Amazon Fire TV vs. Chromecast, Apple TV and Roku 3
Amazon officially introduced the Fire TV this week, a small black box for streaming media to your TV, which only costs $99. Aside from streaming media, you can also use the device to mirror…
“What we did right was something different and honest.” Blueshift founder on wireless speaker design
Wireless technology is one of the most significant contributors towards widespread adoption of smart home technology, lowering the barriers and costs involved in connecting just a room or an entire home. Instead of paying…
Join us live April 9th: CrowdChat Q&A with Kevin Freeman, economic cyber-attack expert | #SecretWeapon
It’s the message few want to hear and few have even heard of. According to author Kevin Freeman’s book Secret Weapon, cyber Attacks have been traced to the greatest financial stresses that have affected…
Nest’s new fire alarm goes up in smoke
Nest Labs, the creator of the Learning Thermostat, has issued an advisory informing users of the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm that there’s a crucial flaw in the device’s flagship feature. According…
End of support for Windows XP can’t come soon enough for the BOSS
Everyone’s getting worked up about the coming end of support for Windows XP and the expense this might involve, but over in India they’ve come up with a very simple solution to this problem.…
Google’s secret plan to dominate wearable tech?
Google announced at the end of March that this year’s I/O event registration would be done differently, no longer offering tickets on a first-come-first-serve basis. Instead, I/O will open a registration period from 5:00am PDT…
How WANdisco enables Big Data in geographically distributed organizations | #BigDataSV
There’s a lot of excitement around Hadoop, but at present only a portion of operational clusters are in production, due primarily to a lack of enterprise features such as disaster recovery and continuous availability.…
Brendan Eich’s departure shows us why Mozilla isn’t nearly as ‘open & tolerant’ as it claims
And so embattled Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has finally thrown in the towel, resigning from the job he only took up last month. His decision to quit followed an uproar over his controversial backing…
No foolin’ for Big Data : Cloudera, Intel + Pivotal make waves
By Ryan Cox
Even April Fools Day was overshadowed this week by a few milestone Big Data announcements, the first being Cloudera’s massive fundraising round of $900 million; $740 million of which came from Intel for a…
Microsoft woos developers with Visual Studio Online
Microsoft has finally realized that there’s a growing crowd of developers and techies who just don’t do Windows anymore. Case in point – last week’s rebranding of Windows Azure, now called Microsoft Azure. If…