May 15, 2012
IBM recently unveiled multiple new software systems geared toward enterprises. As Paul Brunet, the Vice President of IBM Application and Integration Middleware at IBM, explained to WebProNews, these tools cater to the current trends including mobile, cloud, and social technologies.
The company specifically announced a new foundation for mobile computing that helps businesses...
May 13, 2012
If you like to make things and are the least bit tech savvy, you’re likely going to fall in love with the new lifestyle brand Brit. The brand is the brainchild of Brit Morin, who was formerly employed by both Apple and Google.
She spoke with WebProNews and explained that, while she has always had a love for tech, she also loved creating items in the offline world. As a result, she decided to build a domestic living...
May 11, 2012
The debate surrounding mobile privacy is really heating up as smartphones become more ubiquitous. Consumers are growing dependent on their mobile devices, and are taking advantage of the hundreds of thousands of apps that are available to them. The problem, however, comes into play when they realize how much of their data these apps have.
As Jules Polonetsky, the Director and Co-Chairman of the...
April 6, 2012
Big data is beginning to intrigue everyone for its broad-reaching possibilities. The music industry is already taking advantage of it with platforms such as The Echo Nest, which aggregates music intelligence to ultimately create better user experiences.
As CEO Jim Lucchese explained to WebProNews, the company has software that listens and understands the music that users are listening to,...
March 30, 2012
According to research from the White House, 1 in 5 women between the ages of 16 and 24 will be a victim of sexual assault and dating violence. Pretty alarming, right? Vice President Joe Biden thinks so, and, as a result, launched the “Apps Against Abuse” technology challenge in conjunction with Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health...
March 29, 2012
Remember Nokia Morph? It's the Finnish manufacturer's long-standing project to build a transparent, flexible phone that you can...
March 23, 2012
Although the rivalry between Facebook and Google is already high, a new study from Appcelerator and the International Data Corporation (IDC) indicates some surprising results that will likely heat up the competition even further. The study, which surveyed, more than 2,000 mobile developers, found that 39 percent of developers...
March 20, 2012
If you haven’t heard of “ambient social networking” yet, get ready, because it’s quickly becoming a trend. The concept is also known as social discovery and, essentially, it takes the idea of check-in services a little further. These new location-based apps run silently behind the scenes on users’ mobile devices and notify them when other users they know enter the same vicinity.
Highlight is one app that does...
March 11, 2012
With over a billion apps downloaded each month, users are finding it more difficult to find what they are looking for. Ben Keighran, the CEO of Chomp, realized this problem, and he, along with Cathy Edwards, developed a service to solve this problem.
As he explained to WebProNews, Chomp allows users to search for apps based on what it does and not just the name. He said it...
March 8, 2012
Uberlife, a startup based in the UK, launched this week just as the SXSW festivities are beginning. The company is hoping to be one of the new hot startups that people remember from the show.
WebProNews spoke with Sanchita Saha, uberlife’s CEO and Founder, who told us that the service is designed to extend online connections into the real world. She explained that it is...