New Platforms for Business-Focused Virtual Worlds
When it comes to business-focused virtual platforms, customers typically have to choose between platforms that are completely customizable and difficult to use, or easy to…
New Platforms for Business-Focused Virtual Worlds
When it comes to business-focused virtual platforms, customers typically have to choose between platforms that are completely customizable and difficult to use, or easy to…
Companies Explore Private Virtual Worlds
Alternatives to Second Life provide security while boosting productivity Meetings, conferences and training programs in a 3D virtual world such as Second Life can be…
How to Pick a Virtual Meeting Platform
As travel budgets continue to stay tight, virtual meeting platforms are gaining in both financial appeal and usability. However, as the choices multiply, it can…
Cloud Services Sustain Virtual Companies
More and more companies are going virtual, which allows employees to telecommute, work from the road, and be based anywhere on the planet. This approach…
When Employees Sneak Into Consumer Clouds
Many companies, both small and large, are wary of doing business with cloud providers because of concerns about outages, data loss, and privacy issues. These…
Putting IPads to Work
Spurred by enthusiastic senior executives and rank-and-file employees, companies are starting to roll out iPads in the enterprise, especially for board meetings and sales staff.
Cloud Containment
As cloud vendors mature, Web-based delivery of applications, storage and infrastructure is getting more secure and trustworthy.
Of Virtual Reality, the Web & the Future of Humanity
If I told you that in the future we’d all be living in a virtual world, chances are you’d imagine one of the following two…
Three Browser-Based Virtual Environments
If you’re thinking about trying out virtual, immersive environments for your business meetings or training sessions, but find Second Life and OpenSim too difficult, and…
Driving Monitor
If an iPhone can make people healthier by tracking how many steps they take, why can’t something similar make cars and trucks safer by monitoring…
The Reality of the Virtual World
Last year, folks spent more than $7 billion on virtual goods, according to research firm In-Stat .
iPads storm the enterprise
Apple’s new application-level encryption paves the way for companies to run business apps on the iPad
Five iPad Safety Tips
1. Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt. There are two parts to the data encryption challenge – encrypting stored data, and encrypting data that’s moving over public networks,…
Four Keys to Locking Down Your iPad
Even though the iPad is designed primarily as a consumer device, salespeople are increasingly adopting it because of its ease of use, convenience, and coolness…
New Virtual Worlds Still Growing
It may be tempting to assume that growth in virtual worlds has ground to a halt. After all,There.com has shut down, and Second Life is…
Watch Your Avatars
Enterprise software helps set rules for virtual worlds Consumer-friendly technologies like Web-based e-mail and instant messaging, Twitter and Facebook have all brought compliance challenges, with…
How to Keep Corporate Avatars Safe
Immersive virtual environments — the kind where you have an avatar walking around that looks like a cartoon version of you — are increasingly being…
Russian Payment Kiosk Firm To Target U.S., Brazil
Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. Ltd. has acquired 14.9% stake in Qiwi Ltd., a Russian company registered in Cyprus that specializes in instant-payment kiosks, the…
Next Stop: OpenSim!
An emerging virtual world platform is the destination of droves of emigrant avatars, as a price hike and the shutdown of the teen-only grid have…
Russian Holiday Spending To Grow 10% Compared With Last Year, Citi Says
Russian credit cardholders will spend 10% more this month on their holiday spending compared with what they spent last December, ZAO Citibank predicts in a…
Indian Credit Card Market Predicted To Reach 28 Million Cards By 2014
Financial institutions in India by 2014 will issue a combined 28 million credit cards, which would represent a 13% increase from the 24.7 million cards…
Russian McDonald’s Restaurants Complete Card-Terminal Deployments
The 258 McDonald’s restaurants in Russia now accept bankcards, the fast-food provider’s acquirer Russian Standard Bank announced Dec. 13.
MasterCard, Russian Standard Bank Strike MoneySend Deal
Russian Standard Bank has become the first European bank to offer person-to-person funds transfers through MasterCard Worldwide’s MoneySend platform, the companies announced Dec. 6.
Maria and Fons on the radio
My business partner Fons Tuinstra and I were interviewed today by David Iwinski of American Entrepreneur Radio on his The International Capitalist best two-way radio…
The Great Risk Race
As Asia’s dynamic markets demand risk management attention and expertise, financial firms rush to fill a talent gap, with particular urgency in China. Three years…
Sorting Out Sales
Changes to revenue recognition rules may be beneficial but will lead to accounting headaches that new software can relieve. Last September, regulators issued new revenue…
Nasdaq Dubai to Move to New Platform
All equities traded on the Nasdaq Dubai exchange will move over to a new platform starting on June 27, the company said Friday. The move,…
Six Steps to Better IT GRC
Securing corporate IT systems is crucial, but there are ways to make that effort more productive and less costly. Companies have spent years beefing up…
Six Steps to Better IT GRC
Securing corporate IT systems is crucial, but there are ways to make that effort more productive and less costly. Companies have spent years beefing up…