Attunity takes aim at Syncsort with Hadoop replication tool
Attunity Ltd. is using the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 in New York this week to pull the curtains back on a new release of its core replication software that promises to make it…
Dorian Nakamoto wants Bitcoins to make Newsweek pay up
In March, Newsweek identified Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto as the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, but the man quickly denied the claims. Nakamoto insisted he did “not create, invent, or otherwise work on Bitcoin,” in an…
Need to rent a car? Get a good deal with Alipay
By Collen Kriel
Alipay is Alibaba Group Holding Limited’s electronic payment service and over the past year, it has transformed into a mobile payment tool. Smartphone users are able to use the payments app to pay for…
Tablet sales hits the skids in 2014: Gartner
By Collen Kriel
As Apple Inc looks to revive lagging tablet sales with the upcoming launch of the new iPad Air, Retina iMacs and possibly a new Retina iPad mini, Gartner today released its latest report showing…
Apple & Facebook will pay female workers to keep their eggs ‘in the basket’
Silicon Valley has long been a fertile hunting ground for top technology talents, but Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc., are putting a new spin on the meaning, by offering to freeze their female employees’…
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In seeding strategy, MapR bundles its database into free community edition
By Paul Gillin
In a February research report that analyzed Hadoop distributions from nine vendors, Forrester Research concluded that MapR Technologies, Inc. “has a leading solution; it must now make more noise in the market and accelerate…
Cloudera broadens appeal, targets hybrid clouds in major update
Cloudera Inc. is coming prepared to the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 in New York this week. The company fired the opening shot for the landmark conference last night with a volley of…
Say it with a ‘Qik’ video: Skype Qik is the latest video messaging app
By Collen Kriel
Yesterday Skype Technologies S.A. announced the launch of their latest app Skype Qik. This video messaging app is used alongside the main Skype app and is available on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Piero Sierra,…
SAP, IBM cozy up to offer HANA analytics on SoftLayer cloud
Enterprise giants IBM and SAP SE have announced a partnership to run SAP’s HANA in-memory data analytics platform atop Big Blue’s SoftLayer cloud infrastructure as well as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. HANA…
Investors flock to tiny device that promises online anonymity
A new gadget with the potential to strike terror into the hearts of online marketers has just set off a crowdfunding frenzy on Kickstarter. The Anonabox is a tiny, 2.4 inch by 1.6 inch…