Google Gets Frommer’s, Rivals Get Mad
There’s just no stopping Google in its bid to become the world’s number one travel agent. Hot on the heels of its purchase of restaurant review site Zagat last year, the search engine giant…
The Indian TV Show That’s Making Waves With Big Data
There’s a new phenomenon taking Indian TV by storm at the moment. Satyamev Jayate, which has amassed a staggering 400 million viewers a week in just 13 episodes, would rightly make the headlines for…
Intel Teams with Chinese Orgs in Open Source Cloud League
Intel is serious about getting China involved in OpenStack development. To further that cause, the chip manufacturer has teamed up with a variety of Chinese organizations to form the China Open Source Cloud League.…
Symantec Infuses Cluster File System with Hadoop
Symantec announced today that it has created an add-on for its Cluster File System that leverages the power of Apache Hadoop to analyze big data for enterprise customers. Symantec has called in Hortonworks to…
Teambox: New Features Just a Week after Funding
Teambox is a relatively new player in the already overcrowded collaboration space, and it’s on a roll. Just a few days after its seed funding round the company updated its platform with several new…
Microsoft Too Can Get Hip with MAKER Culture but It’s Weak MAKE-fu
By Kyt Dotson
Innovation is a fleeting firefly chased by every company and corporation, but often its an ideal arising out of a sudden leap forward by an individual and not part of the everyday grind. In…
Actian Wants to Pay $140M for Pervasive, Not Working Out So Far
Pervasive Software offers software and services for big data application development, including a cloud platform, a database solution and even documentation brokerage. New this week is news that the firm received an unsolicited buyout…
Hadoop for Big Data in Cloud is Inevitable, Says MapR
The use of Hadoop to manage big data in the cloud has gained momentum in recent times, but according to MapR, the choice to use it is not just a possibility; it is an…
Hewlett-Packard’s Massive Job Cuts Won’t Affect India
Back in May hardware giant HP announced plans to cut 8 percent of its global workforce, or 27,000 employees, by 2014. We ranked it as one of the worse tech layoffs in 2012, right…
Hacking as a Lucrative Play: Malicious Hackers Making Over $10,000 a Week
By Isha Suri
Why do you think why hackers are Lulzsec and Sabu are so active in their cyber attack activities? Is this just to satisfy their zeal for outraging someone’s privacy, or something else? Well, it’s…