Posted by: melvinjim in: ● January 29, 2012
Boston is a great sports town. We’ve had Stanley Cups, World Series and too many playoffs to count! And today, it is a great time to be a Patriots Fan, and a great time to be at AppNeta! As the Pats have fought their way to the top, AppNeta is rocking our way into another [...]
Posted by: timferg in: ● January 27, 2012
It’s a rematch four years in the making. On Sunday, Feb. 5, the AFC champion New England Patriots face the NFC champion New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI (46) in Indianapolis, and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will be looking to avenge his team’s loss at the hands of Eli Manning and his Giants that [...]
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● January 23, 2012
The last four weeks have been a blur! Between wrapping up our third quarter, the holidays, and, oh-yes, moving the company to downtown Boston, it has been a whirlwind. In real estate, they say that location is everything. Well, I am starting to think the same might be true for starting a business. For the [...]
Posted by: adamtedwards in: ● November 29, 2011
Every major wireless carrier is racing to deploy 4G branded mobile data services. Although the mobile data user has been trained to lower his or her performance expectations, the wireless carriers are working hard to change that perception. Can 4G wireless services support real time applications like voice and video for the mobile office of [...]
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● November 28, 2011
What’s in a name? Well, when we meet new people, we interpret their name based on the human interaction. But what about the name of a brand or product? Often times we don’t have a personal experience with the brand and therefore interpret the name based on a the gut response; It is this reaction, [...]
Posted by: melvinjim in: ● November 15, 2011
I spent last week with one of our newest, and most exciting partner, VOX Telecom in South Africa. It was an incredible trip! Matt Stevens (AppNeta CTO) and I arrived in Johannesburg (Jo-berg) on Saturday morning after a 15 hour direct flight from NYC (!). We were greeted by the VOX management team, and whisked [...]
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● November 11, 2011
Credit cards and debit cards– the life lines to our bank accounts. These slates of plastic are also the life lines for retail stores. These days, except when someone walks into a storefront and makes a purchase with cash, chances are that nearly every sale a retailer makes involves the Internet or an online transaction. [...]
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● November 9, 2011
Our AppNeta Team is globetrotting this week! Stretching across the world, we have AppNetians in South Africa for the launch of PathView Cloud with partner Vox Telecom! Additional team members are down in Florida for the HTG Q4 conference. And here in Boston, we are getting almost the same weather as these warmer areas with [...]
Posted by: kathleenisobel in: ● November 7, 2011
When it comes to online trading, network latency is everything – because delays are more costly in this industry than almost any other. The stock market doesn’t stand still while data is in transit, and the difference between a “fresh” price quote and one that’s a few milliseconds out of date can cost or earn [...]
Posted by: gzammuto in: ● November 2, 2011
The last thing any IT guy wants to hear from a group of sales reps is “Salesforce is down! There’s something wrong with Salesforce!!!” Unfortunately, yours truly was in that position on Monday.The AppNeta sales team is an inside team based outside of Boston, Massachusetts. On Halloween, at roughly 4pm EST, I heard the groans [...]