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Tween Girls Would Rather Play Games Online than Talk on the Phone

By Saroj Kar Aug 20, 2012

We all know teen girls run the commercial world, and now they’ve all but taken over online gaming. Newzoo, the international full service market research and consulting firm completely focused on the games industry,…

Motorola Files New Patent Claims Against Apple

By Mellisa Tolentino Aug 20, 2012

Today’s mobile news roundup features: Motorola filing new patent claim against Apple; Apple-Samsung trial nears end; HTC’s $40M investment loss; and Eva Restaurant offering discounts for checking your phone at the door. Motorola files…

Google’s Dremel: Here Comes A New Challenger To YARN/Hadoop

By Matt Weinberger Aug 20, 2012

YARN – the fledgling next-gen MapReduce subproject to the incredibly popular Apache Hadoop big data platform – may already have some competition as Dremel, an analytics platform borne in Google’s labs, picks up steam,…

This Week in Big Data: Symantec’s Hadoop Play, the Presidential Race and More

By Maria Deutscher Aug 19, 2012

There were a few big updates coming out of the big data ecosystem this week. Symantec upped its investment in analytics by launching an add-on for its Cluster File System that works with HortonWorks’…

Big Data: The Good, Bad and Ugly

By Aug 18, 2012

It isn’t often that a confluence of news stories leads to an editorial epiphany, as it has this week. Good epiphanies are hard to find; I’m lucky if I get one or two a…

Storing Data as DNA, Harvard Researchers Say Test Tubes Can Contain “the whole Internet”

By Kathryn Buford Aug 18, 2012

Test tube data. It may sound strange, now, but genomics researcher and serial entrepreneur, George Church, told the Wall Street Journal encoding data in DNA “could be the wave of the future” for archives.…

The Public and the Personal Cloud in the Spotlight This Week

By Maria Deutscher Aug 18, 2012

VMworld 2012 is coming later this month, and VMware is already starting to up its cloud play to give customers plenty to talk about ahead of the gathering. This week the virtualization firm unveiled…

How IBM’s Acquisition of Texas Memory Affects the Too-Hot Flash Market

By Maria Deutscher Aug 18, 2012

IBM acquired the privately-held Texas Memory Systems in a move that could drive the other big vendors to dive right into the flash scene. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TMS is a…

Big Data’s Biggest Investors

By Anthony Coln Aug 18, 2012

With the growth in popularity of Big Data on the scene, it is no surprise that venture capitalists are now turning their attention to the field. Existing companies are realizing the value of the…

“All media fails, but Cloud backup is forever,” A Trip Down Memory Lane for Storage Media [Infographic]

By Kathryn Buford Aug 17, 2012

However, popular new forms of storage media become, affording ease of use, portability and data security, they have their challenges and, ultimately, become “a useless piece of plastic, tape or metal.” Crashplan’s recent infographic,…

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Google’s Dremel: Here Comes A New Challenger To YARN/Hadoop

This Week in Big Data: Symantec’s Hadoop Play, the Presidential Race and More

Storing Data as DNA, Harvard Researchers Say Test Tubes Can Contain “the whole Internet”

How IBM’s Acquisition of Texas Memory Affects the Too-Hot Flash Market

Big Data’s Biggest Investors

“All media fails, but Cloud backup is forever,” A Trip Down Memory Lane for Storage Media [Infographic]

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