Multi-Touch Developer Journal

ATLANTA, GA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/24/12 -- Small business-focused cloud software leader Pardot, which last month completed its most successful year and quarter to date, has earned top honors in a report on marketing automation from a highly respected industry analyst firm. Gleanster, a technology research and advisory organization with an emphasis in sales and marketing software, named Pardot "Best" in Overall Value and Ease of Deployment. "Business marketing has changed radically in recent years," noted lead report author David Raab in Gleansight: Marketing Automation, December 2011. "As buyers do more research on the Internet, they interact with sales people less often and later in the selection process. This has made marketers increasingly responsible for attracting new customers and providing them with information. At the same time, marketers face pressures to ... (more)

NVIDIA Quad-Core Tegra 3 Chip Sets New Standards of Mobile Computing Performance, Energy Efficiency

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/09/11 -- NVIDIA today ushered in the era of quad-core mobile computing with the introduction of the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 processor, bringing PC-class performance levels, better battery life and improved mobile experiences to tablets and phones. The world's first quad-core tablet with the Tegra 3 processor is the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Known previously by the codename "Project Kal-El," the Tegra 3 processor provides up to 3x the graphics performance of Tegra 2, and up to 61 percent lower power consumption. This translates into an industr... (more)

Hatch’s New WePlaySmart Educational Technology Solution for SMART Tables Builds Social-Emotional Skills in Early Learners

Hatch®, a leading provider of technology for early learning, unveiled today WePlaySmart™, a research-based content solution for the multi-touch SMART Table™ that provides early learners with an engaging environment to build crucial social and emotional skills against a backdrop of cognition. WePlaySmart is an intuitive tool for social-emotional development, skills that are shown to directly impact long-term academic achievement, and complements Hatch’s proven-effective products for cognitive skill development – TeachSmart® and iStartSmart™ – to round out Hatch’s suite of 21st C... (more)

Apple Reinvents Textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad

Apple® today announced iBooks® 2 for iPad®, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, fullscreen textbooks with interactive animations, diagrams, photos, videos, unrivaled navigation and much more. iBooks textbooks can be kept up to date, don't weigh down a backpack and never have to be returned. Leading education services companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill and Pearson will deliver educational titles on the iBookstore℠ with most priced at $14.99 o... (more)

Failover and Recovery of Enterprise Applications - Part 1

In enterprise application architecture, it is naïve to assume that none of the software/hardware components will go down. In fact, most of the IT managers and architects acknowledge this. However, a well-tested and robust recovery procedure continues to take a back seat when designing and implementing software projects. In several scenarios, administrators end up performing basic failover testing by shutting down the processes and verifying that the subsequent requests succeeded. Although this level of testing can satisfy the failover requirements for the records, more robust fa... (more)