Fernando Andrés appointed Global PAPS General Manager at Panda Security

Panda Security today announced that Fernando Andrés has been appointed as the company’s new Global PAPS General Manager. Andrés’ mission will be to lead the global development of the PAPS business line, one of the flagships in the security vendor’s corporate strategy.

During his professional career, spanning over 20 years in companies such asSaleforce.com and Microsoft, Andrés has held key executive positions in the sales management, business development and channel development areas in the cloud computing, Internet services and applications sectors.

Fernando Andrés holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Castilla La Mancha (Spain), and completed the IESE Business School’s Advanced Management Program in Business Administration.

Global PAPS General Manager  at Panda Security

Fernando Andrés

Extensive experience in the IT sector

From 2009 to 2014, Andrés held a number of management positions at Salesforce.com, including Corporate Sales Director for South Europe at Salesforce.com EMEA and Director of Channel Business Development at Salesforce.com Spain.

Prior to that, he held different positions at Microsoft for more than a decade, ultimately serving as SaaS Sales Director from 2004 to 2009.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Andrés was employed at ICL Fujitsu and Kodak.

“PAPS (Panda Advanced Protection Service) is a revolutionary product in the industry. It is a next-generation security solution with a completely new, disruptive approach that ensures maximum malware detection and security through an integrated management service. It is very exciting to be part of such an innovative, effective and successful project which will represent a huge leap forward not only for Panda Security, but also for the entire IT security sector,” said Fernando Andrés.

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WhatsApp could confirm when messages have been read

 

whatsapp doble check

The dream of some and the nightmare of others may soon come true. WhatsApp is apparently considering a system for notifying users when the messages they have sent have been read.

When the app first came out, many thought that the double check symbol meant the message had been read. However, it was made clear that the only thing that the two ticks represent is that the message has been delivered successfully.

The news was leaked after WhatsApp asked a user to translate some terms into Italian. These included: «reproduced by», «sent by», «delivered» and «birthday», though suspicions were raised by the phrase «read by» which has led to all sorts of speculation.

whatsapp read by

This feature is similar to the D (Delivered) and R (Read) messages in BlackBerry Messenger although it appears it is still in trial phase.

What do you think? Would you be in favor of WhatsApp telling you if a message had been read? Or would that be infringing on your privacy?

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