Blog about Programming, Open Source, Technology, Software and IT Jobs. in 2015-08-24

Customer SuccessCon East Recap

Recently I had the honor of leading a roundtable discussion on how organizations should design and implement a customer success function....

Intel Developer Forum 2015: IoT, Wearables, Robotics, and Sensory Computing

Last week, Intel was out in force at the Moscone Center in San Francisco...

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #273

Google and Twitter get cosy with desktop search result integration It is now possible to view tweet feeds and hashtags on the desktop...

Top 10 UX Blogs

The blogs every UX pro & enthusiast should keep their eye on If you’re reading this article online right now, you’re probably...

Your Samsung Smart Fridge Could Be Targeted By Hackers

Google’s numerous services and products, have always been the target of the world’s media for an alleged lack of security and overall privacy. Fortunately, there are many experts working together with Google or...

The 5 Most Important Hashtags Of All Time

Social media has the power to get people’s attention. And when you’ve got people’s attention you’ve got the power to change their mind – and their actions. Hashtags have been used for some fun, but admittedly...

Brands use #FirstDayofSchool on Twitter to celebrate the dreaded day

It’s not only the first day of school for students, but apparently for brands too. Companies wasted no time attaching themselves to #firstdayofschool, an unofficial hashtag for the dreaded holiday where grumpy students ranging from elementary school to university head back to homework hell. The hashtag has been used in moderation for the past few weeks with it growing in popularity today. Topsy, a social analytics firm,...

Big Oil hates a California climate bill so much that it’s telling outright lies about it

As Western wildfires follow the worst drought in modern history, the impacts of global warming have never been more stark. And as electric cars, LED light bulbs, and solar panels proliferate, the solutions have never...

Magic 3D Photoshop Action

Today we have a free Photoshop Action for easily creating 3D effects. The action was created by Damian Watracz for the readers of the Vandelay Design blog. With the help of the action, you can easily give 3D effects to...

Allocadia Unveils Data Integration Framework For Performance Management Tool

Allocadia, a provider of marketing performance management software, introduced Allocadia Cloud Exchange, an integration framework designed to enable users to exchange data between their marketing, sales and finance...

Allocadia Unveils Data Integration Framework For Performance Management Tool

Allocadia, a provider of marketing performance management software, introduced Allocadia Cloud Exchange, an integration framework designed to enable users to exchange data between their marketing, sales and finance...

Allocadia Unveils Data Integration Framework For Performance Management Tool

Allocadia, a provider of marketing performance management software, introduced Allocadia Cloud Exchange, an integration framework designed to enable users to exchange data between their marketing, sales and finance...

EY, Hortonworks Form Strategic Business Relationship to Help Turn Big Data Challenges into Big Business Opportunities

Ernst & Young LLP announced a strategic business relationship with Hortonworks Inc. to provide new data management offerings that leverage and extend Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™) together with EY’s data and information management services. The alliance comes at a critical juncture as today’s data-driven organizations are looking to leverage newly available data (structured and unstructured) to gain better insights and...

New! i-locate extends OpenStreetMap editor for indoor navigation graph editing!

i-locate (see our recent OGC Blog post and our website) is a project funded through Europe’s ICT-PSP program. i-locate provides the first reference implementation of the OGC IndoorGML Encoding Standard. The project...

New! i-locate extends OpenStreetMap editor for indoor navigation graph editing!

Contributed by: Giuseppe ContiTags: OGC, LBS, IndoorGML, i-locate, indoor/outdoor, OpenStreetMap, navigation graph i-locate (see our recent OGC Blog post and our website) is a project funded through Europe’s...

#NoHacked: Fixing the Injected Gibberish URL Hack

Today in our #NoHacked campaign, we’ll be discussing how to fix the injected gibberish URL hack we wrote about last week. Even if your site is not infected with this specific type of hack, many of these steps can be...

Sprint Rolls Out ‘Direct 2 You’ Service At New Locations

Sprint has just announced the continuing expansion of its smartphone delivery and personalization service, Direct 2 You. In addition to the areas already covered by the service, Sprint is now in the process of rolling...

9. International Regulations and Supply Chains: The Case of Mercury

3. Reverse Logistics and Closing the Loop

4. Carbon Footprinting

10. Green Supply Chain Strategy

7. Multi-stakeholder Engagements

5. Life Cycle Analysis

The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 8/24/15

LightCense, a California-based company, has proposed to create drone “license plates” using blinking LED lights. Credit: LightCense On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a database of over 600...

Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Officially Launched in China; Full Details Emerge

Today Samsung officially introduced the Galaxy Tab S2 slate in China and this is an important development, since this is the world’s thinnest tablet after all, at 5.6 mm in waistline. Also, we get to learn some...