Microsoft Launches Office 365 Edition for US Government Customers | HTC Evo 4G LTE Review: Head-To-Head With The iPhone 4S And The Galaxy Nexus | BOKU Scales Up, Will Power Carrier Billing For In-App Payments In The T-Mobile Mall | Make your business' data pretty with Roambi's new iPad app platform | Badgeville's Kris Duggan: Six frameworks can gamify employee and customer engagement (interview)

Microsoft Launches Office 365 Edition for US Government Customers

Posted by PCWorld
Microsoft has released a government-specific edition of its Office 365 cloud-based email and collaboration suite that offers U.S. public-sector customers a cordoned-off data center infrastructure just for them.
Office 365 for Government hosts applications and data in a multitenant cloud reserved for U.S. government agencies, Microsoft said in a blog post Wednesday.
Suite components will include, as in other Office 365 editions, online versions of Exchange, Lync, Office and SharePoint as well as the full desktop productivity suite Office Professional Plus licensed on a subscription model.
Microsoft already offers government customers of its cloud services, including Office 365 and its predece[...]
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HTC Evo 4G LTE Review: Head-To-Head With The iPhone 4S And The Galaxy Nexus

Posted by TechCrunch
The Evo 4G LTE is one of the best phones to land on Sprint shelves in a while, but that’s not to say it has no competition over at the Yellow carrier. The Galaxy Nexus has propped itself up as the Android phone to beat, while the iPhone 4S is available at the same price: $199.
So what will it take to pass up the iPhone and the GalNex for the latest iteration of the Evo line?
We’ve put together this head-to-head chart to answer just such a question.
As you can see, specs between the Evo and the GalNex are quite similar. The only noticeable differences come by way of UI and design language. If a pure Android experience is what you’re looking for, I would definitely recommend[...]
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BOKU Scales Up, Will Power Carrier Billing For In-App Payments In The T-Mobile Mall

Posted by TechCrunch
Another big advance for mobile payments startup BOKU: it has inked a deal with T-Mobile USA to provide carrier billing for the T-Mobile Mall, the digital storefront operated by the carrier.The deal is a signal of some momentum for the company: it comes less than a month after BOKU announced a similar deal with Sprint, and hot on the heels of a $35 million round of funding in March[...]
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Make your business’ data pretty with Roambi’s new iPad app platform

Posted by VentureBeat
Business intelligence app-maker MeLLmo, the creator of ultra-hot business iPad app Roambi, has launched a new app-building platform called ESX that will let other companies tap Roambi’s ability to make data gorgeous and accessible.
Roambi ESX will give companies that sell data for a living a way to create co-branded iPad apps without hiring design teams. ESX will let business create specialized publications that include text, images, Roambi data visualizations, and video and then publish the whole thing to the iPad.
The target audience for the platform will be the many small and large firms that collect and distribute data, Quinton Alsbury, MeLLmo’s president of product innovation, tol[...]
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Badgeville’s Kris Duggan: Six frameworks can gamify employee and customer engagement (interview)

Posted by VentureBeat
Brands have embraced “gamification,” or using game-like behavior in non-game applications, as a way to engage their audiences. That is why gamification vendor Badgeville has more than 165 customers and is announcing today that it has raised $25 million in a new round of funding. Kris Duggan, chief executive of Badgeville, says gamification will let brands engage and retain their audiences. It also enables companies to inspire employees to collaborate or compete. Badgeville has a “behavior platform” to enable companies to measure and influence behavior by using game techniques. You can give salespeople rewards for hitting targets. Companies can embed the platform in we[...]
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