Social Media is for Girls
You’d be forgiven for thinking the opposite might be true, given that most guys love nothing more than to show off their latest gadgets and demonstrate their expertise with all things technical. But, from…
Kognitio Extends Platform to Amazon Web Services
Kognitio, a company that offers an in-memory big data analytics platform, made its software available on AWS this week. This opens up its product to smaller customers that may not be interested in a…
Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ Gets Jelly Bean Update Today
Today’s mobile news roundup features Google’s Jelly Bean rollout, T-Mobile’s new smartphones from Huawei, a redesigned Starbucks app for Android, and Wilson Electronics’ new mobile signal booster. Jelly Bean rolls out to Galaxy Nexus…
Building Big Data: The Coming Data Spectrum Crisis Explained
Most consumers take it for granted that they can switch on their smartphones and gain instant access to a world of Tweets, Facebook friends and Google apps, but in the next couple of years,…
Fusion-io Collaborates with Academia to Enhance DRAM
Last year Fusion-io introduced Atomic Writes, technology that reduces writes to only one process rather than two, and the company’s revealed their latest innovation – Extended Memory. This subsystem is the result of a…
iPhone 5: Release Date, Price and More Rumors
Though Apple has yet to confirm whether they’re releasing a new iPhone this year, a Chinese retailer already started taking pre-orders for the upcoming iPhone. The Chinese retail store posted an iPhone 5 pre-order advertising…
Microsoft Brings Windows Azure Services to Hosting Providers, Puts VMware in Crosshairs
At today’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced that the hosted service provider community is getting access to deliver Microsoft Windows Azure-compatible cloud services from within their own data center as Redmond moves to expand…
Chinese Hackers Break into Indian Naval Computers, Harvest Confidential Data
By Isha Suri
As the concern for cyber warfare increased more than ever, China has become a favorite flogging-horse in the security sphere. In fact, IP addresses from China and Chinese-code has been caught repeatedly part of…
BlackBerry App World Hits 3B Downloads, New CMO Pumps Up the Faith in RIM
Research in Motion has been hit with a lot of criticism for some months now. There’s plummeting shares that’ve dropped an embarrassing 90% since their peak back in 2008, and their newer devices aren’t…
How Physical Stores Can Apply Big Data Like An Amazon.com
As the Big Data technology megatrend steams ahead, we’re seeing the rapid development of Applied Big Data. Applied Big Data refers to technology platforms that use Big Data computing techniques, platforms, and tools to…