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Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month,
studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking
before publishing her news story on Monday and airing our interview.
Here is the link to the Fox News on-camera interview.
This morning, on Monday, she also published a detailed article on Sofia:
▸ Fox News Story on Sofia's Abduction to Syria
When Sofia returns safely home, she will pay her first visit to Diane at Fox
News headquarters in New York City.
▸ US Leaves Its Youngest Citizen Behind Syria
I already wrote two blog posts on Sofia's status in Syria. Both posts were
read by Washington, by our Embassy in Damascus, Syria, as well as the Syrian
government both here in DC and in Damascus.
▸ Open Letter to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad
▸ Open Letter to the First Lady of Syria Asma al-Assad
Following the Syrian p... (more)
Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month,
studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking
before publishing her news story on Monday and airing our interview.
Fox News: ▸ video ▸ story
On Monday, she also published a detailed article on Sofia that was picked up
by a dozen or so media outlets around the world during the week.
▸ Fox News Story on Sofia's Abduction to Syria
When Sofia returns safely home, she will pay her first visit to Diane at the
Fox News headquarters in New York City.
▸ US Leaves Its Youngest Citizen Behind Syria
The following is a short weekend "bedtime story" for my daughter while she
still remains abducted in Syria.
Twitter updates on Sofia @FuatKircaali
One day, during his travels, Daddy found a "little green Swiss frog" on his
bed as he arrived in his hotel room.
Daddy took the little g... (more)
Face it, we no longer have downtime - on a train, in a coffee shop, on an
airplane everyone is frantically responding to calls and emails from their
crackberry's, Palm's or Iphone's. Companies embrace the mobile device
figuring they are getting greater productivity from their workforce.
However it seems the Mobile is the Achilles heel as far as security for the
organisation goes.
A Recent study on enterprise mobility by MFormation ound that almost 90% of
(200 polled) organisations had no process for the tracking of data stored on
mobile devices. As well as this 40% were unable to match mobile devices to
the correct employee who used it.
Not surprisingly 78% are concerned about mobile data security with 55%
believing that data loss through mobile will be a "significant issue".
... (more)
When the iPhone App Store launched last year, a flood of ‘virtual’ music
apps, ranging from pianos to drums hit the market. Most of these didn’t
fare so well on the iPhone’s small screen, save for one fantastic standout:
Smule’s Ocarina, which was perfectly suited for the iPhone and was fairly
easy for beginners to pick up. The app became a massive success, and became
one of the App Store’s most popular applications ever. Today, Smule has
released Leaf Trombone: World Stage, a new virtual musical instrument that is
better than Ocarina in nearly every way.
One of the biggest issues newbies had with Ocarina was that there was no
musical instruction built in - users would have to visit Smule’s website,
where they could download ‘tabs’ of their favorite songs. Without the
tabs, playing familiar tunes became an exercise in frustration, and I suspect
many users never ma... (more)
I had the opportunity to spend some time recently with Asure Software's VP/GM
of EMEA and APAC, Nigel Clarke, and to discuss how digital transformation is
impacting work spaces and the mobile workforce. In years past I attended
facility management conferences and developed mobile apps to help manage
facilities, assets, rooms, inspections, materials and supplies. We were
counting and inspecting physical objects. Today, however, there are digital
transformations taking place in this industry.
Today, companies less often require employees to work in the physical office
(sorry folks at Yahoo!). Often equipment is not associated with a location,
but moves to where it is needed at any given time. When people do come into
the office there is a need to find a desk, conference room, video or
projection equipment and to use additional services to ensure their use of
the ... (more)
DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real
time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors,
log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of
vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.
Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541
"Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies,
Industry Verticals & Forecasts"
Key Findings:
In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware,
software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further
expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually
accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for
acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between
IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND and PLEASANTON, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/25/07 --
When cellular phone users from the USA travel abroad, they often face
unpleasant hurdles. One of the most frustrating is when trying to dial a
number stored in their phone's address book, only to find it won't work
because the stored number isn't recognized by the foreign cellular phone
system.
The problem exists because most countries use different dialing conventions,
such as the international prefix ("011" in the US), regional codes, and
phantom digits that sometimes need to be dialled, but sometimes not. A
typical cellphone speed-dial entry like "212-555-1212" would be nonsensical
to any phone system outside America. Thus, the US traveller cannot easily
dial back to the home office, nor to local contacts in the destination
country. This problem is exacerbated because people are storing m... (more)
SINGAPORE and SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Singapore
Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Apple(R) today announced that they
will be bringing the highly anticipated iPhone(TM) 3G to Singapore later this
year. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G
networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in
GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software
which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the
hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released
iPhone SDK.
"We are pleased that Apple has selected SingTel to be the first mobile
operator in Singapore to launch its new iPhone 3G," said Quek Peck Leng,
executive vice president of SingTel. "There is strong synergy between the
core brand values of Apple and SingTel, such as inn... (more)
NAPERVILLE, Ill., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Clearwire selected the
Tellabs® SmartCore 9100 platform to deploy 4G services throughout Spain.
Clearwire turned to Tellabs to leverage its best-of-breed ASN Gateway
solution, ensuring an open network architecture with industry leading
performance and intelligence.
Clearwire already uses the Tellabs 9100 SmartCore ASN Gateway (formerly the
WiChorus SmartCore platform) in the United States. When the company decided
to expand its services in Europe, its choice was clear.
"The growing number of users who rely on Clearwire's 4G mobile broadband
services to remain connected to the applications and information that shape
their daily lives clearly demonstrates the importance of building a network
able to offer the best possible experience today and to grow with the mobile
users of tomorrow," said John Saw, chief tech... (more)
WASHINGTON, DC -- (Marketwire) -- 07/28/10 -- Jahia (http://www.jahia.com),
the premier provider of web content integration software, combining web,
document, and portal features, today announced three new client wins in the
cloud, brought on by Jahia Partner R.Ø.S.A. Creation. Technology.
Intelligence. AG: Kuoni Travel Ltd., Sunrise Communications AG, Bellevue
Group AG. Jahia has experienced a growing acceptance for hosted web content
management, even in conservative industries like banking and finance for both
corporate websites and Intranet projects. Jahia in the Cloud runs on the
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) platform, addressing the needs of
organizations for a proven preconfigured solution without the associated
constraints and costs. The hosted service is offered on an annual
subscription basis.
"We have implemented 3 web content management sites... (more)
B&B Electronics (www.bb-elec.com), a developer of wired and wireless
connectivity technology, has deepened its wireless solution portfolio with
the acquisition of Conel s.r.o. (http://www.conel.cz/en/homepage) of the
Czech Republic. Conel is a well-established market leader in reliable and
secure wireless communications routers, gateways and devices that connect
cellular networks to Ethernet, serial and other data networks.
The acquisition further expands B&B’s European footprint, as well as
strengthens B&B’s position in the fast-growing wireless market by extending
its reach into cellular communications networks. In 2011, B&B acquired
Quatech, Inc., an industrial networking company with a complementary product
line that included an industrial-grade embedded OEM wireless technology
platform sold under the Airborne brand name.
“The Quatech and Conel acquisitions are ... (more)
CloudEXPO Stories By Zakia Bouachraoui  In a recent survey, Sumo Logic surveyed 1,500 customers who employ cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). According to the survey, a quarter of the respondents have already deployed Docker containers and nearly as many (23 percent) are employing the AWS Lambda serverless computing framework.
It's clear: serverless is here to stay. The adoption does come with some needed changes, within both application development and operations. That means serverless is also changing the way we leverage public clouds. Truth-be-told, many enterprise IT shops were so happy to get out of the management of physical servers within a data center that many limitations of the existing public IaaS clouds were forgiven. However, now that we've lived a few years with public IaaS clouds, developers and CloudOps pros are giving a huge thumbs down to the... Feb. 23, 2019 03:00 PM EST | By Liz McMillan  Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes was originally built by Google, leveraging years of experience with managing container workloads, and is now a Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) project. Kubernetes has been widely adopted by the community, supported on all major public and private cloud providers, and is gaining rapid adoption in enterprises. However, Kubernetes may seem intimidating and complex to learn. This is because Kubernetes is more of a toolset than a ready solution. Hence it’s essential to know when and how to apply the appropriate Kubernetes constructs. Feb. 23, 2019 03:00 PM EST Reads: 6,582 | By Zakia Bouachraoui  To enable their developers, ensure SLAs and increase IT efficiency, Enterprise IT is moving towards a unified, centralized approach for managing their hybrid infrastructure. As if the journey to the cloud - private and public - was not difficult enough, the need to support modern technologies such as Containers and Serverless applications further complicates matters. This talk covers key patterns and lessons learned from large organizations for architecting your hybrid cloud in a way that:
Supports self-service, "public cloud" experience for your developers that's consistent across any infrastructure.
Gives Ops peace of mind with automated management of DR, scaling, provisioning, deployments, etc. Feb. 23, 2019 02:45 PM EST | By Liz McMillan  xMatters helps enterprises prevent, manage and resolve IT incidents. xMatters industry-leading Service Availability platform prevents IT issues from becoming big business problems. Large enterprises, small workgroups, and innovative DevOps teams rely on its proactive issue resolution service to maintain operational visibility and control in today's highly-fragmented IT environment. xMatters provides toolchain integrations to hundreds of IT management, security and DevOps tools. xMatters is the primary Service Availability platform trusted by leading global companies and innovative challengers including BMC Software, Credit Suisse, Danske Bank, DXC technology, Experian, Intuit, NVIDIA, Sony Network Interactive, ViaSat and Vodafone. xMatters is headquartered in San Ramon, California and has offices worldwide. Feb. 23, 2019 02:30 PM EST | By Yeshim Deniz  As you know, enterprise IT conversation over the past year have often centered upon the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. In fact, Kubernetes has emerged as the key technology -- and even primary platform -- of cloud migrations for a wide variety of organizations.
Kubernetes is critical to forward-looking enterprises that continue to push their IT infrastructures toward maximum functionality, scalability, and flexibility. Feb. 23, 2019 01:00 PM EST |
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