Microsoft rumor mill: New update & cloud-based OS on the way?
Microsoft is going hell for leather to get people to like its Windows 8.1 operating system, and to that end it’s said to be planning yet another update for this fall. One of the…
VMware gains momentum with expectation-busting Q1 earnings
VMware has once again shown us there’s an absolute fortune to be made in the world of virtualization, reporting analyst-busting revenues in its earnings call yesterday. The Palo Alto-based virtualization giant announced sales of…
OpenBSD wants to mop up ‘Heartbleed’ with LibreSSL fork
There’s been a lot of talk about fixing OpenSSL to prevent a Heartbleed-like situation from ever arising again, and now software developers are intent on taking matters into their own hands. One question that’s…
A look at Cisco’s new Managed Threat Defense Service
Cisco today announced its new Managed Threat Defense Service, a managed security solution designed to help customers defend themselves from the modern threat landscape. The new service was designed in response to the many significant…
Open source productivity suite OpenOffice reaches 100 million downloads in less than two years
By Saroj Kar
Apache Software Foundation has announced that OpenOffice has passed the milestone of 100 million downloads in less than two years since it became one of the main projects of the foundation. The productivity suite…
Spotify abandoning P2P in favor of a more traditional dedicated architecture
By Saroj Kar
When the music service Spotify debuted in 2008 it made use of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to deliver songs and since then it has been technological workhorse for millions of subscribers; however, the company will…
Wearable tech market gets patents, funding as Nike shies away
A new category comes to SiliconANGLE’s Smart World Series – Smart Health. This issue will focus on how the Internet of Things is reshaping people’s health with innovative wearable devices and applications, as well…
Hortonworks boosts Concurrent team up for Big Data applications
The elusive promise of the Big Data app economy has inched a little closer to reality on Monday after Hortonworks expanded its partnership with Concurrent to package the startup’s Cascading development framework into its…
The academic + corporate perspectives on Big Data education : Cloudera goes to school
Cloudera may have received a hefty investment from Intel, a move that validated Big Data efforts and cloud-driven service models for an emerging market, yet the platform provider is continuing to make significant investments…
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Americans don’t trust marketers to guard their private data
By Paul Gillin
Amid all the excitement about the revolutionary potential of Big Data, it’s worth remembering that not everyone agrees that micro segmentation and one-to-one marketing are such great things. A pair of new research studies…