This Week in Big Data: Cloudera and VMware Enter the Frey
This past week in big data has been a pretty exciting one, with some product launches and a milestone acquisition by VMware. First up is Cloudera, which is not exactly new to the big…
IBM Quietly Launches a Web API Management Service and Makes a Big Push to Attract Developers
IBM quietly launched a Web API management service this week called the Cast Iron API Cloud that illuminates a keener focus on app development and a hard push to attract developers to build mobile…
Programming Language Popularity Based On O’Reilly Book Sales
By Klint Finley
O’Reilly’s Mike Hendrickson has published some interesting data about the company’s programming book sales. I previously looked at Hacker News poll on readers’ favorite languages and compared it to RedMonk’s analysis of programming language…
PC Gaming Rejoice: Valve Confirms Linux Version of Steam and the Source Engine
By Kyt Dotson
The bloggers over at the Linux blog Phoronix caught up with Valve’s CEO Gabe Newell to ask about his video game distribution service and their intent to port it to the open source Linux…
This Week in Cloud: Remote Storage Regains Interest
The concept of offering users online hosting that they can use to hold their personal files and data is nothing new. In fact, it has been almost completely milked out in the past couple…
Cryptic Studios Hack Discovered…From December 2010
By Kyt Dotson
In a statement released just yesterday Cryptic Game Studios—developer of City of Heroes, Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and a few other online game titles—revealed that they discovered that their systems have been hacked…in…
Microsoft’s Laptop Advantage Over Apple
Let’s say you could buy an Apple MacBook Air — but with twice the battery life, at half the price. Does that sound attractive? Duh! What is this — a so-called “ultrabook” that Intel…
Citrix Boasts Q1 Sales Growth, NetScaler Success
Virtual desktop solutions maker Citrix reported impressive gains for the first quarter of 2012, crediting a great deal of it to the success the company’s NetScaler VDI delivery platform has seen in the same…
BYOD Still Blocked for Official Work Tasks
By Isha Suri
A recent survey by Mimecast, a supplier of cloud-based email archiving, continuity and security for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has revealed that BYOD – Bring Your Own Device is becoming a hot topic…
Living In The Avengers: Gadgets to Inspire Your Inner Superhero
The Avengers hits theaters May 4, culminating years of Marvel comics-inspired movies from Iron Man to Captain America, Thor and The Hulk. Their forces will come together in the upcoming Avengers movie, making for…