New IDC Worldwide Public Platform as a Service Forecast Shows Market Will Grow to Over $14 Billion in 2017

.2013 – In a newly released study, International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that the worldwide public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market is expected to grow to over $14 billion in 2017. The opportunities for monetizing public PaaS functionality are high in light of the advances being made in social, mobile, and real-time contextual activities.
"The CAGR for the worldwide public PaaS 2013-2017 forecast is almost 30%," said Robert Mahowald, Program Vice President for SaaS

NewAer, the Leader in Proximity Beacon Services, Awarded First Patent in Emerging Sensor Space

NewAer, the Leader in Proximity Beacon Services, Awarded First Patent in Emerging Sensor Space

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 11/07/13 — NewAer Inc. (), developer of next-generation location-based technologies that make -smart- devices truly smart, today announces its first granted patent for "automating actions within a telephone network based upon scanned wireless signals" (U.S. Patent number 8,577,354).Today-s announcement solidifies the company-s leadership position in the emerging market of sensors and proximity, providing cloud-based analysis of beacons. The core