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Why App Management Is Becoming A Differentiator for Services Providers
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…
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Is Salesforce.com Planning a Facebook Style Timeline for Chatter?
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…
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Comparing Google and Facebook on the Night of the Iowa Caucus
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…
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The Drive by Download and Mobile Botnet Seen As Top Threats for 2012
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…
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5 Big Data Startups to Watch in 2012
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…
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Top 10 Developer and Engineering Skills Employers Will Look for Going into 2012
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…
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A New RSS Reader With No Sign Up Form – A Google Reader Alternative?
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…
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The 28th Chaos Communication Congress: A Look at the Future of Hacking Food, Society and Ourselves
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…
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The Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year
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…
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Oracle Results Reflect On Future of Systems Integrators and New Cloud Services Brokers
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…