In episode 314, Douglas Brown interviews Dan Dillman, CEO and Cliff Miller, CTP at A2U! Together they discuss the EUC world today, cloud, VDI, SBC, Microsoft MVD, DaaS, Thin Clients and much more. About A2U Based in Cranberry Township, Pa. and founded in 2003 by current CEO Dan Dillman, A2U has positioned itself as a […]
Archives for March 2019
YouTube Music & Premium arrive in India
India’s music streaming market is attracting global giants and YouTube is the latest to enter the fray. The Google-owned service has debuted its music service YouTube Music in the country, offering consumers access to songs, albums, personalized playlists and music videos on the web and its mobile apps through an ad-supported model or monthly paid […]
Misconfigured Box accounts lead to leaked sensitive data
Businesses are putting customer and other confidential company data at risk because they’re not properly securing their Box cloud storage accounts, a report by security firm Adversis has revealed. The problem lies in the way links are shared between Box users. Employees are able to share public links to files in the Box folders, which […]
Apple says ‘it’s show time’ on March 25, TV service announcement expected
Apple on Monday invited media to a March 25 event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, where it is expected to launch a television and video service. Sources previously told Reuters that the company is targeting April for the launch of a streaming television service that will likely include subscription […]
Amazon lifts restriction on sellers criticized as anti-competitive: Source
Amazon has decided to stop telling third-party sellers on its platform that they cannot offer lower prices on competing websites, a source said on Monday. The source gave no details on the decision. The decision comes in the wake of a letter from Senator Richard Blumenthal arguing that the practice would “stifle market competition and […]
How voice is becoming the fastest way to go online
Did you know Sundar Pichai still has panipuri cravings? Students of the Brihanmumbai municipal school in Andheri’s DN Nagar are now privy to that savoury secret after the Google boss’ visit here last week. And when a student asked Pichai what it takes to be an engineer, the boy next doorturned-Silicon Valley pin-up said, “Do […]
Amazon’s Alexa boasts of 80,000 apps, but there’s no guarantee users will find them all
By Matt Day Kevin Deakin and his colleagues at his online trivia startup had just gotten their hands on an Echo smart speaker that Amazon was passing out to developers in 2016. They made it less than a block from the company’s Seattle headquarters before coming to a decision. “We looked at this device and […]
Social media rage can put creativity in ads at stake
Social media experts and advertising agencies feel criticism of marketing campaigns that involve society or religious issues could hinder creativity. Two ads by Hindustan Unilever, one of the country’s biggest advertisers, have drawn intense criticism over the past week on social media with calls for a boycott of all its brands. While a Brooke Bond […]
Fintech lenders pivot to UPI as most prefer it for loan payment
Fintech founders may be rueing the lack of ‘standing instructions’ on the updated version of Unified Payments Interface, but the application in its present form is emerging as the preferred gateway for consumers to repay loans. Multiple fintech entrepreneurs ET spoke with said they are either in the process of bringing in UPI as a […]
Yatra bid offer a "generous" one, if successful, will make us the undisputed number one in India: Ebix CEO Robin Raina
Ebix Inc Chief Executive Robin Raina said that the Atlanta-headquartered company’s bid on Monday, to acquire Nasdaq-listed domestic online travel major Yatra Online, was “generous” one, with the potential deal likely to provide a “great outcome” to shareholders of both companies. Speaking to ET over the phone, Raina, CEO of Ebix, which has a market […]