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New Wireless ’Family Plan’ for U.S. Government Saves $300 Million
The General Services Administration (GSA) Acting Administrator joined by executives from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon announced the award of a new government-wide blanket purchase agreement (BPA) that allows the government to better manage wireless spending by consolidating service plans and centralizing management. The agreements, which will save $300 million over the next five years, is a significant accomplishment for the federal government because it capitalizes on more than a billion dollars that the government spends each year on wireless. [May 24, 2013]

 

  

Promoting the Myth of the "Always Connected" Device
Airplane mode, long commutes, limits on data plans: they all belie the notion of devices with continuous, uninterrupted Internet connections. Yet many applications assume a permanent connection when delivering content to the user. When the Internet isn’t reachable, an app will often simply notify the user of network issues, and then refuse to function until the connection is restored. [May 24, 2013]

 

  

IBM Announces New Capabilities to Deliver Real-Time Analytics via the Cloud
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new IBM SmartCloud capabilities, including DB2 with BLU Acceleration that can result in as much as 25 times faster reporting and analytics, and SmartCloud availability for SAP’s in-memory database, the SAP High Performance Analytics Appliance (SAP HANA). [May 24, 2013]

 

  

Wireless Consumers Aware of Cyberthreats and Know They Should Protect Themselves, Yet Many Don’t
On the second day of CTIA 2013™, CTIA-The Wireless Association® released its consumer survey on users’ attitudes toward cybersecurity. Commissioned by CTIA, the Harris Interactive survey shows that 85 percent of consumers know their mobile devices are very or somewhat vulnerable, 74 percent say keeping their devices secure is their responsibility, but many don’t take action. [May 24, 2013]

 

  

New Database Tracks 11,000 Global Rendition Flights
A new University of Kent-hosted database has tracked over 11,000 flights by more than 120 aircraft linked by past investigations to renditions. It also contains details of over 50 private companies contracted for or by the CIA in relation to rendition flights. The database is the latest addition to the Rendition Project, an online project designed to analyse the global system of rendition, secret detention and torture initiated by the US. The new database will enable users to search for, and visualise, underlying data contained within the Rendition Project via an interactive map showing rendition flights. Flight data underpinning the database is collated from over 40 separate sources. [May 24, 2013]

 

  

Digital Signal Corporation Secures $50 Million in Funding
Digital Signal Corporation ("DSC"), a world leader in facial recognition and identity management solutions, has secured $50 million in funding from Technology Control Corporation ("TCC"). TCC has the option to increase the investment up to a total of approximately $110 million over the next 12 months. [May 24, 2013]

 

  

PSE&G Praised for Innovative Use of Social Media
CS Week recently recognized PSE&G for its use of social media in communicating with customers. The educational conference gave the New Jersey utility an award for "Innovation in Customer Service" for its use of Twitter during Superstorm Sandy- an effort that culminated in the company having more followers than any other utility in the United States. [May 24, 2013]

 

  

Deloitte Announces Dynamic Review: A New Approach to Discovery
Deloitte unveiled Dynamic Review, a proprietary methodology to combine human review with advanced analytics — including predictive coding — to help large organizations reduce costs and increase efficiency in evidence collection for internal investigations and litigation with external parties. [May 24, 2013]

 

  

Writers’ Group Film Corp. Unveils New Strategic Initiatives Aimed at Revenue Growth and Leveraging Distribution Platforms
Writers’ Group Film Corp. (OTCQB: WRIT) announced a series of strategic initiatives, which aim to grow the company’s revenues by leveraging its distribution platforms in cinema, mobile and online streaming. Among the planned initiatives are acquisition of finished content and a new emphasis on acquiring existing businesses with non-cyclical revenue streams that leverage the company’s existing distribution pipeline. These initiatives will begin to roll out in this quarter and the 3rd quarter of 2013. [May 24, 2013]

 

  

Mobile Application Management service allows Canadian businesses to manage corporate apps when employees bring their own devices
TELUS and Apperian today announced the launch of a new Mobile Application Management service designed to help Canadian enterprises protect and manage their corporate mobile apps and data when employees use their own wireless devices at work. Without requiring intrusive and cumbersome technology on users’ devices the TELUS Mobile Application Management, powered by Apperian technology, makes it incredibly easy for businesses to roll out employee mobile apps and data on users’ own devices. [May 23, 2013]

 

  

Mobilicity announces revisions to the TELUS Acquisition Plan
Data & Audio-Visual Enterprises Holdings Inc. and its affiliates announced that certain revisions have been made to the TELUS Acquisition Plan, in accordance with the provisions of the TELUS Acquisition Plan based on discussions with stakeholders. The Revised TELUS Acquisition Plan has been posted on Mobilicity’s website and can be found at www.mobilicity.ca/investorrelations. [May 23, 2013]

 

  

Email Aptitude Expands Weather-Based Marketing Automation Technology
Email Aptitude, a leading email strategy and marketing technology firm, announced today that it has implemented key additions to its patent-pending EA Rainmaker technology. These enhancements include real-time coverage for Canada plus the ability to schedule forecast triggers based on temperature dips and spikes. [May 23, 2013]

 

  

Leading Mobile User Acquisition Platform, Taptica, Launches a Solution for Video Ads
Taptica, the leading mobile user acquisition platform, has launched a unique solution for video ads enabling its SDK to support multiple ad types including video, giving advertisers further opportunities to enhance their campaigns. [May 23, 2013]

 

  

Image Rights - Manage Them or Lose Them
The challenge that images with badly managed rights may result in unprotected work will be discussed at the seventh IPTC Photo Metadata Conference which will be held on 13 June in Barcelona (Spain). Speakers from all over Europe will debate changes in rights handling in the picture industry and will address latest technology for machine readable rights. The Conference will be held at the annual Congress of the European picture agency association CEPIC. [May 23, 2013]

 

  

Public Mobile Answers the Call for Feature Phones with Kyocera Kona
Public Mobile and Kyocera Communications Inc. today announced the launch of Kyocera Kona, an attractive and compact flip phone designed with affordability and simplicity in mind. Priced at $69, Kona has a spacious keypad with large, separated keys and large font options for rapid texting. Kona is available at all Public Mobile retail locations. [May 23, 2013]

 

  

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