Accenture to Develop Apps for Int’l Government; Abinash Basisth Comments
Accenture Services Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s state of Odisha to engineer mobile applications intended to help the state seek business opportunities in information technology and IT enabled services, according to a Business Standard article. The publication reports State IT Secretary M S Padhi and Accenture Services’ managing director Krishna Giri inked [...]
Salesforce Unveils Cloud Mobile Portfolio for Agencies; Daniel Burton Comments
May 22, 2013 No Comment
Salesforce.com has introduced a set of cloud-based mobile offerings intended to help government agencies communicate with the public through different channels and create secure applications on different types of devices. The portfolio also seeks to grow the company’s alliances with agency partners and help agencies collaborate with their industry partners, Salesforce said Wednesday. “Government organizations [...]
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The Defense Department expects to launch a Pentagon-only application store for secure mobile devices within a month and a half, Federal News Radio reports. The Pentagon aims to model its new app store after Apple’s, featuring variants of apps already available as well as a percentage that are specialized for Pentagon focusses. The Pentagon also [...]
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The Federal Aviation Administration expects to expand a pilot program and grant all employees the ability to use iPads in a production environment, InformationWeek reports. The agency has approved 1,100 employees for tablets under the pilot program, which has been up and running since January 2011. According to InformationWeek, the program has helped the agency develop [...]
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NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have recently challenged researchers and developers to submit applications that would aid space projects and programs. Now, the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs are launching similar contests asking for industry to submit mobile apps in order to support agency functions. The Pentagon announced its mobile [...]
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The Agriculture Department is aiming for a more mobile workforce, based on technology and where its employees do their work. As covered by our sister site ExecutiveGov in October, USDA is aiming to have 40 percent of eligible employees teleworking by 2012 according to a study from the Telework Exchange. This week USDA continued the [...]
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SAP today announced its partners will be delivering and building its apps on Sybase Unwired Platform. More than 100 mobile apps will be showcased at the SAPPHIRE NOW + Sap TechEd event in Madrid, Spain from Nov. 8-10. Attendees will have the opportunity to see app demonstrations and numerous presentations, as well as interact [...]
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RightNow is putting its full-featured service into mobile applications through RightNow CX for mobile apps. The app allows consumers full access to RightNow’s customer experience suite. “To help brands stay ahead of the rapidly evolving consumer, we provide accelerators — comprehensive toolkits that focus on specific consumer interactions, like mobile — that leverage RightNow CX to quickly take [...]
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In response to the rapid surge of security threats for mobile devices, Symantec released today Norton Mobile Security Lite, a free security application for Android-based smartphones. According to Symantec, the new app combines select anti-theft features with powerful anti-malware, giving users a sense of security in the event their phone is ever lost, stolen or [...]
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Hong Kong organizations need to battle cyber threats in a collaborative manner, said Agnes Mak, executive director of the Hong Kong Productivity Council, after the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre reported the number of hacking and phishing cases were up 34 percent year-on-year in the first 10 months of the year, Computerworld [...]
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