If you hadn’t heard, Apple had a couple announcements this week, unveiling two new iPhones for the budget-conscious and the loyal. We’ve already compared the iPhone 5s to other top smartphones in the market, including the Galaxy S4, HTC One, Xperia Z, BlackBerry Z10, Lumia 1020 and the Optimus G Pro. We then gave you a ...

There were two big takeaways I had from Nate Silver’s time on #theCUBE during this week’s Tableau Customer Conference: 1) the editor of ESPN‘s FiveThirtyEight is more of a skeptic, taking a wait-and-see approach to Big Data, and 2) culture is more important when analyzing data than most realize. I was fascinated to hear Silver talk about culture ...

Twitter has long had the potential to be an excellent source of customer engagement and lead generation for a small businesses marketing efforts. Social media is but a tool in the marketing belt, not an end-all-be-all solution. Furthermore, it doesn’t always make sense for certain business verticals to be active on social media. Understanding your ...

Somewhere lost in the middle of the battle for user data, is well, the user. I say that with my tongue firmly planted in cheek, because at the end of the day we’re giving it up for free. Starting today, Facebook is rolling out a set of tools designed to help media and news organizations ...

On the heels of #VMworld2013, we want to catch you up with a quick storage recap for the week. Software-defined, or software-led are both terms that are becoming synonymous with the next evolution of technology. Software and silicon are making more things possible and more things obtainable. Big Data aka or lots-and-lots-and-lots of more data ...

It’s been a few months since Kim Dotcom was in the news. Back in June he was screaming at LeaseWeb over the deletion of what he claimed to be petabytes of data, but that entire situation was confusing. Then there were the PRISM discussions and Edward Snowden / NSA debacle freight train that picked up ...

VMworld 2013 Day two saw VMware pushing into the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). Equally apparent, is what the guys were able to unpack about VMware’s goal with Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the next evolution of networking. SiliconANGLE’s exclusive coverage of #VMWorld 2013, both with our editorial and theCUBE, caught all of the action ...

VMWorld 2013 Day one is in the books and it didn’t disappoint. SiliconANGLE’s exclusive coverage of #VMWorld 2013 on theCUBE was equally stuffed with great content. Fifteen great interviews spanning the entire spectrum of company executives. As themes developed out of day one, the biggest theme of #VMWorld 2013 is cloud adoption and the implementation ...

VMWorld 2013 kicked off last night, and the huge event is packed with storylines. What will we hear from Pivotal? Is Pat Gelsinger safe as CEO? What is his open source agenda? But the bell of the ball is OpenStack. Recent trends validate SiliconANGLE’s editorial stance on Software-Led Infrastructure (SLI) aka Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI). The intersections ...

Early Sunday morning, part of the Chinese Internet went down in what the government is calling the largest denial-of-service attack it has ever faced. According to the China Internet Network Information Center, the attack began at 2 a.m. Sunday morning and was followed by an even more intense attack at 4 a.m. The attack was ...