On stage at IBM Connect, Big Blue’s marquee social enterprise conference in Orlando, Sandy Carter presents success stories from large enterprise customers using IBM’s WebSphere Commerce solution – the most-used e-commerce platform of
Who doesn’t have time to watch a 36 second long video? Not many people it turns out, as the Toronto-based video sharing service Keek has proven by registering six million users in just
The odds of a tech startup surviving aren't just bad. They're terrible.About 75 per cent of all startups backed by venture capitalists fail toeven return investors' capital, according to research out of Harvardlast
“To the cloud!” was Microsoft's rallying-cry, and it appears most organizations agree it's inevitable that portions of their business will end up relying on cloud computing in the near future. Still, it also
Software firm SAP is quickly growing its startup following of its big data platform HANA, signing 20 new firms to run production applications on it.Not only will 20 firms be using SAP’s in-memory
One of the key things marketers should know about their target audience is whether they are still alive or not.It sounds obvious, but dead people don’t tend to buy much. Yet as anyone
Sequentia Environics came out on top in a startup competition hosted by SAP AG in Waterloo, Ont.-yesterday, awarding them access to a database platform that could help their business crunch data more efficiently.Eight
If you’re a medical researcher looking for antibodies, sometimes Googling isn’t enough. Or rather, it’s too much. In 2009, 1DegreeBio was started by a group of medical and technology-savvy entrepreneurs to become what they now say is
Facebook has acquired Face.com, the facial recognition software company whose products power Facebook's photo tagging suggestions, according to a blog post.Rumors of the acquisition began to circulate in late May. Face.com also provides branded Facebook apps.
If you own a version of Microsoft Office that includes Access (Office Professional 2010 is the most current version), but you've never used it, you're overlooking a powerful tool for organizing and analyzing
What kind of shopper are you?Canada's retailers want to find out, and a new database has beencreated to help them tap into the mindset – and habits – of Canadianconsumers. The database, dubbed
A PhD student at Toronto's Ryerson University says he could complete the world's first extensive database of human gestures for use as a universal computing interface by the end of this summer.Adrian Bulzacki,
The newly released edition of the Joomla open source content management system now comes with a new search engine, and can use Microsoft SQL Server or PostGreSQL, in addition to MySQL. Joomla 2.5,
Amazon's cloud platform suffered a brief service outage earlier this week when a lightning strike in Dublin impacted its power systems. The outage affected customers with Web-facing products such as Layar and Foursquare,
