Kristina Farrah

A ninja, a tech enthusiast and a lover of sparkly things. Writing in the tech space has become an important part of my role as an observer and historian. As passionate as I am in what I do, I look forward to telling stories of how technological advancement broke out to unprecedented levels, and that I was right there in the middle of it –watching the world change before my very eyes.

Latest from Kristina Farrah

Boxer8 Provides a Peek at the Ouya Console; $99 a Pop in March 2013

Last week, the Boxer8 team gave Ouya developer consoles to some 1,200 Kickstarter investors who invested $699 and up on the development of the device. The feedbacks that came in this week are pretty good. Ouya may not be ready for gamers yet, as the company itself said on the console’s home screen, but it ...

Heartwarming Instagram Photos Commemorate Victims of Connecticut School Shooting

Here are some heartwarming and inspiring photos from Instagram that honors the victims of the Connecticut school shooting.

Nexus 4 Returns to the US – Google Play Reviews Now Post Real Names

There’s a salvo of mobile news surfacing every day as mobile devices become ubiquitous –from statistics to competitions, updates, law suits etc. Here’s a roundup of the hottest goings-on in the mobile scene today.

Nokia HERE Maps vs. Apple Maps & Google Maps

Nokia today announced what they claim as the first location cloud to deliver the world’s best maps and location experiences across multiple screens and operating systems. Dubbed as HERE, its goal is to make the mobile experience more personally significant for people.

Hadoop Gets Love, but It’s Really About “Brute Force” says Rainstor CEO

Along the course of theCube’s pursuit of interesting and smart guests at Strata+ Hadoop World 2012, we came across John Bantleman, CEO of Rainstor. Rainstor is a database designed to manage Big Data for large enterprises at the lowest total cost. The company’s database products come in two editions: Big Data Retention and Big Data ...

Live in the Moment. TerraEchos’ Speedy Analytics Sees the Best in Data

Bill Hartman, CEO of TerraEchos drops by at The Cube during the IBM Information on Demand 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hartman gave us an overview of what his company does.

Oracle’s 4 Cutting-Edge Solutions for Backup & Recovery

Live from Oracle World 2012, John Furrier and Dave Vellante did special spotlight segment on Oracle Backup and Recovery. Oracle has been focusing on them heavily and in his keynote, Larry Ellison described this fraction of the market as the “hottest area right now.”

Big Data Is About Creating Something New, Says Think Big Analytics CEO

For a segment at The Cube, Jeff Frick and Jeff Kelly landed an interview with Think Big Analytics CEO Ron Bodkins at the Splunk .conf 2012. So a bit of recap about Think Big Analytics, they are in the business of helping enterprises take advantage of new disruptive data capabilities and just pretty much everything ...

Message Bus Aims for Native Presence in Every Cloud Platform

SiliconAngle’s Jeff Frick, along with Jeff Kelly of Wikibon.org sits with Ken Cheney and Jeremy LaTrasse, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of Message Bus, respectively, at the Splunk .conf 2012.

Cyberthreat Weekly: A $75 Million Cyber Bank Job, Anonymous Mars Japanese Websites, and Spammers Aim for London Olympics 2012

Looking at the cybersecurity goings-on last week, it’s safe to assume that hacking is taken to new heights. Cybersecurity is not just an issue of stealing personal information and defacing websites, it can cause very serious financial and political damage as well.