Nadella says focus is on mobile and cloud
Now that Satya Nadella is getting comfortable behind his new desk at Microsoft, the world is eager to see what the new CEO plans to do with the company, and most especially in the…
Apple declares war on Bitcoin, but it’s a war that it’s destined to lose
Apple is now officially an enemy of Bitcoin. The world’s most valuable company has just launched another salvo in its war against the cryptocurrency, banning the popular Bitcoin wallet Blockchain from its app store…
Amazon acquires Double Helix Games: Android-based console coming soon?
Amazon has confirmed the acquisition of Double Helix Games for both its talent and intellectual property. “Amazon has acquired Double Helix as part of our ongoing commitment to build innovative games for customers,” Amazon…
Cisco takes on the Internet of Things with “fog computing”
At last week’s DistribuTECH summit in San Antonio, Cisco revealed what its Internet of Things division has been up to since forming in October. The routing kingpin introduced a distributed computing architecture called IOx…
Consumable Big Data : Cloudera repackages + adds Spark support
Cloudera this week delivered on its October promise to provide a centralized enterprise analytics platform with a major portfolio overhaul that introduces three new offerings and support for the fast-growing Apache Spark project. Hailed…
Smart car intercommunication key to preventing collisions
This week’s SmartCar roundup features an app that connects your car to your home, a milestone for the youngest car manufacturer in the US, and a long term plan by Ford that demonstrates what…
Look Back: 10 ways Facebook has changed our lives
Yesterday, Facebook celebrated its 10th birthday with a nice-somewhat-cheesy Look Back video. But rather than have one video showing you Facebook’s history, the video recalls your own. It lets you see your first ever…
20th Century Fox: From traditional to converged infrastructure in 6 months
John Herbert, EVP and CIO at 20th Century Fox, and HP President and CEO Meg Whitman, discussed the partnership of the two companies as part of the HP Discover keynote presentation, a Hewlett-Packard event…
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 February 5th: BitTag for retail, BTC China back in the game, USPS looks into cryptocurrency exchange
By Kyt Dotson
The Bitcoin community is still processing the New York Department of Financial Services hearings from last week but there’s a still a lot of other news running around the media that’s worth mentioning. Right…
Syncsort certifies Big Data integration engine for HDP 2.0
Syncsort, a 43-year old software firm that helps enterprises extract business information from their aging mainframes and bring that data into Hadoop without having to jump through hoops, has extended its partnership with Hortonworks…