This may be a big year for the IBM Rational group. On a macro level, the market is adapting to a new app culture. Tens of thousands of people have taken up coding. It’s a sign that the “second economy,” has slowly moved into the mainstream, providing a ripe opportunity for services organizations to help ...

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is just bonkers about Facebook. Listen to one of his keynotes and you’ll get the picture. Dion Hinchcliffe did the play-by-play at last year’s event. Here’s his take on the action:  “….Entering new era, an exciting new era”. Not thanking IBM, not thanking big companies, we’re thanking Facebook that’s creating change ...

Both Google and Facebook have more data about people’s political views than practically any two companies in the world. How they use that data points to the deep differences between these two Web giants on this night of the Iowa caucus and the start of the 2012 political season. For the voter, the winner has to ...

Kaspersky Labs has issued a report detailing the top cybersecurity threats for 2012.  It’s a report worth reading.  Nation states will develop new forms of cyber attacks. Logic dumps will proliferate. Mobile drive by downloads will increase and botnets will not just be for the PC anymore and banks will increasingly be targeted. Here are some ...

Big data, without question, is a 2011 buzz word finalist. But like all metaphors, it communicates a universal understanding that data dominates our lives and will increasingly do so in the years ahead. How can you deny that a company’s success will depend in great part on how they view data and its value? The belief ...

Job listings give a view into company strategy and the direction of the overall market. Indeed is a job listing service that provides excellent analysis of top job skills. For our purposes, we looked at Indeed’s top 10 listings to give a glimpse into the top 10 developer and engineering skills that employers are looking ...

Google changed the Google Reader interface this Fall and scaled back development. Since then a backlash erupted among those who had used it as their primary RSS reader. In particular they missed the “shared” items feature, now replaced by Google+. The changes forced many Google Reader users to search for a similar service.  Earlier this week a new RSS ...

It’s nearing the end of 2011 and a certain reality is emerging about the years ahead. Computers are not just desktops or smartphones. They have found their way into just about everything we know of. And it’s increasingly apparent that we have far less control over these systems than we’d like. So it’s not a ...

Data visualization is emerging as the best way to understand the massive data streams and the events in our lives that shape who we are, where we live and the communities that define our interactions. Last week, Flowing Data, one of the best blogs on the topic,  featured the best data visualization projects for 2011: ...

Oracle’s quarterly revenues did not quite please the financial markets today. Concerns carried into trading with tech stocks getting hit. The news reflects a new reality for systems integrators. Oracle has battled for mindshare with a premise that its big boxes have the power and the speed to change IT. But a contrasting viewpoint we ...