Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
In this continuing regular feature, we give all our valued readers a monthly heads-up for the top 10 most viewed articles appearing on insideBIGDATA. Over the past several months, we’ve heard from many of our followers that this feature will enable them to catch up with important news and features flowing across our many channels.
Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
In this continuing regular feature, we give all our valued readers a monthly heads-up for the top 10 most viewed articles appearing on insideBIGDATA. Over the past several months, we’ve heard from many of our followers that this feature will enable them to catch up with important news and features flowing across our many channels.
Is the Internet, with its blogs, tweets, e-mail, Web and social networking sites, a force to change places such as Iran, China, Vietnam and Russia into Western-style democracies with the West's ideas about freedom of expression and political rights?
With Comic-Con 2011 opening tonight, we figured more than a few of our regular readers might be interested in what this year's conference has in store for fans of sci-fi, fantasy and super heroes.
European lawmakers reached agreement Monday on how to free up radio spectrum for new mobile Internet services, while ensuring that regular mobile phone services are not compromised.
When the New York Giants inaugurate the New Meadowlands stadium with their first regular-season game in less than two weeks, fans will have the benefit of using a massive IP network that will be responsible for HD video displays, processing credit card transactions and delivering Wi-Fi connectivity to fans' wireless devices.
Regular local broadcasts over mobile TV are coming on special devices by the end of 2010 and should reach phones within the next few years, backers of a nationwide U.S. initiative said on Thursday at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco.
"Wintel" is the term that for years defined Windows-based computers running Intel chips. Now a similar expression is emerging for smartphones: "Quadroid."
Speaking at the annual conference of The National Academy of Sciences Monday, President Obama said that declaring the swine flu outbreak a national health emergency was a prudent measure and no reason for panic. He's getting regular updates and briefings from John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism; Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Janet Napolitano, secretary of homeland security.
A team of researchers from MIT, along with industry partners, is developing robotic technology designed to help drivers navigate their way to regular destinations and keep them company on long trips.
Microsoft Corp. released the beta version of its Rich-Internet Application (RIA) development tool Silverlight 3.0, and previewed its user interface design tool Expression Blend 3, both equipped with new functionality for developers and designers to create ever-more interactive sites, according to one executive.
No longer a subject of science fiction, a car that can fly like a regular airplane, but then land, fold up its wings and drive away debuted in Boston Wednesday.
With major data breaches occurring on a regular basis, encryption vendors are going into hyperdrive, touting the need for their products. However, encryption is only one aspect of protecting your sensitive data, and a new attack shows that it may not be enough.
If you finally caught up with Twitter and found out what all the fuss is about, you now might be wondering: what the heck is TweetDeck? In short, TweetDeck is a helpful, no-cost application that will help you get more from Twitter by sorting through messages more efficiently than the regular version of the service provided on Twitter's website.
Regular readers may recall that in early January, I wrote about Norwich University’s support of a discussion group that posted news about a questionable conference. My colleague Dr. Peter Stephenson and I expressed a yawning lack of concern about the association.
Last week we discussed a legacy form of telecommunications – ISDN – and we’ve been most impressed by the number of responses to the discussion thread online and the e-mails to us. We’ll be sharing those in a later newsletter. But this time we’re dropping back to an even more basic form of WAN service that we still deal with on a regular basis – plain old telephone service (POTS).
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) continues to publish its regular reports on phishing, the practice of sending potential victims misleading e-mail messages directing them to fraudulent Web sites that look like official Web pages, usually for financial institutions such as PayPal or e-commerce sites such as eBay.
Some weeks ago the Gearhead Underground Bunker started to fill up with some really cool VoIP stuff, including 3CX's free software-only VoIP PBX and a couple of D-Link VoIP DVG-2001S Terminal Adapters that convert regular telephones into Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones. This has resulted in more than a few hours of play, er, testing and analysis over the last few days.
What would you do if you saw sensitive or offensive material about your organization on the Web? Perhaps you would contact your corporate counsel and discuss methods for applying pressure to have the material removed; if necessary, your organization might even initiate legal proceedings for a tort under the laws of libel, protection of trade secrets, violation of copyright or misuse of trademarks.
In my previous article on personal expression and corporate policy, I mentioned that free-speech arguments sometimes enter the discussion of whether organizations can or should attempt to limit employee self-expression in public.
As regular readers will know, three of my major interests are virtualization, open source, and heterogeneous systems management. So imagine my delight when Microsoft and Novell announced an agreement incorporating all of these areas.