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Salesforce.com Unveils New Tools for Sharing Data, Closing Deals
2013-07-18 23:34:41| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The Sales Performance Accelerator layers onto Salesforce.com's flagship Sales Cloud CRM software offering and integrates with the company's Chatter communications platform.
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Indonesia: Haze summit proposes sharing concession data, but keeping it hidden from the public
2013-07-18 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A high-level meeting to discuss approaches for curbing fires that drive haze over Southeast Asia ended today with a recommendation that governments establish a haze monitoring system that would share detailed land-use and concession maps to help coordinate action against companies that set illegal fires, reports the World Resources Institute (WRI). The meeting, which involved ministers of the environment from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, was called after fires in Sumatra...
USDA Launches Data Sharing Initiative
2013-04-29 16:08:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, along with Bill Gates, and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, today kicked off a two-day international open data conference, saying that data “is among the most important commodities in agriculture” and sharing it openly increases its value. read more
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MITs mobile hotspot sharing app aims for free P2P data coverage
2013-01-28 19:44:30| Extremetech
Mobile hotspots are already useful, but what if you got rewarded for being a good samaritan? That's the idea driving the research project called Air Mobs. If you share data, you'll get credit for usage down the road. MIT's Viral Spaces research group has developed a peer-to-peer wireless tethering system that encourages users to share as much as they use. The Air Mobs app runs in the background, and decides the appropriate time to turn on and off WiFi sharing to the world.
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