The tablet adoption in enterprises is growing at a fast pace. More and more companies from different industries are using them to increase productivity and facilitate communication, as we can see in today’s selection, featuring works from Socialcast ...
Feed Item - 25 October 2011
At the AWS Gov 2011 summit, general manager for Amazon Web Services' Elastic Map Reduce offering, Peter Sirota provided some prime use cases for its hosted Hadoop service and highlighted innovative ways MapReduce is changing commerce. ...
Feed Item - 3 November 2011
A number of storage vendors with tape offerings have been pitching their wares as ripe for the era of big data, but until recently, few have sauntered into exascale territory with their product lines. This week SpectraLogic made key announcements that a ...
Feed Item - 1 November 2011
This year SAS held its first annual Inside Analytics event, which merged together two formerly distinct conferences focused on data mining and forecasting. With the consolidation came the chance to include a range of other topics, from predictive modeli ...
Feed Item - 27 October 2011
This week Oracle announced its intent to bring Endeca into the fold, thereby bolstering their ability to reach big data-aware e-commerce and retail giants. While Oracle has traction in this area already, bringing the ability to manage unstructured data ...
Feed Item - 20 October 2011
sciencehabit writes "Researchers have discovered the fossil remains of a 94-million-year-old squirrel-like critter with a long, narrow snout and a pair of curved saber-fangs that it would have likely used to pierce its insect prey. The creature, pieced ...
Feed Item - 3 November 2011
If you happen to be in Rhode Island this week for IEEE VisWeek, flag down a Kitware developer and check out their latest foray into OpenGL ES 2.0 support with “VES”. Already at the core of their iPad app “KiwiViewer”, they’ve been busily working on it ...
Feed Item - 24 October 2011
gManZboy writes "The space agency is widely known as a cloud computing success story in the government for its Nebula cloud computing platform. Now NASA will develop an app store for its scientists. The NASA CIO says it's about getting the science job d ...
Feed Item - 3 November 2011
isgtw: As you read this, scientists are modelling you. #arrhythmia #drugs #predict http://t.co/v3paTbpu ...
Feed Item - 14 October 2011
Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C language and co-developer of UNIX, dies at the age of 70. ...
Feed Item - 12 October 2011