SimSTAFF Technical Services, Inc., which recruits and places specialized workers with experience in modeling, simulation, training and gaming technologies, has launched a new division - GameSTAFF - to recruit professionals for the gaming industry.
As the theme tune to the classic 1984 Ghostbusters movie goes, “If there’s something strange, in your neighborhood, Who ya gonna call?”, I am left wondering what we’ll all be singing (shouting?) when something goes wrong in our cloud world. When you’ve got your whole business in the cloud and there is an outage, just what happens to your bottom line? What happens to your customers? What do you do?
BackWeb Technologies Ltd has sued Microsoft for patent infringement, alleging that Microsoft’s Background Intelligent Transfer Service, otherwise known as BITS, introduced in 2001 in Windows XP and now in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, treads on four of its patents.
Ulitzer, Inc. announced today that Ulitzer, the long anticipated media website is now available in beta at www.ulitzer.com with more than 1 million original stories, contributed by more than 6,000 authors. Ulitzer.com aims to revolutionize original content delivery on any subject and is designed to become the preferred source of information for readers who used to visit their favorite magazine websites in the past.
Web 2.0 was a big scam to start with. The name “Web 2.o” was stolen by Mr. Tim O’Reilly (the prophet) from Imagine Media’s brilliant new launch of “Business 2.0 Magazine” during the heyday of the dot-com explosion. The promise of Web 2.0 was that everybody in the software industry would be billionaires just like the folks who introduced MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, etc. Of course this never happened.
Most people think of traditional business intelligence (BI) as a collection of business-critical information from inside the enterprise. However, consumer comments, independent reviews, and market reports online are crucial pieces of information coming from the outside that infinitely affect any organization.
Jahia just released a Whitepaper about a performance test of its Web Content Integration Software. This is the first in a series demonstrating Jahia’s high performance software used in implementing mission-critical web sites, extranets and intranets. Combining Enterprise Web Content Management with document and portal management features without requiring complex architecture or hardware, Jahia shows how its solution for high traffic, complex sites with heterogeneous content (video, documents, etc.) can save businesses headaches, time and of course, money.