Running The Country… There’s An App For That Too!
UK Prime Minster David Cameron, long known to be a keen iPad user, has volunteered to test drive a new app that helps aid his decision making and oversee the day-to-day affairs of government.…
Is It A Laptop? A Tablet? A Phone? No, It’s A Credit Card
Now this is a pretty cool thing – Mastercard has just released a new kind of credit card that features a built-in keyboard and an LCD display. The next-generation credit card, known as the…
Appcelerator’s 4th Acquisition Signals Ambitious Hadoop Plan
Appcelerator made its fourth buy in two years this week, with the acquisition of Nodeable, a small Hadoop startup with big ambitions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed A few months ago Nodeable…
Nate Silver’s Presidential Predictions Show Why You NEED Big Data
Now that the dust has settled and Barack Obama has landed safely behind his desk at the White House for another four years, we can finally see who the real winners and losers were…
BlackBerry 10 Cleared for US Ahead of Launch
In today’s mobile news roundup: BlackBerry 10 get U.S. security clearance ahead of launch; Microsoft Office app for iOS and Android; Lenovo set to rival top dogs in mobile industry; and network carriers to…
Keeping the Founders Around – Founders are Tech Athletes
By John Furrier
Founders are what I call “tech athletes”. Founders are the warriors who take the chances and big risks that no one will dare to take. In the world of venture capital, there’s a term…
Big Data for the Little Guys: Beyond the Fortune 100
Colin Shearer, the head of IBM’s advanced analytics business, took some time off during his company’s IOD conference last month to discuss IBM’s upcoming subscription-based analytics service with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Analytics Answers,…
IBM’s Stephen Gold Offers Insight into Watson’s Role in Big Data
IBM’s Watson changed the way people think about computers and technology when it successfully competed with real people on Jeopardy. Since then IBM has been working to bring Watson to more practical usage in…
Interview: How Nominum Makes DNS Data Work for the Enterprise
Daniel Blasingame, the general manager for Nominum’s embedded solutions business, recently stopped by theCube at IBM’s annual Information On Demand (IOD) event to discuss the connection between DNS and big data with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante…
Hortonworks an “Opportunity for Transformational Change” Says Cunitz
Herb Cunitz, the new president of HortonWorks, is an Open Source veteran. A sales and marketing team builder and leader, he was head of worldwide field operations for SpringSource. When VMware acquired the development…