6 Alternatives to the Dying Google Reader
If you’re active on the interwebs, there’s a huge chance you use Google Reader – Google’s content aggregator to help you manage web feeds and stay on top of all things digital. But not…
Searching for Dark Data
By Guest Author
We live in a highly connected world where every digital interaction spawns chain reactions of unfathomable data creation. The rapid explosion of text messaging, emails, video, digital recordings, smartphones, RFID tags and those ever-growing…
Healthy Big Data: Mapping The Kumbh Mela
Big Data meets the biggest gathering of humanity in the world. That’s the most apt description for Harvard University’s study of the 2013 Kumbh Mela anyhow. The university’s South Asia Institute has sent a…
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 11, 2013
IBM Names Kenya’s MoDe Global Entrepreneur of the Year Kenya’s MoDe, which provides instant nano-credit and for pre-paid mobile phone users across the African continent, has been named the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the…
Brit Watchdogs Sniff Out More Details on Troubled HP-Autonomy Buy
The Financial Reporting Council, the British accounting watchdog, will be investigating the financial report of cloud service provider Autonomy before it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2011. The FRC’s investigations will include financial accounts…
Issues with iOS 6.1 Update Uncover BYOD Woes
The little matter of mobile OS fragmentation is trivialized for most Apple users, freed from the staggered updates that roll through Android devices seemingly with the wind. It’s been one of the perks of…
Yandex Surpasses Bing In Search Engine Wars
Bing just got bitch-slapped. Despite Microsoft’s very best efforts in attempting to claw back Google’s overwhelming lead in web search, stepping up its “Scroogled” campaign and integrating Bing apps with its new Office platform,…
Top Skills for Cloud, Mobile and IT Jobs in 2013
By Saroj Kar
The economic recovery is proceeding at an unstable pace, but the emphasis on cost reduction that dominated the IT agenda in recent years now shares the stage with more imperative and interesting innovations. Despite…
RIOT: The Big Data Social Tracking Tool From Hell
Another day, another surveillance tool that falls into our laps. Only this one seems to be getting a few more pairs of knickers in a twist than usual, because not only can it track…
Apple Making a Siri Watch, Summonsed by Australian Parliament for Price Fixing
In today’s mobile news roundup: Apple supposedly developing a new device called the iWatch; Samsung and Apple may finally settle their patent dispute; several tech companies summoned to explain price fixing in Australia; Apple…