Ai-one, which provides technologies to build artificial intelligence into software programs, has acquired a local artificial intelligence services company, Auto-Semantics. Auto-Semantics provides solutions for big data and marketing problems like investor behavior and modeling consumer solution to business.  Its computational semantics solution allows artificial intelligence machines to understand human language.  Founded a year back by ...

Fueled by HP, the Spanish National Competition Authority (CNC) has started looking into possible anticompetitive practices by Oracle from its decision to stop supporting the Itanium platform.  Subsequently, the CNC has opened an investigation into anticompetitive performs by Oracle. After Oracle’s decision to cease software development for Hewlett-Packard and Intel’s Itanium chips in March, both ...

German officials have said Facebook’s new facial recognition software is illegal and want its use halted. The German government said the features Facebook uses violate European and German data protection law and all the related data derived from its use should be deleted. They have further threatened Facebook with legal action if some measures are ...

Connected devices and expanded cloud storage have empowered the compounding creation of data faster than ever before.  The substantial explosion of data and information from smart devices, social networks, and all other solutions connected to internet weigh the potential of Big Data.  And to take full advantage of big data approach, IT needs to re-architect ...

The potentially profitable daily deals market now mostly controlled by Groupon will witness a giant in e-commerce market entering into the same space, and the giant is none-other than Amazon. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Amazon is launching a daily deal program called Amazon Local and introducing its own deal-of-day discount offers in ...

The expected end of July release for the HP TouchPad software update is finally releasing today.  HP is starting to roll out the software update to all the users. HP’s Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations (for webOS) Richard Kerris tweeted this development. There is no news of the contents of the updates but we ...

Qualcomm Inc., one of the world leaders in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies, released its augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) for Apple’s iOS platform. The new AR SDK will help Apple developers to create high-performance, interactive 3D AR experiences. The AR release is in the same line as their Android version, released back ...

One of Europe’s largest computer consultancy firms, Capgemini, reported a more than 25 percent gain in net profit in the first half of 2011, but cash in hand drops significantly after a series of acquisitions over the past two years. For the first six months of the year, Capgemini reported a net profit of 127 ...

South Korea has suffered another wave of attacks that have compromised social networking sites, Nate and Cyworld, both run by SK Communications. The attacks are blamed largely on Chinese hackers, who are thought to have made off credentials for over 35 million accounts. Korean Communications Commission claims to have tracked the IPs back to China. ...

Two of the biggest names in daily deals, Groupon and LivingSocial, are labeled as the fastest growing companies in the market. Groupon recently filed for an IPO and LivingSocial is following suit, soon to go public for its multi-billion-dollar IPO. But LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaugnessy says Groupon is copycatting its creativity.  And what makes Tim ...