Does Yahoo Have a New CEO?
In September of 2011, Yahoo! fired then CEO Carol Bartz because the board grew impatient of waiting for things to turn around. Since Bartz’s departure from the company, no one has been officially named…
How Did 2011 Stack Up to Last Year’s Predictions?
Wikibon head Dave Vellante wrote up a blog post that covers his outlook for 2012, in addition to providing a reflection on his forecast for 2011. Vellante sees some of the 2011 trends expanding…
Intel Out to Prove its Mobile Talents at CES
Intel, the multinational semiconductor chip maker, gears up as the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show draws near. Everyone is eager to see what Intel has to offer and this year, they’re offering a lot.…
Open Source Predictions for 2012: HBase, Hadoop and Rails in the Lead
OpenLogic released its outlook for the open source movement in the enterprise throughout 2012, leveraging eight different metrics to determine where adoption is going to be high or flat, and where will it decline.…
Top 5 Fastest Growing Open Source Projects in the Enterprise
By Klint Finley
Today OpenLogic published its report on open source adoption trends in the enterprise. The company analyzed Google search results, its own OLEX search and download data, its own customer support contracts and its customers’…
Comparing Google and Facebook on the Night of the Iowa Caucus
Both Google and Facebook have more data about people’s political views than practically any two companies in the world. How they use that data points to the deep differences between these two Web giants on…
The Drive by Download and Mobile Botnet Seen As Top Threats for 2012
Kaspersky Labs has issued a report detailing the top cybersecurity threats for 2012. It’s a report worth reading. Nation states will develop new forms of cyber attacks. Logic dumps will proliferate. Mobile drive by downloads…
A Milestone for Apache Hadoop with Version Release
The newest version of the MapReduce framework has been released, featuring several improvements for the security branch of Hadoop 0.20.205.0, the current stable version. It’s notable that one of the main enhancements arriving with…
US Elections Meet the Web, Google Monitors Digital Campaigns
By Cherr Aira
If the 2012 elections were to be held today, Ron Paul is set to be the victor in Iowa, thanks to his web popularity. But the polls say otherwise: his competitor is actually winning…
Google Chrome Increase In Popularity But Stumbles on Ads
December last year, Google Chrome dethroned Mozilla Firefox as the number two most-used internet browser with Chrome’s global market share at 25.69%, while Firefox was down to 25.23%. But Microsoft Internet Explorer still held…