Big Data’s Getting Bigger in Asia
What with many of Asia’s countries still not quite having reached first-world status yet, many companies in the region can be a bit slow to adopt new technologies. Yet there’s one innovation that Asian…
ServicesAngle News Briefs for 1 July 2013
Jordanian Bank Chooses IBM to Transform Customer Experience The Jordan Ahli Bank has chosen IBM to modernize its core banking systems to meet new standards of customer service and support business expansion. IBM is…
Waterproof Smartphone Review: Samsung Galaxy S4 Active vs. Sony Xperia ZR
A recent report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech states that in Europe, previous users of Samsung devices, specifically the Galaxy SII, upgraded to a Sony Xperia Z rather than another Samsung device such as the…
ICANN To Require Verification to Register New Web Domains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, has announced plans to make domain registrars more accountable for those who sign up and register internet domains.…
Geeky Grillmaster Gadgets + Fireworks Tips for July 4
Get your steaks, ribs, hotdogs, burger patties, corn, and hotdog buns ready, ‘coz it’s time to fire up the grill for this year’s Fourth of July celebration. July 4th, considered the National Day for the…
Firefox Phone OS Opens Up & Transhumanist Headphones – SiliconANGLE News Roundup
Your ZTE is Open The world’s first Firefox OS phone, the ZTE Open, will launch tomorrow, and be available for less than a hundred dollars. The announcement came in the form of a…
Bytes Sized: Putting Big Data into Perspective
To say that information technology has come a long way in the past few four decades would be an understatement. On Visual.ly, a San Francisco-based startup that connects data experts, designers and marketing professionals,…
The First Firefox OS Phone Has Just Arrived, Look Out Android!
Last February at the Mobile World Congress we saw a clutch of mobile phone carriers pledge support for Mozilla’s Firefox OS, its new HTML-5- based open web mobile platform that it hopes will have…
Sony Catches up with Samsung in Europe, Android Still Dominates Mobile Market
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech today released figures revealing that Samsung continues to dominate the smartphone market in Europe. For three months up to May 2013, the numbers showed that almost half of the smartphones sold…
Hadoop 2.0 + YARN Will Enable New Workloads : Hadoop Summit 2013 Review
For the last interview of our Hadoop Summit 2013 coverage, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante talked to John Kreisa, VP Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks, asking him what transpired from this event, what…