Big data poses immeasurable challenges and opportunities to the IT world. Leading companies are looking to maximize their position against accelerating demand to manage information. EMC, one of the global leaders in IT infrastructure and virtualization, took the promising Greenplum into the fold, leveraging the $300 million acquisition to grow its new computing unit.  As ...

The term “big data” is still prevalent, and growing in influence. Some link it to performance, others say it deals with flexibility and content. While both of these may be true, all roads lead to the information explosion, and addressing it of course is today’s current concern. The accelerating growth rate of big data is ...

If there’s one name that troubles the first and second-ranked social networks in the world, it’s Google+. The myriad of benefits that it carries is a long and growing list. But summing it all up, Google+ is a fusion of Facebook and Twitter features. It’s like a dream team of social networking: it has threading, ...

A patent lawsuit a day keeps the threat-to-throne companies away—this is the mobile industry bullies’ creed nowadays.  Just the same, the tech community feels feverish when there is no headline on patent infringement being slapped by mobile companies onto each other, or moguls from outside attacking the mobile market players. I can’t actually think of ...

When people and mobile gadgets become inseparable, a good part of the day becomes technology-dependent—and this scenario turns into something prevalent across the globe. There are disadvantages and benefits that we can draw out from having countless of apps to live with every single day. Concentrating on the affirmative side, you might be surprised as ...

While Harry Potter’s end may have brought gloom to many, the culmination of hackfest is perhaps something else the world is longing for. Just when everyone thought that LulZec’s shutdown would release the web from the heated summer of hacks, it instead inspired some other groups to disrupt the online equilibrium. The latest casualty of ...

There seems to be a bridge now connecting the tech community and IPOs—a channel that has seen a lot of freshly paved passages in the last two to three months.  The majority of high profile IPOs became successful so far, making way for the IPO fever within the IT space. With interest growing over the ...

Sad reality says that privacy is a luxury nowadays. With the hacking spree that infested the world this summer, serious damage dawned on both established companies and emerging players alike.  One of the many victims of the cybercrimes is peer-to-peer virtual currency, Bitcoin. But unlike other companies that have already shown positive signs of recovery ...

When you belong to an exponentially booming industry, the tendency is that your revenues will skyrocket. This is what the mobile marketplace’s members are enjoying right now. The latest Millennial Media mobile report shows positive patterns of growth for the whole mobile space, focused on three vectors: device & manufacturer data, data OS and Q2 ...

India’s largest software exporter is on a roll. Following a promising bid on Citrix’ recent acquisition of Cloud.com to expand their data centers globally and service small-scale businesses, Tata Consultancy Services banners a 28% increase in their first quarter revenue reports to Bloomberg. Spikes in profits are observed across all markets, even with the emerging markets. ...