Tavis J. Hampton

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3 ways Ello could top Facebook

Time at the top is usually limited. In the case of social media, the stay at the top may be even shorter for businesses trying to capitalize on trends. Facebook, Inc. rose to prominence in the previous decade, beating out MySpace LLC …

Everything Minecraft: where to get it and how to start playing

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

Minecraft has been all over the news this week thanks to the announcement that Microsoft Corporation plans to purchase Mojang AB, the company that created and owns the copyright for Minecraft, for an estimated $2.5 billion. Officially released in 2011, the game …

Secret identities revealed: 4 ways anonymous chat apps can give you up

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

Anonymous chat apps may not be as protective of users’ identities as we’d like to think. Would you like to vent about your annoying coworkers without anyone finding out who you are? Do you have a marital indiscretion you want to confess …

Chromebook face-off: Three top brands compared

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

Chromebook sales are up 250 percent, accounting for 35 percent of notebook sales, according to a report by NPD Group, Inc. Chromebooks are generally priced lower than standard notebooks, although Microsoft, Corp. has recently begun pushing back with similarly priced devices running …

Big Data goes postal : USPS hopes analytics can keep snail mail relevant | #HPBigData2014

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

Dealing with data on a massive scale, the United States Postal Service is one of many organizations tackling the challenge of trying to stay customer-focused in a data-driven business environment. Speaking at Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s recently concluded HP Vertica Big Data Conference, Jim …

Target malware still causing trouble, could affect 1,000 U.S. businesses

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

The cyber attacks that put 40 million credit card numbers and other information stored in Target Corp. cash register systems at risk could be even more widespread than previously thought. According to an advisory released Friday, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security …

USPS tracks 1 billion events per day : How the Internet changed mail | #HPBigData2014

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

The United States Postal Service has changed significantly since the advent of Internet e-commerce, and those technological changes have been at times both disruptive and also profitable for the government agency. TheCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down with the …

Android takes a bite out of iOS enterprise share, Windows stagnates

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

Apple’s operating system for its mobile products lost 5 percent of its enterprise market share in Q2, primarily due to Android. Meanwhile, Windows Phone activations remained stagnant at 1 percent, according to Good Technology’s semi-annual Mobility Index Report. Apple iOS accounted for …

Are Microsoft’s layoffs signs of trouble for channel partners?

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

When Microsoft announced plans to lay off approximately 18,000 employees last month, it sent a chill through its vast network of nearly 400,000 channel partners. While many of the employees who will lose their jobs are from Microsoft’s newly acquired Nokia division, some partners see …

XpoLog hopes search makes the difference in log management

NEWS By TAVIS J. HAMPTON12 YEARS AGO

The larger a computing infrastructure gets, the more difficult it becomes to pore through server logs to track down anomalies or errors. XpoLog Ltd. has introduced log management tools for Big Data that promise better searches at what it claims is a …

Tavis J. Hampton

Latest from Tavis J. Hampton

Everything Minecraft: where to get it and how to start playing

Secret identities revealed: 4 ways anonymous chat apps can give you up

Chromebook face-off: Three top brands compared

Big Data goes postal : USPS hopes analytics can keep snail mail relevant | #HPBigData2014

Target malware still causing trouble, could affect 1,000 U.S. businesses

USPS tracks 1 billion events per day : How the Internet changed mail | #HPBigData2014

Android takes a bite out of iOS enterprise share, Windows stagnates

XpoLog hopes search makes the difference in log management

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