Microsoft’s Surface tablets ‘touch down’ on the NFL sidelines
NFL players and coaches alike will no longer need to sit on the sidelines twiddling their thumbs if Microsoft has its way. The software giant has just agreed a deal to provide every NFL…
Symantec: Wearables can be hacked to track workouts and even sexual activity
Here’s some jarring news for those who love to automatically tweet and track their exercise, sleep and sex routines. Adherents of “quantified self” might learn more about themselves, but they’re also making it possible…
Researchers claim Google can predict the stock market
A group of British researchers believes they can harness the power of Wikipedia and Google searches to predict where the economy is going. The research comes just a few months after Google Search’s Big…
What you missed in Big Data: orchestration and security
Seven years after its creation at Yahoo, Hadoop has proven itself amongst the most efficient solutions for storing vast amounts of unstructured information on the market, now finding its way into enterprise products. Hortonworks…
Future role of the CIO will focus on business optimization | #MITCDOIQ
By Rose Meadows
The CIO of a major health care firm speculated last week that the CIO job itself could disappear over the next 10 years, with responsibility accruing to the emerging role of Chief Data Officer.…
Software that keeps employees happy, automates deployments faster
This week’s Smart IT roundup features a new program to keep employees in the loop, a virtual machine that reduces automated deployment time, and the state of software-defined data centers. Klick Health’s Genome …
The ‘father of data warehousing’ moves on to bigger things | #MITCDOIQ
The “father of the data warehouse” hasn’t talked data warehousing in a decade. Instead, Bill Inmon is tackling the thorny problem of making the 80 percent of corporate data that’s in unstructured form easily available…
Report: SDN landscape divided among fast-moving majority and cautious pragmatics
The ability to provision network resources at the push of a bottom and upgrade the underlying infrastructure without worrying about compatibility issues may seem like a distant dream for practitioners today, but a new…
Twitter notes sharp rise in government requests for user data
Twitter has just released its latest transparency report, revealing a 50 percent rise in the number of user data requests over the last six months. A total of 54 governments made requests for data…
Stellar debuts with a bang, gives away digital currency for free
There’s a new kind of cryptocash in town going by the name of “Stellar”, but unlike other digital monies, it plays well with both existing ones and regular fiat currencies. What’s more, it’s giving…