What’s in a Middle Name? Victory Over Facebook
So what would you do if one day, your Facebook account has been deactivated because they want you to use your first name and not your middle name, though people know you by your…
Where’s Etsy’s Big Data Strategy? Musings of Hadoop World 2011
Big data’s so prevalent in the social media space that you hardly think of them as mutually independent. At Hadoop World last week the social representation amongst Hadoop users were well represented, with sessions…
Samsung To Take On Apple’s iPhone 4S In March
After the iPhone 4S launch Samsung was quick to file a preliminary injunction in France, Italy, Japan and Australia. Though people are expecting that they would also file in Korea, the company chose not…
Revolution R 5.0: Hadoop Integration, New Features
Revolution Analytics launched the latest version of its software suite for analytics projects based on the R programming language, Revolution R 5.0. The solution now provides users with the ability to tap two of…
Vyatta Raises $12 Million From HighBAR Partners – Virtual Network Security Provider Showing Big Gains
The next wave in cloud computing is the transformation of the network. We’ve seen the virtualization of compute. Storage has since followed and now we are seeing the full virtualization of the network. Vyatta…
Humanization of Tech: Infographic
Technology’s purpose has always been to increase productivity. If we look back in history, new tools are not exactly the easiest to handle but people capitalize on them with sweat and time in order…
Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich Open Sourced, But is Google Still Open Washing?
By Klint Finley
Google has released the code Android 4.0, better known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Google delayed releasing the code for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), which criticism from some open source advocates. The acquisition of Motorola furthered…
Siri’s Cousin Trapit Launches AI Search Assistant
From the same artificial intelligence platform as Siri comes its cousin Trapit, a personalized web search tool powered by one of today’s most popular technologies. It launches its public beta today, letting in the…
Dell’s Take on I/O in the Cloud Datacenter
Dell recently released a case study about NIC partitioning (NPAR), a method that splits an Ethernet port into four virtual ports and consequently saves PCI Express (PCIe) slots. It also lets admins to provision bandwidth…
A Gorgeous Time Map Unconcerned About Distance
I can care less about the distance when I take the bus across town. I am far more interested in how long it will take me to travel the ten miles from my home…