Apple Soon to Launch iPhone Trade-in Program
If you’re tired of your old iPhone but do not have enough cash to go get yoursekf an iPhone 5 just yet, you might just want to take a look at Apple’s new trade-in…
Accenture Scores Former HP Labs Boss Prith Banerjee
Accenture revealed that it has hired IT superstar Prith Banerjee to head its research and development arm, which “looks at the future of enterprise IT and makes recommendations for how companies can take advantage…
LIVE: Cloudera Search Tries to be Google Search for Hadoop & Big Data
By Ryan Cox
On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we discuss how Cloudera is attempting to build a ‘Google search’ for Big Data. Hadoop is an open…
LIVE: Why PRISM is Just the First of Many Private User Data Balls to Drop
By Ryan Cox
On today’s SiliconANGLE Live NewsDesk Show, (see live feed below or visit youtube.com/siliconangle to watch on-demand), we learn about the government spying program PRISM where it was reported that Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo…
Trust In Twitter: They Won’t Grass You Up To The NSA… Yet
Looking at the list of nine US tech firms that are alleged to be participating in the NSA’s vast surveillance gathering program PRISM, there’s one notable omission – Twitter is not on the list.…
Lenovo Chief Targets Push in Servers, Storage and Smartphones
The world’s second biggest PC maker Lenovo is setting its sights on the server, storage and smartphone business as it looks to expand its horizons in the post-PC era. In an interview with the…
Panzura Ready to Scale Early Success with Open Frameworks, Raises $25M for Application Network Storage
Panzura, a Campbell, California-based provider of enterprise cloud technology, just announced that it has closed a $25 million funding round led by late-stage investor Meritech Capital Partners. Existing backers Matrix Partners, Khosla Ventures, Opus…
NSA Secretly Mining Data From Google, Apple, Facebook & Others
It’s worse than we thought. Just 24 hours after it first exposed how the NSA was secretly tapping phone call metadata from Verizon, The Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post have revealed the existence…
Splunk Predates Big Data, Can Derive Meaning from Minecraft, and It Can Save Lives Too
Another big name in the tech industry that we had the chance to interview at O’Reilly Fluent Conference was Paul Sanford, GM for Products, Developer Platform & Windows at Splunk.
TechEd 2013: Microsoft Announces Broad Product Revisions
By Scott Lowe
If you’re not following TechEd 2013, you’re missing some pretty big announcements from Microsoft. This week, Microsoft announced major updates across many of its product lines. While the coming updates may not hold the…