Posts tagged Enables
Monetate Launches Agility Suite, Enables Unlimited Real-Time Testing & Updates Without IT
Jan 16th
Monetate Agility Suite launches today, giving marketers the ability to run tests and make site changes on the fly, even from a tablet or smartphone. Five products inside the toolkit enable unlimited A/B or multivariate testing with real-time data,…
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Dell Optimized Deployment Now Enables KACE Image Migration
Oct 11th
With the world’s #1 PC maker HP now in full transition mode, now may be the time for Dell to get its full come-uppance. On the enterprise side, it’s had two big aces in the hole for a few years now: One is Optimized Deployment, which borrows Microsoft’s data imaging technology to enable admins to rapidly deploy fully-configured Windows operating systems and applications to multiple clients in minutes. A 2010 study (PDF available here) showed automated image-based deployment could save businesses up to $337 per PC, in IT management costs alone.
Another is Dell’s extraordinary KACE management appliances – literally plug-and-play tools that perform inventory analysis on corporate networks. A KACE tool lets admins deploy applications, patches, and updates to designated systems in the network.
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You’d think it would only be a matter of time before someone at Dell put two and two together. This morning, Dell announced it’s enabling its Optimized Deployment service to team up with its KACE appliance to deploy fully pre-configured Windows on selected clients.
This Dell video describing how the KACE K1000 deployment appliance works, comes with a somewhat familiar voice.
Now, the company says, the Dell service will also make it possible to deploy Dell clients in a network, and using the image migration service, automatically transition retiring HP, Lenovo, or Acer systems to those Dell clients.
As if to rub some salt in the wound, Dell’s announcement today came bundled with the results of a survey of some 130 HP customers of 500 employees or more, commissioned by Dell. Amid all the chaos surrounding HP’s executive shifts and realignment investigations, some 46% of respondents to the Dell survey said they were less likely to purchase HP products now than before. Some 47% of HP PC users in enterprises and 23% of users in companies with HP servers told the survey they were considering alternatives to HP. One wonders how much higher those numbers would have been after today’s announcements.
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Google Enables Call Tracking From Mobile Landing Pages by @gsterling
Oct 6th
Google’s Click to Call program has been a huge success. About a year ago Google reported that it had 500,000 advertisers using Click to Call. (That number was repeated again today in a blog post.) And last year former Google Product SVP Jonathan Rosenberg said “Click-to-Call ads are generating…
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Wikipedia Enables HTTPS for Privacy in Browsing
Oct 4th
Wikipedia visitors can now leverage a new level of security and privacy regarding their reading habits, thanks to the site’s newly announced support for HTTPS browsing. Ryan Lane, a Wikipedia Operations Engineer, writes that HTTPS “allows you to visit our sites without having your browsing habits tracked, and you can log in without having your password or user session data stolen.” Visitors seeking to navigate the site securely can simply visit https://en.wikipedia.org to begin.
Wikipedia has made several steps away from the growing trend of encouraging users to share their data with one another, in some cases explicitly contrasting the giant encyclopedia’s policies and ethos with Facebook’s.
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“Things like sharing what you’re reading, that’s where Facebook bumps up against the line of what people find slightly weird and creepy,” Wikipedia Co-founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with the Huffington Post’s Bianca Bosker last week. “If I go to read something on Wikipedia, that’s my own personal business…You should feel safe and private knowing that whatever you want to learn, you go to Wikipedia to learn it and you don’t have to worry that you’ve accidentally told Facebook you want to learn it.”
Facebook itself began offering HTTPS as an optional setting in January. Twitter did the same in March.
There are down sides to using HTTPS connections, however. Some third party apps that you do want to allow access to your browsing data, the fabulous Apture for example, are unable to access and thus provide services on top of data on HTTPS pages.
Many people will welcome the change none the less.
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MightyMeeting Enables Screen Sharing for HP TouchPad
Jul 1st
MightyMeeting becomes one of the first software offerings to support the new HP TouchPad. The vendor offers free and low-cost screen-sharing instant meeting service and competes with a crowded market of other low or no-cost screensharing services, include Mikogo.com, Join.Me, Twiddla.com and Vyew.com.
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You can get started with a free account, or pay $5 per month for a Pro account which gives you up to 2 GB of storage and unlimited online meetings. Volume licensing is available for users in your own domain. There are some limitations, however: You can email or upload and share PowerPoint 2003/2007, PDFs and video files of various formats only. Launching with the HP tablet client is also an audio conference service and there is a primitive text chat feature. You can share your screen with anyone; you don’t have to register with the site ahead of time.
With the new HP client, MightyMeeting shows that their focus is on mobile clients having access to these screen sharing services.
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iSwifter Enables iPad Users to Play Flash-Based Games
Jun 1st
Despite numerous pronouncements about the death of Flash, there are still plenty of games and videos that require it, much to the frustration of anyone using an iOS device to try to access those websites. But with the release of a new app available today, iSwifter will bring Flash to the iPad so that users can play Flash-based social games and MMOs.
The app itself is free, and after a 7-day free trial, will require a monthly subscription fee of $4.99.
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The app doesn’t simply port Flash-based video content to the iPad, clearly, as it has to support multitouch for input if it’s going to suffice for gameplay. And it isn’t running Flash per se, something that would have put the app at odds with Apple’s rules for developers. Instead, the app works something like Netflix, converting the Flash-based content on iSwifter’s own servers then streaming the content to the app.
According to iSwifter founder Rajat Gupta, “We have spent the last year building a cloud-based Flash browser technology that provides low latency interactivity and high frame rate rendering for an optimal user experience.” And that user experience will be key, particularly for gameplay.
By creating this app, iSwifter says it will save game developers the time of having to port their Flash games to iPad. But it will also open up the wealth of Flash-based games to iPad users. Mobile gaming is skyrocketing in popularity, and as we wrote last month, iOS users are particularly voracious when it comes to their gaming habits, downloading some 5 million games per day.
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How Facebook Enables The Google Social “Scraping” It’s Upset About
May 12th
I wrote a very long examination of the issues that Facebook employed a PR firm to publicize, about how Facebook feels Google may be violating privacy with its Google Social Search product. Here’s a shorter look, especially from the angle of how Facebook itself has enabled Google to do what…
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Twitter Enables Fully-Functional, Embedded Tweets
Mar 30th
Until now, there has been no quick and simple way to embed a functional Tweet in a blog post. That is, most of us bloggers simply took a quick screenshot, uploaded the image and used that, meaning that users were left looking at the picture of functionality without any of the benefits – they couldn’t follow, retweet, reply or favorite a thing.
Today, Twitter has released a new set of developer tools that will make it easier for bloggers and others alike to embed fully-functional Tweets on the Web, with WordPress leading the pack.
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According to the developer description, the new feature – called Web Intents – will “make it possible for users to interact with Twitter content in the context of your site, without leaving the page or having to authorize a new app just for the interaction.”
Twitter had previously offered a way to embed Tweets with a feature called Blackbird Pie, but the resulting embed was lifeless. Users couldn’t interact with it in any way. The new feature allows users to interact with the embedded Tweet as if they were on Twitter’s website itself, even offering a mini-profile feature, similar to the Hovercard.
Already, WordPress has offered an updated tool, writing that “Twitter Blackbird Pie Just Got Even Sweeter.” For WordPress users, the change will be immediate and automatic – all Tweets on WordPress.com blogs will display in the new format.
For the rest of us, however, there is a little simple hacking required, though the how-to is fully detailed. We’d be surprised if a tool for doing this quickly and easily weren’t out and free on the Web by the end of the day.
Now, this isn’t to say that you shouldn’t go getting that screenshot while you’re at it. The new feature works by referring to the Tweet by ID, which means that if the original poster deletes that Tweet, your embed will have nothing to show.
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