Monthly Archives: June 2012
Google IO Keynote Wrapup: New Tablet, Siri Competitor and More
June 29, 2012 | Lanni SolochekAs Google I/O is held every year, new technology released on an hourly basis flies into the media and creates excitement for the upcoming year. Google I/O (Input/Output), is one of the largest technology unveilings and information … Read More
EventDay Helps You Plan & Execute Flawless, Digitally Integrated Events
June 28, 2012 | Adriane GoetzNo matter how smoothly a company seems to operate, the one area where things can easily fall apart is the live event. From poor marketing efforts to registration mishaps to a lack of evidence that the event happened afterward, … Read More
Axosoft’s New OnTime adds Dashboards To Keep Dev Teams ‘On Time’
June 27, 2012 | Reid SimpsonScottsdale based Axosoft, creators of the OnTime suite of development tools have just released what they believe to be a major update to their offering. The new OnTime release includes a much touted new dashboard feature that allows development … Read More
Haiku Makes It Simple To Bring The Classroom To The Web
June 27, 2012 | Derrick Yazwa 2The last few decades have seen internet technology completely reshape many industries. Whether it’s the music industry, newspaper industry, or dozens of others–changes continue to happen at a dizzying speed. However, the education field has lagged behind when it … Read More
Microsoft Spends A Whopping $1.2 Billion To Acquire Yammer: The Enterprise Social Network
June 26, 2012 | Reid SimpsonEarlier this month, reports came out suggesting that Microsoft was under acquisition negotiations with the enterprise social network, Yammer. Well, it’s now official, but it took $1.2 billion in cash to make it happen.
David Sacks the former COO … Read More
BrandMixer uses social web to understand consumers
June 25, 2012 | Christina O'HaverThe social web plus big data plus psychographics – that’s BrandMixer’s formula for helping consumer packaged goods companies understand their brands and consumers.
BrandMixer, LLC takes what people are saying about brands on the web, or “the world’s largest … Read More
ICANN receives 1,930 proposals for new gTLDs – Be on the lookout for .apple, .amazon, .inc and much more!
June 22, 2012 | Reid SimpsonBack on January 12th of this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) – the “.com” part of website addresses at $185,000 a pop! Potential domain buyers … Read More
Deployd Provides HTML5 Developers With Instant Backends
June 21, 2012 | Derrick YazwaDeployd was founded by Jeff Cross and Ritchie Martori to solve a problem that they had noticed during years of building applications for clients–the redundancy of building backends.
The apps they were building always needed the same basic features–user … Read More
Cross-Browser Extension ‘LilyJade’ Created By Phoenix Developer Makes “Dirty Money”
June 20, 2012 | Reid Simpson 9Phoenix-based Dru Mundorff (aka CodeCompiler) owner of Mundorff & Co. has written a new code called ‘LilyJade’ which is classified as a botnet killer. Using the free service of Crossrider, Mundorff managed to develop a cross-browser extension through javascript … Read More
Levion brings small business accounting to the cloud
June 20, 2012 | Christina O'HaverIf you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
That’s what small business owners Jake Gottlieb and Jason Hung decided to do when they launched Levion, a QuickBooks add-on that brings small business accounting to the cloud.
As small business owners, … Read More