Sharing your personal location-based data is generally NOT a good idea. However, on the business side, localized data can be a great thing. News broke early this morning that Apple had acquired local data company Locationary. The Toronto-based Locationary, a small Canadian startup backed by Extreme Venture Partners and Plazacorp Ventures, is a Wikipedia of ...

Can you think of any technological advances that will affect your life more than driverless cars?  One surprising way in which this level of transportation automation will impact the economy is through financial savings. Approximately 8 percent of the workforce has a commute to work every day that is an hour or longer, according to ...

Yesterday we teamed up one more time with storage service provider NetApp in our joint series with The Wikibon Project.  This week’s #NetAppChat covered the topic: “Clustered Storage: Meeting Tomorrow’s Data Storage Needs.” As we did with the first #NetAppChat, “Where Does Software-Defined Storage Fit Into the IT Renaissance?“, here is a recap of some of ...

Consumers are in love with music-streaming services like Spotify and Pandora. Pandora is the “old kid” on the block, while Spotify is the new, but both are bursting with users. Recent figures peg Pandora at 69.5 million active users, and Spotify with 24 million, with six million of those active users on Spotify paying a ...

Today at 12 noon PST we’ll be having our third and final tweet chat with NetApp in our joint series discussing storage evolution in the enterprise today. Today’s Twitter chat will be “Clustered Storage: Meeting Tomorrow’s Data Storage Needs.” The list of moderators includes: John Furrier, SiliconANGLE (@furrier), Kevin Strohmeyer, Citrix (@XenDesktop), Brian Mitchell, Avnet ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest contribution from ScienceLogic’s CTO Antonio Piraino. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is all grown up. While Enterprise IT is often thought of in terms of a rogue deployment of your applications, or even as a competitor, enterprises are now using it for more and more critical business applications. All the ...

Earlier this week at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, NetApp announced that it is investing up to $15 million in a partnership with Microsoft to further accelerate the adoption of the cloud in the enterprise. The new ecosystem will be a sales + technology collaboration. This partnership will signal a beefed up “win” for both ...

Last week was a short week for Americans, so we held off the ‘This week in storage’ until Monday so you can get caught up. We hope that you had a great Fourth of July and there were no fireworks accidents. Last week’s storage news consisted of a strong focus on the cloud from Xbox, ...

Happy Fourth of July! SiliconANGLE wants to thank all of the men and women who served this great country of ours. And in pure geek fashion, we give them and you a list of our Geekiest Grillmaster Gadgets (The real 3G Apple). Happy Birthday ‘Merica! Digital BBQ Thermometer Fork Tactical BBQ Apron Cook Air BBQ ...

Editors Note: The following is an excerpt from Joel Lewenstein, Product Designer at Quora, in response to this question: How do designers at Twitter, Facebook, and other tech companies balance their design instinct and judgment vs. the engineer’s impulse to use A/B test data for every design change? on Quora as told by Ryan Cox. For additional ...