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Cloudera CTO Amr Awadallah Gives a Glimpse of Hadoop and Gaming, Modern Warfare
John Furrier and Dave Vellante had the CTO and cofounder of Cloudera, Amr Awadallah, in theCube today to speak about the integration of Hadoop and how he sees the future lifting into the clouds. In the midst of discussion about Cloudera and Hadoop, a bright point emerged about the collision between data analysis and online ...
Zynga Reschedules Initial Public Offering for Shortly After Thanksgiving
Rumors of Zynga’s pre-Thanksgiving IPO plans from not too long ago may have been exaggerated, new news on the subject, according to two people who spoke with Bloomberg, suggests that they’re headed instead for an IPO immediately following Turkey Day. The opportune filing of the gaming company’s initial public offering started with a $1 billion ...
PC Gamers Change Your Pants: Steam’s Forums Hacked
And by pants, I mean passwords. It looks like reports have been flying all morning that Steam’s forums have been hacked. Steam is an online community and gaming service that provides digital downloads of popular games from the currently popular Batman: Arkham Asylum to extremely rave MMOFPS Team Fortress 2. Aside from the service, Steam ...
MIT Server Becomes Host to Seething DoS and Vulnerability Scanner Suite Infection
Recently, a server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been found host to a heavy duty suite of attack tools and used for vulnerability scanning and compromises. Researchers at Bitdefender caught it attempting to inject malware code into unprotected sites on the Web. The researchers say that the ongoing attacks appear to be related ...
Kinect Sales Hit Milestone of 10m Units Sold Total
Microsoft has celebrated the first birthday of Kinect by announcing a lifetime sales of 10m units moved. This is somewhat in contrast to the astonishing opening sales that gave it 8m total unit sales in the first 60 days—a fact that landed the Microsoft Kinect in the pages of the Guinness Book of World Records ...
Google Does a Barrel Roll and Revamps “Freshness” Search Algorithm
It’s been a fun week for Google with the discovery of a cute web FX trick that causes the search engine to “do a barrel roll” and the revamp of their algorithm that will boost the likelihood that fresher content will find its way to the top. The official Google blog is now abuzz with ...
Sony Predicts Over $1.1 Billion Full-Year Net Loss After Numerous Setbacks
The year of 2011 has been extremely harsh for Sony and it’s been peppered with cataclysm and catastrophe. Starting with Japan’s earthquake and the resulting the tsunami that shut down production at 10 factories in March. Shortly thereafter, the PlayStation Network suffered a gigantic break-in embarrassing Sony in how terrible their online security happened to ...
Google+ Package Arrives on the Doorstep of YouTube and Chrome
Ever since its debutante unveiling at the social media prom, Google+ has had a bit of a rocky start and what have felt like a few stumbles. Google is attempting to bring the service into the mainstream and it must complete with already well established families like Facebook who do their job extremely well. As ...
DevilRobber Virus Usurps Mac Processing Power to Mine Bitcoins
A new Mac OS Trojan has been caught in the wild and this time, instead of just stealing sensitive information from infected computers, it also surreptitiously steals processing power from the computer in order to mine bitcoins. Across the Bitcoin community, GPUs are commonly leveraged for their calculation power in order to mine future coins ...
Gerald Kleyn in theCube on HP’s Labs Discovery at Project Moonshot Press Event
Dave Vellante and John Furrier interviewed Gerald Kleyn, Program Director, Hyperscale Engineering, about how HP’s Lab Discovery assists customers when it comes to partner’s new solutions and chips. He’s speaking after the press gathering involving HP’s Project Moonshot. The initiative involves low-power chips that will bring server-scale and enterprise chips not only into the cloud, ...