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	8 enterprise software predictions for 2015 What does the future hold for BI, CRM, ERP and enterprise software in 2015? IT experts discuss which enterprise software trends will have the greatest impact on IT organizations in the coming year. Read More   WHITE PAPER: Attachmate The Need for Enterprise-Grade File Transfer From email to Dropbox and FTP, the status quo of file transfer in most organizations is UFT—or Unmanaged File Transfer. That's the troubling finding of a 2013 survey conducted by Osterman Research. Read this paper to learn how enterprise-grade Managed File Transfer (MFT) can help. View Now In this Issue What Microsoft's 'fresh start' browser strategy means INSIDER Big data and CRM help public broadcaster attract more donors The biggest challenges faced by CIOs/CISOs heading into 2015 (via CSOonline.com) Stanford 'high-rise' chip takes on IoT and big data Apple, IBM partnership yields first results: 10 mobile apps The hidden economic boom at CES Moonpig jeopardizes data of millions of customers through insecure API Samsung draws rosy picture of IoT in lackluster CES keynote WHITE PAPER: HP The Bot Threat   Download this whitepaper and learn how bots work and how, by adopting the right strategy, you can use a defense-in-depth strategy to effectively prevent direct attacks against your critical systems. Learn More What Microsoft's 'fresh start' browser strategy means A new browser not named 'IE' would give Microsoft ways to leave legacy support behind. Read More     INSIDER Big data and CRM help public broadcaster attract more donors Data quality projects show Boston's WGBH how to segment customers for more lucrative target marketing. Read More   The biggest challenges faced by CIOs/CISOs heading into 2015 (via CSOonline.com) And the most important items to have in your security sandbox. Read More   Stanford 'high-rise' chip takes on IoT and big data Stanford University researchers have built a multi-layered "high-rise" chip that could significantly outperform traditional computer chips, taking on the hefty workloads that will be needed for the Internet of Things and big data.Using nanotechnology, the new chips are built with layers of processing on top of layers of memory, greatly cutting down on the time and energy typically needed to move information from memory to processing and back. Max Shulaker, a Ph.D candidate at Stanford University, is working on a multi-layered chip that could significantly outperform traditional computer chips.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WHITE PAPER: HP 3 Keys to 5-Star Mobile App Performance Infographic This infographic provides insights on how to measure, focus, and improve your app performance. Download and explore the 3 keys to 5-star mobile app performance infographic today. Learn more >> Apple, IBM partnership yields first results: 10 mobile apps IBM and Apple have unveiled the first results of their enterprise IT partnership: 10 mobile applications aimed at businesses in six industries as well as government users.The apps bring IBM's strength in big data and analysis to Apple's iPad and iPhone mobile devices, the companies said Wednesday.The apps target users in the banking, retail, insurance, financial services, telecommunications and airline industries. One of the apps, for example, allows a flight crew to personalize a passenger's in-flight experience. An app targeted at the banking industry allows a financial advisor to remotely access and manage a client's portfolio so they can provide consulting in venues outside of an office. Police officers can use iPhones to view video feeds from crime scenes with an app for law enforcement. Customers using the apps include Air Canada, Sprint and financial and banking services firm Citi, according to the release.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   The hidden economic boom at CES LAS VEGAS -- The forecast from Harvard University that the Internet of Things (IoT) will unleash a new economic boom is not immediately apparent at this year's International CES. Most of the new technologies on display here are forgettable novelties.The most immediate trend by device makers is to add a wireless radio, processor and sensor to anything with space to house them: toothbrushes, baby pacifiers, bicycles, and sports equipment -- all connected to a data recording app. Gesture technology, very prevalent, is nice but no must-have. Home automation and wearable products proliferate. Photographers from around the world get on bended knee to snap a photo of the latest connected coffee pot.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Moonpig jeopardizes data of millions of customers through insecure API Moonpig, a large online seller of personalized greeting cards and gifts, shut down its mobile apps Tuesday because of a security weakness that could have given hackers access to customer information.A developer named Paul Price found that Moonpig's API (application programming interface), the online service used by the company's mobile apps to interact with its website, lacked basic security features.Price found that requests from Moonpig's Android application to the API used a static set of credentials, regardless of customer account. The only thing that differentiated requests from different users was a customer ID included in the request URL.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Samsung draws rosy picture of IoT in lackluster CES keynote Samsung officially opened the International CES on Monday evening with a keynote that painted a rosy picture of the Internet of Things but offered little substance except that vendors must be "open" and work together to make it all happen.B.K. Yoon, head of Samsung's consumer electronics division, offered an optimistic view of the future, in which all devices from TVs to heating systems and automobiles will be connected to the Internet and sharing data for the betterment of humankind."Each of us will be at the center of our own, adapting IoT universe," said Yoon, predicting that chairs will automatically detect when we've been out in the cold and heat themselves up so they can warm us when we sit down.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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