The company specifically announced a new foundation for mobile computing that helps businesses leverage mobile and cloud opportunities. With this move, IBM provides its clients with better management and security capabilities to ensure that their services operate efficiently through applications and on devices.

Brunet also told us that the company introduced new elements to the PureSystems family of integrated systems. According to him, this offering will help optimize and drive greater efficiencies in the IT environment. Furthermore, it builds “patterns of expertise” that can help organizations reduce costs and workloads in order to deliver their services more effectively.

The new IBM software systems are currently available.

She spoke with WebProNews and explained that, while she has always had a love for tech, she also loved creating items in the offline world. As a result, she decided to build a domestic living brand to teach the younger generation how to bring these worlds together.

Brit provides shortcuts and creative living ideas for several categories including food, style, weddings, and living. The company just released an app for its weddings category called Weduary, which allows couples to create their own wedding websites. Morin told us that the company would eventually have Web and mobile apps for all its categories.

In other news regarding the brand, the company recently announced a $1.25 million seed round of funding from investors such as Marissa Mayer, Seth Goldstein, General Catalyst Partners, and the Founders Fund. According to Morin, this funding will be used to scale the company.

She also told us that we should expect much more from the brand in the coming months.

As Jules Polonetsky, the Director and Co-Chairman of the Future of Privacy Forum, explained to us, consumers want apps to have their data for a better experience. But, they also want them to respect it. While it’s clearly a challenging situation, he believes it is critical that solutions are found now before consumers’ reputations are harmed.

According to him, everyone – from the user to the platform to the app developer – needs to take some responsibility in these issues. For starters, the platforms need to continue to update their base level restrictions for apps. Consumers also have some responsibility, but both the developers and the platforms need to make it easy for them to understand. Ultimately, Polonetsky said that app developers needed to lead the way to resolving the concerns.

He went on to say that, if measures aren’t taken, the government would likely step in. The state of California has already reached an agreement with major platform vendors that would require them to have privacy policies that are easily accessible to users. The state is also currently working on a set of guidelines for app developers.

Are you concerned about mobile privacy? Why or why not?

One media agency, however, believes that Google is taking “a step back” with this move. Dick Reed, the CEO of Just Media, spoke with WebProNews and told us that Google’s action regarding Active GRP (Gross Rating Point) was hard to accept. According to him, digital has made much more progress in analytics than TV has.

While Just Media supports Google’s Active View solution, which means advertisers will only pay for viewed impressions, Frauke Cast, the company’s head of analytics, believes that Google should have made the decision with the industry. In other words, instead of Google making this move on its own, both Cast and Reed think that the search and advertising giant should have worked with agencies, publishers, and others in the industry before it took action.

As they explained, Google and DoubleClick should lead the industry but not without the industry on board with them.

To help us get a better understanding of this news, WebProNews spoke to Kurt Baumgartner, a senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab. According to him, Apple’s security response is especially lacking. As he explained, Microsoft has created a vulnerability-patching program that allows Oracle to provide updates when Java vulnerabilities are detected. Apple, on the other hand, maintains its own patching schedule, which means vulnerabilities could exist for several months before being addressed.

Baumgartner told us that he believes Apple is starting to make improvements in its security but said it would take time to completely solve the concerns. He encourages Apple customers to uninstall Java, which he calls the thorn in Apple’s side, if they don’t need it. Furthermore, he suggests that they reach out to Apple representatives and request them to make improvements to the security update process.

As he explained, if proper action isn’t taken, the malware will only become more prevalent and dangerous.

Are you surprised to hear that Apple’s security is weakening? Do you believe it? Let us know.

Eli Dourado, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, has a different perspective though. As he explained to WebProNews, data caps from Internet service providers and mobile carriers are in place for legitimate reasons.

First of all, they are implemented to meet different user needs in terms of pricing. Some users can’t afford and don’t need a large data plan, but there are others who need more and are willing to pay for it. Dourado believes the caps help to meet all user needs.

Secondly, he told us that data caps exist to alleviate congestion. Since so many people use the same bandwidth, the caps help to keep everyone’s service running consistently.

Thirdly, Dourado believes that, without data caps, the entertainment industry would push to have ISPs become copyright police. He, specifically, told us that a SOPA would have much more potential without data caps in place.

He also said that mobile data caps are even more important than ISP data caps, since there is more congestion on the mobile networks.

Do you agree with Dourado, or do you think that data caps shouldn’t exist? We’d love to know.

Miss Travel matches “attractive” and “generous” people that share a love for travel but lack either the funding or the companion to do so. But at this point, the overall perception is that the site is an escort service.

Brandon Wade, the founder and CEO of Miss Travel, told us that the site is very clear about not being an escort service. He said there is a huge difference between paying for an escort and being generous.

According to Wade, people are “reading between the lines” when they say it’s an escort service. He told us that Miss Travel would soon have testimonials to prove that it really is about dating and travel.

Since its launch last month, the site has already garnered nearly 50 thousand users.

What do you think about Miss Travel? Is it just another dating service, or is there more to it? We’d love to hear your take.

The application process for the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which was originally scheduled to end on April 12, has been put on hold indefinitely after a technical glitch was detected in ICANN’s software system. What’s more, the security issue also resulted in a data breach that allowed some applicants’ information to be compromised.

The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has raised issues about the program from the beginning claiming that it could be harmful to both consumers and brands. Dan Jaffe, the Group Executive Vice President of Government Relations at ANA, told us that ICANN needed to check the security of the system before the application process began.

ANA has asked that ICANN bring in a third party consultant to investigate the issues. It is also requesting that the Commerce Department press ICANN for answers and transparency before allowing it to move forward with its plan. Jaffe said he would like to see ICANN take steps that ensure these problems don’t arise in the future as well.

At this point, ICANN is notifying the applicants that were compromised and is expected to re-open the application process once everyone is informed.

Although many think that these IPOs legitimize areas such as social networking and gaming, there are some questions in terms of the impact on the market. According to Vitaliy Katsenelson, the Chief Investment Officer at Investment Management Associates and author of The Little Book of Sideways Markets, some of these companies are trying to shift the power from the shareholders to the CEOs.

For example, Facebook recently acquired Instagram for $1 billion without much input from the company’s board. As Katsenelson explained, Facebook bought a non-profitable company for an inflated price.

While this type of behavior is very different from what the market is accustomed to, he told us that it may work for the short term. However, for the long term, Katsenelson said investors would demand that businesses make decisions that ensure a “genuine cash flow.”

Does this mean Facebook and other tech companies face a rough road ahead? What do you think?

As Adrian Aoun, the CEO of Wavii, explained to WebProNews, the company aims to understand everything on the Web. Although he admits it’s an ambitious goal, Aoun believes that Wavii has the potential to organize the world’s information beyond the extent of Google’s mission.

The service, which is available on the Web and in an iPhone app, allows users to set up feeds for news and topics of interest. For instance, users can receive snippets of information regarding topics such as President Obama, Apple, Kate Middleton, and more.

Going forward, Aoun told us that Wavii would like to return broader information about a specified topic. In other words, if the topic is Kate Middleton, Wavii wants to also include quotes from famous people about her in the feed.

Although it’s still in the very early stages, Aoun believes that Wavii plays a significant role in solving the problem of big data.

Do you see yourself using Wavii for your news and information? What do you think?

As Heidi Voltmer, the Director of Product Marketing at Adobe, explained to WebProNews, CS6 includes 14 new products and 4 Creative Suites. She told us that Adobe focused on speed and performance, improving features in tools such as Photoshop, making sure that the content produced in CS6 is ready for devices, and updating the user interface.

In addition to CS6, Adobe also introduced Creative Cloud, which creates a hub for users to explore and share content through CS6 desktop applications. Creative Cloud runs on a membership basis that allows users to pay on an ongoing basis for access to the newest technology.

“It’s not just like today, where you buy a single box and you don’t see anything new from Adobe for 12-24 months,” said Voltmer. “With the Creative Cloud, you actually get those updates on an ongoing basis.”

Voltmer pointed out that these products allow Adobe to not only serve designers, but also the enterprise market.

Adobe CS6 and Creative Cloud are scheduled to be released on May 23.

What do you think of Adobe CS6 and Creative Cloud? We’d love to know.

WebProNews spoke with Wade Gerten, 8thBridge’s CEO, who told us that the new platform creates a shopping experience that goes beyond Facebook stores. Graphite actually allows consumers to tell their friends about brands they like in their existing shopping channels.

Gerten told us that both consumers and brands benefit from the new platform because it doesn’t take either party out of his comfort zone. With Graphite, Facebook is used as more of a platform for discovering products through friends. The transactions, however, can be made on the brand’s website, in its brick and mortar store, or whatever channel the consumer would normally visit.

Brands such as American Apparel, Hallmark, Elle, and Oscar de la Renta have already partnered with 8thBridge in the launch of Graphite. Gerten said that we should expect more in the near future.

It’s clear that gaming platforms such as Zynga have had tremendous success on Facebook. Therefore, Perry believes that gamers will also respond to Gaikai’s offerings, which include, Saints Row: The Third, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Magicka, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Orcs Must Die!, and Farming Simulator 2011.

Through this announcement, gamers will have the ability to play directly on the Facebook platform. Furthermore, game developers will have the opportunity of potentially reaching hundreds of millions of new gamers.

Perry told us that Gaikai’s goal is to make video gaming as accessible as music and movies. He believes its cloud gaming Facebook app is one step in making this happen.

WebProNews spoke with Ryan Radia, the Associate Director of Technology Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), who told us that, while both bills are forms of “government overreach,” CISPA is very different from SOPA. According to him, SOPA was primarily focused on intellectual property. CISPA, on the other hand, deals with cybersecurity and, specifically, the sharing of information between private companies and the government.

As he explained to us, CISPA poses a threat to privacy as well as the 4th Amendment principle that frees citizens of unreasonable searches. He, and multiple privacy groups, point out that the language of CISPA is so vague that the information it passes to the government may not be related to cyber threats at all. The issue of what the government will then do with this information is also in question.

Radia told us that, even though there are some very real cyber threats, he doesn’t see CISPA, or any other cybersecurity bill for that matter, having a huge impact in protecting against cyber attacks. For this reason, he gives it a 50/50 chance for passing.

What do you think of CISPA? Let us know.

Although Brin has since come out and said his comments were taken out of the context of his entire conversation, the debate was already sparked. Many people began to question Google’s own “openness” as a result.

Rebecca Lieb, an analyst with the Altimeter Group and who is also veteran in the search industry, spoke with WebProNews about the matter and told us that Brin lumped both sides of the open Web discussion together. He referenced the social and political side in which governments block Internet access, and also the other side that is business-oriented and covers “walled gardens.”

While both sides exist, she said they are very different. According to her, the social and political side is very serious and should receive attention. However, the other side raises concerns about Google itself, given some recent actions from the company.

Lieb told us that if companies really want an open Web, they should spend more time lobbying in Washington for net neutrality measures.

Do you think the openness of the Web is being threatened? If so, who is to blame and what should be done? Let us know.