More alternatives to Facebook Rooms
Last week social networking giant Facebook Inc. launched Rooms, a new chat app available for iOS that lets users create their own rooms based on topics. Each room is highly customizable, and signing up…
IBM is good for investors who want to go long, says analyst | #ibminsight
Every 20 years IBM goes through a transition, according to Ray Wang, the principal analyst, founder and chairman of Constellation Research. The company’s current transition revolves around shutting down hardware and focusing on…
Media is “data-driven in every way” for this TV network | #ibminsight
Media is data-driven in every way, according to Tim Moran, director of Interactive Sales at WNEP-TV / WNEP.com. His company leverages data to “tailor customer experiences” to drive views and advertising campaigns. Right now…
Verizon Wireless uses invisible code to track mobile customers
For the last two years, Verizon Wireless has been secretly tracking its customers online by adding tokens or ‘permacookies’ to web requests made over its cellular network. The data is used to build profiles…
A peek into the future of storage: Snapshots for accurate analytics | #ibminsight
What will the next wave of enterprise storage look like? Catalogic Software offers a peek into the future with its recently launched Copy Data Management Software Platform (CDMSP). The update represents the future because…
Twitter shares plan for world domination as user growth slows
By Eric David
Twitter is doing well financially, but their current growth in registered users has been a bit disappointing. That’s according to Twitter’s Q3 Earning Report, which shows that the social network has seen less than 5…
No shoes, no shirt, no Twitch streaming
By Eric David
In a move to improve its reputation, popular video game live-streaming service Twitch.tv updated its rules to include a dress code that effectively bans streamers who dress provocatively. Twitch explains the new dress code on its Rules…
Early upgrade for unlimited storage with OneDrive: Microsoft prices take on Google, Dropbox
All Office 365 subscribers will receive unlimited OneDrive storage for free, Microsoft Corp. announced this morning, putting an end to the previous 1 terabyte limit. In the coming months any home, personal or university…
Oracle analytics exec says Big Data market is coming his firm’s way | #BigDatNYC
With the evolution of Hadoop, the industry has shifted its attention from the technical details under the hood to ways in which the batch processing platform can help address tangible business problems. The vendor…
SwiftStack raises $16 million to mobilize OpenStack for unstructured data
OpenStack continues to draw interest from the venture capital community, with SwiftStack Inc. raising $16 million on Monday to make the cloud operating system more attractive for ingesting the vast amounts of unstructured data pouring…