Penxy is an iOS app that turns your mobile device into a wireless presentation remote. Simply upload a presentation file to the cloud and display it on any TV or projector via a computer’s browser. You can advance the slide on the app with the swipe of a finger, and see the slide advance on screen a second later.
By Fritz Nelson On September 9, 2013 For the foreseeable future we’ll hear plenty about the next big thing, and it will be some kind of cloud-based software, and it will solve some emerging business problem, and it will let businesses focus on being…
Revelations about vast US data collection programs are starting to hit American tech companies, which are ramping up pressure for increased transparency to try to mitigate the damage. An industry group, the Cloud Security Alliance said last month that…
VajraSoft Inc., is a Cloud Software Application Products and Solutions Development Company based in Dublin, California, United States - building Cloud, Enterprise Applications products for the Enterprises. Kameshwar Eranki is President & CEO at VajraSoft Inc.,.
By Sarah Lacy On August 21, 2013 Do you ever have one of those dreams where everything seems mostly normal, but it’s not until you wake up that you realize something really reality-alteringly bizarre was going on? That moment when you’re sipping…
New hardware startup and Y Combinator Summer 2013 cohort member Senic is launching pre-orders for its first product today, a laser rangefinder like the ones sold in hardware stores around the world and used every day by contractors and DIY enthusiasts. The difference is that Senic’s device uses Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate with iOS and Android devices, recording measurements instantly and syncing them to the cloud.
The use of a cloud-based platform for collecting and storing measurement data, as well as Senic’s plans to expand their hardware catalog to include a number of different hardware devices, including micrometers, gauges, and other tools that builders and engineers use regularly in their work. Senic co-founder Toby Eichenwald explained that he got the idea working for his father’s company in Korea, and learned from its customers that the measurement industry was essentially “stuck in the 80s.”
On Thursday, July 18th, 2013 at 6:30pm at Bloomberg San Francisco NBBJ and Bloomberg, held an event to discuss whether or not we should the workplace of today be driven by people analytics. Experts from leading technology companies in the fields of social sciences and architecture debate work in the era of mobility, big data and the cloud.
The Moderator
Peter Burrows, Senior Correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek. Peter Burrows is based in San Francisco. Previously, he was senior correspondent in Silicon Valley. Burrows joined BusinessWeek in 1993 in Dallas. Prior to BusinessWeek, he was a senior editor for Electronic Business. Burrows wrote Backfire: Carly Fiorina's High-Stakes Battle for the Soul of Hewlett-Packard.
The Panel
Scott Chacon is the CIO and co-founder of GitHub, where he is currently overseeing the design and build out of the company’s new headquarters, from HVAC to bike racks and everything in between. A long time Git evangelist, Scott is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress and the maintainer of the Git homepage. He has presented at dozens of conferences around the world on Git, GitHub, and the future of work.
Marina Gorbis is a futurist and social scientist who serves as Executive Director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Silicon Valley nonprofit research and consulting organization.Marina’s current research focuses on how social production is changing the face of major industries, a topic explored in detail in her book, The Nature of the Future.
As Senior Director of Human Resources, Britt Sellin’s role is to enable Cloudera and its employees to be as effective as possible, while reflecting the best of open source - collaborative, communicative and open. Prior to joining Cloudera, Britt held senior positions at VMware and Sun Microsystems, as it expanded from 12,500 employees to 44,000.
Evan Wittenberg is Chief of People, SVP, People at Box. As chief human resources officer, he leads a team that finds, develops and retains the company’s talent while maintaining the unique culture at Box. Prior to joining Box, Evan was Hewlett-Packard’s Chief Talent Officer where he was responsible for a global workforce of 350,000 employees.
Scott Wyatt, Architect and Managing Partner, NBBJ is an NBBJ Managing Partner, overseeing the talents, accomplishments and business strategies of the firm’s ten offices. Scott has led the creation of new global headquarters for some of the world’s foremost corporations including Boeing, Samsung, Reebok, Telenor, Adobe, Amgen and the Frank Russell Company.
Lightt is your life stream. We are re-imagining video for the mobile world by giving people the ability capture and share the life as easily and as beautifully as possible with a combination of mobile applications and a streaming/cloud platform. Founded in late 2011, Lightt is based in San Francisco but building a community around the world.
Here is a video of Pam Kramer, President of Lightt Demos her company at MobileBeat 2013:
On Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 at 8:00am thru Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 at 6:00pm VentureBeat held it's 6th annual flagship conference on the future of mobile, MobileBeat 2013.
Program themes include but are not limited to:
Brands and agencies: Mobile advertising hell — or heaven Mobile advertising was a black hole of despair for anyone trying to make money from it — until this year. We’ll be looking at the impending multibillion dollar advertising spend on mobile. Heavyweights like Lucas Entertainment and Oreo demonstrated a keen mobile dominance in 2012. Hear who will master the shift from one-time campaigns to long-term customer engagement in 2013 and beyond.
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IT: Consumerization of the enterprise No longer can enterprise companies rely on phrases like “enterprise grade,” “5 9s,” (99.999 percent uptime) and “security” to excuse a poor blend of design and technology. You need security, scalability, and rock-solid reliability alongside intuitive human design. We will explore how you can blend all these concepts to build killer enterprise products.
Infrastructure/Cloud: Scale is beautiful, but implementation is key Networks and cloud systems aren’t just a back-end concern: You must set them up to follow strong design ethics too. They need to enhance, not detract, from the end-user experience. We will explore principles to help you avoid inevitable system failure, risky slowdowns, and end-user backlash.
Mobile money: More money, more problems Banks, businesses, and Bitcoin operators are finally pushing mobile to become a financial tool, not just for advertising and social networking, but for doing actual transactions. How do traditional and more specialized institutions maintain or gain relevance with today’s always-connected, incredibly demanding end-users and enterprises? Learn what the top players are betting on in the next few years, and see how it can affect your business.
Commerce: Mobile experience determines whether you live or die For big retailers, neglecting an integrated strategy for mobile encourages “showrooming” — when shoppers scope out products in physical stores but end up buying online. Whether you’re an online or offline retailer, you need to learn to reduce friction, collect meaningful data, empower sales, and increase customer loyalty. Mobile devices will not replace stores just yet, but they’re influencing what consumer expect: deals, service, and trust at the speed of LTE.
Wearables by design: Welcome to the post-smartphone era How will end-users communicate, consume content, and work in the next few years? Voice commands, hand gestures, and data-collecting wearable devices will all contribute to a ubiquitous network around us.
Mobile gaming gets serious Mobile game studios are no longer a sideshow: They now engage players by the tens of millions, dominate the top of the charts, and know how to get their ad spend back — be it by catering to whales (big spenders) or balancing freemium offerings with in-app content sales. Gaming is ahead of the curve on mobile monetization; it sets the example all mobile businesses should follow.
Mobile development tools In the past few years, a whole industry has cropped up to support new generations of mobile developers. Increasingly, tension has built up between the demands of native platforms and the potential of the mobile web. But better tools are needed to bring the promise of the web and true platform agnosticism to fruition. Reporting, debugging, porting and other concerns dominate mobile developers’ attention. This track will explore the tools on which the mobile world is built.
Digital lifestyle: Curating context in a connected world No matter the business you’re in, context is a critical part of whether you’re successful with your customers. If you are to remain on the cutting edge, you need to know the “who, what, where, when, and why” of your customer interactions. Find out how to maintain that edge from our experts onstage.
Here is a video from the event by Matt Marshall, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, VentureBeat:
Algorithms.io: This Mountain View startup led by CEO Andy Bartley (formerly with The Angels' Forum and the Halo Fund) uses a combination of cloud computing, open source software and proprietary technology to deliver predictive analytics as a service.
Andy Bartley
Here is a video of Andy Bartley talking about Algoriths.io:
AppScale implements Google's Cloud Platform, App Engine, in open source. In addition to executing your scalable web apps and mobile endpoints on Google's resources, AppScale lets you execute them everywhere else -- on your laptop, behind your firewall, on your datacenter, or on your favorite public or private cloud infrastructure. AppScale is free and easy to use and thus brings Google's "best practices" to devs, giving them the ability to focus on their innovation and MVP without lock-in.
AppScale Systems, Inc. provides tiered support, training, and product plugins that give devs the help they need when they need it most. The ScaleSafe plugin for example, certifies that your app is portable and can move across clouds at the drop of a hat (without changing your app), providing you with multiple options for transparent app/data backup and migration, and hybrid cloud use. ScaleSafe is an insurance policy for your apps that protects you against downtime, unforeseen changes, and differing customer requirements. AppScale is a Google Cloud Technology Partner.
Here is a video of Woody Rollins, Co-Founder and CEO of AppScale:
SaltStack is fast and scalable software for new enterprise data center systems automation and configuration management popular with systems administrators, DevOps organizations, cloud orchestrators and builders.
SaltStack takes a new approach to infrastructure management by developing software that is easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to communicate with them in seconds. SaltStack delivers a dynamic infrastructure communication bus used for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more. The Salt open source project was launched in 2011 and today is the fastest-growing, most-active configuration management / systems management project in the world. SaltStack is the company incorporated in 2012 responsible for keeping the Salt project healthy and dynamic. Salt remains 100% open.
Here is a video of Marc Chenn, Co-Founder and CEO of SaltStack:
IT hub Estonia on Wednesday urged the European Union to rely less on US firms for "cloud" data storage, amid tensions over claims of US spying and data surveillance. "Recent months have proven once again that it's very important for Europe to have its…
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