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Red Hat Delivers Big Data Manifesto
Red Hat, the open-source software and infrastructure provider, has officially jumped on the Hadoop bandwagon this week. The company has just announced its Big Data Manifesto, with a series of principles it believes will help its enterprise customers get to grips with the problems of managing rapidly growing data volumes. In line with this move, the company said ...
Is Google Just Paying Lip Service To The Anti-Piracy Crusade?
Just days after it was revealed that Google is talking to major online payment processors like PayPal and MasterCard with a view to cutting off payments to “illegal” websites that host copyrighted material, a music industry body has slammed the internet company for failing to deliver on its promise to start downgrading said websites’ search ...
Alteryx Publishes “Big Data Analytics for Dummies”
Given the lack of data scientists and analytics specialists with the technical skills and business acumen to glean insights from Big Data, there’s a growing need within the enterprise for some kind of idiot-proof tool to help smaller businesses get around the problem. And so companies like Alteryx have a real chance to plug this ...
FCC Puts Forward Plan To Ease Wi-Fi Congestion
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday took its first concrete steps towards heading off the so-called “data spectrum crunch”, announcing plans to free up more wireless bandwidth to ease congestion in hotels, airports and cities, and hopefully boost Wi-Fi speeds. The five-member FCC yesterday announced the approval of a plan to release an additional 195Mhz of ...
Google Aims to Kill Off Illegal Download Sites By Cutting Off Funding
Google doesn’t like piracy websites much. In fact, it’s fair to say that Google positively hates them. If reports from the UK are to be believed, the world’s biggest internet company has apparently decided that enough is enough, and has begun orchestrating a major effort to cut funding to websites that provide illegal downloads, with ...
Five Government Big Data Projects That’ll Change the World
Big Data has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last 12 months, with a new report from Wikibon this morning putting the movement’s total value at a whopping $11.4 billion in 2012. Much of this cash has come from big business that are keen to exploit Big Data for economic reasons, but much ...
Google Claims 99.7% Reduction in Hijacked Gmail Accounts
We’ve seen some pretty clever email scams over the years – such as the ‘travel money scam’ where a friend sends a frantic message saying that they’re stuck overseas and have just lost all of their money, before begging you to send them some funds. Dozens of variations of this exist, along with altogether different ...
Apple Hacked Along With Facebook & Twitter, but Who’s Responsible?
US tech firms have been dropping like flies, with one company after another coming out to report that its fallen victim to cyberattacks in recent weeks. Twitter and Facebook both provided details of security breaches last week, and late yesterday Apple revealed that it too had also fallen victim to the same group of hackers. ...
Big Data Search Tool Elasticsearch Gets $24M in Series B Funding
Amsterdam-based Big Data startup Elasticsearch, which operates the real-time search and data analytics open-source project of the same name, has just secured a handsome $24 million in series B funding, which it says it plans to use to make its platform more user-friendly. The bulk of these funds were provided by Mike Volpi of Index ...
Google Docs Blocked: Oxford Uni Takes Drastic Step To Dodge “Phishing” Attacks
After witnessing a dramatic increase in the number of phishing attacks, Oxford University took the drastic step of temporarily blocking access to Google Docs for a few hours on Monday, blaming Google for failing to act quickly enough to prevent the attacks. The Google Docs ‘outage’ lasted for about two and a half hours, before ...