Your Favorite iPhone 5 Rumors: Readers’ Picks
Some of you may already be sick of reading about iPhone 5 rumors, but we just can’t get enough. But even if the rumors are better than what Apple releases, I’m sure we’ll see…
Budget Squeeze and Big Data Dreams: CIOs Struggle with Services Shift
CIOs are struggling with the impact of cloud services according to the results of the inaugural Wikibon/ServicesAngle IT Transformation survey, but the largest problem is not the obvious one. Over the past year, writes…
Trapit Tops This Week’s Business Tablet App Roundup
Trapit is an AI coupled with a newspaper app that aggregates content that the user is interested in from around the web and not just from social networks. This is where the artificial intelligence…
The Cloud is Still Big, and so is Cloud Piracy
The Business Software Alliance and research firm Ipsos Public Affairs published a report about the state of cloud services in the consumer space and within the enterprise. The study polled 15,000 computer users in…
This Week in Big Data: Social Data, Visualization and Log Management
There were a few interesting analytics-related updates this week, starting with Salesforce’s new service. The popular SaaS provider debuted Radian6 Insights, a tool that promises to analyze social media data and present it in…
Do You Trust Facebook or a Grocery Store with your Data?
By Saroj Kar
Despite the rise of Facebook, the fact remains that companies like Google, Amazon generate more confidence with consumers. At least that’s what a recent a report says, by location-based marketing firm Placecast, conducted online…
Google Acquires Sparrow Mac/iOS Mail Client, Gmail Integration Coming
Google has announced the acquisition of Sparrow, the developers of the highly popular e-mail client for Apple OS X and iOS, as the search giant (presumably) moves to revamp its approach to mobile Gmail.…
YouTube Presents Face Blurring Tool, Helps Activists Protect Identity
By Isha Suri
Google recently announced that it will now be offering a face blurring tool for the video uploads on YouTube. While this has been done while taking activists and citizen journalists into consideration, the tool…
Dell Puts Aside $60M for Big Data Storage Startups
Michael Dell was one of the speakers at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, and he elaborated on the newest element of his company’s storage company. Dell is evolving. The hardware vendor, which…
Researchers Obliterate Grum Botnet, E-mail Inboxes Everywhere Rejoice
By Kyt Dotson
In another sweeping takedown of yet-another-botnet run by Internet cybercriminals, researchers over at the security firm FireEye are announcing that they have dismantled the Grum botnet’s command and control servers. As of Wednesday, the…