14 Companies Looking for “Big Data Engineers”
Do a search on Indeed.com for “big data engineer” and you will find 26 listings. That compares to ten job listings for “big data architects.” I became curious about this new job description when…
TIBCO Says In-Memory Platform Supports Both Historical and High Velocity Analytics
Sometimes you want to run analytics on large volumes of historical data – aka Big Data analytics. And other times you need to perform analysis on data as it arrives at your front door…
Google Glasses Rivals Emerging with Old Technology?
By Isha Suri
It seems like Google has got a rival for its new project, Google Glasses as Oakley is developing technology that can project information directly onto lenses. Sounds like Oakley is moving one step ahead…
Oracle Execs Thought Sun Acquisition Was A Mistake
Aside from battling it out in court with Google, Oracle is also dealing with another legal matter, this time against Hewlett-Packard. In a recent filing submitted in court before the official trial begins, HP…
AI Horizon Weekly: On Passing Turing Test, Ubiquity, Big Data, and More
By Cherr Aira
Will the computers know everything eventually? Is the “Turing Test” within reach for artificial intelligence? With Turing turning a century-old this year, would he be happy or disappointed on how AI development has paced…
Nicira Latest to Join Rackspace-OpenStack Buzz
Yesterday cloud host Rackspace crossed a fairly major milestone, and the same can be said of the OpenStack initiative that kicked off just two years ago. The company said that the Rackspace Cloud service…
Trapit Gets Yahoo Veteran as Chief Content Officer
Trapit, the news aggregator from the creators of Siri that launched just last year, gains a Yahoo veteran as their chief content officer. Liz Lufkin served as Yahoo’s VP of frontpage programming for many…
Appcelerator Unveils Titanium 2.0, Highlights Cloud Integration
Web development firm Appcelerator has a tasty new treat in store for the 300k developers currently using its flagship Titanium platform – version 2.0 is available as of this morning. The big addition is…
Google Drive Ready to Take On Dropbox Next Week
SiliconANGLE has been keeping its eyes on Google Drive, or GDrive, since the first rumor of the company releasing a cloud storage service surfaced. This year, rumors about the Google cloud service reemerged and more…
Oracle Says Google E-mails Prove Guilt
Yesterday marked the first day of the Oracle-Google intellectual property battle. Oracle’s lawyer, Michael Jacobs, was first to give the opening statement, demonstrating how Google took Java copyrighted “blueprints” to develop Android applications, never…