Shoppers today are no longer just confined to the brick-and-mortar retail experience. When retail customers walk into a store, they have more tools at their fingertips to access online shopping comparisons, store lookup, product search, online reviews and more, all via Wi-Fi on smartphones or other mobile devices. In this article, we’ll take a look at the top reasons ...

The democratization of app building has created a new paradigm It wasn’t that long ago that web-savvy marketers were touting the advances in technology that allowed anyone to build a website, publish a blog, or embark on a social media campaign. The advent of mobile platforms has rendered all of those tools passé. We are ...

Databases are a lot like programming languages: there’s a great variety to choose from, they have wildly different programming and query interfaces, and there’s a wide gap in available features. And just as choosing the right programming language for a project can have a significant impact on the outcome of success, so does choosing the right database. Recently, there ...

There is a lot of confusion about how to be profitable in bitcoin mining. While tools are available, bitcoin mining success relies on two factors: the difficulty level and how much electricity the mining equipment uses. What is meant by the difficulty level? Think of it this way: To earn a bitcoin, your mining equipment ...

Many organizations think a “mobile first” strategy for new apps and services is enough to keep their customers engaged. I think they’re missing the boat. The challenge to your business is way bigger than just mobile, and extends into wearables, sensors, consoles, kiosks, Internet of Things, and more – and all the apps that go ...

Editor’s Note: This piece by John Joseph, president and co-found of DataGravity, is part of SiliconANGLE’s ongoing Predictions series. For more forecasts, check out SiliconANGLE editor Suzanne Kattau’s 12-day line up of Big Data predictions for 2014 (published at the end of 2013), and stay tuned for more prediction coverage as we embark upon this new year! ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series on how a team from the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) qualified to join 13 other teams to compete in the upcoming Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials.  The event will take place Dec. 20 and 21 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., ...

Fifty minutes after the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake, a tsunami flooded the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant producing equipment failure, nuclear meltdown and release of radioactive material. Workers struggled to supply power to the reactor’s coolant systems and restore power to the control rooms. Fortunately, no fatalities were linked to the short-term radiation exposure. But, deaths from certain types of cancers, such ...

Every fifth person on Earth already has a smartphone. The majority of these people live in economically developed countries. For example, people in the United States own 13 percent of all the smartphones in the world while only accounting for 4% of the global population. At the same time, India, with a population of 1.27 ...

Say you own a small or medium-sized business and you want to improve the efficiency of your sales and marketing efforts to prospective and current customers. Chances are you have been inundated with attractive offerings from main stream players such as Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Oracle who have targeted you as a prospective customer. Despite the ...