Don’t Stuff your Big Data in a Woman’s Handbag
All kinds of businesses are looking to get into the Big Data game, but a worryingly high number of them are doing so without fully understanding what they’re getting themselves into. It’s one thing…
Samsung and SK Take Aim at Apple with Licensing Agreement
Samsung and SK Hynix, two of the largest memory chip manufacturers in the world, recently entered a cross-licensing agreement that will have broad implications beyond the realm of copyright law. SiliconANGLE Senior Managing Editor…
Your Metadata: Here’s What It Can Reveal About You
One of the most oft-heard claims to come out of officials mouths since this whole NSA-PRISM thing first became public knowledge is that the spooks are ‘only’ collecting metadata, rather than reading the content…
What Can You Do With Too Much Of A Good Thing?
IT departments at the end of the last decade operated with the same reckless abandon as the homesteaders of the 1889 land rush, seeking to grab up as much cloud storage capability as their…
Data Incognito: Securing The Cloud
The week is rare that doesn’t see a headline on internet privacy and security with a story underneath detailing how another breach has compromised user data. It turns out, however, not every privacy/security story…
Smart Fashion for the Self-Quantified : New Wave of Wearable Tech
There are a lot of ways to start living a healthy life. You can go about it the traditional way, watching what you eat and start exercising. But with all the hustle and bustle…
Windows that Talk to Sleepy Passengers Coming to Sky-Deutschland Trains
By Kyt Dotson
Here’s a direction I didn’t quite expect bone-conduction audio to go—that is, a technology that enables audio devices to use human bones as resonators to play sounds (this technology would be good for hearing…
Does This Boxee Make Me Look Frustrated???
For a Friday after a national holiday, the web has certainly been abuzz about Samsung ponying up an undetermined amount of cash to purchase the New York-based start-up Boxee. The company, currently in its…
Why Developers Are Not Happy with App Marketing?
By Isha Suri
A survey conducted by Beijing-based Papaya Mobile revealed that over 70 percent of developers are not happy with their current options for app marketing and advertising. The survey was conducted among 1022 developers, big,…
VMware’s Iron Grip on the Market is Starting to Slip
More than 60 percent of all applications run in virtualized environments, and yet the hypervisor is no longer at the center of attention. Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman explained why in a recent interview…