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In the wake of Robin William’s tragic suicide following years of suffering from depression, the spotlight has fallen on ways to treat the illness and prevent future deaths. The focus has always been on medicine or therapy, but recently a number of …
Intel battles Parkinson’s disease with Big Data and wearable tech
Intel Corporation wants to use wearable technology to combat Parkinson’s Disease. While other companies fiddle around with wrist bands designed to improve our fitness or track our heart rates, the chip maker has teamed up with the Michael J Fox Foundation (MJFF) …
OpenStack adds hosted private cloud category to marketplace
OpenStack has just added a new Hosted Private Cloud category to its Marketplace vendor comparison site, in a move it says represents growing interest in the option from customers. The new category includes products and service from Aptira, AURO, Blue Box, IBM, …
Google, HP reported to be teaming on Google Now for business
Android has struggled to make inroads in the enterprise market so far, but Google isn’t about to throw in the towel just yet. Rumors emerged yesterday that the search giant is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Co. to develop a business-oriented version of …
CoreOS snaps up Quay.io to deliver private Docker Repositories
The lightweight Linux vendor CoreOS has made a move to flesh out its business offerings by snapping up Docker container hosting firm Quay.io for an undisclosed sum. Quay.io has developed software that companies can use to stitch together applications while keeping their …
There’s big bucks in Big Data, but will we be left poorer for it?
We see stories about how Big Data’s potential to change the world almost every day, especially where big business is concerned. But few people discussed the negatives it could have, such as its potential to disrupt the academic world in a way …
VMware spreads some container love
There’s few more exciting topics in infrastructure software than containerization at the moment, and with good reason too. As an easy-to-use and lightweight alternative to virtualization, there’s been lots of discussion about it either one day replacing virtualization completely, or at least …
Internet troubles today? You can blame it on IPv4
You might have heard something about Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) causing possible connectivity problems in future if web users don’t begin using the newer IPv6. Well, those problems have arrived, with numerous websites including eBay, Amazon, LinkedIn and others hit by …
Walking in a data-wonderland: Big Data meets virtual reality
One of the biggest challenges of Big Data is that the human mind is just too feeble to comprehend such vast amounts of information. Our brains become overwhelmed by petabytes of data, but EU researchers think they’ve hit upon a way to …
Cortana set to land inside Windows 9
Microsoft Corp., wants to make your life easier, and to do so it’s planning to integrate Cortana – the Siri-like digital assistant from Windows Phone – into its next Windows desktop release. The first rumors that Cortana was already up and running …