Baidu’s Bigger, Better And Faster Mobile Experience
China’s got a well deserved reputation for being one of the biggest copycats of them all, but that doesn’t mean it lacks the capability to innovate. As Baidu has shown recently with a number…
Hadoop’s Performance Increases with the Help of Zettaset and GridIron
By Amber Harris
GridIron Systems and Zettaset have joined forces to create a reference for virtual Hadoop clusters, using Flash to enhance the effectiveness of inter-node communications. Hadoop users will be provided with “an efficient, pre-configured alternative…
Bruce Willis Goes Thermonuclear on iTunes, Sues Apple Over Terms?
Today’s mobile news roundup features: Bruce Willis’ plan to sue Apple over iTunes T&C; Apple adding the Galaxy SIII to patent infringement complaint; Samsung auditing China suppliers; and Nokia’s teaser video. Bruce Willis to…
Node.js Central to Nodester Buy, Boost for AppFog
In a post on the Nodester blog, AppFog chief exec Lucas Carlson announced that his company has acquired the Node.js PaaS. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AppFog already supports Node as well…
Microsoft Puts it Weight behind Office 2013, On Demand with Full-Feature Access
Microsoft’s Office suite is the most widely used productivity software in the world, but the cloud is biting bigger and bigger chunks out of its market share as the role of the desktop gradually…
Judgement Day Beckons: Scientists Grow ‘Light-Activated’ Muscle Tissue For Robots
Robots are pretty advanced these days, but could the kind of futuristic, life-like androids that we see in Terminator and Blade Runner one day become a reality? Up until now, the idea of creating…
Mobile Takeover, Hollywood Style
These days, most people are toting smart phones and/or iPads, checking them incessantly (remember the prevalence of BlackBerry Thumb late last decade?), and accessing entertainment on these devices. Netflix streams, Flash is dead, and…
This Week in Big Data: New Software, and An Analytics-Ready Mainframe
There were a few major developments this week, three of which were product launches. The most significant of these may have been Pervasive’s DataRush debut, a software solution that could help enterprise boost Hadoop…
This Week in the Cloud: VMworld, Cloud Lockers and OpenStack
This week’s biggest highlight by far was VMworld, one of the most popular trade shows in the industry. The big emphasis this year was on the software-driven data center and simplicity, and both VMware…
AI On The Rise: Defeating CAPTCHA, Combating Fruit Flies, Traffic Control Teaching Assistants
By Cherr Aira
Artificial intelligence is on the road to breaking the whole CAPTCHA system. The question that follows is: how are we going to prove we are humans then? According to a Forbes.com article, hackers who…