Macworld | iWorld: More Than 100 Brand New Products Debuting for the Apple Platform
Exclusive Event Highlights New Innovations Launching at Macworld | iWorld; Special Exhibitor Shopping Deals Give Attendees Unparalleled Opportunities to See, Learn and Buy Right on the Show Floor
When Macworld | iWorld opens next week in San Francisco, more than 250 companies will showcase hundreds of the newest innovations in software, hardware, peripherals, accessories and applications for the Apple products platform, IDG World Expo announced today. More than 100 of these products, many of which are debuting at the show, will be highlighted as part of the exclusive First Looks program, which puts the spotlight on the newest and coolest solutions for every iFan. Attendees will also have access to hundreds of shopping deals available in exhibitor booths throughout the show floor, including show special product offers available exclusively to Macworld | iWorld attendees.
The vibrant Macworld | iWorld show floor—which this year includes the Mobile Apps Showcase, where the latest iPad, iPhone and iPod innovations will be on display, and the brand new, sold-out OS X Zone, specifically designed to showcase OS X software—complements a full agenda of music, film and art events, including performances, screenings, and galleries, as well as networking events and meet ups, educational workshops, and Tech Talks all developed to celebrate the amazing innovation that can happen when elegant technology meets creative genius. Macworld | iWorld will take place January 26 – January 28, 2012, at the Moscone Center – West Hall in San Francisco. A full list of exhibitors can be found at: http://www.macworldiworld.com/exhibitor-list/. Read more
IBM Brings the Power of Analytics to Social Business
IBM unveiled new software and services that delivers comprehensive networking capabilities to the increasingly social savvy workforce. Now, organizations can apply analytics to their social business initiatives, allowing them to gain actionable insight on social networking sentiment anytime, anywhere and put it to work in real-time.
As part of today’s news, IBM is announcing new cloud services and the next-generation of its social networking platform, IBM Connections. The new software incorporates sophisticated analytics capabilities, real-time data monitoring, and faster collaborative networks both inside and outside the organization through IBM’s SmartCloud services.
Now, organizations can integrate and analyze massive amounts of data generated from people, devices and sensors and more easily align these insights to business processes to make faster, more accurate business decisions. By gaining deeper insights in customer and market trends and employees’ sentiment, businesses can uncover critical patterns to not only react swiftly to market shifts, but predict the effect of future actions. Read more
TomTom Provides Customers with More Details about How It Uses Their Location Data
TomTom has been cooperating with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (the “CBP”) in recent months to confirm TomTom is fully compliant with privacy laws. The Data Protection Authority found that TomTom has never shared its customers’ private location data with third parties. It also states that TomTom should be clearer in communicating to its customers about how their data is used to generate TomTom’s mapping, routing and traffic services.
To this end, in February there will be a software update on all TomTom consumer products. This update will provide customers with detailed information about what customer location information TomTom gathers, how TomTom uses customers’ location data and how customers can easily opt in and out of sharing their location data if they wish to. TomTom has a created a dedicated section on www.tomtom.com/yourdata, to clearly explain how it uses and safeguards location data. Read more
CES 2012: Mobile Security V6.0 for Android
NQ Mobile released the latest version of its award-winning antivirus software, Mobile Security V6.0 for Android.
Now available as a free download, Mobile Security V6.0 for Android is the first of many products under the NQ Mobile brand. This update offers Android users several new features to protect their privacy and financial information, as well as significant improvements to the user interface.
Utilizing NQ Mobile’s proprietary cloud scanning technology, Mobile Security 6.0 detects and deletes viruses, malicious URLs, and other threats before you even know they exist. With newly enhanced features including GPS-based anti-loss/theft features, backup and restore tools for your contacts, complete privacy protection, traffic monitoring, and more, NQ Mobile Security 6.0 improves on the 5.0 version, which out-performed all competitive mobile security platforms in a West Coast Labs Comparative Test. The refined interface reflects the specific needs of users in the global markets served by NQ Mobile. Read more
CES 2012: ZappoTV Beta Android Version of Popular iOS App
ZappoTV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES, Booth 21562, Venetian Suite 30-137) announced that its free Mobile Media Center application is available in beta for Android phones. ZappoTV allows users to combine their media content via their mobile device and watch it on their internet-connected television.
How it Works
ZappoTV enables users to locate, access and enjoy their favorite podcasts, photos and videos from Facebook, Picasa or Flickr, and their own movies, photos and music stored on their phone or home computer or server, as well as content aggregated by ZappoTV. Moreover, the unique capability of the ZappoTV Mobile Media Center application is its ability to send media from the mobile device and internet to a TV to enjoy the content on a “big screen” with friends and family. ZappoTV’s technology uses DLNA and UPnP AV with a proprietary enhancement layer which extends home networking protocols to allow connected TVs, media players and other such devices to access internet-based content and make them work seamlessly together. Read more