It looks like all the speculation about how Yahoo’s Hadoop spinoff company, Hortonworks, will affect Cloudera and other companies providing Hadoop-based products might have been overblown. During a phone call earlier this week, Hortonworks CEO Eric Baldeschwieler told me the company is still figuring out its strategy around offering a Hadoop distribution, which could...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. Oracle continued its acquisition spree this week by snapping up Ksplice, a company that sells a...
Microsoft often likes to boast that it has multiple billion dollar revenue businesses, but there should be no mistake about what’s driving its profits: Windows and Office, with Servers And Tools kicking in a little bit extra. See Also: THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Here’s What Wall Street Is Thinking Ahead Of Earnings Tonight Time For...
Apple has today released the fourth version of its iOS 5 beta to developers. The new version should offer some stability improvements and bug fixes. In addition to iOS 5 beta 4, Apple has also released iTunes 10.5 beta 4 and Xcode 4.2 beta 4. The biggest news here seems to be that Apple...
Since the release of Google’s new social network, there’s been a lot of speculation about when and if Google Plus would get a gaming component. Early inquiry into the site’s code certainly hinted at the possibility, and now more signs have been uncovered. Slashgear reports that the Games Stream has been confirmed, pointing to...
If you want to reach the Millennial generation — loosely defined as people born between 1980 and 2000 — it probably won’t come as a surprise that you should use the Internet: some 93 percent of Millennials spend regular and extended periods of time online, according to recent research from Pew. And since Millennials...
I was browsing through a few of the sites today when I read about a new online campaign that had launched for the California Milk Processor Board that played on the effect PMS can have on men (to promote how milk can help with the effects on PMS). I glanced at it quickly before...
Image: Flickr Sarah Sosiak Saman Musacchio Saman Musacchio works at Hypios, an open problem-solving platform based in Paris. Recent Posts Back in 2004, an anonymous billboard was unveiled on Highway 101, in the heart of the Silicon Valley. The billboard read “{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e}.com.” The “obvious” answer, 7427466391.com,...
Girl Talk is known for mashing up popular songs to create mixes that make crowds go absolutely wild. However, some have called into question the legality of his heavy sampling from other artists. We caught up with Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg Gillis, at a recent festival in New York City. He...
Girl Talk is known for mashing up popular songs to create mixes that make crowds go absolutely wild. However, some have called into question the legality of his heavy sampling from other artists. We caught up with Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg Gillis, at a recent festival in New York City. He...