Here is a recap of the six must reads from SiliconANGLE this week. Lots to catch up on, so lets dive right in. Consumer tech is on a high this week, with Apple’s launch of the iPad Air, and updates to the rest of the iPad line.  Wearable tech is also reaching a boiling point, ...

In the immortal words of Iron Man, “Lets do this.” This past week was packed with noteworthy developments in the tech sector. Along with a stream of third quarter news from the big boys of tech, we covered a lot of interesting developments spanning the wire from the US military building its own Iron Man, ...

How to Hadoop? Hadoop is at the center of the data economy. Big Data + the Industrialization of the Internet means we require more and more data for more and more things.  As far as the enterprise is concerned, Big Data has introduced a big challenge and a bigger opportunity – how to commercialize analytics ...

Today’s debut of Square Cash introduced one of the simplest ways to send money to friends, via email, adding to a string of business-ready apps to Square’s growing portfolio.  But in its efforts to simplify the exchange of cash through the use of technology, could Square intimidate average users with a service that requires no ...

As if it weren’t already easy enough to watch movies on Netflix, the popular movie rental service, is said to be in talks with top U.S. cable operators with regards to allowing its online service to appear as an app on set-top devices. It’s a tough nut to crack, but Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T ...

Part of our spotlight series at the recently concluded Oracle OpenWorld, #theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante, Chief Analyst at Wikibon and John Furrier, Founder and CEO of SiliconANGLE, discuss backup and recovery during our Data Protection Spotlight program. Data protection is a $2 trillion market, as Vellante notes at the beginning of the show, and this ...

By early 2014, Apple’s iTunes Radio is going to expand to both the U.K. and Canada — before Pandora, according to a Bloomberg report from people with knowledge of the situation. Apple’s iTunes Radio will also be expanding to Australia and New Zealand, where Pandora already exists, and is targeting other Nordic countries around that ...

When the FBI busted Silk Road founder and operator Ross William Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts, aka DPR), they seized the site’s assets. This “Amazon” of the underworld was a place where drugs, guns and other illegal items could be purchased, and where bitcoins gained wide-spread adoption.  As some would say, what better way to buy ...

Splunk.conf2013 has wrapped this week, and one thing is clear – Splunk has positioned itself well to transition beyond machine log data. Looking to make its solution more broadly known for its ability to support generalized Big Data needs, Splunk is becoming more applicable for the enterprise. Customers use Splunk’s platform for marketing-related data and ...

In partnership with IBM yesterday, SiliconANGLE held a #dataeconomy CrowdChat on the economics of data. The goal was to discuss how data value is contributing to organizations. Specifically, they discussed how to measure value, what metrics matter, what types of organizations are taking action with the data, and some creative examples of data monetization – ...