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Fitbit Leads Surge in Wearable Sales

"People don't quite see the value in smartwatches just yet. People understand the purpose of a Fitbit or a fitness tracker, but they don't understand the importance of a smartwatch," he told the E-Commerce Times "Fitbit does a better job at fitness tracking than Apple. Even if...

Microsoft Buys Xamarin to Boost Cross-Platform Development

"Xamarin has worked with Microsoft already for quite a while, and they helped Microsoft and other companies to port their applications to other OSes," he told the E-Commerce Times "In order to make it easier for developers to develop once and deploy in multiple environments, X...

Operation Blockbuster Brings the Fight to Sony Hackers

"I think we are definitely putting a dent in their operation. I don't think it is going to make them disappear, but it is definitely causing them some headaches," he told the E-Commerce Times Other members of Operation Blockbuster include AlienVault, Invincea, PunchCyber, Syma...

Gates Sees Both Sides in Apple vs. FBI Ruckus

"It's a very specific case. It doesn't extend beyond this phone in the possession of the FBI," he told the E-Commerce Times "It's a one-off, and it's such a specific one-off that I think we're trying to make it bigger than it is," Berman added....

Facebook Uses AI to Map Population Density

"The Earth is a huge place, and blanketing the entire planet with wireless would be enormously expensive and unproductive," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Instead, Facebook has used AI to identify the location of human settlements, thus significantly improving the overall efficiency of its wireless provisioning efforts."

MasterCard Will Put Selfies to Work for Authentication

"I like the concept," he told the E-Commerce Times. "If MasterCard can make it work quickly and unobtrusively at point of sale, then it should help drive mobile payments." Using two forms of authentication should drastically reduce false positives, where another person is conf...

IBM Meets VMware and Apple Swift in the Cloud

"We've been working with IBM for a number of years -- 13 to 14 years overall -- but this is a deepening of our relationship," he told the E-Commerce Times Swift on the Server...

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Fed Cloud Spending on Perplexing – but Upward – Trajectory

"We do not consider the total provisioned IT services budget to be cloud for several reasons," Peterson told the E-Commerce Times. One is that OMB uses the cloud definition from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for classification purposes Another is that in i...

Facebook May Launch Risky Messenger Ad Program

"If Facebook can insert itself as a bridge to better and faster customer service, they will stand to make a fortune," she told the E-Commerce Times "They could have hit on a value add-to-customer ad sales holy grail. It could be an amazing brand loyalty and brand-building tool...

Battle Lines Sharpen in Apple-FBI Encryption Fight

Analytics gauges the sentiment factor by measuring the balance of positive versus negative words and phrases in an article, he told the E-Commerce Times. Since the process is automated, however, it is not measuring whether the positive or negative phrases are directed at Apple or the FBI...

Yahoo Sets Itself Up for Buyout

"If you're talking about search engine marketing between Yahoo and Google, Yahoo represents a very small portion of the search landscape. It's a smaller search engine," he told E-Commerce Times "I really don't know who is using Yahoo. I don't use it. But they did have a presen...

Investors Bet $57M on Jana’s Global Internet Access Strategy

"The investment will help fuel Jana's plans to expand into China, bolster mobile and brand partnerships, and grow their global footprint and team," she told the E-Commerce Times Jana also announced that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has accepted a position on the company's advisory bo...

IBM Watson Forks Over $2.6B for Health Data Stash

The acquisition of information is really about finding meaningful insights that were previously unknown, he told the E-Commerce Times. By combining Watson's analytic capabilities with Truven's rich trove of data, IBM hopes to crack many of the healthcare industry's biggest codes, namely value and accuracy...

Cook et al Dig In Heels in iPhone Encryption Battle

"The Constitution does not permit the government to force companies to hack into their customer's devices," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Apple is free to offer a phone that stores information securely, and it must remain so if consumers are to retain any control over their private data."

New IBM Mainframe Promises Advanced Security for Hybrid Clouds

"Since IBM z system products perform encryption apart from the primary system components, that means that z13s customers will be able to encrypt and decrypt twice as many online or mobile transactions as they did before without impacting system performance," he told the E-Commerce Times...

Hollywood Hospital Hacked Back to Paper Age

The FBI is investigating the intrusion, spokesperson Ari Dekofsky told the E-Commerce Times Comma Error?...

Groupon Flies High on Alibaba Investment

"Alibaba has an incredible pipeline of suppliers who need to bring their technology products into the U.S.," he told the E-Commerce Times. "On the flip side, Groupon's platform is ripe for expansion into Asia, and no organization has the sort of footprint across southeast Asia, especially China and Hong Kong, as Alibaba does."

Report: Apple Moving Quickly to Sell New iPhone, iPad Models

"The new small iPhone to replace the iPhone 5s makes a lot of sense. There is a group of people who like the smaller form factor and others who want an iPhone, but can only afford it at a lower price. This new iPhone allows Apple to upgrade the iPhone 5s to the latest chip technology, while maintaining 5s pricing," he told the E-Commerce Times...

Encryption Bans and Backdoor Efforts Are Misguided, Harvard Study Finds

"To this international market, a domestic regulation will have minimal effect. This is something that is obvious to those of us in the industry but not so obvious to the policymakers. I hope the information contributes to the general debate," Schneier told the E-Commerce Times...

Time Scoops Up MySpace With Viant Buy

"We'll be able to deliver advertising targeted to optimal audiences across various devices," she told the E-Commerce Times What Viant Brings to the Table...

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