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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2012  /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Electronics, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, has announced the addition of "From Social Media to Social Learning", a special evening event created for marketing and PR leaders in the electronics industry, which will take place on February 1st from 5pm – 6pm in Room 211 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. DesignCon 2012, which will be held in Santa Clara, Calif., January 30 through February 2, , will provide 100+ sessions as part of the 14 tracks that include technical paper presentations, tutorials, sponsored training sessions, product teardowns, panel discussions and keynote addresses. Additionally, the number of registered attendees, just days before the show, is up over twenty percent year-on-year, continuing the trend of double-digi... (more)

Enterprise Development: Flex or HTML5?

This article is a transcript from a recorded conversation I had with Anatole Tartakovsky and Victor Rasputnis – my business partners at Farata Systems. This conversation took place on the mountain after the day of skiing. Yakov. There are many ways of creating Web applications and creating them for the enterprises is not the same as developing a Web site for a pizzeria in your neighborhood. During the last five years we’ve been using mainly Adobe Flex for development of the front end of Web applications. Flex applications work in a well known and predictable run-time environment c... (more)

Data Market Chat: Hjálmar Gíslason discusses DataMarket.com

Image via CrunchBase With Iceland’s DataMarket.com, Founder Hjálmar Gíslason is on his fourth startup, and ready to expand overseas. Focused upon becoming “Google for datanumbers,” DataMarket concerns itself with collecting and providing access to quantitative data; numbers from governments, international agencies, and commercial providers around the world. Alongside the business of collecting data and making it available for download, DataMarket has invested in providing tools with which users can visualize data (typically in the form of a graph) and even compare results from ... (more)

Microsoft Announces Upcoming Events for the Financial Community

REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced participation in the following upcoming events with the financial community. Interested parties can listen to a webcast of these events on Microsoft's Investor Relations website at http://www.microsoft.com/investor. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) Stifel Nicolaus Technology & Telecom Conference 2012 Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 9:45 a.m. PST Bill Koefoed, general manager, Investor Relations Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 1:15 p.m. PST Peter Klei... (more)

SPIRIT DSP Receives 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award

SPIRIT DSP, the world's top voice and video over IP engines provider, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named SPIRIT's product VideoMost.com a recipient of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award. VideoMost.com is massively multi-point, web-based videoconferencing software product targeted for licensing to carriers and service providers as a white-labeled branded service. VideoMost.com is based on SPIRIT DSP's video engine for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS clients and Windows or Linux-based video conferencing servers. The software em... (more)