Issue highlights 1. Dell buyout wins support from shareholder advisory group ISS 2. Minecraft in Latin? … Perhaps now the pope will play 3. 2 recent Mitel partnerships you should know about 4. What Apple's low-cost and plastic iPhone may look like 5. Geek-themed meme of the week: No. 3 6. Big Data jumps to the cloud 7. Skeptics don't get that new-time Windows 8.1 religion 8. Microsoft adds business intelligence to Office 365 9. Garmin's head-up display connects smartphone navigation to any vehicle windshield 10. Zettaset wraps Hadoop distributions to make them enterprise-ready 11. Box launches comprehensive Salesforce app |
| WHITE PAPER: Polycom If video collaboration isn't on your radar, it should be. According to Aberdeen Group's "Maximizing the Business Value of Mobile Video Collaboration" report, companies with mobile video saw increased virtual attendance at work-related events vs. those that didn't support mobile video. Read Now |
| Prominent shareholder advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services has given a stamp of approval to Dell founder Michael Dell's bid to take the company private. READ MORE |
| All I really know about Minecraft is that this video game has captivated my three children like no activity they have known in all of their 11 years. So I have taken to following the Twitter account of Minecraft lead developer Jens (Jeb) Bergensten and noted this tweet from him July 4. READ MORE |
| Two recent Mitel partnerships caught our attention: Windstream has signed an agreement with Mitel to offer managed UC service Offerings, and in a partnership Mitel and Vidyo have teamed to integrate Vidyo's HD video and telepresence solution across Mitel's entire line of unified communications and collaborations (UCC) products. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: AccelOps This e-book lists 10 Best Practices to provide you guidance for successful SIEM implementation and optimize your resources and accelerate your return on investment. Read Now |
| The website Techdy is reporting that it's gotten ahold of the front and rear parts of Apple's long-rumored low cost iPhone. As we've reported before, Apple is reportedly gearing to sell the low cost iPhone with a focus on emerging markets and will maintain its healthy margins by using chaper materials like plastic. READ MORE |
| They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so I have started publishing here on Buzzblog a selection of memes that amuse me. Here's No. 3. READ MORE |
| Kevin Walker's sales team was buried under information. Internal records, news reports, third-party data sources. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: IBM IBM provides consulting, implementation and application management services for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a comprehensive solution that helps midsize and larger organizations easily create and maintain a 360 view of their customers from first contact through purchase and post-sales. Learn More. |
| Analysts remain skeptical that Microsoft's relaunch of Windows 8 and the free upgrade to Windows 8.1 will translate into increased PC and tablet sales in the second half of the year. READ MORE |
| Microsoft is adding a set of BI (business intelligence) tools to its hosted Office 365 service, including some capabilities not yet offered in stand-alone Microsoft software products. READ MORE |
| Garmin today announced a portable head-up display device for smartphone navigation apps that costs $129.99 and can be used in any car. READ MORE |
| With "big data" grabbing headlines and Hadoop being the poster child for implementing big data, there is tremendous interest in this open source software, largely because the software is cheap and runs on commodity hardware. Hadoop's big shortcoming is its lack of inherent security. Zettaset addresses the security issue, as well as availability and manageability, with a "wrapper" that adds features that make Hadoop ready for the enterprise. READ MORE |
| Salesforce.com customers now have access on the company's AppExchange marketplace to an application that delivers the full functionality of the Box cloud storage and file sharing service within Salesforce.com's CRM suite. READ MORE |
| WHITE PAPER: Salesforce.com The evolution of customer communications from telephony to multichannel interactions, including IM and chat, SMS, email, and social media, have created a new era in the relationship between businesses and customers, once which is based upon each customer's preferred communications modality. Read now |
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