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The Best of Michael Dell #DellWorld 2012
An honored guest stopped by #theCube today: Michael Dell, Founder and CEO of Dell Inc. If you missed the live broadcast, see the video below, and check here on SiliconAngle for the written summary. In the meantime, enjoy these photos and timeless quotes from Michael Dell himself.
Michael Dell on Modernizing the Portfolio, Mobile Devices and Services
We’re at Dell World this week with one overarching question in mind: what’s Dell’s solution for the emerging world of converged infrastructure and big data? CEO Michael Dell and his team set out to address this question today, announcing investment initiatives in Enterprise Solutions and Services. Four years and $10 billion later, Dell’s stitching together its end-to-end ...
Twitter’s New Photo Filters vs. Instagram: Hands-On Review
Instagram’s been the bold social network to take on industry greats, namely Twitter. The photo-sharing app is a mobile wonder, revitalizing the “Twitter” experience with images, hashtags and search-driven browsing. This year’s been great for Instagram, being acquired by Facebook for $1 billion and all, and going on to break a few of its own ...
Cerego Tracks Your Brain Data Without Implanting A Chip [BETA Invites]
What if you could tap into your brain data without implanting a chip? A startup called Cerego is looking to pick your brain with the power of visualization. The newest company to take on big data exited stealth today with a new web app that leverages visualization and memory science to accelerate the learning process ...
Has HP Cleared Autonomy’s Name with New Product Outlook?
This week was an important one for HP, coming off a controversial bout of bad PR after CEO Meg Whitman revealed a massive $8.8 billion write-down from last year’s acquisition of Autonomy. At HP Discover in Frankfurt Germany, the hardware manufacturer gained an opportunity to prove the true worth of Autonomy and several other acquisitions, ...
How Big Data Helped LiquidPlanner Build Technology Ahead of Its Time [Q&A with Liz Pearce]
I was first introduced to LiquidPlanner at DEMO in 2008, strolling the floor of the banquet hall where dozens of startups had set up booths. LiquidPlanner was one of the handful of companies I remember from the event, and one of the few that’s survived the recession, the mobile revolution and the transition to data-driven ...
Network Revolution Claims HP, Autonomy, Cisco and Others
For many of us this week’s been abbreviated, with plans to spend time with family for Thanksgiving. But even as the holiday season kicks into gear, the business world takes little time to rest, though there’s plenty of time to reflect. Perhaps one of the most resonating developments this week was uncovered during Hewlett-Packard’s earnings ...
Simple Architecture & Innovation Heed the Nature of Analytics. [Q&A with ScaleOut CEO Bill Bain]
One of the most puzzling developments in big data is the analytics piece — we’ve figured out some useful ways to store and access hordes of data, but how does one efficiently get analytics tools onto the server? Having ready access to data is crucial to real-time analytics in particular, where an in-memory solution is necessary. It’s ...
Big Data: A Big Problem for Civil Rights
When it comes to the business of big data, a growing number of companies are profiting from the collection, storage and analysis of user information. Take Axciom for example. Last year, the company registered $1.1 billion in sales for data-driven services in analytics. Much of these data sets are part our digital footprints, generated increasingly by the ...
Stiff is for Martinis. Skava Founder Talks Flexibility for Mobile
Just this morning Nokia revealed its ambitious plans for HERE, its mapping service, with cross-platform support and a penchant for the very device-compatible HTML5. It’s a flexible plan on Nokia’s part, setting the phone-maker’s sights on software and accessibility. That mentality is something Sudha Varadarajan would appreciate. As the founder of mobile development firm Skava, Varadarajan sees the necessity for ...