Ancient Phone Booths into New Wifi Hotspots

New York City is testing a new program where it installs wifi hotspots on old rarely used pay-phones.
http://gigaom.com/2012/07/11/new-york-starts-turning-payphones-into-free-wi-fi-hotspots/

Indoor GPS On Google Maps

This is sweet. The iPhone is slowly falling behind in my mind.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/10/google-adds-20-museums-to-indoor-google-maps-says-more-on-the-way/

Auto Hop

Dish Network has a new feature called Auto Hop that lets you automatically skip commercials when watching a recorded program.http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/27/ergen-auto-hop-keeps-kids-from-seeing-alcohol-and-junk-food-ads/

Newspaper's Monopolies are Gone

Good article. Made me think that iPad's are just a step we are taking toward digital paper with moving images. Printing will no longer be necessary and everyone will have their own personal, "digital" paper that changes to whatever they want to read/watch/listen t.
http://gigaom.com/2012/06/15/the-hard-truth-newspaper-monopolies-are-gone-forever/

Google Chrombook

Eh. Not a very interesting article.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/report-googles-chromebooks-account-for-less-than-02-of-all-desktop-traffic/

Companies

Amalto- Founded in September 2005, Amalto Technologies provides innovative software solutions enabling organizations to fully automate B2B exchanges and facilitate system integration.

Appirio- Appirio has helped more than 300 enterprises build cloud-powered sales, service, HR, finance, and IT organizations.

Axeda- Axeda provides the most advanced cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and implementing innovative M2M applications.

Besol- Industrial liquid wastes still weigh heavily among the most dangerous and toxic waste disposals. Solutions to recycle such wastes have been met with difficulties in leaving solid residues even more difficult to be recycled than their parent liquid. BESOL is a Solution and a logistic to every environmental problem that could be associated with liquid solid or even gaseous emission waste 100% into new intermediates indefinitely.

BlinkHR by ExpertMarkets- ExpertMarkets is a provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) Services through a hybrid Cloud. Our SaaS solution, BlinkHR, integrates core HCM services and transforms their delivery with Single Sign-on, Contextual Call Routing, and Data Synchronization.

Capgemini Immediate- Capgemini Immediate allows you to rapidly achieve the business outcomes you want, whilst helping you to target your spending in a smarter way.

Celigo- Celigo’s cloud-based integration platform allows for seamless, enterprise-class integrations, including a portfolio of prebuilt connector products and service offerings that sync business-critical information to and from leading cloud-based solutions such as NetSuite, Google Apps, Magento, Amazon, Salesforce, and many others. Celigo also provides end-to-end consulting services including implementation, integration, automation and optimization for NetSuite and Salesforce. 

CloudLock- protects data stored in Google Docs and Google Sites.

CommonIT- The leader in enterprise web browsers, CommonIT develops solutions that accelerate the deployment of web solutions in the corporate environment.

Cordys- It's Cordys' mission to improve customers' business operations with world-class, process oriented software which allows organizations to change and innovate the way they do business with greater speed and flexibility.

Covisint- Transforming how corporations, hospitals, and employees connect with anyone and everyone.

CSC- CSC offers a range of innovative business solutions to help solve your complex industry challenges. Check out our diverse business solutions and business drivers, or learn about the industries that use our technology products and services.

Dell- Customers trust Dell to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school or anywhere in their world.

E2open- E2open is the leader in collaborative execution, delivering a strategic, cloud-based solution for brand owners managing business across global trading partner networks. Collaborative execution is a leading-edge competency that enables brand owners and manufacturers to leverage the collective brainpower of their trading partner communities to efficiently manage end-to-end supply chain processes and respond intelligently to continuous change in supply, demand, products, and partners.

eBuilder- e-Builder exists to enable repeat builders to improve capital project execution making construction faster, less expensive, and more reliable thus freeing up time and energy for society’s higher priorities.

Exostar- Exostar was created to leverage the power of the Internet to improve the ability for companies to work together more efficiently and with lower risk. Exostar designs, develops, operates and supports a portfolio of products and services deployed in our Trusted Workspace environment and connected to a secure network of over 70,000 companies worldwide.

GCommerce-  A leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) procurement solutions designed to streamline distribution supply chain operations. Our connectivity solutions facilitate real-time exchange of documents within the purchasing cycle between incompatible business systems and technologies, enabling firms to improve revenue, operational efficiencies, and profitability.

Genpact- A global leader in business process and technology management, Genpact is the company of choice for clients, partners and employees across the world. With many pioneering firsts to its credit Genpact has always led the way in powering the intelligent enterprises to outperform.

Gravitant- Cloud Brokerage and Management Solutions for the Enterprise

Compare, Select, Order and Manage Cloud Services Online

Intelligently Design, Provision and Manage Application Architectures in the Cloud

Collaborate with IT VARs and SIs to develop single/multi cloud provider ecosystems

Govern Cloud Services and Providers - Demand, Cost, and Performance

GXS- Data integration between businesses is essential to both growth and bottom-line performance, but it is challenging, complex and costly to implement and maintain—especially in today's increasing global reality

Hubspan- Hubspan provides B2B cloud integration solutions delivered as a managed service.

IBM- everything

Ingram Micro- Ingram Micro Inc., a Fortune 100 company, is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company for the IT industry worldwide.

Jamcracker- Enabling, delivering and managing cloud services is emerging as the most important opportunity of the decade for service providers, distributors, ISVs, and Enterprises.

Layer 7- Layer 7 is a leading provider of security and management products for API-driven integrations spanning the extended hybrid enterprise.

Liaison Technologies- We are a global integration and data management company providing unique & high-value solutions to securely integrate, transform and manage complex business information on-premise or in the cloud.

LTech- LTech was founded to provide enterprises with best-of-breed technology solutions. Since then, we have evolved into a leading cloud technology integrator.

Mashery- Mashery is the world leader in enterprise API technology and services. We help more than 150 top brands in retail, media, travel, and information services manage API-powered digital platforms for speeding mobile deployment, scaling partnership/affiliate programs, and spurring innovation.

Okta- Okta is an on-demand identity and access management service that enables enterprises to accelerate the secure adoption of their web applications, both in the cloud and behind the firewall.

OS33- OS33 is a completely cloud-based IT delivery automation platform. Managed Service Providers expand their capabilities by using OS33 for delivering and managing comprehensive IT solutions that harvest a virtually unlimited supply of private and public cloud resources.

Oxygen- The Oxygen Open Storage Grid enables mobile access to your files in a whole new way. Users and businesses can plug in nearly any kind of storage into the Grid and then access all their files through any app, tablet or computer.

Parallels- Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms.

psHEALTH- We provide a fully customised case and document management, workflow solution with NO upfront costs. The key to transforming your business is our ability to deliver comprehensive, flexible and easy-to-use solutions over the Internet.

Skyvva- SKYVVA was co-founded by Bernd Jung who has a track record in evangelizing and marketing emerging technologies.

StrikeIron- StrikeIron provides an on-demand cloud-based infrastructure for delivering business data to any Internet-connected system, including Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, websites, mashups, spreadsheets or core enterprise systems.

Synnex- We’ve built a solid reputation for delivering customized, fully-integrated solutions, services, and support, including distribution, contract assembly, business process outsourcing, and logistics.

TCS- We are a leader in the global marketplace and among the top 10 technology firms in the world.

TrustWeaver- TrustWeaver’s solutions are brought to market through OEM relationships, sales partners and in direct relationships with customers.

Verecloud- Like most new technology innovations, the cloud has become the Wild West of the web. Verecloud’s® mission is to provide businesses with a single place to discover, buy, monitor and manage all their cloud services.

Xignite- Xignite is the leading provider of market data cloud solutions. Xignite’s market data cloud fulfills more than five billion service requests per month and offers more than 50 financial web services providing real-time, historical and reference data for global equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income, mutual funds, derivatives and OTC instruments.

Zimory- Zimory provides heterogeneous, independent IaaS cloud management software for private, public, hybrid and database clouds.

CARAT

This is a cool new app developed by some super smart guys at UC Berkeley. It tells you which apps are "hogging" energy and which apps did not download correctly and as a result are wasting some of your phone's precious battery life. Cool and helpful.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/14/carat-battery/