No Red Hat for Hadoop Wikibon. Experts Agree
Will a Red Hat for Hadoop, that is a single commercial entity that represents the Hadoop ecosystem and sets direction for it, emerge? That is a question that Wikibon Chief Analyst and Co-Founder David…
RIM Suffers More Setbacks, BB10 Delayed to 2013
Today’s mobile news roundup features RIM’s latest woes, Google Chrome topping Apple’s App Store, and the iPhone’s fifth birthday. RIM suffers a few more setbacks Research in Motion yesterday reported a loss of ¢37…
Nexus Q: Top 5 Features
Aside from the Nexus 7, Google unveiled the Nexus Q, a small computer it’s touting as the world’s first social streaming media player. The point of the device is to allow users to stream…
Future Big Data: What’s to Be Paranoid About?
There have been plenty of columns written in the last few months about the amazing potential of Big Data and what it holds for the future, but little has been said about the dangers…
The Launch List: The Partners Aligning with Google Compute Engine
Here’s the initial list of partners aligning with Google for its news infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Opscode will offer its Chef tools with Google Compute Engine for infrastructure automation. This means server provisioning,…
Pinterest Surpasses Tumblr, Google+ in Sharing: AddThis Fills the Gaps
By Saroj Kar
AddThis, the online content sharing platform provider, has extended toolset to include Pinterest, arguably the hottest social sharing network on the market. The company introduces a new, easier way to share Pinterest content via…
Drone p0wned by College Lab
Researchers at a university lab have successfully hacked a government DHS-owned unmanned aerial vehicle, known as a “drone” in a low-buck challenge. The research team at University of Texas at Austin built a device…
MapR Bringing Hadoop to New Google Compute Engine
No sooner did Google announce its Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, Google Compute Engine, at Google I/O this morning, than MapR revealed it will offer its Hadoop distribution on-demand via the new Google cloud. The announcment with…
The Nexus Q Looks Cool, but What’s It Missing?
According to the latest InMobi and Mobext survey, there’s a significant rise in the interest of owning/using a connected device. Tablet use rose quickly to 29.5 million U.S. users or 11% of the total…
Zynga Attempts Resurgence with “Unleashed” Event and Project
By Isha Suri
Zynga, which has become one of the shining social gaming companies on internet, is trying to makeover its image and build digital gaming hub as investors worry about its future growth. So far, Zynga…