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The Latest Security Challenges Involving BYOD and Big Data

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Many businesses were presented with a no-win situation as smartphones and tablets exploded in popularity and employees began bringing them into the workplace. They could either ban personal devices and stick with providing workers with company-owned technology, which risked alienating employees. Or they could accept the personal devices into the office through bring you own … [Read more...] about The Latest Security Challenges Involving BYOD and Big Data

Bringing Back Control Over Mobile Big Data To The End User – Video

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Mobile phones collect vast amounts of Mobile Big Data about you, it knows where you are going, where you are and who you are calling. Of course, this data is used to create a better experience for the user, but it is also a cause for concern because of it is unclear who controls that data. John Clippinger, who is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics Group … [Read more...] about Bringing Back Control Over Mobile Big Data To The End User – Video

How Placemeter’s Real Time Data Source Can Change Marketing As We Know It

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Last October a New York based start-up called Placemeter won the Alpha pitch competition at the Dublin Websummit. It seemed like a fair winner considering the team has the potential to disrupt the way that we make daily decisions on what places to visit. Would you still walk for five minutes to the nearest Starbucks if you know beforehand that it will take 20 minutes before you … [Read more...] about How Placemeter’s Real Time Data Source Can Change Marketing As We Know It

Roambi Offers Interactive Mobile Big Data Visualizations

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Company Roambi Address 120 S. Sierra Ave Solana Beach, CA 92075, USA Founders Santiago Becerra, Jaime Zuluaga, Quinton Alsbury & David Becerra Founded 2008 Funding $ 44 million Employees 100 Website www.Roambi.com/ Rating 8 bits   Roambi is a big data startup that completely focuses on mobile visualizations and they understand that practice pretty well. … [Read more...] about Roambi Offers Interactive Mobile Big Data Visualizations