Art Lindsey III
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Microsoft Steps Up, Throws Down
Okay, I’m a little late on this, but what’s the rush, really? Everybody knows that I’m going to have an opinion on Microsoft’s CES keynote, and everybody also knows that until I say it, it just hasn’t been said. Now, as we all remember, I was far from impressed last year, because the presentation was ...
2010 Round Up: Cisco’s Ado … About Nothing?
It’s not often that stories centering around consumer grade hardware generate a lot of buzz here at SiliconANGLE. After all, there are a lot of gadgets out there, and let’s face it, we tend to be pretty cloud-centric most of the time. T hat being said, there are exceptions to the rule. Sometimes all that ...
Homeland Security to Punish Tech Companies? Unlikely.
Recently over at Cnet, Declan McCullagh wrote about a very, shall we say, “financially intrusive” cybersecurity bill with has reared it’s head in congress. According to the article, the bill gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to fine technology companies $100k per day if said companies do not comply with DHS policies. ...
Windows Phone 7: I Got It, I Got it, I Got it…I Don’t Got It
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up on Christmas morning and find absolutely nothing under the tree? Well, today, I learned about it firsthand. Today was supposed the be an awesome day. The release date of the of the already legendary Windows Phone 7. So, I hopped in the care ...
Microsoft Still not Dead. Film at 11
It’s been a bit of a broken record throughout the year for those of us who follow Microsoft. Day-in and day-out of “Microsoft is a sinking ship”. “Microsoft is a failing company”. It’s been a non stop mantra from pesky blogger-types all the way up to ex-Microsoft officials. Never mind the fact that Microsoft just ...
John McCain Named Top Senate Candidate On the Web, Sky Also Found to Be Blue
According to research conducted by PeekScore, an innovative application that ranks individuals’ online prominence, we can now elect Arizona’s Republican John McCain as the top most prominent Senate candidate on the Internet. PeekScore has carefully researched the size of the online footprint of all 2010 U.S. Senate candidates for this midterm election, and ranked the ...
How Executives Are Using Social Media
Click on the image at right for a larger view. EMC President Pat Gelsinger on power of social media. [via Social Media Graphics]
The Origins of Hadoop
Doug Cutting of Cloudera joins SiliconAngle’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante at Hadoop World 2010. Doug brought with him Hadoop, his son’s elephant doll and the inspiration for the Hadoop name, and he talks about the humble beginnings of spreading data on multiple machines. “We weren’t going to get it running on thousand of ...
Hadoop 101 with Mike Olson
Occasionally in the midst of our voluminous coverage of events, the basics often get “lost in the shuffle,” as it were. With that in mind, unless you watched every single minute of our Hadoop World coverage, you might be asking yourself, “Just what is Hadoop?” Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera, sat down with SiliconAngle’s John ...
Photos From HadoopWorld 2010
Here are just a few photos from SiliconAngle’s live coverage of HadoopWorld 2010. Stay tuned!