Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Software : MobileIron upgrades its MDM offering with a tablet app and enhanced security settings

Software : MobileIron upgrades its MDM offering with a tablet app and enhanced security settings

MobileIron upgrades its MDM offering with a tablet app and enhanced security settings

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MobileIron upgrades its MDM offering with a tablet app and enhanced security settings

Mobile device management company MobileIron has launched an app that is designed to enable IT to oversee enterprise devices from iPads and Android tablets. Additionally, MobileIron has unveiled a setting that will allow IT managers to define parameters for workers in order to ensure privacy and security.

With the new tablet app, MobileIron Insight, MobileIron would like to give IT administrators the flexibility to control mobility deployments regardless of their own location or tablet device. From within the app, users can access data on which workers are using which device, which carrier they are on, and whether or not their activity is compliant with pre-established restrictions.

The tool doubles down on bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies by allowing the policymakers themselves the ability to choose the device on which they perform their tasks.

MobileIron Spaces

As a new part of MobileIron Core, the company's flagship platform, the MobileIron Spaces setting will allow IT to establish data and task boundaries to protect user privacy, the company said in a statement.

The new setting guarantees that administrators can only access mobile data and take actions based on pre-determined parameters. This is built to ensure unauthorized administrators don't view data that they are restricted from accessing. Parameters can be set based on business unit, region, device, and role.

Twitter's acquisition of TapCommerce signals another bid for mobile revenue

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Twitter's acquisition of TapCommerce signals another bid for mobile revenue

Twitter has agreed to acquire mobile advertising startup TapCommerce for just under $100 million (around £58 million, AU$105 million), the company confirmed in a statement. TapCommerce specializes in mobile retargeting and re-engagement advertising - two technologies Twitter hopes will enable it to increase mobile revenue.

With TapCommerce, Twitter hopes to provide advertisers with technology that can improve the social network's app re-engagement, real-time programmatic buying, and measurement capabilities. Twitter says it believes the addition will help it to provide advertisers with a way to acquire new users through app installs, to engage existing users, and to provide more relevant ads to consumers.

Since its launch in 2012, TapCommerce built a solution that processes more than 15 billion targeted ad impression bids each day, across 50,000 apps worldwide. TapCommerce had generated more than $11.7 million (around £6.8 million, AU$12.3 million) in funding from investors Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Nextview Ventures, and RRE Ventures.

Monetizing Twitter

The social networking company named Anthony Noto the company's Chief Financial Officer. Noto helped lead Twitter's IPO when he served as the co-head of Goldman Sachs' Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking group. Current Twitter CFO current, Mike Gupta, will be transitioned to a new role as SVP in charge of strategic investments.

This week, Twitter announced it would roll out mobile app promotions that will appear as normal tweets and include a link escorting users directly to the Google Play or iTunes App store.

Last September, Twitter acquired MoPub, a mobile advertising network, for more than $300 million (around £174 million, AU$315 million).

Kinvey launches Mobile Identity Connect to simplify security for app developers

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Kinvey launches Mobile Identity Connect to simplify security for app developers

Kinvey has launched a service designed to enable mobile developers to secure web-based applications with enterprise identity management systems. The goal of the service is to allow developers to devote time and resources to user experiences, while delegating security concerns to Kinvey.

The service, Mobile Identity Connect, is made with developers in mind. Organizations that create mobile web-based applications can use the service to add single-sign-on authentication and identity management without leveraging persistent connections to desktop apps, according to a Kinvey statement.

Kinvey created Mobile Identity Connect to enable developers to focus on identity management, data services, business logic, and engagement services with one single tool.

Demand for web-based app security solutions

"Most enterprise-grade identity and single sign-on systems were designed in a pre-mobile world, and don't take the unique challenges of mobile technology into account," said Sravish Sridhar, CEO of Kinvey, in a statement.

Last month, Kinvey launched support for beacon-enabled enterprise applications designed to improve the knowledge associated with proximity-aware mobile applications.

Survey finds Hadoop is too slow, big data is too complex

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Survey finds Hadoop is too slow, big data is too complex

Seventy-six percent of data scientists say that Hadoop is too slow, according to a survey from analytics company Paradigm4. Data scientists believe the open-source software framework requires too much effort to program and isn't fast enough to keep up with big data demands.

Ninety-one percent of survey respondents say they are performing complex analysis of big data, and as a result 39% of overall respondents say their job is becoming more difficult. Seventy-one percent of respondents say the types of data sources in addition to volume are making analysis more difficult.

Of the 76% of respondents that report problems with Hadoop, 39% say it requires too much effort to program, 37% say it's too slow for ad hoc queries, and 30% say it's too slow for real-time analytics.

The ubiquity of big data

Big data is becoming increasingly important for all enterprises. Ninety-six percent of midmarket companies with 2,000 to 5,000 employees are embracing the rise of big data, according to research commissioned by Dell and conducted by Competitive Edge Research. Eighty percent of the midmarket believes they need to better analyze their data, as they believe big data initiatives provide a significant boost to company decision making.

For small businesses, free and cheaper tools are making it more likely that collecting and analyzing big data will become a necessity in order to compete.

The Paradigm4 survey features responses from 111 data scientists in the US. Survey results were culled during a one-month span in March and April.

IBM and Bon Appétit magazine cook up an app for home chefs

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IBM and Bon Appétit magazine cook up an app for home chefs

IBM and Bon Appétit magazine have launched a cooking app that can automatically recommend recipes and ingredient combinations based on user-defined parameters. The technology that powers the app is built on IBM Watson, the supercomputer that won Jeopardy! in 2011.

The app, Chef Watson with Bon Appétit, was built by feeding roughly 9,000 Bon Appétit recipes into the IBM supercomputer. Watson processed the articles and developed insights about ingredient pairings, cooking styles, and dishes, which the computer then combined with scientific information about food chemistry, popular opinions and tastes, and regional and ethnic cooking, according to a Bon Appétit blog post.

Users will be able to generate recipes by inputting parameters, such as ingredients, allergy and dietary restrictions, and portions. Watson will use the parameters to determine millions of possible combinations, ingredient amounts and preparation instructions.

How to get the app

Bon Appétit readers can apply to become a beta tester for the app. Testing will be conducted over the following "weeks and months" before the app is generally released, the blog post said.

In February, IBM embarked on a 10-year project to bring Watson technology to Africa. As part of the initiative, IBM will be investing $100 million (£61 million, AU$111 million) to stimulate business opportunities and growth in Africa.
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