Yesterday, Omniture released a real-time iPhone analytics SDK. (Main TechCrunch coverage here.) On the innovation side, this is a big deal. The iPhone market shows that consumers, frustrated with the suboptimal mobile browsing experience, prefer actual applications. Example: I use the iPhone Remember the Milk application every day, and can’t imagine using a mobile website. As consumers… → Read More

Despite the economic downturn, companies that solve real problems are still successfully raising money. Aravo, a SAAS supplier information management tool, announced today that they closed $7 million in Series D funding. Headaches with managing vendor information–think SalesForce.com for suppliers, rather than prospects–is a very real problem. Last summer, I worked in supply chain at a… → Read More

This morning Cisco released their annual security report. Perhaps most disturbing was the increased hijacking of legitimate domains and legitimate e-mail addresses. When I met with the Cisco team last week, I was reminded that security begins and ends with people–the origin of an e-mail or web attack is a key flag for identifying threats. It wasn’t all bad news, thankfully. Malware… → Read More

Just as marketing requires multiple channels, information overload has led to multiple channels. IM, e-mail, twitter, Work twitter, wikis, Basecamp–all have different expectations and users. But when will the enterprise hit too many channels–all with important information? Friendfeed was the consumer answer–aggregate a public conversation across multiple silos. Only they made it… → Read More

This morning Forbes.com announced that a five-year old company called Xignite provides their real-time stock market quotes via easily integrated widgets. Whether or not you’re interested in the financial market data industry, this is a case study in how cloud-based information services save costs and deployment time, even as they force raw information to become a commodity. Google, CNBC, and… → Read More

RightScale this morning announced it had raised $13 million in a second round of venture capital funding. As the name implies, RightScale attempts to solve the accessibility problem for small to medium sized businesses who lack the development resources to transition into cloud computing. They provide a simple dashboard interface that fits on top of Amazon Web Services. In addition, their services… → Read More

In January, David Gurteen observed that disruptive knowledge management tools are now originating with consumers, not from enterprise. Despite a proliferation of technological tools, knowledge management remains the clear bottleneck for enterprise innovation. But the walls are slowly coming down. The paradigm’s changing. Yesterday’s Facebook announcement about embeddable videos was no… → Read More

MessageLabs (now part of Symantec) just released a fascinating trend-analysis of the dark side of the internet. (Key findings below.) It isn’t surprising that as new technology enables cloud computing, more employees want Facebook, and consumer favorites cross into enterprise, so come more problems — and we’re not talking the corporate version of the whale. Spammers are getting… → Read More

This morning, Zoho announced the release of their CloudSQL middleware technology–a powerful pipeline between on-site applications and the cloud. While consumers found the switch to cloud computing relatively simple, enterprises continue to struggle with the lack of powerful data-portability structures. SAAS systems seldom provide an easy and reliable way to transfer information to and from… → Read More