turned to experienced partner CBTS. CBTS partners with organizations across a wide range of industries in the private sector throughout the United States and Canada, and our clients include Fortune 20 and Global 2000 corporations.
The enterprise middleware landscape is shifting dramatically, with organizations pursuing a variety of paths - in both specialized managed services and DYI iPaaS packaged software - to get to the common destination of cloud-enabled middleware. With cloud integration skills in high demand, new outside partners to work with, and even some LOB managers now creating business apps, corporate developers are feeling the impact.
In the US alone, about 400,000 small businesses start up each year, creating about 40 to 60 percent of all new jobs, according to " Time ". While many small businesses face challenges in getting funding and competing against larger rivals, these leaner businesses tend to be agile and innovative, so they can quickly respond to new opportunities, technological advancements, customer needs, and other market forces.
The IT professionals at CBTS have broad expertise across multiple practices: Communications, Cloud Services, Infrastructure Solutions, and Consulting Services. This allows CBTS to engineer and implement solutions that are tailored to meet customer needs. CBTS clients include Fortune 20 and Forbes Global 2000 companies.
Enterprises are approaching DevOps and Agile ALM at various paces and from myriad directions. With quality control at its center, the Micro Focus ALM Suite is aimed at helping organizations at all levels of adoption to produce software applications effectively, efficiently, and collaboratively, and at enterprise scale, regardless of methodologies.
Planning a family vacation to another continent? You've probably got the hotel and flight arrangements figured out. But have you thought about how you're going to stay connected while you're away? What is your plan for data service so your phone can connect to the internet?
Software developers should expect a new and unified brand message from the GrapeCity Developer Solutions product family, which includes Wijmo and Spread.
Both Google Play and Apple's App Store offer at least 2 million apps for download. Although many of those apps can be fun and/or useful for both adults and kids, some of them can pose hazards of various kinds for teens and younger children.
As adoption of consumption-based pricing keeps gaining ground, many ISV's and software customers are using Revulytics' account-based intelligence to gain insights into product use throughout the lifecycle, said Vic DeMarines, VP of product strategy for the analytics toolmaker. As Revulytics defines the term, account-based intelligence refers to mapping of aggregated software data to customers' processes ...
aNewDomain - This year, as always, International CES honors new innovations in an array of categories with its Best of Innovation Awards. The CES 2015 winners range from household names like Dell and Samsung to smaller entrants, like NightHawk and AIR. Starting Tuesday, showgoers can get up close and personal with these gizmos at an onsite showcase.
If you're looking to buy new photo editing software, Corel's PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate is a worthy competitor to the much more expensive Adobe Photoshop. In testing Corel's offering, DigitalCameraReview found that it offers many of the same advanced tools as Photoshop, while also supplying the ease of use needed by beginners.
If you studied any computer science back in the day, odds are good that your lessons didn't start until high school. Or even college. Today, however, some children are learning the basics of computer programming as young as pre-school.
Easy portability, a large display, an intuitive GUI, and relatively low pricing are some of the reasons why retailers are turning to iPad POS systems.
Samsung Galaxy Tab is coming and TabletPCReview was there at the rollout event in New York City to gain some early gleanings about the Tab's long-term prospects as an Apple iPad killer. But while TPCR got a lot of useful hands-on experience, certain questions about the Android tablet still hang in the air.
The long-time computer show keeps diversifying into many other types of things, many of which are sensor-driven and managed through apps.
Chances are that you haven't used your smartphone yet to pay for anything in a retail store or restaurant - except maybe some lattes at Starbucks - despite all of hoopla surrounding so-called "mobile wallet"initiatives like Google Wallet and ISIS. Yet some analysts now predict a surge in in-store mobile payments within the next couple of years.
At Mobile World Congress 2013, Android will share some of the limelight with other device platforms ranging from Windows Phone 8 (WP8) to open source upstarts like Firefox OS, Ubuntu, Tizen and Sailfish. Although agreeing that these rivals will face big challenges versus Android smartphones, analysts also see some reasons why Android might lose some sway, sooner or later.
Dell's fourth smartphone, the newly unveiled Venue, uses the same Android 2.2-based and Dell Stage user interface as the larger Streak 5 phone/tablet. The Venue's good-looking hardware, however, is similar to that of the Windows Phone 7-driven Venue Pro, although without the Pro's slide-out keyboard.
Office 365 will build on familiar user experiences while offering definite advantages over on premise MS Office software.
Microsoft is mum on the matter for the moment, but some analysts are hoping that a security feature originally planned for Windows 8.1 will finally seen the light of day.
Laptops aren't as expensive as they used to be years ago, but you certainly don't want yours to get stolen, a grim fate which afflicts hundreds of thousands of notebook PCs each year. Of course, you also want to safeguard any personal or corporate information aboard your laptop from getting lifted or tampered with, by either a laptop thief or cybercriminals.
Call it the legacy of Microsoft's Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety of hair pulling problems since last Thursday when Windows 7 launched. Complaints range from endless reboots to refusals by Windows to accept Microsoft's assigned product keys.
Are Linux and open source implementations rising on Wall Street? 'Yes,' said participants in a financial services IT trade show held this week in New York City, who cited Web services and incremental improvements to tech support as two big drivers. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
"To compete, SMBs need an edge," contended Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at an Office 365 launch event which revolved around how SMBs are starting to use cloud-based online editions of Exchange, SharePoint and Lync for productivity and mobility features that make them look and feel more like big businesses.
An IBM data center in North Carolina How is IBM funneling its vast resources into research around future products and services? At a press and analyst day last week in New York City, the company talked up projects around replacing today's flash-based SSDs (solid state drives) with new PCM (phase change memory) technology and dropping DVRs (digital video recorders) in favor of video storage clouds.
The grand launch of T-Mobile's G1 today included the rollouts of Ecorio and ShopSavvy, two applications expected be among of hundreds or more that might eventually populate Android Marketplace, Google's answer to Apple's App Store.
Now that the proverbial dust is starting to settle around the Samsung Galaxy S and its six known variants for major US wireless networks, how does the latest smartphone stack up against its many Android rivals-and against Apple's iPhone 4, for that matter? It all depends on who you ask.
Finally, the World Wide Web will live up to its name. The decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that Web sites written in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and other non-ASCII character sets will be able to have their Internet domain names displayed in their own languages truly makes the Web a global worldwide network.
Apple may be feeling the Android heat. The company has changed the way it deals with iPhone app developers letting them now keep closer tabs on how their software is proceeding through Apple's strict App Store review process. Many see the move as yet another step by Apple to keep app store developers from defecting to competing mobile platforms - namely Android.
What exactly is an "interplanetary supply chain," and how does it relate to supply chains right here on Earth?
Aside from Dilbert, most cartoon characters don't get a chance to inspire tech companies. But Rosie the Robot of The Jetsons is definitely an exception, says Colin Angle, the CEO of iRobot. Angle helped to show off robots this week ranging from the company's Roomba vacuum cleaner and PackBot 510 military robot to squishable JamBots...
As streaming data pours into trading firms at higher rates of speed, new capabilities for position management are following-but more slowly and less visibly. The growing proliferation of lower latency data feeds is fueling new product offerings in storage systems, analytics, and alert engines for intraday position management and other offshoots of algorithmic trading.
By Jacqueline Emigh Linux Today Correspondent "We're really bullish about Linux," contended Dave Dargo, VP of Oracle's Linux Program Office, during a keynote speech at LinuxWorld today. Over the next decade, he predicted, Oracle will achieve as much success on Linux as it showed on RISC/Linux during the 1990s.
By Jacqueline Emigh NEW YORK - Novell CEO Jack Messman says Novell is done with UnitedLinux. During the LinuxWorld Expo here, Messman's talked up the beta release of GroupWise for Linux; membership in the Eclipse developers' group; ELA3+ certification for the newly acqured SUSE Linux; and Linux porting relationships with BEA, Veritas and Egnera.
New choices are available in information security outsourcing these days, spurred by factors that include proliferating federal regulations, terrorist threats, natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and growing convergence with physical security. Information security specializations are emerging and widening across both vertical arenas such as government, healthcare and transportation, and functional areas.
Even before CES opens its doors on Tuesday, the show is already evidencing novel uses of new operating systems, such as Tobii's Gaze "look and tap" UI for Windows 8, plus Lenovo's K91SmartTV, the first HDTV to run Android 4.0 ("Ice Cream Sandwich").
Well beyond its seven-inch-yet iPad-like-color screen, Barnes & Noble's new Android-based Nookcolor is packed with new features that include a video-capable magazine library, ArticleView, e-book "borrowing," and much more, as demo'd at a New York City launch event on Monday night.
The Macintosh OS first rose to fame on the back of its slick graphical user interface (GUI). While the familiar graphical tools still greet users, Apple's most recent Mac operating system, the Unix-based OS X, also features a command line interface (CLI).
EP's note: With this story, we welcome one of the most respected bylines in all of technology journalism - correspondent Jacqueline Emigh - to the BetaNews team.] Giving a nod to the privacy concerns of enterprise customers, IBM today is launching Blue Cloud...
"Watching TV is supposed to be fun, right?" asked AT&T's Michael Johnston. In a press event at the AT&T Labs in New York City, Johnston and other researchers showed off iRemote, Talkalytics, and dozens of other projects now under way for using AT&T's long-time Watson speech recognition together with search, gestures, and Twitter analysis.
Desktop PCs are standing flat where they are, as some pundits see it, but Lenovo plans to give them a leg up on lots of levels in 2011.
Call it the legacy of Microsoft's Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety of hair pulling problems since last Thursday when Windows 7 launched. Complaints range from endless reboots to refusals by Windows to accept Microsoft's assigned product keys.
T-Mobile plans to follow up on the release of HTC's Dream phone -- now known as the G1 -- with several more Android devices, a senior T-Mobile official told BetaNews at during a New York City press event today.
Rolled out last night at a press event in New York City, the Mini 10v "companion netbook" offers some but not all of the same features as the slightly pricier Inspiron Mini 10 "media netbook," according to DK Ray, product marketing manager.
Flash forward to about a year from now, if you will. Envision yourself walking into a consumer electronics store toward the end of 2010. What kinds of HDTV products and features is your retail salesperson likely to tout?
A few growing pains aside, a Linux deployment in a Santa Rosa, CA elementary school district is maturing robustly, letting teachers and students stand apart from their previous dependence on Microsoft Windows while they try on new open software attitudes. The transition in Santa Rosa from Windows NT 4 to Ubuntu Linux Terminal Server Project ...
In late September of 2001, only weeks after the World Trade Center disaster, officials uncovered a criminal scheme to divert sheet metal beams from the Ground Zero rubble to Long Island and New Jersey. In late October, some 250 tons of scrap metal were found at unofficial dump sites in both those areas.
Eclipse, an emerging crossplatform development environment, can be especially useful to Linux developers because it lets them keep working in Linux while creating software for a much wider audience. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
More than a week after Hurricane Katrina whipped through the Gulf region, many roads and other transportation routes remained closed.
Whether you're an ASP or DSP, more alliance programs are coming. First there were ASPs and MSPs. As of this week, there are DSPs (developer service providers) too. Vendors from Borland to Microsoft are serving up the acronym soup, as they court service providers into their respective partner programs. Microsoft's E-Business Acceleration program, which was unveiled last week, is one case in point.
After two years of testing, UPS has concluded that much progress still needs to be made before RFID is adopted on a widespread basis.
Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a model developed by Gartner Group to analyze the direct and indirect costs of owning and using hardware and software. Managers of enterprise systems use various versions of TCO to lower costs while increasing the benefits of information technology deployments.
Hospitals, government agencies, retail chains and other industry sectors are being buried by data. As the piles of digital files, X-rays and scanned-in paper records grow higher and higher, data-management applications are coming to the rescue, creating new opportunities for solutions providers.