YouTube Sees Highest Traffic to Date, Online Video Surges
Our everyday lives get so cramped that we often feel stressed by the end of the day. And for most of us, the quickest way to relieve some of the stress is to watch…
BYOD Finds a Friend in Private App Stores
By Cherr Aira
There is no question that among the lucky segments of mobility, apps stores could be one of the most lucrative. Public app stores have gone wild, becoming money-making outlets for developers, and changing the…
Hadoop Alternative HPCC Now Available on Amazon Web Services
By Klint Finley
If you’ve been waiting for an easy way to test HPCC, the alternative to Apache Hadoop built and open sourced by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, then you’re in luck. Starting today HPCC Thor clusters will…
AT&T-T-Mobile Deal Crumbles, Lies Revealed
The Federal Communications Commission may have hammered the final nail in the coffin for the AT&T-T-Mobile deal, with the latest staff report they have presented, along with the threat of an administrative hearing. The…
Amazon Web Services Planning Real-Time, Big Data Stream Processing Service
By Klint Finley
According to a job ad posted by Amazon Web Services, the company is planning to launch a new service for processing streams of big data. Here’s the job listing: Amazon Web Services is looking…
Hackers Setting HP Printers Ablaze: A Little Perspective
Electronics gone wild. First it was iPhones exploding, then there was a story about studies showing wifi-enabled laptops killing sperm, now there is a story that says hackers can set your HP printers on…
Privacy Wins with Fresh Facebook-FTC Agreement
Social networking giant Facebook has reached a privacy settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, WSJ reported. The company has been under intense international scrutiny due to a rather lengthy list of blunders involving…
Michael Rizkalla Leaves HP Amidst webOS Confusion
Michael Rizkalla, the former senior director of webOS application development at HP, is the latest executive that left the company ever since employment in its consumer units became unstable. “The departure of Rizkalla highlights the…
NexGen, Fusion-io for Upgraded SAN Offering
NexGen Storage has forged a partnership with flash-based hardware acceleration solutions maker Fusion-io to combine the latter’s technology with its own. The company said the ioMemory powered NexGen n5 Storage System, a hybrid mid-range…
HP’s First Autonomy Products are a Smart Step Forward
Hewlett Packard revealed the first fruits of the controversial acquisition of unstructured analytics software maker Autonomy. The offerings provide an opportunity for commercial and governmental customers to sort through their big data, and has…