Grueling hours spent collecting and editing data, just to make it useful, is all part of the fun of big data. Infochimps wants to be that platform to find, sell and share all public data. They do this through data sets and data APIs. Earlier today at the Structure Big Data conference, Infochimp’s CTO Flip ...

As the first quarter of the year nears closing, Om Malik and his team gathered to host the Structure Big Data 2011 Conference in New York City. The sold out event will touch base and focus on big data valuation and the cloud—topics that were abundantly discussed here at SiliconAngle for more than a year ...

Cloud services are penetrating the smallest and largest constituents of the retail community alike. As proof, one of the widespread retail companies in the United States, Target taps Microsoft’s Hyper V software for virtualization solutions. This Microsoft property will be positioned in all 1755 stores of Target. Vice president of Target Technology Services, Jeff Mader ...

IBM is dead serious in pushing for its smarter building initiatives. Today, the premier IT and solutions company plans to buy out TRIRIGA, a known provider of real estate management software solutions housed in Las Vegas. IBM is staying faithful to its smarter building campaigns with TRIRIGA acquisition. This move will also push the organization ...

Relentless updates are becoming synonymous to Juniper Networks. Fresh from yesterday’s announcement of joining the Eclipse Foundation to build up on its open software development and present its customers with a richer enhancement platform for applications to optimize their network assets and craft new revenue opportunities within reduced cost, complexity and time. Today, the company ...

It’s crystal clear that Amazon is making good use of games as a selling point to lure developers, publishers, advertisers and most importantly, the gamers, in their alternative market. Today, Amazon launches their Appstore for Android, introducing free and paid gaming options. Users will be greeted by reduced prices in this marketplace. This strategy is also ...

Within a short span of time, DotCloud has attracted keen eyes of investors and zealously unleashed their potential. Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Jerry Yang, Raymond Tonsing, Roger Dickey, Ash Patel, Eric Urhane, Kenny Van Zant, Trinity Ventures and others are some of the folks that made an $800K funding possible in the latter part of February. ...

Perhaps Apple is the happiest party outside of the colossal AT&T-T-Mobile billion-dollar deal. Its iPhone and other products will now reach over 40 million T-Mobile subscribers. But, Apple is not alone at the bliss arena, as Juniper Networks is also expected to take pleasure from this pact. To make the lines of connection more visible, ...

In early 2011, leading technology and consulting giant IBM has started its quest on cloud computing adoption and forming global alliance. Along with its centennial celebration, IBM is also going green with the new data centers they are about to build. The company’s cloud services are now readily and rapidly expanding and have reached Europe, ...

Another seismic wave hits the world today as AT&T buys T-Mobile. This move instated AT&T as the premier wireless service provider in the United States and is predicted to start a monopoly. Inevitably, as merger mania pushes one to peak, another business plunges down. And, Sprint becomes the victim of this game-changing deal. Sprint woke ...