iPads storm the enterprise
As global accounts director at Altus, Inc., Michelle Klatt’s job is to visit Fortune 500 companies and demonstrate her firm’s video management software. When the iPad came out a year ago, she was all over it. “I was one of the first salespeople to get one,” she says. “I fought very hard.” Her company’s videos look “absolutely beautiful” on the iPad, she says. And once the sales presentation is over, she uses her iPad to update the Salesforce.com entry for the sales prospect, log the meeting, send out follow-up e-mails, manage her LinkedIn contacts, and do other job-related paperwork. Read full article at Network World. … Read entire article »
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Five iPad safety tips
1. Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt. There are two parts to the data encryption challenge – encrypting stored data, and encrypting data that’s moving over public networks, says securityexpert Brian Reed, vice president of products at mobile security vendor BoxTone. SSL encryption on the iPad is a fast and convenient way to protect data in motion. “With data at rest, you want to ensure that the data is encrypted and protected, but you also want to be able to remotely wipe it if possible,” he adds. Read full article at Network World. … Read entire article »
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Four Keys to Locking Down Your iPad
Even though the iPad is designed primarily as a consumer device, salespeople are increasingly adopting it because of its ease of use, convenience, and coolness factor. Mobile security firm Good Technology Inc. reports that the iPad’s share of enterprise deployments went up 64 percent in the last quarter. According to Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100 have already deployed the iPad in the enterprise or are piloting it. Read full article at Internet Evolution. … Read entire article »
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New Virtual Worlds Still Growing
It may be tempting to assume that growth in virtual worlds has ground to a halt. After all,There.com has shut down, and Second Life is losing land area and has stopped publishing most usage statistics. Attention has shifted to social networking platforms and mobile devices. But the action hasn’t died off. Instead, it has shifted to proprietary, enterprise-class platforms like Teleplace, ProtoSphere, and VenueGen — and to the open-source platform, OpenSim. Read full article at Internet Evolution. … Read entire article »
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Watch Your Avatars
Enterprise software helps set rules for virtual worlds Consumer-friendly technologies like Web-based e-mail and instant messaging, Twitter and Facebook have all brought compliance challenges, with companies typically reacting after something has gone wrong. With virtual environments and meetings, however, companies can get ahead of the trend, setting guidelines and preferred platforms before employees start adopting their own. Enterprise-class platforms like Teleplace and ProtoSphere allow companies to control when new users … Read entire article »
How to Keep Corporate Avatars Safe
Immersive virtual environments — the kind where you have an avatar walking around that looks like a cartoon version of you — are increasingly being used by companies for virtual meetings, training, and collaboration. The idea is that a virtual immersive meeting gives you the same sense of presence that you get with a telepresence setup, but without the six-figure price tag — or the airplane tickets and hotel bills of a face-to-face meeting. Read full article at Internet Evolution. … Read entire article »
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Russian Payment Kiosk Firm To Target U.S., Brazil
Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. Ltd. has acquired 14.9% stake in Qiwi Ltd., a Russian company registered in Cyprus that specializes in instant-payment kiosks, the two companies announced Jan. 18. Read full article at PaymentsSource (paid subscription required). … Read entire article »
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Next Stop: OpenSim!
An emerging virtual world platform is the destination of droves of emigrant avatars, as a price hike and the shutdown of the teen-only grid have prompted an educator exodus away from Second Life. Don’t tell Kyle Gomboy about any depression in the real estate market. That may be the case in the terrestrial world, but out in the cloud Gomboy is moving virtual property like never before. The CEO … Read entire article »
VComm releases Whisper voice code for OpenSim
Grid owners with proprietary viewers can now add high-quality voice to their worlds Not yet included in Hippo, Imprudence — [...] … Read entire article »
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Russian Holiday Spending To Grow 10% Compared With Last Year, Citi Says
Russian credit cardholders will spend 10% more this month on their holiday spending compared with what they spent last December, ZAO Citibank predicts in a Dec. 13 report. Read full article at PaymentsSource (paid subscription required). … Read entire article »
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