Apple Watch vs other luxury smartwatches
Apple has finally revealed the pre-order date for the long awaited Apple Watch, starting April 10, while retail availability starts on April 24. You can’t deny that the Apple Watch looks good. Even the…
What you missed in the Smart World: Drone infiltration, issues with sleep trackers
This week’s Smart World Series features drones infiltrating the enterprise, a connected smart lamp, the problem with using sleep trackers, billion in smart city investment, new smartwatches launched at MWC and new development tools…
With another startup buy, SugarCRM CEO shares integration philosophy
CRM solutions company SugarCRM Inc. has acquired Stitch, a personal assistant app for salespeople that “helps them work smarter.” Stitch offers technologies that increase individual productivity by making personalized recommendations to users based on…
Where the mainframe meets Big Data: How Syncsort optimizes Hadoop | #BigDataSV
By Saroj Kar
Syncsort continues its quest for the Big Data market. At the recently concluded BigDataSV event, Tendu Yogurtcu, Big Data GM for Syncsort, spoke with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly about development around Hadoop…
The Texas film industry is tired of sharing tax incentives with video games
By Eric David
Many states offer tax incentives to movie makers in order to draw a small piece of the film industry away from Hollywood, along with the prestige and economy boost that come with it. This was…
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Wikibon: Hadoop needs comprehensive security to succeed in enterprise markets
Hadoop security is fragmented and immature, and until this changes few Hadoop-based projects will move into production, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. Wikibon’s Big Data Analytics Adoption Survey, 2014-2015, found that security…
Hyperconnectivity startup SimpliVity raises $175 million Series D
By Duncan Riley
Hyperconnectivity startup SimpliVity Inc. has raised $175 million Series D in a round led by Waypoint Capital that included previous investors Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Growth…
Pro-ISIS Facebook knockoff “5elafaBook” lasted about a day
By Eric David
With mainstream social media sites like Facebook and Twitter blocking groups involved with acts of terrorism, supporters of the Islamic State decided to create their own alternative. The site was called 5elafabook.com – pronounced Khelafabook,…
10+ apps ready for Apple Watch when it goes on sale in April
By Collen Kriel
Apple Inc. released the Apple WatchKit SDK in November and since then developers have been hard at work readying their apps for the wearable. Some high-profile developers were even invited to a secret Apple…
Apple Watch: early reactions from analysts and the fashion conscious
By Collen Kriel
As was expected, Apple Inc. released more details about the Apple Watch at yesterday’s event. Among the details we learnt the price –starting at $349 all the way up to, and possibly over, $17,000…