Coinapult eliminates Bitcoin volatility with ‘Locks’
One of the biggest hindrances in the wide adoption of Bitcoin is its price volatility. No one wants to invest, say $1,000, today and have that value drop by tomorrow. But neither has anyone…
Red Hat teams up with 64-bit ARM server vendors
Red Hat has moved a little closer to being able to support ARM-based servers by kicking off a new partner program for 64-bit ARM data center vendors. Called the Red Hat ARM Partner Early…
Analytics market consolidation continues as Ericsson, Novetta target new prospects
Data analytics is shaking up even seemingly mature markets as vendors see new avenues of growth enabled by the Internet of Things and cloud services. Swedish telecommunications equipment maker LM Ericsson is buying MetraTech Corp.,…
Pivotal team-up with Hortonworks seen as no threat to HP’s investment
Pivotal Software, Inc. said Monday that it will collaborate with Hortonworks, Inc. on the open source Apache Ambari project. Hortonworks currently uses Ambari for Hadoop monitoring and management. Other contributors to Apache Ambari include…
China probes Microsoft: More Middle Kingdom misery for Redmond
Microsoft has been placed under investigation in China for possible breaches of anti-monopoly laws, according to various media reports. China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) posted a statement to its website on…
The CDO vapor is solidifying into enterprise reality | #MITCDOIQ
Twelve months ago, predicting that the role of the CIO in its present form may eventually be replaced by a chief data officer (CDO), tasked not with managing systems but rather the information stored…
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 31: Blockchain.info returns to iOS App Store, Ben Lawsky’s “BitLicense” shredded, Coinsetter launches, Stradivarius violin traded for bitcoin
By Kyt Dotson
The long-term drought of Bitcoin-related apps in the iOS App Store is coming to an end after Apple changed its terms of service to be friendlier to apps that trade in virtual currency. The…
All-access medical app delivers prescriptions via smartwatch
This week’s Smart Health roundup features a new and improved mobile health service, a smart tag to keep Fido safe, and an app to fight childhood obesity. HealthTap Prime HealthTap Inc., an interactive health…
DARPA-backed project aims to dramatically cut WAN provisioning times
Despite the tremendous progress made in recent years on injecting more programmability into the stack, the wide-area network (WAN) remains a universal bottleneck that affects companies and cloud service providers equally. While companies like…
Universities are training CDOs, yet organizations can’t keep them | #MITIQ
The conversations around the emerging Chief Data Officer (CDO) role, what it should entail, and the subsequent interest shown by enterprise organizations led to a pivotal decision by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to…