Samsung Snubs Windows RT, Says it’s “Too Confusing”
Samsung has just given Microsoft the big thumbs down, announcing that it’s cancelled plans to release a Windows RT version of its upcoming Ativ Tab in the US, saying that the operating system is…
The Big ‘Big Data’ Sale is Coming Soon!
No one said that storing big data would be cheap, but soon the costs of doing so will become so excessive that more than a third of businesses doing so will be forced to…
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 11, 2013
VMware Releases Horizon Workspace App VMware has released an app to provide secure, anywhere access to files and applications from iPhones and iPad Touch PDAs. The free Horizon Workspace App is part of the…
Cheap iPhone Rumors Continue, RIM Suffers Another Blackout
In today’s mobile news roundup: Cheap iPhone rumors continue to draw attention; RIM suffers another service blackout; and Nokia decrypts data in Xpress Browser but tells users not to worry. Cheap iPhone rumors continue…
HP Opens New Facility to Accelerate In-Memory Analytics
Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of a new Center of Excellence that develops best practices for HANA and the SAP Business Suite, a catalog of applications built on top of the analytics engine. “To succeed,…
Stats, Acquisitions and Security This Week in Big Data
No one is questioning that the analytics industry is growing like crazy, but the specific figures are up for dispute. To be more specific, IDC recently released a big data market report that predicted…
EU Gets Tough On Google, Will Force It To Change Search Results
Google may be forced to change the way it presents its services and search results in the EU, after the European Union’s anti-trust commissioner said that he believed the search engine was abusing its…
Big Data Making Waves In The Fight Against Somali Pirates
Law enforcement agencies around the world are learning to anticipate criminal behavior by studying millions of invisible clues hiding in the big data spectrum. We’ve already seen how local police forces have done this,…
Did CES Get Its Mojo Back in 2013?
As with most popular events, CES has become arguably “lame” in recent years. Over-hyped, over-covered and over-attended. But this year brought a fresh spin to CES as connected gadgets finally found their calling as…
‘Game Changer’ – Glowing Reviews of Microsoft’s Surface Pro are Rolling In
David Pogue of the New York Times Technology blog has given a glowing review of the upcoming Microsoft Surface Pro. Titled ‘Microsoft’s Surface Pro Tablet Changes the Game’ his hands-on walk-through of the product…