A World of Data, Big and Beautiful
Unlike the the olden times when people conscientiously hew artworks by hand, the digital age is more like letting your mind soar into the depths of la-la land where art and science are one…
Online Video Ready for Prime Time: Personal Media Prevails
By Cherr Aira
The accessibility of streaming devices like mobile phones, tablets and game consoles have pushed streaming demands to the hilt. Not to mention our innate love for anything unlimited, like data. The proliferation of web-enabled…
Citrix’s “Non Obvious” Mobile Predictions: iOS Kills Flash
Citrix’s Chris Fleck, VP of development for the virtualization solutions maker, posted a list of his own predictions for 2012 concerning the mobile space in particular. He noted some interesting highlights which might as…
Is Salesforce.com Planning a Facebook Style Timeline for Chatter?
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is just bonkers about Facebook. Listen to one of his keynotes and you’ll get the picture. Dion Hinchcliffe did the play-by-play at last year’s event. Here’s his take on the…
What Comes First: The Hadoop Application or the Use Case?
It’s a pretty standard rule-of-thumb for successful IT organizations: Identify a compelling use case first, and then invest in the applicable technology. But what if the technology doesn’t exist yet? That, unfortunately, is the…
Cisco Pulls the Plug on Overpriced umi Line
The sales of Cisco’s umi videoconferencing product evidently missed expectations, now that the company announced it will no longer be shipping new units. It will, however, continue to offer tech support to customers who’ve…
Pre-rolls, Mobile Video Ads to Drive Online Video Spend 40%
After a robust 2011, online video advertising should enjoy another year of rapid growth and is on pace to increase 40% over last year. Some marketers will move money from TV budgets to online…
Siri Clone Iris Teams with ChaCha for Better Answers
By Saroj Kar
There’s been a slew of Siri clones hitting the Android Market ever since the launch of the iPhone 4S. One of the more popular apps to gain instant recognition was Iris (Siri spelled backwards).…
The Future of Business Intelligence: Infographic
Domo Technologies, a provider of a new kind of executive management software, has published a brief infographic that summarizes the state of the business intelligence industry today. It also focuses on this market’s direction,…
IBM Acquires Cloud QA Company Green Hat
By Klint Finley
Today IBM announced that it has an agreed to acquire Green Hat, a company that provides tools for building virtual environments for software quality assurance and testing. This follows the official launch of IBM’s…