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Opportunity rover’s flash memory flops again

By Mike Wheatley Mar 30, 2015

NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity was left reeling by another flash memory failure that caused it to suffer a case of “amnesia”, although it didn’t lose any scientific data. The weary and battered Martian…

ClearStory Data beefs up Apache Spark-based analytics solution

By Mike Wheatley Mar 30, 2015

Big Data intelligence firm ClearStory Data has just launched a new version of its Apache Spark based analytics software that speeds up the time it takes to analyze data from disparate sources. In addition,…

British principals threaten parents with police for letting kids play violent games

By Eric David Mar 30, 2015

Video games have taken the blame for any number of degenerate behavior in youths ever since the industry was created, and violent game series like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty have given opponents even…

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What you missed in Big Data: Tapping the connected universe

By Maria Deutscher Mar 30, 2015

The analytics discussion shifted from the data coming off connected devices to the data stored inside those devices last week after Realm Inc. raised $20 million in a second round of funding for its…

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Wikibon sees flash storage driving revolutionary business change

By Bert Latamore Mar 30, 2015

Moving to an all-flash data center, in conjunction with a cloud-enabled converged architecture, can cut the typical large data center’s operations budget by one-third over the next five years (see graph at right), creating…

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Survey says Hadoop isn’t replacing data warehouses

By Maria Deutscher Mar 30, 2015

There is a reason why Hadoop has become the center of the analytics discussion. The framework can process more kinds of information and faster than traditional data warehouses at a fraction of the cost,…

Report: Boots U.K. rolls out iPads to store employees, takes advantage of IBM-Apple partnership

By Collen Kriel Mar 30, 2015

Almost nine months after Apple Inc. and IBM announced their partnership, U.K. pharmacy chain Boots has announced that it will issue store employees with iPads running customer service apps to attend to shoppers on…

IBM acquires technology from curated search engine Blekko to bolster Watson

By Collen Kriel Mar 30, 2015

Blekko Inc., the curated search engine, has been quiet over the last two years. Until Friday, the company hadn’t tweeted since December 2013 and there hasn’t been much more activity on its Facebook page…

Hello Barbie combines Barbie with Siri-like talking and conversation features

By Duncan Riley Mar 30, 2015

Services such as Apple Inc.’s Siri have for some revolutionized the way they interact with technology, replacing the need to type with voice controls, and users can even hold an basic conversation with the…

Pebble Time Kickstarter raised more than $20M with more than 95K watches pre-sold

By Collen Kriel Mar 29, 2015

On February 24, Pebble Technology Corp. again took to Kickstarter to crowdfund its latest product, the Pebble Time smartwatch. The Kickstarter campaign came to an end on February 27 and over the course of…

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Opportunity rover’s flash memory flops again

ClearStory Data beefs up Apache Spark-based analytics solution

British principals threaten parents with police for letting kids play violent games

What you missed in Big Data: Tapping the connected universe

Wikibon sees flash storage driving revolutionary business change

Survey says Hadoop isn’t replacing data warehouses

Report: Boots U.K. rolls out iPads to store employees, takes advantage of IBM-Apple partnership

Hello Barbie combines Barbie with Siri-like talking and conversation features

Pebble Time Kickstarter raised more than $20M with more than 95K watches pre-sold

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