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TLD, aka Predator, Kinect-like Open Source Tracking Algorithms
The Microsoft Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 is more than just a fancy camera with a microphone attached—it’s a culmination of hardware and software that work together to drive tracking information out of the device and to connected devices. We’ve covered the anatomy of the algorithms that do the tracking before, but they’re still ...
Microsoft Tapped to Enable the US Government Open Cloud
Governments essentially run on logistics, the political game of governing people and moving money is all about juggling a lot of different data points. As a result, governments produce, study, collate, curate, and stack away a great deal of data—the United States government and all its myriad organs are no different. The result of this ...
QLogic’s Competitive Edge: the Business of Data Infrastructure
As the Senior Director of Product Marketing & Management for QLogic, Satish Lakshmanan knows where the data-center and information infrastructure company wants to take their business. So, when Dave Vellante and John Furrier got him in an interview in theCube at EMC World 2011 it was no surprise that he had a lot to say ...
Apple Faces Congress over Location Tracking Concerns
This morning convened a Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on privacy, technology, and law with a hearing about location tracking on mobile phones and heard from representatives of Apple and Google. All of this has reached out of a series of privacy concerns governing location tracking—a fact about iOS devices that was rediscovered by UK researchers ...
Tom Roloff Talks About Big Data and Cloud Enterprise Solutions
Recently, Dave Vellante of Wikibon and John Furrier of SiliconANGLE got a chance to interview Tom Roloff, Senior VP of EMC Consulting, in theCube at EMC World 2011. Roloff heads up EMC’s information-centric expertise team for developing information infrastructures to solve today’s data-oriented business problems. However, as he explained during the interview, a lot of ...
Hadoop Seeing a Surge of New Products at EMC World 2011 from Greenplum to Brisk
EMC World 2011 is casting the umbra of Big Data and the Cloud over Las Vegas today and Hadoop has taken its usual front-and-center stage in the spotlight. Amid announcements of EMC’s own addition to the Hadoop ecology of products, several others have also made their debut including products that enhance storage, delivery, and software ...
Happy Cloud Brings the Power of the Cloud to Video Game Downloads
With the advent of higher bandwidth and fat pipe Internet connections to residences we’ve been seeing the rise of streaming for everything. It can affect more than just TV shows and movies, but also video games. Gaming-on-demand is the Holy Grail for impulse buys of interactive media from the Internet. The usual video game purchase ...
PlayStation Network Still Down, Ups the Ante for Users with Identity Theft Insurance
Thousands of TVs and controllers that would otherwise be playing Call of Duty and Killzone are still stranded as this weekend Sony delayed the restart of gaming services on PlayStation Network yet again. The gaming network and console developer appears to be playing it as safe as possible with the secret data of its customers ...
QLogic Earnings Call Shows Symbiosis Between FCoE and Silicon Products
Networking and storage technology solutions provider QLogic made their earnings call recently (transcript posted on Seeking Alpha) in the rough seas of the cloud and they’re still looking very good. The company has been pressing into the Fiber Channel switch market as well as a very real silicon angle involving the Sandy Bridge processor. CEO ...
Sony Still Buried Under Investigation of PlayStation Network Breach
As more layers are uncovered in the investigation of the PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Online user-information breach things continue to get more interesting. The United States Congress reached out to Sony, asking them to provide explanations of what they were doing about the breach and why it took them so long to inform their ...