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Can Facebook Separate Signal from the Noise with New Comment Rankings?
Facebook is testing two new features this week, in hopes of making it a bit easier to navigate the sea of comments usually found on popular posts. The first addition is the ability to reply to specific comments – a change that improves the way users interact in discussions, or at least in theory. This ...
Jaspersoft 5 Features More Data Integration, In-Memory Processing
Jaspersoft has entered the data visualization market with the newest release of its flagship reporting platform, which includes capabilities similar to those other vendors in space have been offering for a while. Namely, Jaspersoft 5 comes with a built-in “metadata view” of different data sources that users can easily put together in a browser. “The Jaspersoft 5 ...
SolidFire Reveals New Arrays for White Hot Flash Market
SolidFire just rolled out two of its newest pure flash storage arrays for general availability today, and it isn’t shy about it. The company says that nearly two dozen cloud service providers are currently evaluating its technology, and several have already implemented it in their data centers. “SolidFire is ushering in a new era in ...
FalconStor Sees Revenue Decline, Cuts Its Losses
FalconStor posted results for Q3 2012 last Wednesday. The company, a provider of data protection solutions for the enterprise, saw weakened demand for its products in the quarter ended September 30, but managed to cut its losses. FalconStor made$17.1 million in the past three months compared with the $18.9 million it reported for the third quarter ...
What Happens When Twitter Spills Coffee on the Keyboard?
Last week Twitter sent out a particularly large batch of e-mails to users whose accounts have been compromised. The message informed account holders that they have to change their passwords before they can log into the social network. As it turns out however most of the recipients, or at least a sizable portion of them, ...
Big Data Review: Millennial Media’s Big Win and Splunk Enterprise 5
A few interesting stories came out of the big data space over the past seven days, including two noteworthy highlights from the mobile industry. First up, Millennial Media entered into a big partnership with MediaVest, which pegs itself a “digital planning agency.” Through this agreement Millennial is taking on the role of data supplier: the ...
Itanium 9500: Intel’s Ace in the Hole?
Intel’s x64 bit Itanium architecture went through a rough patch in its early days: the chipset failed to live up to expectations when it rolled out (behind schedule) in 2001, and fell in line with the RISC and CISC CPUs Intel said it would outmatch. The brand has come a long way since then. Last ...
IBM Updates Mobile Software, Services Portfolio
Big Blue augmented its mobile line-up today with new products, an extended consultancy offering and additional features for a couple of existing solutions. More handsets and tablets are connected to the corporate network today than ever before, and IBM is offering enterprises the software and know-how to make this organized chaos more manageable in the ...
Hadapt’s Chief Data Scientist and CTO Give Us a Peek Behind the Curtain
Hadapt chief data scientist Mingsheng Hong and chief technology officer Philip Wickline showcased the latest release of their flagship software in theCube during Strata Conference + Hadoop World last month. Hong fires up the demo. He’s showing a single-node deployment of Hadapt 2.0 on his MacBook from within Tableau, which powers the easy-to-understand interface that ...
Cisco Thinks It’s Video Chat is Better than Facebook for the College Crowd
Cisco has identified a new opportunity to promote its WebEx videoconferencing tool, this time in the academia. The networking kingpin just revealed a new version of the platform that’s targeting this segment with better communications, more integration and a few other tweaks you may not find in the enterprise version. WebEx Social for Higher Education is ...