This is a Guest Post of an excellent piece written and posted by Michael
Koploy, ERP Analyst, Software Advice, on his blog. Mobile Payments and Mobile
Commerce are two different things and are often confused. I am an expert on
the latter and Michael has done a great job of laying out a great
FAQ-formatted overview of the former. He contacted me and asked me if I would
mind guest-posting. You can link to his post here, or simply read-on.
Excellent work Michael. _________________________________
January 25, 2012
In July 2011, Gartner released a study on worldwide mobile payment trends. In
it, Gartner reported a striking 38 percent jump in mobile payment users from
2010 to 2011, to 141 million. Even so, the report notes that the market has
been slow to develop, and mass market adoption may be more than four years
away.
“The biggest hurdle is the need to change user beh... (more)
BOSTON, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Security, a leading provider of
predictive security intelligence solutions, reported 2011 was a record year
for growth and momentum throughout the business – including sustained
revenue growth, new innovative solutions, and talent acquisition.
Financial Highlights
For fiscal year 2011 ended December 31, Core Security reported its 10th year
of consecutive record revenue and bookings growth. Core Security ended the
year with more than 1,400 customers worldwide, a 30 percent increase over
2010.
The record year culminated with a very stro... (more)
I’ve been looking at the PaaS space for some time now. I spent some time
with the good folks at CloudBees (naturally), and have had many conversations
on CloudFoundry, Azure, and more with vendors, customers and other cloudy
folks.
Krishnan posted a very good article over on CloudAve, and at one level I
fully agree that PaaS will be come more of a data-centric (vs. code-centric)
animal over the next few years. To some degree that’s generally true of
all areas of IT – data, intelligence and action from data, etc. But there
is a lot more to this.
Most PaaS frameworks have very... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/26/12 -- Andrea "Andy" Cunningham has
joined Bite Communications as president of North America, a newly created
position to spearhead the consultancy's growth strategy and diversify its
client service offerings.
A serial-entrepreneur and tech marketing communications pioneer, Andy has
been at the forefront of strategic positioning and brand marketing for
Fortune 500 technology corporations such as AMD, Cisco, HP, IBM, Motorola,
Oracle and Xerox for over 25 years. She has been credited with shaping and
establishing game-changing market cate... (more)
A federal court in California has upheld the validity of a key RPost patent
reinforcing the company's claims to own the technology for registered,
legally recognized, court-admissible evidence of e-mail content and delivery
going back to 1995.
RPost's 35 patents, granted in 21 countries, broadly cover verifiable proof
of e-mail delivery and value-added outbound e-mail processing.
On December 27 the District Court for the Central District of California
granted RPost a summary judgment finding its US patent 6,182,219 valid.
The decision is a lead-up to RPost's infringement suit agai... (more)