With recent news of NSA + PRISM collection methods, more confusion has emerged around what it is/isn’t collecting on you without your permission. The topic been a hot button to say the least, and it’s about to get even hotter. XKeyscore is an NSA tool that collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’. You’re familiar with the ...

Predictive search is a promising technological avancement that utilizes machine learning to better serve smartphone users. Its applications are best described as robotic personal assistants, gathering information from your email, calendar, location and social accounts to can you alerts and recommendations  before you even know that you need them. The digital information gathered can be applied ...

Did you get a new car? A Toyota Prius, that’s nice. You know it can be hacked right? This dialogue is all too real. Computer hackers have allegedly taken control of a Toyota Prius, steering the car and applying its brakes….with a video-game controller. From The Telegraph, Charlie Miller, a security researcher with Twitter, and ...

It was a massive week in storage news, good luck storing it all in your brain!  This week included IBM’s attack on Software-Defined Storage (SDS), Black Hat USA 2013 conference, long-tail news from IBM’s EDGE conference last month, O’Reilly OSCON 2013 and Google sharpening its storage teeth. Enjoy! IBM’s Ambuj Goyal Declares War in Storage ...

Earlier this week we teamed up with IBM to host and participate in the #ibmblu tweetchat. The main topic of conversation was speed of thought analytics, and specifically how IBM’s BLU Acceleration empowers it. Speed of consumption is changing our ability to read analytics. Also discussed was the integration of Cognos Cubes with BLU Acceleration, ...

Facebook’s Q2 numbers are in, and the big takeaway from the earnings call was pretty simple: mobile advertising beat everyones expectations by quite a bit. Facebook’s mobile efforts overall are up too.  I’m sure Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is thinking in his head, “see, we told you we could do it!” And while ...

What happens when you can analyze data at the speed of thought? The possibilities are nearly endless. When you can look at data on the fly – and analyze it – you can dig deeper. You can follow ideas, or investigate whether data supports a new hypothesis. Join our #ibmblu tweetchat today 1 PM US-ET ...

By now you surely know that the Robert Galbraith, the first-time author of a new crime novel called The Cuckoo’s Calling, is not a Robert, or a first-time author. Robert Galbraith is none-other than J.K. Rowling, the superstar author of the Harry Potter series. Unraveled by the UK’s Sunday Times, Richard Brooks, the paper’s arts ...

It’s no longer newsworthy to simply state that everything is moving to the cloud. Cloud computing and cloud access from any device, anywhere, is becoming the new norm. The cloud that’s taken over today’s consumer market is being adapted for the enterprise, though it wasn’t built for this space — so security is a massive ...

Google must have some aggressive production plans for Google Glass, as it acquired a 6.3 percent stake in Himax Display (HDI). HDI is a subsidiary of the Himax technologies that focuses on liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) chips and modules, which Google Glass needs. Google’s stake is a sign that Glass production is ramping up: ...