Hadapt Brings SQL to Hadoop
Hadapt, a 30-employee startup that grew out of Yale University’s computer lab with $9.5M from Bessimer Venture Partners and NorWest Venture Partners, has figured out a way to use SQL on Hadoop databases. This…
IC-CRIME Software Allows Recreating Crime Scenes
By Isha Suri
Computers do a lot of things well, and one of them is modeling things. Be it video games, shopping, or anything else, computer modeling happen to reproduce real environments with surprising fidelity. Crime scene…
Strange Big Data: Sex Intelligence
It’s true, humans are sexual creatures. If there’s one common bond that’s shared by all of humanity, it’s our instinctive urge to have sex. From the moment we hit puberty and our hormones start…
Numerous Banks Still Infected with Zeus, Conficker Malware
By Isha Suri
A recent report by Lookingglass Cyber Solutions suggests that approximately 18 of world’s largest banks are operating with systems infected with serious malware. Lookingglass conducted a study on 24 banks and discovered that most…
33Across Launches Real-Time Personas
33Across collects social data, lots of it, and sells it to publishers. It operates a ‘social graph’ that tracks the activities of 1.25 billion internet users worldwide, and the sheer size of this data…
Can Smart TV Gaming Replace Game Consoles?
Television manufacturers are now focusing on making smart TVs as methods of connecting to the web and delivering content directly. Smart TVs open up a whole new world of entertainment. It allows you to…
Top iPhone and Android Apps Can Be BYOD’s Biggest Threat
By Saroj Kar
San Francisco-based mobile app security provider Appthority has released its App Reputation Report that unveils the hidden security risks for top mobile apps. The report discloses security issues raised by the BYOD movement, along with…
This Week in the Cloud: Files, Alliances and $10M in Funding
A number of cloud updates cross the wired this week, and the ones coming from the direction of Google were among those that stood out the most. The search giant launched a partner program…
Social Enterprise for Social Improvements
If Coca Cola were a person, would it be your friend? Or better yet, if it could talk, what would it say? Well, the truth is, companies such as Coca~Cola are very much like…
Top NFC Vulnerabilities: Your Smartphone’s Best Friend and Worst Nightmare
At the Black Hat convention, researchers discussed how NFC tags can be used to exploit smartphone vulnerabilities. It’s a serious topic, as more and more devices are being shipped with NFC chips standard, and…